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Kinshasa

Author : Filip De Boeck
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058679675
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Kinshasa written by Filip De Boeck and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading African cities into contemporary theory—reprint of a richly illustrated reference work In their internationally acclaimed publication Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality lurking underneath the surface of the visible world and explore the constant transactions that take place between these two levels in Kinshasa’s urban scape. With the exhibition that accompanied the release of their Kinshasa book, the authors won a Golden Lion at the 11th International Architecture Bienniale in Venice, 2004. This beautifully illustrated publication is now again made available. Based on longstanding field research, it provides insight into local social and cultural imaginaries, and thus in the imaginative ways in which local urban subjects continue to make sense of their worlds and invent cultural strategies to cope with the breakdown of urban infrastructure.

Kinshasa in Transition

Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226750576
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Kinshasa in Transition written by David Shapiro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is now the second-largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa. And as the city has grown-from around 300,000 people in the mid-1950s to more than five million today-it has experienced seismic social, economic, and demographic changes. In this book, David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe trace the impact of these changes on the lives of women, and their findings add dramatically to the field's limited knowledge of African demographic trends. They find that fertility has declined significantly in Kinshasa since the 1970s, and that women's increasing access to secondary education has played a key role in this decline. Better access to education has also given women greater access to employment opportunities. And by examining the impact of such factors as economic well-being and household demographic composition on the schooling of children, Shapiro and Tambashe reveal how one generation's fertility affects the next generation's education. This book will be a valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand the complex and ongoing social, demographic, economic, and developmental changes in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

Tropical Cowboys

Author : Ch. Didier Gondola
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253020808
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Cowboys written by Ch. Didier Gondola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An innovative and original study that sheds light on masculinity, youth culture, performative violence, and the circuit of global imagery.” —Stephan F. Miescher, author of Making Men in Ghana During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as “Bills” or “Yankees.” Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the Bills sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuilding, marijuana, violent sexual behavior, and other transgressive acts. Gondola argues that this street culture became a backdrop for Congo-Zaire’s emergence as an independent nation and continues to exert powerful influence on the country’s urban youth culture today. “Aligns social banditry with popular cultural formations and subcultures. This has been a longstanding feature of Didier Gondola’s scholarship that is of great interest.” —Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara “Its approach in terms of poverty and unemployment combined with a subtle interest in performance and the creation of an original culture makes this book an eye-opener. Both the dramatic subject and the author’s vivid style make it a pleasure to read and also food for thought regarding issues that haunt not only Africa but also the world at large.” —American Historical Review

Kinshasa photographies

Author : Lye M. Yoka
Publisher : Revue Noire
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kinshasa photographies written by Lye M. Yoka and published by Revue Noire. This book was released on 2001 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seekers and Things

Author : Peter Lambertz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785336703
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Seekers and Things written by Peter Lambertz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localized picture of religious globalization. Guided by an aesthetic approach to religion, the study moves beyond a focus limited to text and offers insights into the role of religious objects, spiritual technologies and aesthetic repertoires in the production and politics of difference. The boundaries between non-Christian religious minorities and the largely Christian public sphere involve fears and suspicion of "magic" and "occult sciences".

Breaking Rocks

Author : Joe Trapido
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785333992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Rocks written by Joe Trapido and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons – who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola – this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, as well as a glimpse into the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.

Reinventing Order in the Congo

Author : Theodore Trefon
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137672
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Order in the Congo written by Theodore Trefon and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa‘s second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous ‘bargaining‘ system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education. The NGO-ization of service provision is analysed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. The contributors also look at popular discourses, including street rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to ‘big men‘ such as musicians and preachers. This is urban sociology at its best - richly empirical, unjargonized, descriptive of the lives of ordinary people, and weaving into its analysis how they see and experience life.

Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa).

Author : Gordon C. McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa). written by Gordon C. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.

Growing Trees in Urban Kinshasa

Author : Gutu Kia Zimi PhD
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665512628
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Growing Trees in Urban Kinshasa written by Gutu Kia Zimi PhD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study allowed us to understand that the urban vegetation of Kinshasa has been declining over the years, especially in the neighborhoods of the old municipalities and a slow progression in the new neighborhoods of the peripheral municipalities. This general downward trend should bring us awareness so that we can maintain and protect the existing urban vegetation. This downward trend can be explained by the fact that the area occupied by the constructions in the plots becomes larger and larger, that is to say that over the years, the old constructions from the beginning during the the acquisition of the plots disappear in favor of new larger and more comfortable constructions in the plots. Moreover, at the beginning of the birth of the district, the owners are mainly interested in planting the trees in the plot, but as the district ages, the urban vegetation becomes dense and the interest of planting other trees are no longer justified. It is also a regrettable fact to note that no tree has been detected in the streets of African neighborhoods and this because of the narrowness of the streets or a simple omission of the town planner, who has not made the relevant arrangements during the development of these districts. Planting a fruit tree in your plot is a profitable initiative as the fruits are an important source of nutrients. In this case, the fruit tree not only provides fruit but also provides shade and also improves the living environment in the plot.

Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa).

Author : Gordon C. McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa). written by Gordon C. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.

Central African Republic-Congo (Kinshasa) Boundary

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central African Republic-Congo (Kinshasa) Boundary written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

Author : Katrien Pype
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857454951
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama written by Katrien Pype and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.

Congo Inc.

Author : In Koli Jean Bofane
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253031915
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Congo Inc. written by In Koli Jean Bofane and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy, grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an online game where he seizes control of the world's natural resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism, colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.

Le Congo-Kinshasa

Author : Jean-Jacques Arthur Malu-Malu
Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782845862333
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Le Congo-Kinshasa written by Jean-Jacques Arthur Malu-Malu and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Située en plein cœur du continent africain, à cheval sur l'équateur, le Congo-Kinshasa, officiellement République démocratique du Congo (RDC), est un pays immense particulièrement gâté par la nature. Son sous-sol est l'un des plus riches au monde ; la fertilité de ses terres et la variété de ses climats favorisent l'agriculture. Pourtant, ce " géant aux pieds d'argile " abrite, paradoxalement, une population en majeure partie démunie. La RDC est un pays d'une extrême complexité qui tient à son histoire tumultueuse, faite de guerres, de rébellions, de récessions, d'exécutions, de faillites économiques... Dès le XVe siècle, les Portugais ont établi des liens avec le royaume du Congo pour négocier or, ivoire, cuivre et esclaves. Ce n'est qu'au XIXe siècle que la Belgique, sous la houlette du roi Léopold II, l'emporte sur les autres nations européennes lancées dans la course coloniale et établit le Congo belge. La difficile marche vers l'indépendance est également émaillée de révoltes et de violences. L'histoire de la Première République est écrite en lettres de sang. Notamment le sang de Patrice Lumumba, le Premier ministre assassiné avec la bénédiction de la Belgique en 1961. La Deuxième République mise en place par Mobutu en 1965 est une dictature qui conduit le Zaïre à la faillite. Le 17 mai 1997, Mobutu est renversé par Laurent Désiré Kabila. Le Zaïre redevient Congo. Kabila connaît une fin tragique en janvier 2001. Son fils, Joseph Kabila, lui succède. La RDC bascule à nouveau dans la guerre en août 1998. Une guerre qui appose, sur le sol congolais, les troupes gouvernementales épaulées par des forces étrangères à des mouvements rebelles soutenus par des armées des pays voisins. Pourtant, le Congo-Kinshasa est attachant par sa richesse culturelle (musique, statuaire, peinture moderne...), par la diversité de ses peuples, l'immensité de ses paysages d'eau, de forêts et de montagne.

From Kinshasa to Kandahar

Author : Greg Donaghy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552388440
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book From Kinshasa to Kandahar written by Greg Donaghy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7: BOSNIA: From Failed State to Functioning State -- 8: SIX YEARS IN KANDAHAR: Understanding Canada's Multidimensional Effort to Builda Sustainable Afghan State -- 9: CANADA AND FRAGILESTATES IN THE AMERICAS -- 10: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FRAGILE AND STABLE STATES: Dilemmas and Opportunities in South Sudan and Ghana -- 11: CONCLUSION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover

Music Saved Them, They Say

Author : Lukas Pairon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000080838
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Saved Them, They Say written by Lukas Pairon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The musicians described here – former gang members and so-called "witch children" living on the streets – believe music was vital in (re)constructing their lives. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of three-and-a-half years of research, the study synthesizes interviews, focus group sessions, and participant observation to contextualize this complicated cultural and social environment. Inspired by those who have been "saved by music", Music Saved Them, They Say seeks to understand how structured musical practice and education can influence the lives of young people in such difficult living conditions, in Kinshasa and beyond. "... a tribute to the persistence, engagement and courage of the people in these projects, who can be proud that their work is now exposed to a global audience, not just of researchers but also to practitioners around the world who could learn from and be inspired by these hitherto unknown projects." —John Sloboda, Research Professor, Guildhall School of Music & Drama "This book is very moving but never sentimental, one of the best accounts of music's real transformative capacities that I have come across." —Lucy Green, Emerita Professor of Music Education, University College London Institute of Education

Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

Author : Nico Nassenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614518521
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond written by Nico Nassenstein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.