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Mashairi ya Vita vya Kuduhu

Author : Ann Biersteker
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870138944
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mashairi ya Vita vya Kuduhu written by Ann Biersteker and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1995-04-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu is a presentation and discussion of both manuscript and published versions of poems written by Lamu poets around the time of the Battle of Kuduhu. The poetic dialogue studied in this volume has played a significant role in the history of Swahili poetry, and its primary concern is to inform continued work in this area. The poems contained in this work were transmitted and preserved by speakers of Kiswahili and later collected and preserved by scholars. Chapter One contains the edited poems; Chapter Two consists of the translations. Subsequent chapters include accounts of the Battle of Kuduhu, editing and translating practices, and annotated poems and source versions. This work is presented as an example of the importance of research, fieldwork, and the consideration of available versions and alternative styles of presentation in the study of Swahili poetry.

Of Worlds and Artworks

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004689753
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Of Worlds and Artworks written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area studies. From such a processual perspective, Africa is not a delineated area, but emerges in a variety of relations which can reach across the continent, but also the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic or Europe. Contributors are: Thierry Boudjekeu, Elena Brugioni, Ute Fendler, Sophie Lembcke, Gilbert Ndi Shang, Samuel Ndogo, Duncan Tarrant, Kumari Issur, CJ Odhiambo, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke, Chinelo J. Enemuo.

The World of Ngūgī Wa Thiong'o

Author : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865434592
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The World of Ngūgī Wa Thiong'o written by Charles Cantalupo and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this collection of twelve essays and two interviews surveys the wide variety of Ngugi's work from his earliest writings to his most recent - including essays, all his novels, and his writings for children. Also included are extensive discussions of Ngugi's writings in English and Gikuyu, his use of oral literary techniques, his tragic exile, and his revolutionary politics.

Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili?

Author :
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
ISBN 13 : 900429807X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? written by and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buying Time

Author : Thomas F. McDow
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446096
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Buying Time written by Thomas F. McDow and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buying Time, Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies as well as economic and social history to explain how, in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. That vibrant and enormously influential swath extended from the desert fringes of Arabia to Zanzibar and the Swahili coast and on to the Congo River watershed. In the half century before European colonization, Africans and Arabs from coasts and hinterlands used newfound sources of credit to seek out opportunities, establish new outposts in distant places, and maintain families in a rapidly changing economy. They used temporizing strategies to escape drought in Oman, join ivory caravans in the African interior, and build new settlements. The key to McDow’s analysis is a previously unstudied trove of Arabic business deeds that show complex variations on the financial transactions that underwrote the trade economy across the region. The documents list names, genealogies, statuses, and clan names of a wide variety of people—Africans, Indians, and Arabs; men and women; free and slave—who bought, sold, and mortgaged property. Through unprecedented use of these sources, McDow moves the historical analysis of the Indian Ocean beyond connected port cities to reveal the roles of previously invisible people.

Dictionary of African Biography

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195382072
Total Pages : 3382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 3382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

African Print Cultures

Author : African Print Cultures Network. Meeting
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053175
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book African Print Cultures written by African Print Cultures Network. Meeting and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Author : Abdilatif Abdalla
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472056611
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony written by Abdilatif Abdalla and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla's influential Voice of Agony

Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience

Author : Kai Kresse
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037557
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience written by Kai Kresse and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience is an exploration of the ideas and public discussions that have shaped and defined the experience of Kenyan coastal Muslims. Focusing on Kenyan postcolonial history, Kai Kresse isolates the ideas that coastal Muslims have used to separate themselves from their "upcountry Christian" countrymen. Kresse looks back to key moments and key texts—pamphlets, newspapers, lectures, speeches, radio discussions—as a way to map out the postcolonial experience and how it is negotiated in the coastal Muslim community. On one level, this is a historical ethnography of how and why the content of public discussion matters so much to communities at particular points in time. Kresse shows how intellectual practices can lead to a regional understanding of the world and society. On another level, this ethnography of the postcolonial experience also reveals dimensions of intellectual practice in religious communities and thus provides an alternative model that offers a non-Western way to understand regional conceptual frameworks and intellectual practice.

A Companion to African History

Author : William H. Worger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119063507
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to African History written by William H. Worger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments. Two dozen essays by leading international scholars explore the challenges facing this relatively new field of historical enquiry and present the dynamic ways in which historians and scholars from other fields such as archaeology, anthropology, political science, and economics are forging new directions in thinking and research. Comprised of six parts, the book begins with thematic approaches to African history—exploring the environment, gender and family, medical practices, and more. Section two covers Africa’s early history and its pre-colonial past—early human adaptation, the emergence of kingdoms, royal power, and warring states. The third section looks at the era of the slave trade and European expansion. Part four examines the process of conquest—the discovery of diamonds and gold, military and social response, and more. Colonialism is discussed in the sixth section, with chapters on the economy transformed due to the development of agriculture and mining industries. The last section studies the continent from post World War II all the way up to modern times. Aims at capturing the enthusiasms of practicing historians, and encouraging similar passion in a new generation of scholars Emphasizes linkages within Africa as well as between the continent and other parts of the world All chapters include significant historiographical content and suggestions for further reading Written by a global team of writers with unique backgrounds and views Features case studies with illustrative examples In a field traditionally marked by narrow specialisms, A Companion to African History is an ideal book for advanced students, researchers, historians, and scholars looking for a broad yet unique overview of African history as a whole.

Morality at the Margins

Author : Sarah Hillewaert
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823286525
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Morality at the Margins written by Sarah Hillewaert and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya’s island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of the national and international economy and of Western notions of modernity, Lamu’s inhabitants nevertheless find themselves the focus of campaigns against Islamic radicalization and of Western touristic imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim here? How are these denominators imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate cultural, religious, political, and economic expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. Hillewaert shows how seemingly mundane practices—how young people greet others, how they walk, dress, and talk—can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood. Morality at the Margins traces the shifting meanings and potential ambiguities of such everyday signs—and the dangers of their misconstrual. By examining the uncertainties that underwrite projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows the ways in which Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.

On the Poetics of the Utendi

Author : Clarissa Vierke
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643800894
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book On the Poetics of the Utendi written by Clarissa Vierke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as author's thesis (doctoral)--BIGSAS, Bayreuth, 2009.

The Story of Swahili

Author : John M. Mugane
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896804895
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Swahili written by John M. Mugane and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 as the African Union’s official language, Swahili has become a truly international language. How this came about and why, of all African languages, it happened only to Swahili is the story that John M. Mugane sets out to explore. The remarkable adaptability of Swahili has allowed Africans and others to tailor the language to their needs, extending its influence far beyond its place of origin. Its symbolic as well as its practical power has evolved from its status as a language of contact among diverse cultures, even as it embodies the history of communities in eastern and central Africa and throughout the Indian Ocean world. The Story of Swahili calls for a reevaluation of the widespread assumption that cultural superiority, military conquest, and economic dominance determine a language’s prosperity. This sweeping history gives a vibrant, living language its due, highlighting its nimbleness from its beginnings to its place today in the fast-changing world of global communication.

Domesticating the World

Author : Jeremy Prestholdt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254236
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Domesticating the World written by Jeremy Prestholdt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA

The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context

Author : David L. Hoyt
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109557
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context written by David L. Hoyt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of rising nationalism and expanding colonialism, the science of language has been intimately bound up with questions of immediate political concern. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power. This is the common thread running through the seven individual studies gathered here. By deliberately juxtaposing the European, academic configuration of modern linguistic research with the more practical, extra-European activities of missionaries, colonial officials, or East Asian literati, the authors explore the tensions between forms of linguistic knowledge generated in different geopolitical contexts, and suggest ways of thinking about the role of social science in the process of globalization.

Love in Africa

Author : Jennifer Cole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226113558
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Love in Africa written by Jennifer Cole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life—a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africa seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it. In a substantive introduction and eight essays that examine a variety of countries and range in time from the 1930s to the present, the contributors collectively argue for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. Covering such diverse topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people’s ideas about courtship in Niger, the models of romance promoted by South African and Kenyan magazines, and the complex relationship between love and money in Madagascar and South Africa, Love in Africa is a vivid and compelling look at love’s role in African society.

Inland from Mombasa

Author : David P. Bresnahan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520400488
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Inland from Mombasa written by David P. Bresnahan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-12-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits engaged in by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.