COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts

COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781036403942
ISBN-13 : 1036403947
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts by : Kelen Ernesta Fonyuy

This book is a useful resource for students and teachers of discourse analysis. It extends to other disciplines, where academia is in search of a fluid theory and method that accommodates analysis of written texts and spoken conversations. This volume provides a diverse, yet interwoven approach to its discourse on COVID-19 in African contexts. From educational discourse to multimodal digital public health discourse, environmental discourse, ambivalent discourse, political discourse, socio-psychological discourse, socioeconomic discourse, and remedial food discourse, the perspectives resonate one message; COVID-19 pandemic challenges that generate sustainable possibilities for its restraint across space and time. A synergy of discourses on COVID-19 in African contexts, with perspectives, challenges and possibilities for health experts, communication professionals, educational institutions, civil society, environmentalists, development stakeholders, researchers, policy-makers, and janitors of representative and inclusive decision-making to explore.

The African Church and COVID-19

The African Church and COVID-19
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781793650993
ISBN-13 : 1793650993
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The African Church and COVID-19 by : Martin Munyao

The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address the vulnerabilities of socio-economic and political structures in Africa.

COVID-19 and Sovereign Debt: The case of SADC

COVID-19 and Sovereign Debt: The case of SADC
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Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Total Pages : 383
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Synopsis COVID-19 and Sovereign Debt: The case of SADC by : Daniel D. Bradlow

This multi-disciplinary publication focuses on the issue of African sovereign debt management and renegotiation/ restructuring, with a particular concentration on the countries that are members of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). It contains a series of essays that were initially presented in several workshops held at the height of the pandemic, in 2020. These essays seek to both understand the debt challenges facing these countries and to offer some policy-oriented suggestions on how they can more effectively address these. They include contributions by global and regional scholars who are seasoned experts and newer researchers and discuss the complexities on debt management and restructuring within the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, this presented an opportunity for junior researchers from the region to contribute to international discussions on a topic in which the views of young Africans are not heard as often or as clearly as they should be, especially given the importance of the topic to Africa and its future. Further, this book is expected to stimulate debate among academics, activists, policy makers and practitioners on how SADC should manage its debt.

African Futures

African Futures
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780226402413
ISBN-13 : 022640241X
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis African Futures by : Brian Goldstone

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.

Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa

Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781000542080
ISBN-13 : 1000542084
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa by : Fortune Sibanda

This book investigates the role of religion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa. Building on a diverse range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, the book reflects on how religion, politics and health have interfaced in Southern African contexts, when faced with the sudden public health emergency caused by the pandemic. Religious actors have played a key role on the frontline throughout the pandemic, sometimes posing roadblocks to public health messaging, but more often deploying their resources to help provide effective and timely responses. Drawing on case studies from African indigenous knowledge systems, Islam, Rastafari and various forms of Christianity, this book provides important reflections on the role of religion in crisis response. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of African Studies, Health, Politics and Religious Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Covid-19 and the Dialectics of Global Pandemics in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of the Global Economy in the Face of COVID-19

Covid-19 and the Dialectics of Global Pandemics in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of the Global Economy in the Face of COVID-19
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Publisher : Langaa RPCID
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 995655202X
ISBN-13 : 9789956552023
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Covid-19 and the Dialectics of Global Pandemics in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of the Global Economy in the Face of COVID-19 by : Munyaradzi Mawere

The prevalence of global pandemics has been timeless and universal. In 1918, the Spanish Flue grounded Spain and her neighbours. In 1997, 2014 and 2020, the Ebola virus wreaked havoc in West Africa in the same manner that polio had ravaged the globe. Since 2019, the Coronavirus has forced most economies onto a downward spiral. Despite concerted global attempts at observing World Health Organization guidelines, the Coronavirus has been changing peoples' lives, forcing most economies onto their knees, endangering lives and livelihoods, making a mockery of global medicine and causing the widespread despair and helplessness that has come to be known as 'the new normal'. Unlike the other pandemics, the mayhem, complexities and dialectics caused by Covid-19 have been matchless, requiring a systematic study and necessitating a volume like this one. The volume's 16 well-researched chapters argue that despite Covid-19's enormous lessons and predictions about even greater future pandemics, humanity can ill-afford to relent in its determination to conquer the pandemic in the same way that human resolve has defeated past pandemic. As such, the volume provides hope and direction to the global community on how best to deal with Covid-19 and pandemics of similar or even higher magnitude in the future.

COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts

COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1036403939
ISBN-13 : 9781036403935
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts by : Kelen Ernesta Fonyuy

This book is a useful resource for students and teachers of discourse analysis. It extends to other disciplines, where academia is in search of a fluid theory and method that accommodates analysis of written texts and spoken conversations. This volume provides a diverse, yet interwoven approach to its discourse on COVID-19 in African contexts. From educational discourse to multimodal digital public health discourse, environmental discourse, ambivalent discourse, political discourse, socio-psychological discourse, socioeconomic discourse, and remedial food discourse, the perspectives resonate one message; COVID-19 pandemic challenges that generate sustainable possibilities for its restraint across space and time. A synergy of discourses on COVID-19 in African contexts, with perspectives, challenges and possibilities for health experts, communication professionals, educational institutions, civil society, environmentalists, development stakeholders, researchers, policy-makers, and janitors of representative and inclusive decision-making to explore.

Body Facts

Body Facts
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Publisher : Diode Editions
Total Pages : 46
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ISBN-10 : 9781939728463
ISBN-13 : 1939728460
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Body Facts by : Joey S. Kim

Body Facts tells the story of a speaker who is Korean, American, woman, and body. It weaves together Korean history and aesthetics, the speaker’s childhood and family stories, U.S. foreign policy with North Korea, and the things we do and shouldn’t do to our bodies.

Disrupting Africa

Disrupting Africa
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 665
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ISBN-10 : 9781009064224
ISBN-13 : 1009064223
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Disrupting Africa by : Olufunmilayo B. Arewa

In the digital era, many African countries sit at the crossroads of a potential future that will be shaped by digital-era technologies with existing laws and institutions constructed under conditions of colonial and post-colonial authoritarian rule. In Disrupting Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa examines this intersection and shows how it encompasses existing and new zones of contestation based on ethnicity, religion, region, age, and other sources of division. Arewa highlights specific collisions between the old and the new, including in the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, which involved young people engaging with varied digital era technologies who provoked a violent response from rulers threatened by the prospect of political change. In this groundbreaking work, Arewa demonstrates how lawmaking and legal processes during and after colonialism continue to frame contexts in which digital technologies are created, implemented, regulated, and used in Africa today.

Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts

Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9781443883894
ISBN-13 : 1443883891
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts by : Yaw Agawu-Kakraba

Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts explores the complexities underlying the identity formation of peoples of African ancestry in the Spanish-speaking world and of expatriate immigrants who inhabit colonized territories in Africa. Although current diaspora studies provide provocative perspectives on migration that have various cultural, national, political and economic implications, any engagement of the subject readily runs into theoretical and practical challenges. At stake here is the question of finding an ideal conceptualization of diaspora. Should the term be limited to migration that is purely voluntary or to a traumatic exile? What about generational differences that, invariably, impact the imagining of diaspora? How does diaspora relate to creolization, hybridity and transculturation? This volume does not argue for what constitutes a proper diaspora, but rather re-contextualizes the concept of diaspora from the point of view of identity formation on the basis of voluntary and non-voluntary migration. The essays gathered together here engage with the unified topic of identity, but radiate a stimulating variety in geographic coverage – examining countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Morocco, Angola, and Spain – and in thematic approach – from religion to a poetics of self-affirmation to issues of political conflict, subalternity and migration.