Author: Anna H. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Africana Byways
Author: Anna H. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A Place That Matters Yet
Author: Sara ByalaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603027X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining this story, sheds new light not only on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa but also on the problems facing any museum that is charged with navigating colonial history from a postcolonial perspective. Drawing on thirty years of personal letters and public writings by museum founder John Gubbins, Byala paints a picture of a uniquely progressive colonist, focusing on his philosophical notion of “three-dimensional thinking,” which aimed to transcend binaries and thus—quite explicitly—racism. Unfortunately, Gubbins died within weeks of the museum’s opening, and his hopes would go unrealized as the museum fell in line with emergent apartheid politics. Following the museum through this transformation and on to its 1994 reconfiguration as a post-apartheid institution, Byala showcases it as a rich—and problematic—archive of both material culture and the ideas that surround that culture, arguing for its continued importance in the establishment of a unified South Africa.
Munger Africana Library Notes
Author: Highways to Success or Byways to Waste
Author: Rubaba AliPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 146480656X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation remain a cornerstone of the development agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa spends roughly $6.8 billion per year on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and social services combined. Despite the development focus on transportation, methodologies for evaluating which road projects to fund are often dis-jointed and unreliable. This report hopes to improve upon the current approaches by establishing a new methodology for prioritization which can be applied to a diverse set of scenarios, regions, and projects. This book demonstrates how modern econometrics and geospatial techniques can be combined to analyze the latest available geo-referenced datasets at the smallest possible scale to answer some of the most important questions in development. Uniquely this report attempts to shed light on some of the most profound puzzles in determining the impacts of roads and where to locate these. Does road infrastructure unleash a virtuous growth cycle? Is it advisable to improve roads in conflict prone zones? What is the effect of improving market access on farming practices? And what are the impacts of roads on forests and biodiversity? It is envisioned that the approach used in this book can be a reference guide to researchers from across the spectrum of international development, who are seeking new tools and insights into the many issues (technical and non-technical) of this important field.
Africa
Author: Sue McCloudPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Bibliophilia Africana IV
Author: C. PamaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Africana Notes and News
Author: Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
Author: Alex la Guma
Author: Roger FieldPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847010172
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The life and works of South African writer, political activist and artist, from his early life in District Six, his arrest and trial for treason, to his eventual reluctant exile in Cuba.
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