Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) by Toyin Falola
English | Feb 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1648250270 | 690 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB
This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge systems imposed on Africa. It critically examines the silencing and exclusion of subalterns in global knowledge production and the far-reaching implications of this for pedagogy and policy. As global power is concentrated in the global north where Eurocentrism and white supremacy validate the monopoly of knowledge and its centrality and universality, African perspectives continue to be marginalized or excluded in research, creating the problem of misrepresentation of the continent. It is to this challenge that this book has responded-the urgent need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism in the academy and research methodologies.

Joyce Piert, "Alchemy of the Soul: An African-centered Education "
English | ISBN: 1433126990 | 2015 | 161 pages | PDF | 1432 KB
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author's life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical questions such as: What is an African-centered education model? How do former students perceive this experience? And can, or even should, this educational model be effectively adopted in traditional public schools? Joyce Piert offers this book as a critical resource to parents, educators, potential teachers, community leaders, and policymakers who are seriously pondering the question of how to provide all students with a holistic educational experience. In the vibrant voices of African American young adults share their stories in robust and candid narratives of their educational experiences at an African-centered school.

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution By Mahir Saul, Ralph A. Austen
2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0821419307 | PDF | 2 MB
African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These "Nollywood" films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema.Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a unique comparison of these two main African cinema modes.

Shiera S. el-Malik, Isaac A. Kamola, "Politics of African Anticolonial Archive"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1783487909, 1783487895 | PDF | pages: 291 | 12.8 mb
African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the state for the purpose of national and human liberation.

Jenny Sharpe, "Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss "
English | ISBN: 0810141582 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives. Through the works of Frantz Zéphirin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, and Kamau Brathwaite, examines silences as black female spaces, Afro-Creole sacred worlds as diasporic cartographies, and the imaginative conjoining of spirits with industrial technologies as disruptions of enlightened modernity.

Authentic African Recipes: An Illustrated Cookbook of Regional African Dish Ideas! by Julia Chiles
English | September 7, 2019 | ISBN: 1691595217 | 103 pages | EPUB | 3.28 Mb
Do you find yourself sometimes craving the comforting and warm flavors found in African cuisine?

Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance. By Kene Igweonu
2011 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 904203386X | PDF | 3 MB
Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.

African Business English Edition-March 2022
English | 78 Pages | PDF | 70.67 MB

Libra R. Hilde, "Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 1469660660 | 2020 | 410 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery, demonstrating that black men and women articulated a surprisingly broad and consistent vision of paternal duty across more than a century. Complicating the tendency among historians to conflate masculinity within slavery with heroic resistance, Hilde emphasizes that, while some enslaved men openly rebelled, many chose subtle forms of resistance in the context of family and local community. She explains how a significant number of enslaved men served as caretakers to their children and shaped their lives and identities. From the standpoint of enslavers, this was particularly threatening-a man who fed his children built up the master's property, but a man who fed them notions of autonomy put cracks in the edifice of slavery.

Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World By Eric Charry
2012 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 0253003075 | PDF | 35 MB
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.