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Author : Nkparom C. Ejituwu
Publisher : University of Port Harcourt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Multi-disciplinary Approach to African History written by Nkparom C. Ejituwu and published by University of Port Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780757594960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)
Download or read book (Re)Tracing Africa written by Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salome Nnoromele
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781465270634
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Re-tracing Africa written by Salome Nnoromele and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monday B. Abasiattai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Expanding Frontiers of African History written by Monday B. Abasiattai and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3906927512
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing African History written by Toyin Falola and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending European intellectual hegemony over Africa's political, economic, historical, and cultural ways, the reverse of its effects, and the pursuit of absolute liberation and self-determination for Africa. As an intellectual under-taking, decolonizing African history emphasizes the study of African history from an African perspective, as well as the transmission of that knowledge through Africanized curricula, instructional frameworks, and epistemologies. The acknowledgment of marginalized peoples or groups as agents of their own histories and experiences is a critical component in decolonizing African history. Decolonizing African history is based on the premise that Africa must look inside and apply an alternative multidisciplinary approach to developing ideas for solutions to Africa's developmental problems, drawing inspiration from its own culture, history, and creative imag-inations. Essentially, African intellectuals must apply local theories and approaches to understand African problems, solve them, and challenge the status quo's beliefs and practices of a distorted African image. The overall goal of this lecture is to liberate African knowledge, as well as the adoption and adaptation of traditional African modes of knowing and knowledge creation. Hence, the lecture attempts to awaken Africans to set the records right in terms of African history and unlock Africa's hitherto suppressed immense potentials. It conveys the essence of decolonization in African history: its origins and nature, reasons, methods, goals, and expected outcomes. It also argues for the development of an indigenous knowledge-based system in sync with African realities and capable of carving out autonomous models to alleviate Africa's political, economic, sociocultural, and innovative leadership overdependence on the "developed world." Finally, it submits that if African societies can be shown to be on par with other major societies throughout the world, there is no reason they should not be able to control their own destiny. It rekindles the belief that Africans will be proud of their identities one day, having freed themselves and their past from crippling colonial notions.
Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893552
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century written by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Africa is at a crossroads in an increasingly globalised world is indisputable. Equally unassailable is the fact that the humanities, as a broad field of intellection, research and learning in Africa, appears to have been pigeonholed in debates of relevance in the development aspirations of many African nations. Historical experiences and contemporary research outputs indicate, however, that the humanities, in its various shades, is critical to Africa’s capacity to respond effectively to such problems as security, corruption, political ineptitude, poverty, superstition, and HIV/AIDS, among many other mounting challenges which confront the people of Africa. The vibrancy and resilience of Africa’s cultures, against these and other odds of globalisation episodes in the course of our history, demand the focused attention of academia to exploit their relevance to contemporary issues. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions. Such areas covered include ruminations in metaphysics and psychology, pathos and ethos, cinematic and literary connections, and historical conceptualisations.
Author : Jane Milosch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153812758X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Collecting and Provenance written by Jane Milosch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of provenance—the history of the creation and ownership of an artefact, work of art, or specimen—provides insights into the history of taste and collecting, illuminating the social, economic, and historic trends in which an object was created and collected. It is as much a history of people as it is of objects, and its study often reveals intricate networks of relationships, patterns of activity and motivations. This book promotes the study of the history of collecting and collections in all their variety through the lens of provenance, and explores the subject as a cross-disciplinary activity. Perhaps for the first time in a publication, it draws on expertise ranging from art history and anthropology, to natural history and law, looking at periods from antiquity through the 18th century and the Holocaust era to the present, and materials from Europe and the Americas to China and the Pacific. The issues raised are wide-ranging, touching on aspects of authenticity, cultural meaning and material transformation and economic and commercial drivers, as well as collector and object biography. The book fills a gap in the study of collecting and provenance, taking the subject holistically and from multiple standpoints, better to reflect the widening interest in provenance from a range of disciplinary perspectives. This book will be a service to the field, from established scholars and museum professionals to students of collecting history, cultural heritage, and museum studies.
Author : Marc E. Prou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621315506
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Africana Studies written by Marc E. Prou and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich collection of essays provides a thorough and scholarly examination of Africa and its diasporas, focusing on Africana social and cultural history. The selections are written by experts in the fields of literature, history, sociology, anthropology, political writing, feminism, and cultural analysis.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418645X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Migration History in World History written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration plays a crucial role in the development of human societies. This book offers an overview of the state of the art in disciplines that study the ‘deep past’ and shows how historians and social scientists can profit from their insights.
Author : William H. Worger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119063574
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
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 2018-09-11 with total page 560 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.
Author : Andrea Mariko Grant
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447289
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Anxiety in and about Africa written by Andrea Mariko Grant and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does anxiety impact narratives about African history, culture, and society? This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention to ways of thinking about African spaces—physical, visceral, somatic, and imagined—as well as about time and temporality. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with work on the so-called negative emotions in disciplines beyond history. While anxiety has long been acknowledged for its ability to unsettle colonial narratives, to reveal the vulnerability of the colonial enterprise, this volume shows it can equally complicate contemporary narratives, such as those of sustainable development, migration, sexuality, and democracy. These essays therefore highlight the need to take emotions seriously as contemporary realities with particular histories that must be carefully mapped out.
Author : Jeremy Keenan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317970004
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Sahara written by Jeremy Keenan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the Sahara holistically from the earliest (prehistoric) times through the ‘historical’ period to the present and with political direction into the future. The contributions cover palaeoclimatology, history, archaeology (cultural heritage), social anthropology, sociology, politics and international affairs. Structured chronologically, the volume can almost be read as a narrative of the Sahara from the earliest times to the present, i.e. from the past climates of the Sahara in prehistoric times to the current ‘war on terror’ and its implications for the peoples of the Sahara. Importantly, the collection shows how the region must be approached ‘holistically’, highlighting the importance of each of these subject areas (palaeo-climates, history, politics, etc.) in relation to each other. Indeed, the first contribution is a remarkable (and unique) paper, bringing together the work of some 8-9 internationally recognised scientists to tell the story and show the relevance to the present day of the Sahara’s past climates etc. Nearly all the contributions stand in their own right at the cutting edge of research in their respective fields (e.g. archaeology, history, politics, etc.). This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004500227
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1648250270
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing African Studies written by Toyin Falola and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The Decolonial Moments -- Epistemologies and Methodologies -- Decoloniality and Decolonizing Knowledge -- Eurocentrism and Intellectual Imperialism -- Epistemologies of Intellectual Liberation -- Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa -- Decolonizing Research Methodology -- Oral Tradition: Cultural Analysis and Epistemic Value -- Agencies and Voices -- Voices of Decolonization -- Voices of Decoloniality -- Decoloniality: A Critique -- Women's Voices on Decolonization -- Empowering Marginal Voices: LGBTQ and African Studies -- Intellectual Spaces -- Decolonizing the African Academy -- Decolonizing Knowledge Through Language -- Decolonizing of African Literature -- Identity and the African Feminist Writers -- Decolonizing African Aesthetics -- Decolonizing African History -- Decolonizing Africa Religion -- Decolonizing African Philosophy -- African Futurism.
Author : Chima Korieh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621310129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book African History (Revised Edition) written by Chima Korieh and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "African History offers instructors and students a rich selection of primary source materials and excellent essays on a wide range of themes. These readings can either be used alone or along with supplementary materials in the teaching and learning of African history or African Studies from prehistory to the present. Put together by devoted African history teachers with a combined classroom experience of over twenty-four years (spanning three continents), the book provides a bumper harvest of topics of immense interest to students at all levels. This text contains materials not often found in regular textbooks; they have been classroom-tested, and have been found to not only generate lively discussions among students, but also inculcate in them a deep-seated curiosity to learn more about Africa. This, together with the multidisciplinary nature of the essays, makes this book a source material no serious instructor, student, or general reader can afford to ignore. Chima J. Korieh specializes in African History, Gender Studies, and Comparative Slavery. A member of the Marquette University History faculty since 2007, Dr. Korieh's research and teaching focuses on social and economic change in colonial Africa. Prior to joining Marquette, he was associate professor of African history at Rowan University in New Jersey. Dr. Korieh earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto in 2003. He is the author of The Land Has Changed: History, Society and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria (University of Calgary Press, 2010). Dr. Korieh was a British Academy fellow at Oxford University, UK in 2008. Raphael Chijioke Njoku is a Professor of African History at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He received his doctorate in African history from Dalhousie University Canada and another doctorate in African politics from Vrije University, Belgium. His research specialty is African history, and African politics. He is the author and co-editor of five books and several scholarly articles in international journals and edited volumes. His most recent awards include: University of Louisville Distinguished Research Award, and Victor Olurunsola Endowed Research Award. He is the founding Editor of Notes and Records: an International Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies. "
Author : Enrique Martino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110755963
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Touts written by Enrique Martino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.
Author : Joseph Godlewski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003854958
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra written by Joseph Godlewski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub‐Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity. Intersected by small creeks, rivulets, and dotted with mangrove swamps, the Bight of Biafra has a long history of decentralized political arrangements and intricate trading networks predating the emergence of the Atlantic world. While indigenous merchants in the region were active participants in the transatlantic slave trading system, they creatively resisted European settlement and maintained indigenous sovereignty until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since few built artifacts still exist, this study draws from a close reading of written sources—travelers’ accounts, slave traders’ diaries, missionary memoirs, colonial records, and oral histories—as well as contemporary fieldwork to trace transformations in the region’s built environment from the sixteenth century to today. With each chapter focusing on a particular spatial paradigm in this dynamic process, this book uncovers the manifold and inventive ways in which actors strategically adapted the built environment to adjust to changing cultural and economic circumstances. In parallel, it highlights the ways that these spaces were rhetorically constructed and exploited by foreign observers and local agents. Enmeshed in the history of slavery, colonialism, and the modern construction of race, the spatial dynamics of the Biafran region have not been geographically delimited. The central thesis of this volume is that these spaces of entanglement have been productive sites of Black identity formation involving competing and overlapping interests, occupying multiple positions and temporalities, and ensnaring real, imagined, and sometimes contradictory aims. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural history, urban geography, African studies, and Atlantic studies.
