Africa Bibliography 2011
Author : T. A. Barringer
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780748642830
Africa
Author : John Reader
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1998-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0141926937
Book Description
Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the political upheavals facing much of the continent today. Reader tells the extraordinary story of humankind's adaptation to the ferocious obstacles of forest, river and desert, and to the threat of debilitating parasites, bacteria and viruses unmatched elsewhere in the world. He also shows how the world's richest assortment of animals and plants has helped - or hindered - human progress in Africa.
The Bibliography of Africa
Author : James Douglas Pearson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714623948
Book Description
First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Oral Literature in Africa
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1906924708
Book Description
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Africa Is Not a Country
Author : Margy Burns Knight
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761316477
Book Description
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
General Labour History of Africa
Author : Stefano Bellucci
Publisher :
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847012183
Book Description
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Not Out Of Africa
Author : Mary Lefkowitz
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786723971
Book Description
Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic civilizaiton to the Africans? Mary Lefkowitz explains why politically motivated histories of the ancient world are being written and shows how Afrocentrist claims blatantly contradict the historical evidence. Not Out of Africa is an important book that protects and argues for the necessity of historical truths and standards in cultural education.For this new paperback edition, Mary Lefkowitz has written an epilogue in which she responds to her critics and offers topics for further discussion. She has also added supplementary notes, a bibliography with suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of names.
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 085745952X
Book Description
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.
UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition
Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520066960
Book Description
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
The Bible in Africa
Author : Gerald West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004497102
Book Description
Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
