Author: NIGERIA. TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY INTO THE FINANCES OF THE SECOND WORLD BLACK AND AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND CULTURE.Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Federal Military Government's Views on the Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry Into the Finances of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture - Nigeria
Author: NIGERIA. TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY INTO THE FINANCES OF THE SECOND WORLD BLACK AND AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND CULTURE.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Federal Military Government's Views on the Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry Into the Finances of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Author: NigeriaPublisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Pan-African Nation
Author: Andrew ApterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226023567
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
The Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
Author: Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art BranchPublisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
Author: The Military and the Nigerian State, 1966-1993
Author: Gboyega AjayiPublisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Civil-military relations
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Military Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria, 1966-1976
Author: Stephen Oluwole OlugbemiPublisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Nigeria: Bulletin on Foreign Affairs
Author: Architecture in Global Socialism
Author: Łukasz StanekPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691194556
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Łukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries—what he calls socialist worldmaking—left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world. Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews. This incisive book presents a new understanding of global urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization and development in the Global South.