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Book Synopsis The Pan-African Nation by : Andrew Apter
Download or read book The Pan-African Nation written by Andrew Apter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
Book Synopsis The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 by : David Murphy
Download or read book The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 written by David Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, André Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in the diaspora. This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide not only an overview of the festival itself but also of its multiple legacies, which will help us better to understand the 'festivalization' of Africa that has occurred in recent decades with most African countries now hosting a number of festivals as part of a national tourism and cultural development strategy.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Book Synopsis The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Download or read book The Trial of Dedan Kimathi written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his collaborator, Micere Githae Mugo, have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi’s life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights’ response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical “trial” at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is “an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement.”
Download or read book Roots & Culture written by Eddie Chambers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as “Black Britain.” Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature,South Sudan in War and Peace music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity.
Book Synopsis Building the Black Arts Movement by : Jonathan Fenderson
Download or read book Building the Black Arts Movement written by Jonathan Fenderson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of Fuller's life and achievements to rethink the period and establish Fuller's important role in laying the foundation for the movement. In telling Fuller's story, Fenderson provides provocative new insights into the movement's international dimensions, the ways the movement took shape at the local level, the impact of race and other factors, and the challenges--corporate, political, and personal--that Fuller and others faced in trying to build black institutions. An innovative study that approaches the movement from a historical perspective, Building the Black Arts Movement is a much-needed reassessment of the trajectory of African American culture over two explosive decades.
Book Synopsis The Sun Shall Soon Shine by : Adejoke Ajibade-Bakare
Download or read book The Sun Shall Soon Shine written by Adejoke Ajibade-Bakare and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful reflection of a compassionate heart. A compelling read for lovers of humanity." -Yetunde Fashina-Arebi, Author, Youth Counsellor and Vanguard Newspaper Columnist. This is a well sculpted piece. The author has gone ahead of herself, setting a new standard for lovers of creative writing. -Modupe Marc-Dawodu , CEO, Marcforte Business Consulting The Sun Shall Soon Shine embodies life in its different phases and faces. It sheds a new light on life through the eyes of the author as she glides seamlessly and sometimes sharply through her various life stages. It is a representation of the dreams we all aspire to achieve from the womb, to childhood, as a nation, as individual souls, and through lifes palaver. Hoping The Sun Shall Soon Shine...
Download or read book Afonja - The Rise written by Tunde Leye and published by Tlsplace Media. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alaafin Abiodun Adegolu died, the Oyo Empire was in a slow decline. The provincial chiefs who helped him defeat the tyrannical Bashorun Gaa had grown in power and the Oyo chiefs were more politicians than warriors. So, when the Oyo Mesi selected a provincial prince, Aole Arogangan to ascend the throne of his fathers, they believed they had an Alaafin they could control. But Aole had different ideas and he sought to restore the glory of the empire and the supremacy of the Alaafin as its emperor. In this however, his ambitions clashed with those of Afonja, the powerful provincial chief of war camp, Ilorin. Afonja had been promised the office of Aare Ona Kakanfo of all the Oyo forces by the Oyo chiefs in order to secure his support for Aole's ascension. He would stop at nothing to take what he believed was his by right. Afonja - The Rise is the story of how the clashes of these two men and the intrigue of the others around them transformed what was a slow decline into a race of the empire towards its collapse. In Afonja - The Rise, we tell their stories first as what they were - men and women living their lives, warring, scheming and loving in ways that will be familiar to the reader - beyond their roles as actors in the epic history of the great Oyo Empire
Book Synopsis The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America by : Mwalimu J. Shujaa
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America written by Mwalimu J. Shujaa and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 1951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings 150 figures and photos Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries Signed articles concluding with cross-references
Book Synopsis Writers in Politics by : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Download or read book Writers in Politics written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Book Synopsis The Heresiad. Song of Reason by : Oke, Ikeogu
Download or read book The Heresiad. Song of Reason written by Oke, Ikeogu and published by Manila Publishers Company. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heresiad by Ikeogu Oke was the 2017 winner of The Nigeria Prize for Literature. The poet employs the epic form in questioning power and freedom and probes metaphorically the inner workings of societies and those who shape them. the book speaks to an intense commitment to innovation, tenacity, joyful experimentation and social commentary in a way that provokes delight and engagement.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-02-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Book Synopsis Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries by : Harriet Atkinson
Download or read book Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries written by Harriet Atkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, museum and gallery exhibitions, industrial and trade fairs, biennials, triennials, festivals and world's fairs increasingly came to be used as locations for the exercise of "soft power," for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and as spaces for addressing areas of social and political contestation. Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries opens with a substantial introduction to the key debates, followed by case studies that advance the field of exhibition histories both geographically and methodologically, focusing on postwar transnational exchange and the wider networks engendered through exhibitions. Chapters trace relations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific, and the United States of America, drawing on a range of approaches and perspectives, principally from art and design history but also from social, economic and political history, and museum studies. Featured case studies include the presentation of African-American Art at FESMAN '66 and FESTAC '77, the US's 1961 Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, Israel's early appearances at the Venice Biennale, the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, and Hong Kong's Pavilion at Expo 70 in Tokyo.
Book Synopsis This American Life Sef (New and Expanded Edition) by : Rudolf O
Download or read book This American Life Sef (New and Expanded Edition) written by Rudolf O and published by Irokopost Books. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of anyone's American journey needs no embellishment. America has a way of surprising people who leave other parts of the world to make America home. Whatever their expectations may be, America finds a way to intervene and interpret those expectations. These are the stories of Africans who have made that historic journey and the transformations their lives went through as a result. In this new and expanded edition, Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo brings home the reality of America for African immigrants. These are stories that Africans in Europe and Asia can relate to.
Book Synopsis The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 by : David Murphy
Download or read book The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 written by David Murphy and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide an overview of the First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in Dakar in 1966, and of its multiple legacies.
Book Synopsis The Story of Queen Idia by : Festus Eguavoen
Download or read book The Story of Queen Idia written by Festus Eguavoen and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Idia has undoubtedly put Benin on the world map, her exploit, skillfulness and valor is a story that has been heard, written and spoken of by men of all tribes and countries around the world. And the very famous Benin Ivory Mask is a portrait of the head of the Queen Mother, Idia. She was very instrumental in ensuring that her son was crowned the Oba of Benin. She also fought war for the Benins in the reign of her Son as Oba Esigie of Benin Kingdom.The Queen Idia Ivory Mask was forcefully taken from Benin during the British invasion of Benin in 1897. This ivory head of Queen Idia was used as the official emblem of the Second World African Festival of Art and Culture in 1977 which was dubbed, the FESTAC MASK 77. This is a true story that happened many years ago made into a fun and entertaining graphic novel for children and adult to read. Its a must have for everyone.
