Book Description
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1613747454
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : V. Tarikhu Farrar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1793606439
The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.
Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford U.P.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781919876061
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Donald R. Wehrs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754660880
Donald Wehrs explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in texts by Casely Hayford, Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, Paul Hazoumé, D.O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. By highlighting the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, his book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives.
Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780416550702
Author : Michał Tymowski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9780773447189
This book covers the states of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa, their different origins and institutions, their evolution and development, and the enduring strength of their traditions in present-day Africa.