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Author : Kwabena N. Bame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789964910655
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Profiles in African Traditional Popular Culture written by Kwabena N. Bame and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135212880
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends facts and fiction has rendered perceptions of Africa, its cultures, societies, customs, and conflicts often superficial and deficient in the popular Western consciousness. The book brings eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to sort out the persistent fictionalization of Africa, from facts pertaining to the genesis of powerful cultural, political or religious icons, the historical and cultural significance of "intriguing" customs (such as tribal marks), gender relations, causes of conflicts and African responses, and creative imaginations in contemporary African films, fiction and literature, among others.
Author : Takyiwaa Manuh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9988647492
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Africa in Contemporary Perspective written by Takyiwaa Manuh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important feature of Ghanaian tertiary education is the foundational African Studies Programme which was initiated in the early 1960s. Unfortunately hardly any readers exist which bring together a body of knowledge on the themes, issues and debates which inform and animate research and teaching in African Studies particularly on the African continent. This becomes even more important when we consider the need for knowledge on Africa that is not Eurocentric or sensationalised, but driven from internal understandings of life and prospects in Africa. Dominant representations and perceptions of Africa usually depict a continent in crisis. Rather than buying into external representations of Africa, with its lacks and aspirations for Western modernities, we insist that African scholars in particular should be in the forefront of promoting understanding of the pluri-lingual, overlapping, and dense reality of life and developments on the continent, to produce relevant and usable knowledge. Continuing and renewed interest in Africas resources, including the land mass, economy, minerals, visual arts and performance cultures, as well as bio-medical knowledge and products, by old and new geopolitical players, obliges African scholars to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to work with each other to advance knowledge and uses of those resources in the interests of Africas people.
Author : Joseph K. Adjaye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057923
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture written by Joseph K. Adjaye and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals are among the most enduring aspects of the African cultural landscape. They appear to exist outside of time, eternal and unchanging. Joseph Adjaye argues that while rituals may seem to be static, in reality, they are dynamic and changing. Through intense analysis of child naming ceremonies, libations, puberty initiation rights, funerals and two major Ghanaian festivals, Adjaye explores the interplay between ritual and audience interaction and participation. By so doing, he shows the many ways rituals have provided Ghanaians with a means to conceptualize and change their present and shape their future. In other words, rituals help individuals escape the boundaries of self by promoting a sense of collective purpose and agency. This book will appeal to not only Africanists, but to readers interested in the roles rituals play in their own lives and the ways that rituals encourage socially transforming initiatives.
Author : J. Pashington Obeng
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739114285
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Shaping Membership, Defining Nation written by J. Pashington Obeng and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping Membership, Defining Nation explores and interprets the social politics, religion, and history of Africans (Habshis/Siddis) in Karnataka of South India. Focusing on the continuous dialog between African Indian historical formations and contemporary power structures, Pashington Obeng clearly explains the process of constructing socio-political and religious mores to respond to India's religious, socio-economic, and caste systems. The study begins by contextualizing the history of Africans in India before moving onto a sociological study. Pashington Obeng examines the formal and non-formal religious customs that stress African Indian agency in appropriating and shaping new forms of Indianness as well as African Diasporic realities. The book concludes with an important analysis of African Indian folksongs and dances.Shaping Membership, Defining Nation is a ground-breaking study of interest to scholars of African History and contemporary Indian society.
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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739160877
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Shaping Membership, Defining Nation written by and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nate Plageman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007259
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Highlife Saturday Night written by Nate Plageman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book ADF-funded Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Collier
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209154
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book African Cultures and Literatures written by Gordon Collier and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera. The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, two contributions on Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and three studies of the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akans of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa. Contributors: Jude Aigbe Agho, Nasima Ali, Uchenna Bethrand Anih, Aboneh Ashagrie, Francis T. Cheo, Gordon Collier, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Geoffrey V. Davis, Nozizwe Dhlamini, Kola Eke, Phyllis Forster, Frances Hardie, James Hlongwana, Pede Hollist, John M. Kobia, Samuelson Freddie Khunou, Mea Lashbrooke, María J. López, Brian Macaskill, Evans Mandova, Richard Sgadreck Maposa, Michael Mazuru, Corwin L. Mhlahlo. Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize, Kobus Moolman, Thamsanqa Moyo, Felix M. Muchomba, Collins Kenga Mumbo, Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, Bhekezakhe Ncube, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Ode S. Ogede, H. Oby Okolocha, Wumi Raji, Dosia Reichhardt, Rashi Rohatgi, Kamal Salhi, Ekremah Shehab, Faith Sibanda, John A Stotesbury, Nick Mdika Tembo, Kenneth Usongo, Wellington Wasosa.
Author : Runette Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527523624
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Modernized Africa written by Runette Kruger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.
Author : Victor Kofi Agawu
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521480840
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book African Rhythm written by Victor Kofi Agawu and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . An accompanying compact disk enables the reader to work closely with the sound of African speech and song discussed in the book.
Author : African Development Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Participatory Development written by African Development Foundation (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ousmane Diakhate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136359494
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Ousmane Diakhate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.
Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136119086
Total Pages : 1344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author : Kene Igweonu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855103
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3 written by Kene Igweonu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content, and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributors’ backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the “one-sided” advance of globalisation. The contributions attest to the thriving nature of African theatre and performance, which in the face of these challenges, has managed to retain its distinctiveness, while at the same time acknowledging, contesting, and appropriating influences from elsewhere into an aesthetic that is identifiably African. Consequently, the three books are presented as a comprehensive exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance, both on the continent and diaspora. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa offers essays that seek to re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre in Africa, and therefore redefine our understanding of the practice, role, and place they occupy in a constantly evolving African socio-cultural contexts. Contributions in Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa range from essays that explore notions of space in performance, to those that challenge the perceived orthodoxy of conventional forms and approaches to theatre.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Participatory Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Nketiah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456789260
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Distance Forum written by Eric Nketiah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distance Forum Vol. 1 is acolleciton of academic writings across disciplines. It discusses some of the issues that engage the attention of contemporary scholars because of their implication for development. among the collections are: Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu's "Intermediate meand of transport (IMT): A Possible Solution to Rural Transportation Problems in Ghana?" W.J. Donkoh(PhD.) et al's "The Ipact of Colonial Labour Policy on Female Migrationfrom Northern Ghana to Asante" Emannuel Sarfo and Berlinda Mensah's "I'm not interested: A Case Study of Female Students Refusals from Men." Pauline Bassey Edet's "Predictive Contributions of Parental Educational Level, Family Type and School Influence on Drop out: Implicaitons for Counselling". Franklin Egyir's "The Impact of Colonial Exploitation on Africa in the Twenty-first century Revisited: A Young Scholar's Perspective" Nicholas imbeah's "Using Festivals to Promote Tourism: A case of Aboakyer and Bakatue in the Central Region of Ghana." These and many more are some of the write-ups in this book.
