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African Textiles Today

Author : Chris Spring
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343804
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book African Textiles Today written by Chris Spring and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia, linking different parts of the continent with each other and the rest of the world. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity. African Textiles Today shows how ideas, techniques, materials, and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers. With a concluding chapter discussing the impact of African designs across the world, the book offers a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.

Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Author : Nathan Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443846392
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow written by Nathan Andrews and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary standpoint, this book challenges the teleological and unidirectional notions of development embodied in the idea of modernisation or ‘progress’ and offers a critique of the tendency to consider Africa as a basket case, which often gives the Western ‘self’ an undeserving privilege and superiority over the African ‘other’. Mostly authored by emerging African scholars, this 16-chapter volume addresses the historical application of development projects in Africa and their modern impact in economic, political, cultural, social, and infrastructural contexts, among others. The book, therefore, unearths development dynamics in specific African countries, examines the continent’s external relations, rethinks predominant ideas on development, and engages in critical examination of concepts and practices that have maintained hegemonic positions in the discussions on Africa’s development. Its uniqueness lies in the ability to bring these several voices and themes together into a concise conception of both the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable development. The book targets both the academic and policy worlds in Africa and around the world, as well as ordinary members of the public who seek to broaden their theoretical and empirical understanding on the changing dynamics on the African continent.

Africa Today

Author : Heather Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134112815
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Africa Today written by Heather Deegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and security attract renewed interest. While some countries seem to be moving forward with greater levels of confidence, democracy and stability, others continue to be mired in conflict, poverty and religious/ethnic division. This text focuses on key contemporary issues that the continent faces, providing a comprehensive introduction of current political, religious, developmental and security concerns. Features include: Individual chapters devoted to key issues including health, gender, corruption, religion and the newly emerging problems of human security. Case studies and detailed analysis of topical issues, including: Muslim/Christian clashes: Kano, Northern Nigeria Conflict, Arms and Reconstruction: Darfur and Sierra Leone Comprehensive range of countries discussed including: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya Ethiopia, Uganda, Lesotho, Somalia, Namibia and Madagascar. Fully up-to-date statistics including primary research based on interviews conducted by the author, providing data for both individual countries and the continent as a whole. Boxed descriptions explaining clearly the ideas in important subject areas, such as Islamic law and society By drawing on the author’s empirical research and situating discussion within the context of wider debate, Africa Today is designed both to introduce and to develop a deeper understanding of this rapidly changing continent an essential text for all students of African politics and International Relations.

Addressing Contextual Misleading Theologies in Africa Today

Author : Bosela E Eale
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781506483603
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Addressing Contextual Misleading Theologies in Africa Today written by Bosela E Eale and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers constructive and contextual discussions to promote a life of dignity based on practical theology. The book discusses issues of health, healing, wealth, and poverty pertinent in Africa. Misleading theologies, like the prosperity gospel, contribute to practices in authority that contrast the teachings of God to respect others.

Africa Today

Author : Al J. Venter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Today written by Al J. Venter and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa Today

Author : Edem Kodjo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Africa Today written by Edem Kodjo and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Face of Africa Today

Author : James N. M. B. Rugiireheh-Runaku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of Africa Today written by James N. M. B. Rugiireheh-Runaku and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Funerals in Africa

Author : Michael Jindra
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452061
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Funerals in Africa written by Michael Jindra and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals. This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.

Africa yesterday and Today

Author : AFRICA: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa yesterday and Today written by AFRICA: YESTERDAY AND TODAY and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa Today

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Africa Today written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voices of the San

Author : Willemien Le Roux
Publisher : Kwela Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the San written by Willemien Le Roux and published by Kwela Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years many books have been written about the San of southern Africa, who are widely known as the Bushmen and frequently viewed as one entity. This is the first international publication in which the San of today step forward to tell their own story in their own words. Covering eight language groups in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, young San interviewers went out into their communities and collected the thoughts and feelings, knowledge and understanding, dreams and fears, of their elders and their peers. The interviews they transcribed present the spirit of their communities and highlight the traditional differences and similarities between the groups, the shared history of suffering, and their desire and enthusiasm for life and most of all, freedom. Voices of the San provides a glimpse into the hundreds of broad, open-ended discussions held amongst the San themselves. It begins with the story of this book and is then divided into four chapters covering the themes they themselves identified as reflecting their current existence. All of this is richly and beautifully illustrated with over 300 photographs, contemporary artworks and drawings. The photographs are both historic and modern; including images from the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (late 19th century), the Duggan-Cronin Collection dating from the early 20th century and the Denver Expedition of 1925, as well as internationally known photographers such as Jens Bjerre (circa 1955), JÃ1⁄4rgen Schadeberg (1959) and Paul Weinberg (1985- ), and the San organizations within the region.

Sharīʿa in Africa Today

Author : John A. Chesworth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004262121
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Sharīʿa in Africa Today written by John A. Chesworth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania

Kenya Today

Author : Ndirangu Mwaura
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875863213
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Kenya Today written by Ndirangu Mwaura and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examining the impact of foreign aid, trade policies, study-abroad programs, religion, entertainment, the media and other forms of foreign influence on Kenya and other under-developed African nations, the author finds that initiatives billed as "assistance" in many cases serve instead to keep in place the colonial status of dependency"--Provided by publisher.

Democratizing or Reconfiguring Predatory Autocracy? Myths and Realities in Africa Today

Author : Tatah Mentan
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558575
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Democratizing or Reconfiguring Predatory Autocracy? Myths and Realities in Africa Today written by Tatah Mentan and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrations that heralded democratic change in the 1990s in Africa have gradually faded into muffled cries of anger and attendant violence of despair. Almost everywhere on the continent so-called democratic leaders are openly subverting the people's will and disregarding national constitutions. Ordinary people find themselves removed from the centres of power, marginalized and reduced to helpless and hopeless onlookers as political leaders, their friends and families noisily enjoy the spoils of impunity. From Nigeria to Zimbabwe, Kenya to the Ivory Coast and Uganda to Cameroon, the writing is on the wall. The experiment with democracy has blatantly taken a dangerous nosedive. There is a crisis of honest, committed and democratic leadership, in spite of the advancements in education and intellectualism of the populace, and despite the influences of globalization and new understandings of governance. In this brief volume, Tatah Mentan makes an incisive diagnosis of how the "security forces" brutally crush protests against bids to stay in power through corrupt electoral practices as well as how opposition voices have been hunted down and crushed or intimidated into graveyard silence. This is a clarion call for Africans to embrace the values of People Power in synch with the dictates of the current global imperatives. There is no place for visionless leadership. Africans need to raise their voices to recapture their freedom.

A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today

Author : Boris Gorelik
Publisher : Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town
ISBN 13 : 0799224685
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today written by Boris Gorelik and published by Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a group of Jews in South Africa that has been almost overlooked by local Jewish organisations. In fact they are not even viewed as an entity, but rather as an aggregate of individuals whose number is unknown. These are the Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union- South African Jewry's 'lost tribe'. Unlike Israel, Germany or the United States, South Africa did not experience the influx of hundreds of thousands of Soviet and post-Soviet Jews in the 1970s to 1990s. That is probably a reason why neither researchers nor journalists has ever considered them as a South African phenomenon. In addition, unlike those Jews from the ex-USSR in Israel, Germany or the United States, in South Africa they have not formed their own communities and do not play a prominent part in the existing ones. In fact, they usually appear to be unwilling to involve themselves with South African Jewish organisations. They keep their distance and are not as religious or Zionist as their locally-born counterparts and are generally not community oriented. To some observers they may even appear to be more Russian than Jewish. Generally speaking, ex-USSR emigres are not clearly bound to their Jewish identity. They might be Jews but do they manifest any 'Jewishness'?

Africa's Slaves Today

Author : Jonathan Derrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000647528
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Africa's Slaves Today written by Jonathan Derrick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is by no means dead in certain regions, but that at the same time clear-cut definitions of ‘slave’ and ‘free’ are often impossible to establish. In the Sahara particularly centuries of tradition involving slavery or semi-slavery have ensured a persistence of the status quo in all but name. Recent instances of Africans sold into slavery in Arabia are discussed, together with a detailed survey of slavery throughout North Africa and Ethiopia. At what stage forced labour becomes slavery is a difficult question raised by the discussion of the white South. The whole subject of slavery is put into perspective by contrasting examinations of the historical situation throughout the book.

West Africa Today

Author : Nancy L. Hoepli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824204143
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book West Africa Today written by Nancy L. Hoepli and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African, American, British and French correspondents, scholars, students and leaders discuss the first ten years of the independence of West Africa. Their articles deal with the political and economic problems of the region; with its foreign relations; and with the civil war in Nigeria.