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African Culture

Author : Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African Culture written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa, according to the contributors to this anthology, is one cultural river with numerous tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the environment. They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions, and technologies of African culture that tie those tributaries together. The fourteen original essays by leading scholars of African studies are organized in four general divisions which consider the ethno-cultural motif, the artistic tradition, concepts of cultural value, and cultural continua.

African Culture

Author : Rob Bowden
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781432924409
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book African Culture written by Rob Bowden and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the culture of Africa, discussing ancient traditions, languages, family life, eating customs, education, diseases, the arts, recreation, religion, and the influence of African culture on the rest of the world.

Hair in African Art and Culture

Author : Roy Sieber
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hair in African Art and Culture written by Roy Sieber and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title held at the Museum for African Art, New York from 9 February - 28 May 2000.

Undercurrents of Power

Author : Kevin Dawson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812224930
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Undercurrents of Power written by Kevin Dawson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Precolonial African Material Culture

Author : V. Tarikhu Farrar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793606439
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Precolonial African Material Culture written by V. Tarikhu Farrar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.

An Introduction to the Study of African Culture

Author : Eric O. Ayisi
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966466174
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of African Culture written by Eric O. Ayisi and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools

Author : Cati Coe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226111292
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools written by Cati Coe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools, this effort has created an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed as they are taught in school classrooms. The state version of culture now taught by educators has become objectified and nationalized—vastly different from local traditions. Coe identifies the state's limitations in teaching cultural knowledge and discusses how Ghanaians negotiate the tensions raised by the competing visions of modernity that nationalism and Christianity have created. She reveals how cultural curricula affect authority relations in local social organizations—between teachers and students, between Christians and national elite, and between children and elders—and raises several questions about educational processes, state-society relations, the production of knowledge, and the making of Ghana's citizenry.

African Print Cultures

Author : Derek Peterson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122134
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book African Print Cultures written by Derek Peterson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view. The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow travellers. “Experiments with Genre” explores how newspapers nurtured the development of new literary genres, such as poetry, realist fiction, photoplays, and travel writing in African languages and in English. “Newspapers and Their Publics” looks at the ways in which African newspapers fostered the creation of new kinds of communities and served as networks for public interaction, political and otherwise. The final section, “Afterlives, ” is about the longue durée of history that newspapers helped to structure, and how, throughout the twentieth century, print allowed contributors to view their writing as material meant for posterity.

Senses of Culture

Author : Sarah Nuttall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Senses of Culture written by Sarah Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life in South Africa has been dominated by the politics of racial identities, while such identities form and re-form around a range of cultural activities and practices. This book traces the important dimensions of cultural activity in late twentieth-century South Africa, offering a multidisciplinary assessment between culture and politics. It also explores the ways in which the place of culture is being rethought since South Africa's transition to democracy.

Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Fran Osseo-Asare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313062269
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Fran Osseo-Asare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East African, notably, Ethiopian, cuisine is perhaps the most well-known in the States. This volume illuminates West, southern, and Central African cuisine as well to give students and other readers a solid understanding of how the diverse African peoples grow, cook, and eat food and how they celebrate special occasions and ceremonies with special foods. Readers will also learn about African history, religions, and ways of life plus how African and American foodways are related. For example, cooking techniques such as deep frying and ingredients such as peanuts, chili peppers, okra, watermelon, and even cola were introduced to the United States by sub-Sahara Africans who were brought as slaves. Africa is often presented as a monolith, but this volume treats each region in turn with representative groups and foodways presented in manageable fashion, with a truer picture able to emerge. It is noted that the boundaries of many countries are imposed, so that food culture is more fluid in a region. Commonalities are also presented in the basic format of a meal, with a starch with a sauce or stew and vegetables and perhaps some protein, typically cooked over a fire in a pot supported by three stones. Representative recipes, a timeline, glossary, and evocative photos complete the narrative.

African Culture & Civilization

Author : Simon Ademola Ajayi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Culture & Civilization written by Simon Ademola Ajayi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From interdisciplinary and continental perspectives, this volume explores elements of African culture and ideas, indigenous and modern, and how they have evolved through the ages. It considers areas such as education; cross-culturalism; the relationship between African, Arabic and Egyptian civilizations; traditions of philosophy; music, the performing arts and literature; language; gender; and the impact of colonialism and pan-Africanism.

African Roots/American Cultures

Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742501652
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis African Roots/American Cultures by : Sheila S. Walker

Download or read book African Roots/American Cultures written by Sheila S. Walker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

The Pan-African Nation

Author : Andrew Apter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226023567
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Pan-African Nation written by Andrew Apter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.

The Power of African Cultures

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462976
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Power of African Cultures written by Toyin Falola and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

African History and Culture

Author : Richard Olaniyan
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780582643697
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book African History and Culture written by Richard Olaniyan and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African History and Culture provides an ideal textbook for students taking courses in African history and culture in universities and other post-secondary institutions. The book is inter-disciplinary in approach, and covers the continent of Africa as a whole. Consisting of fourteen chapters written by specialists in their subjects, the book opens with an introductory overview of the themes that are covered in detail in the ensuing chapters, and concludes with a chapter on theatre in Africa by Professor Wole Soyinka of the University of Ife, Nigeria. -- Back cover.

African history before 1885

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890897683
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book African history before 1885 written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Culture & American Business in Africa

Author : Emmanuel U. Nnadozie
Publisher : Afrimax
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Culture & American Business in Africa written by Emmanuel U. Nnadozie and published by Afrimax. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the most important reasons to do business with Africa, the ultimate emerging market; the differences between American and African business cultures to enhance the performance of your business; the most common cultural characteristics that define African business culture; how to strategically manage cultural differences in doing business with Africa and increase profits; and more about the African continent and its enormous business and profit potential.