Dare To Invent The Future

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

Dare to Invent the Future

Author : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376725
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dare to Invent the Future by : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Download or read book Dare to Invent the Future written by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence. Academics are letting Africa down. With all that we know, what do we have to show for it? Whose lives have been changed for the better by it? What have we done for and with our communities lately? In this provocative book—the first in a trilogy—Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga argues that our critical thinkers must become actual thinker-doers. Taking its title from one of Thomas Sankara’s most inspirational speeches, Dare to Invent the Future looks for moments in Africa’s story where precedents of critical thought and knowledge in service of problem-solving are evident to inspire readers to dare to invent such a knowledge system. Mavhunga revisits insights from Edward Wilmot Blyden, Booker T. Washington, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, and Thomas Sankara to illustrate how the academic disciplines have been, and could be, deployed in the service of and through problem-solving, building on what people are doing and know. At its core, he writes, knowledge in the service of and through problem-solving derives from reading the past for new questions, doing due diligence in the present, and contriving an anticipatory approach toward the future. Questioning the fundamental premises of Western and white knowledge production, especially regarding science and technology, Mavhunga proposes in this book refreshingly new approaches to thinking-doing that stem from African realities, in the hopes of inspiring a generation that will run toward, not away from, problems to solve them.

Suffering and Persecution

Author : Myrto Theocharous
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786410788
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Suffering and Persecution by : Myrto Theocharous

Download or read book Suffering and Persecution written by Myrto Theocharous and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s love in Jesus Christ for the salvation and recreation of all things is still the hope of the world. This Christian affirmation is the reality that “holds all things” and “holds all things together.” Yet in today’s world, it is easy to understand why the church is in pain and declining in its Christian and moral influence. Rethinking Church in the 21st Century is the culmination of three years of exploration into the condition of the church around the world today. Bringing together a diverse community of Christian voices, these essays offer reflections and admonitions to ignite the hearts of pastors and leaders during the dynamic, vulnerable, and hopeful times we face. In this first volume, scholars and church leaders from across the globe respond to writings on suffering and persecution. The authors examine the universal themes of suffering and address topics such as violence, natural disasters, and persecution through contextually rooted lenses. The resulting essays are an authentic, richly diverse collection that offers fresh perspectives for the church to reflect on together.

Witness of the Body

Author : Michael L. Budde
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802862586
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Witness of the Body by : Michael L. Budde

Download or read book Witness of the Body written by Michael L. Budde and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with the persecution of early Christians by the Roman Empire, Witness of the Body explores the place of martyrdom in the church through all ages -- and into the future. Throughout, it reminds readers that Christian martyrdom is neither a quick ticket to heaven nor a cheap political ploy, but rather the firm and faithful witness of Christ's church in a hostile world."--From publisher description.

Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria

Author : Nimi Wariboko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025306645X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria by : Nimi Wariboko

Download or read book Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria written by Nimi Wariboko and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics and dynamics of the sacred (understood as the constellation of im/possibility available to a given community) in religion, politics, epistemology, economic development, and reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy, postcolonial criticism, political theory, African studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, Wariboko reveals the intricate connections between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize disorder, terror, trauma, despair, and hope in the postcolonial Africa. The sacred, Wariboko argues, is not about religion or divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied them, the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level of social, technological, and economic development. These possibilities profoundly speak to the present political moment in sub-Saharan Africa.

Poverty and Hunger

Author : Ratan Das
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176257312
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Poverty and Hunger by : Ratan Das

Download or read book Poverty and Hunger written by Ratan Das and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journey of Reconciliation

Author : Katongole, Emmanuel
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608337154
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Journey of Reconciliation by : Katongole, Emmanuel

Download or read book The Journey of Reconciliation written by Katongole, Emmanuel and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Psychiatric Contours

Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147805932X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Psychiatric Contours by : Nancy Rose Hunt

Download or read book Psychiatric Contours written by Nancy Rose Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term madness broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters detect the mad or the psychiatric in unhinged persons, frantic collectives, and distressing situations. Others investigate individuals suffering from miscategorization. A key Foucauldian word, vivacity, illuminates how madness aligns with pathology, creativity, turbulence, and psychopolitics. The archives, patient-authored or not, speak to furies and fantasies inside asylums, colonial institutions, decolonizing missions, and slave ships. The frayed edges of politicized deliria open up the senses and optics of psychiatry’s history in Africa far beyond clinical spaces and classification. The volume also proposes fresh concepts, notably the vernacular, to suggest how to work with emic clues in a granular fashion and telescope the psychiatric within histories of madness. With chapters stretching across much of ex-British and ex-French colonial Africa, Psychiatric Contours attends to the words, autobiographies, and hallucinations of the stigmatized and afflicted as well as of the powerful. Expatriate psychiatrists with cameras, prying authorities, fearful missionaries, and colonial anthropologists enter these readings beside patients, asylums, and boarding schools via research on possession “hysteria” and schizophrenia. In brief, this book demonstrates novel ways of writing not only medical history but all subaltern and global histories. Contributors. Hubertus Büschel, Raphaël Gallien, Matthew M. Heaton, Richard Hölzl, Nancy Rose Hunt, Richard C. Keller, Sloan Mahone, Nana Osei Quarshie, Jonathan Sadowsky, Romain Tiquet

Learning Schools, Learning Systems

Author : Paul Clarke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847143296
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Learning Schools, Learning Systems by : Paul Clarke

Download or read book Learning Schools, Learning Systems written by Paul Clarke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, using case studies, argues that the sensitivity of prevailing approaches to school improvements are causing reforms to fail to achieve their objectives. It proposes alternative methods of introducing change.

The Sacrifice of Africa

Author : Emmanuel Katongole
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802862683
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Sacrifice of Africa by : Emmanuel Katongole

Download or read book The Sacrifice of Africa written by Emmanuel Katongole and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sacrifice of Africa Emmanuel Katongole confronts this painful legacy and shows how it continues to warp the imaginative landscape of African politics and society. He demonstrates the real potential of Christianity to interrupt and transform entrenched political imaginations and create a different story for Africa ù a story of self-sacrificing love that values human dignity and "dares to invent" a new and better future for all Africans. --

African Design Futures

Author : Yaw Ofosu-Asare
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031717546
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African Design Futures by : Yaw Ofosu-Asare

Download or read book African Design Futures written by Yaw Ofosu-Asare and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infrastructural South

Author : Jonathan Silver
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376733
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Infrastructural South by : Jonathan Silver

Download or read book The Infrastructural South written by Jonathan Silver and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield. The Infrastructural South represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure’s role in the third wave of urbanization centered on Africa. Based on over a decade of empirical research, Silver’s sweeping examination probes many of contemporary urbanism’s most exciting and pressing issues through the lens of the Global South. Focusing on Uganda, Ghana, and South Africa, Silver’s conceptually innovative chapters explore the way access to energy, water, sanitation, transit, and information technologies shape everyday life as they map the dynamic relations between cities, technology, and the environment. Pushing readers to look at the wider worlds that suffuse urban systems, this theoretical and geographical perspective treats Africa’s rapidly transforming towns and cities as complex sites of disruption, emancipation, and contradiction. In doing so, it shows how the proliferating urbanisms and contested techno-environments arise from shifting priorities in infrastructure planning, politics, and financing gaps. As urban issues become a key twenty-first-century challenge for Africa, Silver offers a comprehensive reworking of our understanding of urbanization. The Infrastructural South rethinks how global scholarship approaches infrastructure, laying pathways for future research at the intersection of technology, environmental urbanism, and urban politics.

Manichaean Delirium

Author : Abdullah Ali Ibrahim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047441877
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Manichaean Delirium by : Abdullah Ali Ibrahim

Download or read book Manichaean Delirium written by Abdullah Ali Ibrahim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book uses the concept of the “Manichaean” geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. In focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, the book examines the various forces that sought to profit from these Manichaean resources.

African Political Thought

Author : G. Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137062053
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African Political Thought by : G. Martin

Download or read book African Political Thought written by G. Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state.

Foucault’s theatres

Author : Tony Fisher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526132087
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Foucault’s theatres by : Tony Fisher

Download or read book Foucault’s theatres written by Tony Fisher and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and advanced students encountering Foucault’s work for the first time. The introduction sets out a thorough and informative assessment of Foucault’s relevance to theatre and performance studies and to our present cultural moment – it rereads his profound engagement with questions of truth, power and politics, in light of previously unknown writings and lectures set in relation to current political and cultural concerns. Unique to this volume is the discovery of a ‘theatrical’ Foucault - the profound affinity of his thinking with questions of performativity. This discovery makes accessible the ‘performance turn’ to readers of Foucault, while opening up ways of reading Foucault’s oeuvre ‘theatrically’.

Next Global Giant Awakens

Author : Kofi Osei Takyi-Mensah
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984550179
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Next Global Giant Awakens by : Kofi Osei Takyi-Mensah

Download or read book Next Global Giant Awakens written by Kofi Osei Takyi-Mensah and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the author of The Imminent Rise of West Africa, published in 2015, I had the epiphany to write this second book. Immediately, the opportunity arrived. I foresaw the moral imperative and audaciously quantum stepped ahead and developed the duplex leadership and the authoritative capacity and courage to pinpoint the appreciable design of the postmodern twenty-first century massive and smarter commanding, empire-building institution, as they relate to the creation of the new postmodern twenty-first century innovative educational economic blueprint. Besides, as the postmodern twenty-first-century African thinker, transformative entrepreneurial evangelist, and a smarter, industrious, commanding, empire-building institutionalist, my optimum and passionate intent is to revolutionary awaken the future West African superstate regionalism and the future African superb continental economic powerhouse to solidify the impeccable rise of the African bottom billion’s economic empire. Globally, the African region is the fastest, overpowering population growth in the world and will still be the largest by the end of this century. The book boldly elaborates the emerging economic-wheel revolution, the new formidable economic structural blueprint for deliberately engineered-route to the on-demand economy and on-demand labor and immediate engagement and enlargement of the service economy in a massive scale and efficiently be able to accommodate the huge rise of the population growth in the West African region and Africa. Conventionally, in the realm of humanity, it takes an unbelievable, tremendous energetic capacity to push the human race forward. It demands a powerfully stronger force. Apparently, the individual-current nations alone in the West African region and Africa are not standardized utility for this astronomical, ambitious, and adventurous humankind undertaking; each lacks the kind of postmodern twenty-first century’s marvelous strength or capability to fuel the new necessary economic revolutionary order. However, the individual-current structural nation-states in West Africa and Africa are the preliminary stage for preparing the incarnation of a massive and smarter industrious commanding, empire-building institution for every corner of African society. It is an architectural manipulation of the economic living standard of humanity.

Education for Sustainability

Author : Paul Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136487670
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Education for Sustainability by : Paul Clarke

Download or read book Education for Sustainability written by Paul Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Paul Clarke argues that in order to live sustainably we need to learn how to live and flourish in our environment in a manner that uses finite resources with ecologically informed discretion. Education is perfectly placed to create the conditions for innovative and imaginative solutions and to provide the formulas that ensure that everyone becomes naturally smart; but to achieve this, we need to recognise that an education that is not grounded in a full understanding of our relationship with the natural world is no education at all. In other words, a total transformation of schools and schooling is needed. While acknowledging that the ecological crisis is global in scale, Paul Clarke maintains that many of the solutions are already evident in our local communities. Drawing on innovative sustainable living programmes from around the world, including Sweden’s Forest Schools, China’s Green Schools programme, the US Green Ribbon Schools programme and his own school-of-sustainability project, Paul Clarke offers practical solutions about how schools and communities can make their contribution. This book examines how we might proceed to empower and actively develop schools and communities to connect hand, heart and mind for an eco-literate future. It is thought provoking, timely and challenging, and should be read by school leaders, community and business leaders, as well as anyone grappling with the problems of transition from an industrial past to an ecologically sustainable future.

African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

Author : Michael T. Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253066271
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization by : Michael T. Martin

Download or read book African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization written by Michael T. Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and consequential cinematic convocation of its kind in the world. Since its creation in 1969, FESPACO's mission is, in principle, remarkably unchanged: to unapologetically recover, chronicle, affirm, and reconstitute the representation of the African continent and its global diasporas of people, thereby enunciating in the cinematic, all manner of Pan-African identity, experience, and the futurity of the Black World. This volume features historically significant and commissioned essays, commentaries, conversations, dossiers, and programmatic statements and manifestos that mark and elaborate the key moments in the evolution of FESPACO over the span of the past five decades.