The Power Of African Cultures
Download The Power Of African Cultures full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Power Of African Cultures ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Toyin Falola |
Publisher |
: University Rochester Press |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1580462979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781580462976 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Power of African Cultures by : Toyin Falola
An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations. This book focuses on the modern cultures of Africa, from the consequences of the imposition of Western rule to the current struggles to define national identities in the context of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization.The book argues that it is against the backdrop of foreign influences that Africa has defined for itself notions of identity and development. African cultures have been evolving in response to change, and in other ways solidly rooted in a shared past. The book successfully deconstructs the last one hundred and fifty years of cultures that have been disrupted, replaced, and resurrected. The Power of African Cultures challenges many preconceived notions, such as male dominance and female submission, the supposed unity of ethnic groups, and contemporary Western stereotypes of Africans. It also shows the dynamism of African cultures to adapt to foreign imposition: even as colonial rule forced the adoption of foreign institutions and cultures, African cultures appropriated these elements. Traditions were reworked, symbols redefined, and the past situated in contemporary problems in order to accommodate the modern era. Toyin Falola is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. He is the recipient of the 2006 Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Exemplary Scholarship in AfricanStudies, and the 2008 Quintessence Award by the Africa Writers Endowment. He holds an honorary doctorate from Monmouth University and he is University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin where heis also the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. His books include Nationalism and African Intellectuals and Violence in Nigeria, both from the University of Rochester Press.
Author |
: Kevin Dawson |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2021-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812224931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812224930 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Undercurrents of Power by : Kevin Dawson
Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Author |
: Munyaradzi Mawere |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2014-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789956792153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9956792152 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Cultures, Memory and Space by : Munyaradzi Mawere
African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through careful examination of cultural elements such as memory, oral history and space, among others. While the book makes special reference to Zimbabwe, it profoundly and audaciously dissect and cut across different geographical and cultural spaces through its penetrating interrogation and scrutiny of different issues commonplace in many African contexts and even beyond. The book, written by scholars from different backgrounds and orientations, should appeal to scholars, researchers and students from various disciplines which include but not limited to Cultural Heritage Studies, Policy Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies and African Studies.
Author |
: Mhoze Chikowero |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2015-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253018090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253018099 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by : Mhoze Chikowero
In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.
Author |
: Oluwaseun Tella |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2021-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000402247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100040224X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa's Soft Power by : Oluwaseun Tella
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry and Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, Kenya’s sport diplomacy, fashion and tourism industries, and finally Egypt’s Pan-Arabism and its reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria’s Omolúwàbí, South Africa’s Ubuntu, Kenya’s Harambee, and Egypt’s Pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003176022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author |
: Karin Barber |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2018-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107016897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107016894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of African Popular Culture by : Karin Barber
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author |
: Claudia Zaslavsky |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000025360837 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa Counts by : Claudia Zaslavsky
Study by a mathematical scholar on the ways in which African people count, keep time and records, play games, use geometry in art and architecture, etc. Based on research in Nigeria and East Africa.
Author |
: Ryan Shaffer |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2023-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538159989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538159988 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures by : Ryan Shaffer
Bringing together a group of international scholars, The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures provides the first review of intelligence cultures in every African country. It explores how intelligence cultures are influenced by a range of factors, including past and present societal, governmental and international dynamics. In doing so, the book examines the state’s role, civil society and foreign relations in shaping African countries’ intelligence norms, activities and oversight. It also explores the role intelligence services and cultures play in government and civil society.
Author |
: Last Moyo |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031577420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031577426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Policy and Cultural Industries in Africa by : Last Moyo
Author |
: Eric O. Ayisi |
Publisher |
: East African Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9966466177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789966466174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Introduction to the Study of African Culture by : Eric O. Ayisi