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102 produkter
Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums
Black Skin, Black Masks
Av P.A. Mullins
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in American Museums explores black identity as a changing, nuanced …
African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies
Reflections on Exile and Migration
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities.The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine …
Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora
Av Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam, Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the most significant factors in development, the book examines diverse topics such as the migrations of …
Literary History of the Igbo Novel
African Literature in African Languages
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" …
Endogenous Regional Policy and Development Planning in Ghana
Av Sam Ofori
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book examines regional development and planning in a poor administrative region of Ghana, assessing the effectiveness of the programmes and projects initiated to reduce poverty, disadvantage and deprivation. The author analyses the local context of institutions, planning legislation, broad …
African Language Media
Development, Economics and Management
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable …
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies
Av John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community.The book chronicles the lives of twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the immediate post-colonial period in …
Healthcare Education in Nigeria
Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms
Inbunden, 2020
2680 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends.The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of …
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Beyond Text
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its …
African Transnational Mobility in China
Africans on the Move
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The …
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies
Av John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community.The book chronicles the lives of twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the immediate post-colonial period in …
Endogenous Regional Policy and Development Planning in Ghana
Av Sam Ofori
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book examines regional development and planning in a poor administrative region of Ghana, assessing the effectiveness of the programmes and projects initiated to reduce poverty, disadvantage and deprivation. The author analyses the local context of institutions, planning legislation, broad …
African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women
Av Jonathan Chimakonam, Louise du Toit
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over …
African Philosophical Currents
Av John Murungi
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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The history of the human world has reached a stage where no philosophical community can any longer philosophize in isolation from other philosophical communities. The African philosophical community is not an exception and neither is any other philosophical community. There is a widespread notion …
Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya’s Electoral Violence
Democracy on Fire
Av Stephen Magu
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of …
Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora
Av Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam, Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the most significant factors in development, the book examines diverse topics such as the migrations of …
African Language Media
Development, Economics and Management
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable …
Diaspora of the Comoros in France
Ethnicised Biopolitics and Communitarisation
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Based on an ethnographic study of mobilisations of the Comorian diaspora in Marseille during political and cultural events, the book examines communitarisation in relation to three thematic areas, namely spaces, cultural markets and local politics. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the dispositif, …
Diaspora of the Comoros in France
Ethnicised Biopolitics and Communitarisation
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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Based on an ethnographic study of mobilisations of the Comorian diaspora in Marseille during political and cultural events, the book examines communitarisation in relation to three thematic areas, namely spaces, cultural markets and local politics. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the dispositif, …
Blackness in Israel
Rethinking Racial Boundaries
Av Uri Dorchin, Gabriella Djerrahian
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The contributors engage with expressions and appropriations of modern forms of blackness for boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and …
Blackness in Israel
Rethinking Racial Boundaries
Av Uri Dorchin, Gabriella Djerrahian
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The contributors engage with expressions and appropriations of modern forms of blackness for boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and …
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Beyond Text
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its …
African Transnational Mobility in China
Africans on the Move
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The …
African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies
Reflections on Exile and Migration
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities.The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine …
Healthcare Education in Nigeria
Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends.The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of …
Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora
Av Akinloyè Òjó, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in …
Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa
Literary and Cultural Representations
Av Oduor Obura
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking …
Black Thought
A Theory of Articulation
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book uncovers a logical fallacy underlying Afro-Pessimism and provides a formal theory of Articulation, teasing out new reflections on race and Blackness.Afro-Pessimism maintains that Blacks, subject to a subordinate position in society, suffer a cultural death. In this monograph, Victor …
Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa
Literary and Cultural Representations
Av Oduor Obura
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking …
Black Thought
A Theory of Articulation
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book uncovers a logical fallacy underlying Afro-Pessimism and provides a formal theory of Articulation, teasing out new reflections on race and Blackness.Afro-Pessimism maintains that Blacks, subject to a subordinate position in society, suffer a cultural death. In this monograph, Victor …
