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Hadija's Story

Author : Harmony O'Rourke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023890
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hadija's Story written by Harmony O'Rourke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O'Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija's story, O'Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial narratives that have emphasized male activities and projects to assert cultural distinctiveness, and she brings forward a new set of women's issues involving concerns for personal prosperity, the continuation of generations, and Islamic religious expectations in communities separated by long distances.

Hadija's Story

Author : Harmony O'Rourke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023890
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hadija's Story written by Harmony O'Rourke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O'Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija's story, O'Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial narratives that have emphasized male activities and projects to assert cultural distinctiveness, and she brings forward a new set of women's issues involving concerns for personal prosperity, the continuation of generations, and Islamic religious expectations in communities separated by long distances.

Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania

Author : Pekka Seppälä
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064271
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania written by Pekka Seppälä and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies on rural Africa increasingly reveal a pattern of development which is more complex than that proposed in earlier unilinear theories. The researchers have recently located intricate systems of patronage, local networks of cooperation, indigenous social safety nets but also alarming rates of differentiation. This study extends the analysis of local complexity to the labour sphere, showing how rural producers tend to diversify into multiple sources of income resulting in innovative straddling between them. The diversification which is a necessity for the poorest households provides the means for risk aversion and accumulation for the wealthier ones. Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania is a thought-provoking and theoretically challenging work showing how cultural issues penetrate economic practices and modify the outcome of any economic interventions.

Women Wielding the Hoe

Author : Deborah Bryceson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323803
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women Wielding the Hoe written by Deborah Bryceson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context?These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and development consultants. The book aims to increase awareness of the importance of women agricultural producers to African material development and to expose the western biases that have traditionally pervaded the study of rural African women. The authors' critical analyses of conventional research methodology and key 'women and development' debates over the last three decades will stimulate new research perspectives. Students and scholars of development, development workers and policymakers will all find this book fascinating reading.

Silent Violence

Author : Vinay R. Kamat
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599203
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Silent Violence written by Vinay R. Kamat and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Violence engages the harsh reality of malaria and its effects on marginalized communities in Tanzania. Vinay R. Kamat presents an ethnographic analysis of the shifting global discourses and practices surrounding malaria control and their impact on the people of Tanzania, especially mothers of children sickened by malaria. Malaria control, according to Kamat, has become increasingly medicalized, a trend that overemphasizes biomedical and pharmaceutical interventions while neglecting the social, political, and economic conditions he maintains are central to Africa’s malaria problem. Kamat offers recent findings on global health governance, neoliberal economic and health policies, and their impact on local communities. Seeking to link wider social, economic, and political forces to local experiences of sickness and suffering, Kamat analyzes the lived experiences and practices of people most seriously affected by malaria—infants and children. The persistence of childhood malaria is a form of structural violence, he contends, and the resultant social suffering in poor communities is closely tied to social inequalities. Silent Violence illustrates the evolving nature of local responses to the global discourse on malaria control. It advocates for the close study of disease treatment in poor communities as an integral component of global health funding. This ethnography combines a decade of fieldwork with critical review and a rare anthropological perspective on the limitations of the bureaucratic, technological, institutional, medical, and political practices that currently determine malaria interventions in Africa.

Crisscrossing Through Afro-Asian Literature

Author : Rustica C. Carpio
Publisher : Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9712729192
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Crisscrossing Through Afro-Asian Literature written by Rustica C. Carpio and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crisscrossing Through Afro-Asian Literature is intended to give the reader varied views of life in the Afro-Asian sphere. It hopes to help the reader capture the nuances of the human experience that well from the vast wealth of wisdom and culture in these countries.

Traditional Swahili Poetry

Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Swahili Poetry written by Jan Knappert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baghdad Believer

Author : Jay Nealson
Publisher : Jay Nealson
ISBN 13 : 0979235200
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Baghdad Believer written by Jay Nealson and published by Jay Nealson. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book adresses many myths and assumptions about Muslims and about how Muslims can follow Jesus while maintaining many of their cultural values."--Preface

Grassfields Stories from Cameroon

Author : Peter W. Vakunta
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558117
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Grassfields Stories from Cameroon written by Peter W. Vakunta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassfields Stories from Cameroon is an anthology of short stories. It comprises animal trickster tales, bird survival tales, and human-interest stories. The compendium is a reflection of the mores, cultures, and value systems of the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Province of Cameroon. It is motivated by the author's keen interest in the preservation of Cameroonian oral traditions in written form. These stories deal with the day-to-day life of the sedentary and the globe-trotter. Each story is sufficient onto itself. The author has intentionally avoided chronology in the order of presentation of the stories. Whether you read the stories in the order in which they are presented or dart about as your fancy dictates, you will feel the abundance of richness and entertainment the book contains. The didactic value of this collection of short stories resides in its suitability to readers of all age groups. The uniqueness of the volume lies in its universal appeal. Peter Wuteh Vakunta was born and raised in the village of Bamunka-Ndop in Cameroon where he worked as senior translator at the Presidency of the Republic before immigrating to America. He is an alumnus of Sacred Heart College-Mankon. Vakunta obtained his Bachelor degrees in Cameroon and Nigeria; MA and MSE degrees in Cameroon and the U.S.A. At present, Vakunta and his family live in Madison, U.S.A. He teaches in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also completing his PhD dissertation titled: Translation in Literature: Indigenization in the Francophone Text. Vakunta is poet, storyteller and essayist. His published works include Better English: Mind Your P's and Q's, Lion Man and Other Stories (short stories), Brainwaves (poems), Pandora's Box (poems). African Time and Pidgin Verses (poems), Square Pegs in Round Holes (essays) and It Takes Guts (essays). Vakunta's literary works have earned him several awards in the U.S.A, U.K and Africa.

Al-Rabghūzī, The Stories of the Prophets (2 vols.)

Author : H.E. Boeschoten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900429483X
Total Pages : 1435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Al-Rabghūzī, The Stories of the Prophets (2 vols.) written by H.E. Boeschoten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 1435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabghūzī’s Stories of the Prophets, written in Khwarezmian Turkish (14th century) contains an account of the life of the biblical prophets and of the Prophet Muḥammed.

River Spirit

Author : Leila Aboulela
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 0863569226
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book River Spirit written by Leila Aboulela and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1890s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, they are taken in by a young merchant, Yaseen, who promises to care for them – a vow that tethers him to Akuany throughout their adulthood. As revolution begins to brew, led by the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Sudan begins to prise itself from Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side. Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, a decision that threatens to splinter his family. Meanwhile, Akuany is moved across the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with only Yaseen as her intermittent lifeline. Their struggle mirrors the increasingly bloody struggle for Sudan itself: for freedom, safety and the possibility of love. River Spirit is the unforgettable story of a people who, against the odds and for a brief time, gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge and sacrifice.

From Stories To History

Author : Rutachwamagyo Kaganzi
Publisher : IDPC Tanzania
ISBN 13 : 9987997422
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book From Stories To History written by Rutachwamagyo Kaganzi and published by IDPC Tanzania. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this book is therefore to trace milestones and have document them documented so that people with disabilities from both old and new generations could evaluate critically their constituency during the period under consideration. This is a crucial juncture where the old generation is expected to be finding its exit from active advocacy and so hand over the mantle to the zealous new generation that is likely to reap the envisaged fruits of the sweat of the predecessors in the next fifty or so years.

Paper Graveyards

Author : Eduardo Cadava
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262046040
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Paper Graveyards written by Eduardo Cadava and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generously illustrated training manual for reading images, discussing work by Félix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others. Paper Graveyards is neither a work of traditional art history nor one of literary criticism. It is not strictly a history of ideas either, notwithstanding its very obvious erudition. Rather, in drawing upon all of these methods and approaches—and with extraordinary attention to language and style—Cadava’s writing examines the spectacular explosion of images during the last twenty years as a prompt to discuss not simply specific images but the role and place of these images in our everyday life. Considering work by Félix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others, Cadava delineates different modes of reading that, taking their point of departure from the conviction that the past, the present, and the future are always bound together, provide us with a training manual of sorts for understanding visual material in the twenty-first century. In the process, these generously illustrated essays actively expand our sense of literacy by reconstructing the networks of relations that inhabit the plural worlds of images, and create a critical genealogy of what we still call “an image,” even when, with every day that passes, we perhaps understand less and less what this might mean.

Their Voices, Their Stories

Author : Julie Wakeman-Linn
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9987081517
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Their Voices, Their Stories written by Julie Wakeman-Linn and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNICEF estimates that Tanzania has over three million orphans. The Bethsaida Orphan Girls Secondary School seeks to help the most vulnerable of Tanzania's children. Founded by Mrs. Anna Machary in 2005 under the auspices of the non-governmental organization, the Olof Palme Orphans Education Center, the school currently enrolls over 130 orphan girls from all over the country, providing them with free housing, meals, psychological support and a quality secondary education. This book features short stories by thirteen students and has the dual purpose of being a fundraiser for the school and giving the girls a voice. It is a unique and enthralling work of fiction, Their Voices: Their Stories ranges from magical realism to fable, from historical fiction to bildungsroman. Under the professional and passionate editorial guidance of Maryland professor Julie Wakeman-Linn, this collection sings of the fears, anxieties and dreams of young Tanzanian women, who pray their education will be the golden ticket out of lives filled with poverty and abuse.

The Origin of the Races and Destruction of Man By Man

Author : Edwin Sammy Achala
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462892701
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Races and Destruction of Man By Man written by Edwin Sammy Achala and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in Religious History

Author : Ernest Renan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Religious History written by Ernest Renan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Women in Russia

Author : Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253000971
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in Russia written by Barbara Evans Clements and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women played in shaping Russia's political, economic, social, and cultural development for over a millennium, starting in 900.