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Author |
: Peyi Soyinka-Airewele |
Publisher |
: CQ Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 087289407X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780872894075 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing Contemporary Africa by : Peyi Soyinka-Airewele
It is impossible to study Africa without understanding the debate about how to study Africa. At last, a book showcases the complexities and paradoxes of Africa’s recent and more distant history, while avoiding simplistic, Eurocentric conceptualizations of “black Africa.” With this book, Peyi Soyinka-Aiwerele and Rita Kiki Edozie offer students the background and perspectives they need to comprehend the dynamics of the continent as well as a clear path through the current literature and scholarly debate. With a cross-disciplinary approach that features political, historical, and economic analysis as well as popular culture and sociological views on contemporary issues, Reframing Contemporary Africa provides an unparalleled breadth of coverage. Essays written by a distinguished and international group of scholars—including William Ackah, Pius Adesanmi, Susan Craddock, Caroline Elkins, Siba Grovogui, Mahmood Mamdani, Mutua Makau, Celestin Monga, Wole Soyinka, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza—are designed to distill original scholarship for undergraduate readers. Each contribution helps students engage with the work and arguments of luminaries while exposing them to renowned African thinkers. Contributors deliver analysis that allows students to see beyond the clichés commonly presented in the media (and even in scholarship), and helpful section openers by Soyinka-Airewele and Edozie frame forthcoming chapters, giving important thematic and historical context. Reframing Contemporary Africa will certainly provoke new debate and reflection, not merely about African issues and politics, but also about the West and its framing of Africa.
Author |
: Reece Auguiste |
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1928502679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781928502678 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image by : Reece Auguiste
This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image. Reframing Africa? makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences.
Author |
: Beschara Karam |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2021-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000411980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000411982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decolonising Political Communication in Africa by : Beschara Karam
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media and communication in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003111962, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author |
: Cynthia Kros |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2022-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781928502692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1928502695 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing Africa? by : Cynthia Kros
This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image. Reframing Africa? makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences. Reframing Africa? will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners across the continent and beyond
Author |
: Bennetta Jules-Rosette |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2020-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252052156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252052153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Art Reframed by : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a history of ethnographic and art museums and look at their organization and methods of reaching out to the public. In the second part, the authors examine museums as ecosystems and communities within communities, and they use semiotic methods to analyze images, signs, and symbols drawn from the experiences of curators and artists. The third part introduces innovative strategies for displaying, disseminating, and reclaiming African art. The authors also propose how to reinterpret the art inside and outside the museum and show ways of remixing the results. Drawing on extensive conversations with curators, collectors, and artists, African Art Reframed is an essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art.
Author |
: Aretha Phiri |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2024-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040104248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 104010424X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing the Black Atlantic by : Aretha Phiri
Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative. The application of queer and/or feminist lenses in each essay attempts to mediate these elisions and to advance potentially transformative, democratising readings of the black Atlantic from both complex and complicating African and diasporic viewpoints. With the aim of realigning black Atlantic scholarship in this way, the edited volume proposes an interventionist approach that is concerned with problematizing ethnic/ cultural universalisms and challenging geographic and gendered hierarchizations. Underlining the importance of aesthetic and creative cultural archives, Reframing the Black Atlantic’s focus on transnational African diasporic literature and other intersecting popular cultural forms probes the (imaginative) limits and possibilities of the black Atlantic, conventionally conceived. To this end, this book intends not just to complicate and enhance established views of black Africa; inviting the reader to locate and perceive black life lived otherwise, it points towards more inclusive and expansive global understandings and visions of blackness. This volume will be of particular use to researchers and students in the fields of race/gender, diaspora/transnational, literary and cultural studies. The chapters of this book were originally published in Cultural Studies.
Author |
: Eunice N. Sahle |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137519146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137519142 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa by : Eunice N. Sahle
In different but complementary ways, the chapters in this collection provide a deeper understanding of socio-cultural processes in various parts of the African continent. They do so in the context of contemporary mediated processes of globalization, and emphasize the agency of Africans.
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: OCLC:848617218 |
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: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Author |
: Akanmu G. Adebayo |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2010-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739145586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739145584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marginality and Crisis by : Akanmu G. Adebayo
Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa extends the scope and understanding of the effects of globalization and its forces on Africa. With each chapter written by specialists who recognize that the future of Africa is entwined with that of the rest of the world, this volume explains with fresh vigor the new thinking on the historical specificity, value, opportunity, and shortcomings of globalization for a continent many regard as marginalized and in crisis. In the face of much pessimism, several questions have engaged the attention of this young generation of African scholars: Where is Africa in relation to globalization? Where are the things that make Africa Africa (such as economy, politics, culture, identity, and human relations) headed? Are Africa's communities helpless against global forces or empowered by new avenues of access? How do scholars and policymakers engage the problems of globalization vis-^-vis Africa's ethnic, linguistic, and other identities? What are the economic and political trajectories in various countries and localities? An invaluable source for scholars, students, and the general reader, the essays in this book have confidently and clearly explored and explained the crises that have engulfed the continent in the age of globalization. Unlike other works that have dwelt only on the continent's victimhood, this volume identifies key areas in which Africa can become more proactive and outward-looking in response to the forces and values that take the globe as their reference points.
Author |
: Ntombini Marrengane |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367694646 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367694647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa by : Ntombini Marrengane
This book explores the changing dynamics behind the rapid expanse of Africa's urban population. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies.