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Author : Bruce Bridges
Publisher : In the Know Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780976634300
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Recapturing the African Mind written by Bruce Bridges and published by In the Know Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Shawn Augmon
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622121872
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Within Scope of Ascension written by Vincent Shawn Augmon and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within Scope of Ascension is a poetic litany of philosophies and prose that addresses a wide range of subject matter on the human condition, from both the past and present. The book hopes to encourage readers to exercise freedom of independent thought, while aiming to inspire patience, tolerance, and acceptance of others feelings, beliefs, and expressions. It also presents a 300-year historical analysis of specific political, economic, cultural, and social agendas, and their distinct effects on the human condition from 1712 to 2012. The book was written to help forge a universal awareness that can fortify communications and ultimately empathy with one another across ethnic and racial boundaries. Vincent Shawn Augmon lives in New England. He works in the health care industry and moonlights as an entertainment promoter of comedy and music. He began writing at an early age and counts Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz El Hajj) as his inspiration to use the power of words to expound on his perceptions of reality. He hopes with his book of poetry and prose, titled Within Scope of Ascension, to convey hope and to broaden one's awareness of life and the world's conditions.He would like the book to establish a common ground throughout cultures and reach out to people to acquire information, overcome ignorance, and make everyone more aware. To accomplish this, he writes on eclectic subjects so his work may appeal to the world. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/VincentShawnAugmo
Author : Yamikani Ndasauka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031629795
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book African Mind, Culture, and Technology written by Yamikani Ndasauka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Jay Moon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498275230
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture written by W. Jay Moon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many oral cultures local proverbs are highly regarded for their wisdom and prized for their aesthetic expression. In this study Jay Moon provides an in-depth look at the use of local proverbs among the Builsa culture of Ghana, West Africa. In particular, the author's research shows how local proverbs can facilitate contextualized expressions of Christianity that are both biblically authentic and culturally relevant. The process of initiating and sustaining this form of expression is explicated with the help of an engaging narrative, providing valuable insights for those striving for genuine and meaningful expression of Christ in culture. This study will be especially beneficial to the missionary community, particularly for the purposes of appreciating oral literature in primary oral cultures, finding proper roles in the contextualization process, identifying cultural values via the window of local proverbs, training missionaries in cultural understanding, and tailoring discipleship training to incorporate significant aspects of orality
Author : Jacqueline Fleming
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118218698
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance written by Jacqueline Fleming and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing academic performance among minority students and includes models of evaluations that describe successful programs that use statistical methods to verify outcomes.
Author : Mai Palmberg
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064783
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Encounter Images in the Meetings Between Africa and Europe written by Mai Palmberg and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive images of Africa contrast with negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. This selection of papers debate the images and stereotypes of Africa.
Author : Kinfe Abraham
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The African Quest written by Kinfe Abraham and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Ph. D. Robert L. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600477416
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Unchallenged Mind written by Ph. D. Robert L. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unchallenged Mind provides a bittersweet account of my personal tribulations growing up as an intellectually gifted, but poor African-American kid in New Jersey. Part One describes my often-painful quest to understand why I failed to fulfill the intellectual promise I had shown as a child prodigy. Part Two documents my decades-long struggle to recover, but never quite successfully recapturing, the intellectual prowess I once possessed and enjoyed. Although the story mainly takes place in mid-20th century, many of its themes still are relevant. The consequences of racial inequality, poverty, child abuse, single-parent homes, and a dysfunctional public education system remain part of America's 21st century inner-city narrative.
Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393319781
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Black Genius written by Walter Mosley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Spike Lee's encouragement of independent, community fundraising to Joycelyn Elders's warning about the failings of our "sick-care" system to Stanley Crouch's disputation on "heroic" versus "anarchic" individuality, Black Genius is an exceptional, unique colloquy. Conceived by acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley and sponsored by the New York University Africana Studies Program and the Institute of African American Affairs, this book originated as a series of community conversations where "visionaries with solutions" shared powerful views on personal and communal struggles, triumphs, and aspirations. The list of contributors suggests the range of perspectives and talents brought to bear on such issues as economics, political power, work, authority, and culture. Black Genius is a point of departure for vigorous discussion of our current realities and goals for the future-and a portrait of "genius" that leads the way to enriching American life in the twenty-first century.
Author : Luigi Zingales
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038700
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book A Capitalism for the People written by Luigi Zingales and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely interpret the world, but should change it for the better. In A Capitalism for the People, Zingales makes a forceful, philosophical, and at times personal argument that the roots of American capitalism are dying, and that the result is a drift toward the more corrupt systems found throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world. American capitalism, according to Zingales, grew in a unique incubator that provided it with a distinct flavor of competitiveness, a meritocratic nature that fostered trust in markets and a faith in mobility. Lately, however, that trust has been eroded by a betrayal of our pro-business elites, whose lobbying has come to dictate the market rather than be subject to it, and this betrayal has taken place with the complicity of our intellectual class. Because of this trend, much of the country is questioning -- often with great anger -- whether the system that has for so long buoyed their hopes has now betrayed them once and for all. What we are left with is either anti-market pitchfork populism or pro-business technocratic insularity. Neither of these options presents a way to preserve what the author calls "the lighthouse" of American capitalism. Zingales argues that the way forward is pro-market populism, a fostering of truly free and open competition for the good of the people -- not for the good of big business. Drawing on the historical record of American populism at the turn of the twentieth century, Zingales illustrates how our current circumstances aren't all that different. People in the middle and at the bottom are getting squeezed, while people at the top are only growing richer. The solutions now, as then, are reforms to economic policy that level the playing field. Reforms that may be anti-business (specifically anti-big business), but are squarely pro-market. The question is whether we can once again muster the courage to confront the powers that be.
Author : Anthony J. Carter
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433522586
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Glory Road written by Anthony J. Carter and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten African-American leaders in the church tell their stories of how they embraced Reformed theology and what effect it has had on their lives and ministries. The ten men who have contributed to this book are often asked, "How did you come to embrace Reformed theology?" With the recent surge in popularity of Reformed theology in the broader evangelical world and the growing interest among African-Americans, it shouldn't seem curious that more and more African-American churchmen are embracing Reformed theology. But the question remains, and Glory Road provides an answer, using personal accounts tracing their conversion to Christianity, their introduction to and embrace of Reformed theology, and this theology's effect on their lives and ministries. Ultimately, Glory Road is about the glory of God in providentially bringing men and women to the truths of salvation. In addition to the book's editor, Anthony J. Carter, Glory Road includes contributions from such notable pastors as Thabiti Anyabwile, Ken Jones, Michael Leach, and Eric Redmond.
Author : Magesa Laurenti
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608333213
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book What Is Not Sacred? written by Magesa Laurenti and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is not for you to call profane what God counts clean."
Did Christianity replace traditional African religion with the arrival of European missionaries in past centuries? Or did sub-Saharan African cultures persist in maintaining their religious worldviews even after accepting the salvific message of Christianity? In this compelling book, Laurenti Magesa argues that despite missionary Christiaity's refusal to acknowledge the worth of traditional African religious culture. the incarnational spirituality of those cultures remains vibrant and visible today, and has much to offer and teach other cultures, both Christian and not.
Author : Kwesi Armah
Publisher : London, Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Africa's Golden Road written by Kwesi Armah and published by London, Heinemann. This book was released on 1965 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313075506
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Voice of Violence written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tide of 1960s political upheaval, while mistaken at the time by some as a unified assault against America carried out by revolutionaries at home and abroad, was actually hundreds of locally constructed expressions of political discourse, reflecting the influences of race, class, gender, and local conditions on each unique group of practitioners. This is a comparative study of how radicals at the local level staged, displayed, and ultimately narrated symbolic acts of performative violence against the symbols of the American system. The term performative violence refers to a method of public protest whereby participants create the conditions in which their violent actions become a political text, a powerful symbol with a strong historical precedent. Recognizing the textuality of history, this interdisciplinary examination deconstructs the performative violence within its historically specific and socially constructed contexts using four representative case histories of late 1960s and early 1970s activism. These are the African-American rioters in Kansas City, the Black Panther Party in Detroit, campus radicals at Kansas State University, and activists at the University of Kansas. Rather than focusing on the major clashes of the Vietnam era, this book contributes to recent scholarship on the 1960s which has attempted to offer a more textured analysis of the era's activism, particularly its political violence, based on more local studies.
Author : Jason B. Hood
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830884408
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Imitating God in Christ written by Jason B. Hood and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the call to imitate Jesus comes loaded with moralistic overtones, Jason Hood offers a refreshing look at imitation on the Bible's terms. Drawing our attention to the practice that Paul taught "everywhere in every church," Hood's study yields insights into Scripture, the church fathers and Christian culture.
Author : Edward P. Antonio
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820467351
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Inculturation and Postcolonial Discourse in African Theology written by Edward P. Antonio and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is inculturation? How is it practiced and what is its relationship to colonial and postcolonial discourses? In what ways, if any, does inculturation represent the decolonization of Christianity in Africa? This book explores these questions and argues that inculturation is a species of postcolonial discourse by placing it in the larger context of what has now come to be known as Africanism and by showing how the latter - and through it inculturation itself - fully participates in the history of postcolonial struggles for indigenous self-definition in Africa. The thirteen contributors to this volume represent a group of young scholars from the southern, eastern, and western regions of Africa. They come from different disciplines: theology, philosophy, and biblical studies. Although they take different approaches to the question of inculturation, the fact that they engage it at all is illustrative of the methodological significance of inculturation in African theology.
Author : Daniel R. Magaziner
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770099107
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Law and the Prophets written by Daniel R. Magaziner and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""No nation can win a battle without faith," Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force. The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country's best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. Scholars thus know that something happened--yet they have only recently begun to explore how and why. The Law and the Prophets is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. It differs from previous antiapartheid historiography, however, in that it focuses more on ideas than on people and organizations. Its singular contribution is an exploration of the theological turn that South African politics took during this time. Magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race, faith, and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place."--Publisher description.
