Re Imagining Africa

Download Re Imagining Africa full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Re Imagining Africa ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa

Author : Chuka Onwumechili
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739176153
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa by : Chuka Onwumechili

Download or read book Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa written by Chuka Onwumechili and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa is organized into three sections or parts, the first focusing on the past and the history of development communication scholarship; the second analyzes theoretical issues, and finally a third section that looks at country cases. The first part provides several perspectives on the historical development of the field as it pertains to Africa. Some of these look at ideological, indigenous contributions, and the particular importance of gender issues. The second section provides a critique of development communication theory and provides a more cultural appropriate alternative. Additionally, the book applies existing theory to practice in African communities. This leads to the third section of the book which focuses on development communication in some country cases such as in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda.

African Film

Author : Josef Gugler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216434
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African Film by : Josef Gugler

Download or read book African Film written by Josef Gugler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As a point of comparison, two additional films on Africa--one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa--serve to highlight African directors' altogether different perspectives. Gugler's interpretation considers the financial and technical difficulties of African film production, the intended audiences in Africa and the West, the constraints on distribution, and the critical reception of the films.

Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Fetson Anderson Kalua
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527552225
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century by : Fetson Anderson Kalua

Download or read book Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century written by Fetson Anderson Kalua and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the idea of African identity in the twenty-first century, calling into question and deconstructing any understanding and representation of the idea of African identity as being based exclusively on the notion of ‘Blackness’, or the Black race. In countering such an idea of African identity as a flawed notion, the text propounds the idea of intermediality as a new modality of thinking about the importance of embracing the primacy of tolerance for the difference of identity. The notion of intermediality promotes the need for people of all races across the African continent to embrace the idea of difference as the defining feature of African identity so that the geographical locality called Africa is seen as a vibrant, open, and cosmopolitan continent which is accessible to people of all races and identities.

The Postcolonial Turn

Author : Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956726656
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Turn by : Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Download or read book The Postcolonial Turn written by Francis B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local people's own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. Themes include the Whelan Research Academy, rap musicians, political leaders, wise men and women, healers, Sacred Spirit churches, diviners, bards and weavers who are deemed proficient in the classical African geometrical knowledge. As a tribute to late Archie Mafeje who showed real commitment to decolonise social sciences from western-centred modernist development theories, commentators of his work pinpoint how these theories sought to dismiss the active role played by African people in their quest for self-emancipation. One of the central questions addressed by the book concerns the role of an anthropologist and this issue is debated against the background of the academic lecture delivered by René Devisch when receiving an honorary doctoral degree at the University of Kinshasa. The lecture triggered critical but constructive comments from such seasoned experts as Valentin Mudimbe and Wim van Binsbergen. They excoriate anthropological knowledge on account that the anthropologist, notwithstanding his or her social and cognitive empathy and intense communication with the host community, too often fails to also question her own world and intellectual habitus from the standpoint of her hosts. Leading anthropologists carry further into great depth the bifocal anthropological endeavour focussing on local people's re-imagining and re-connecting the local and global. The book is of interest to a wide readership in the humanities, social sciences, philosophy and the history of the African continent and its relation with the North.

Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean

Author : Hopeton S. Dunn
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303054169X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean by : Hopeton S. Dunn

Download or read book Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean written by Hopeton S. Dunn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate, produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa and the Caribbean.

Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa

Author : Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197644155
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa by : Adriaan van Klinken

Download or read book Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by drawing attention to discourses emerging in Africa itself that engage with religion, specifically Christianity, in progressive and innovative ways--in support of sexual diversity and the quest for justice for LGBTI people. The authors show not only that African Christian traditions harbor strong potential for countering conservative anti-LGBTI dynamics; but also that this potential has already begun to be realized, by various thinkers, activists and movements across the continent. Their ten case studies document how leading African writers are reimagining Christian thought; how several Christian-inspired groups are transforming religious practice; and how African cultural production creatively appropriates Christian beliefs and symbols. In short, the book explores Christianity as a major resource for a liberating imagination and politics of sexuality and social justice in Africa today. Foregrounding African agency and progressive religious thought, this highly original intervention counterbalances our knowledge of secular approaches to LGBTI rights in Africa, and powerfully decolonizes queer theory, theology and politics.

Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa

Author : Tenson M. Muyambo
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956553697
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa by : Tenson M. Muyambo

Download or read book Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa written by Tenson M. Muyambo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is on the re-imagination of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and practices in 21st century Africa. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book critically interrogates epistemological erasures and injustices meted against African IKS and practices. It magnifies the different contexts where African IKS were and continue to be used effectively for collective and personal benefit. Beyond the legitimate frustration and disheartenment expressed by the contributors to this volume over the systematic colonial efforts to render inferior and delegitimate African systems of knowing and knowledge production, the book makes an important contribution to the quest to correct misconceptions and misrepresentations by Eurocentric thinkers and practitioners about African indigenous knowledges. The book makes an informed claim that the future and vibrancy of African indigenous knowledge and practices lie in how well scholars of knowledge studies and decoloniality in and on Africa are able to join hands in articulating, debating and fronting their vitality and relevance in varied real-life situations. More importantly, the book provides a re-invigorated overview and nuanced analyses of the important role and continued relevance of African IKS and practices in the understanding, interpreting and tackling of the social unfoldings of everyday life and dynamism. Without romanticising African IKS and practices, the book provides added insights and pointers on policy and trends. It is an important addition to critical debates on knowledge studies across fields.

The State of African Cities 2014

Author : UN-HABITAT
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 921057561X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The State of African Cities 2014 by : UN-HABITAT

Download or read book The State of African Cities 2014 written by UN-HABITAT and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Africas economic performance is promising, with booming cities supporting growing middle classes and creating sizable consumer markets. Despite significant overall growth, the continent continues to suffer under very rapid urban growth accompanied by massive urban poverty and many other social problems. These seem to indicate that the development trajectories followed by African nations since post-independence may not be able to deliver on the aspirations of broad based human development and prosperity for all. This report, therefore, argues for a bold re-imagining of prevailing models in order to steer the ongoing transitions towards greater sustainability based on a thorough review of all available options. That is especially the case since the already daunting urban challenges in Africa are now being exacerbated by the new vulnerabilities and threats associated with climate and environmental change.

Re-Imagining Rwanda

Author : Johan Pottier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528733
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-Imagining Rwanda by : Johan Pottier

Download or read book Re-Imagining Rwanda written by Johan Pottier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pottier examines how a persuasive analysis of the situation in Rwanda exacerbated the original crisis.

In Search of Brightest Africa

Author : Jeannette Eileen Jones
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340294
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis In Search of Brightest Africa by : Jeannette Eileen Jones

Download or read book In Search of Brightest Africa written by Jeannette Eileen Jones and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa with an eye to recovering the emergence of a belief in “Brightest Africa”—a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its “Dark Continent” counterpart. Jones skillfully weaves disparate strands of turn-of-the-century society and culture to expose a vivid trend of cultural engagement that involved both critique and activism. Filmmakers spoke out against the depiction of “savage” Africa in the mass media while also initiating a countertradition of ethnographic documentaries. Early environmentalists celebrated Africa as a pristine continent while lamenting that its unsullied landscape was “vanishing.” New Negro political thinkers also wanted to “save” Africa but saw its fragility in terms of imperiled human promise. Jones illuminates both the optimism about Africa underlying these concerns and the racist and colonial interests these agents often nevertheless served. The book contributes to a growing literature on the ongoing role of global exchange in shaping the African American experience as well as debates about the cultural place of Africa in American thought.

Re-imagining International Relations

Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316513858
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-imagining International Relations by : Barry Buzan

Download or read book Re-imagining International Relations written by Barry Buzan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at readers interested in constructing a less West-centric, more global discipline of International Relations, this book provides a concise, thorough introduction to the thought and practice of international relations from premodern India, China and the Islamic world, and how it relates to modern IR.

(Re)imagining African Independence

Author : Maria do Carmo Piçarra
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781787073180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis (Re)imagining African Independence by : Maria do Carmo Piçarra

Download or read book (Re)imagining African Independence written by Maria do Carmo Piçarra and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword (Lúcia Nagib) -- Colonial Reflections, Post-Colonial Refractions: Film and the Moving Image in the Portuguese (Post- )Colonial Situation (Maria do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro) -- Part I The Birth [through Images] of African Nations -- 1"Ruy Duarte: A Cinema of the Word Aspiring to Imagine Angolanness (Maria do Carmo Piçarra) -- 2"Between the Visible and the Invisible: Mueda, Memória e Massacre by Ruy Guerra and the Cultural Forms of the Makonde Plateau (Raquel Schefer) -- 3"Clear Lines on an Internationalist Map: Foreign Filmmakers in Angola at Independence (Ros Gray) -- 4"The Many Returns to Wiriyamu: Audiovisual Testimony and the Negotiation of Colonial Violence (Robert Stock) -- Part II The Fall of the Portuguese Empire: Foreign Gazes during the Cold War -- 5 'Rarely penetrated by camera or film': NBC's Angola:Journey to a War (1961) (Afonso Ramos) -- 6"The US and Portuguese Colonialism as Imagined through Television Drama (Rui Lopes) -- 7"African Independence and the Socialist Republic of Romania's Photographic Archive (Iolanda Vasile) -- Part III Moving Images, Post-Colonial Representations and the Archive -- 8"Colonial Collection of the Portuguese Film Archive: Shot, Reverse Shot, Off-Screen (José Manuel Costa) -- 9"A Decolonizing Impulse: Artists in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Archive, Or the Boxes of Departing Settlers between Maputo, Luanda and Lisbon (Ana Balona de Oliveira) -- 10"In-Between Memory and History: Artists' Films and the Portuguese Colonial Archive (Teresa Castro) -- Part IV Rethinking (Post- )Colonial Narratives: Artistic Takes -- 11 Drawing and Undrawing my Genealogy (Daniel Barroca) -- 12"A Grin without Marker (Filipa César) -- 13"Hotel Globo (Mónica de Miranda) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Reimagining Security Communities

Author : Francis Onditi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030708691
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reimagining Security Communities by : Francis Onditi

Download or read book Reimagining Security Communities written by Francis Onditi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community (“RSC”) arrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional “RSC” into a simplified tool kit of “resources”, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.

Re-imagining Africa

Author : African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Annual Conference
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590331002
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-imagining Africa by : African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Annual Conference

Download or read book Re-imagining Africa written by African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Annual Conference and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa.

Transnational Black Dialogues

Author : Markus Nehl
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839436664
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Transnational Black Dialogues by : Markus Nehl

Download or read book Transnational Black Dialogues written by Markus Nehl and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes and Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.

Making African Christianity

Author : Robert J. Houle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611460816
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Making African Christianity by : Robert J. Houle

Download or read book Making African Christianity written by Robert J. Houle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the beginning"--Being Zulu and Christian -- Conflicting identities -- Revival -- Naturalizing the faith -- A Zulu church -- Conclusion.

Liturgies from Below

Author : Claudio Carvalhaes
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1791007368
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Liturgies from Below by : Claudio Carvalhaes

Download or read book Liturgies from Below written by Claudio Carvalhaes and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the world today. It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe. Liturgies from Below is the culmination of a project organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) during 2018-2019. Approximately 100 people from four continents worked with CWM, collaborating to create indigenous prayers and liturgies expressing their own contexts, for sharing with their communities and the rest of the world. The project was called “Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire”. The author and others spent weeks living in each of four communities for several weeks/months, getting to know the people, and then facilitating the people’s own creation of prayers and liturgies. The author, other scholars, pastors, artists, activists and students all came from radically different ethnicities, races, sexualities, churches and Christian theologies. The people in each location were poor, living in very challenging communities, living in oppressive and seemingly hopeless situations. After some time, they wrote prayers and stories of their experience trying to live the Christian faith in utterly abandoned places. What we have here is an immensely rich and varied collection of liturgical sources from various communities dealing with issues of violence, immigration/refugees, drugs, land grabbing, war on the poor, attack on women, militarization, climate change, and so on.