Author: Gina Gertrud Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 8776913538
Category : Fula (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Gina Gertrud Smith is an associate researcher at the at Centre of African Studies and the Centre of European Islamic Thinking, University of Copenhagen. In this book she presents a Toucouleur and Peul (Fulani) society in Casamance, part of the Sufi brotherhood Tijaniyya. She describes the foundations of the society in the special charisma or baraka of the shaykh, his Islamic knowledge, and the Islamic educational system. She also debates how the system is being challenged by the secular Senegalese state and Islamism.
Medina Gounass
Author: Gina Gertrud Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 8776913538
Category : Fula (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Gina Gertrud Smith is an associate researcher at the at Centre of African Studies and the Centre of European Islamic Thinking, University of Copenhagen. In this book she presents a Toucouleur and Peul (Fulani) society in Casamance, part of the Sufi brotherhood Tijaniyya. She describes the foundations of the society in the special charisma or baraka of the shaykh, his Islamic knowledge, and the Islamic educational system. She also debates how the system is being challenged by the secular Senegalese state and Islamism.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 8776913538
Category : Fula (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Gina Gertrud Smith is an associate researcher at the at Centre of African Studies and the Centre of European Islamic Thinking, University of Copenhagen. In this book she presents a Toucouleur and Peul (Fulani) society in Casamance, part of the Sufi brotherhood Tijaniyya. She describes the foundations of the society in the special charisma or baraka of the shaykh, his Islamic knowledge, and the Islamic educational system. She also debates how the system is being challenged by the secular Senegalese state and Islamism.
Mobile Diagnosis 2.0
Author: Aniruddha Ray
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3036503803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Mobile sensing and diagnostic capabilities are becoming extremely important for a wide range of emerging applications and fields spanning mobile health, telemedicine, point-of-care diagnostics, global health, field medicine, democratization of sensing and diagnostic tools, environmental monitoring, and citizen science, among many others. The importance of low-cost mobile technologies has been underlined during this current COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for applications such as the detection of pathogens, including bacteria and viruses, as well as for prediction and management of different diseases and disorders. This book focuses on some of these application areas and provides a timely summary of cutting-edge results and emerging technologies in these interdisciplinary fields.
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3036503803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Mobile sensing and diagnostic capabilities are becoming extremely important for a wide range of emerging applications and fields spanning mobile health, telemedicine, point-of-care diagnostics, global health, field medicine, democratization of sensing and diagnostic tools, environmental monitoring, and citizen science, among many others. The importance of low-cost mobile technologies has been underlined during this current COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for applications such as the detection of pathogens, including bacteria and viruses, as well as for prediction and management of different diseases and disorders. This book focuses on some of these application areas and provides a timely summary of cutting-edge results and emerging technologies in these interdisciplinary fields.
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004271562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe focuses on the West African migrants’ presence in Europe and the way they negotiate religion and ethnicity in a new context. Special attention is given to the diversity of religious background of the migrants and to exploration of interreligious (especially Christian-Muslim) relations. These dimensions of transnational migration have not been widely researched, yet. After introducing the new African religious diaspora, the situation of the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants – both Christian and Muslim – in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland is analysed. The impact the migrants make on their communities of origin in Africa is also taken into account. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Tilmann Heil, Monika Salzbrunn, José C.M. van Santen, Miriam Schader, Etienne Smith and Gina Gertrud Smith.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004271562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe focuses on the West African migrants’ presence in Europe and the way they negotiate religion and ethnicity in a new context. Special attention is given to the diversity of religious background of the migrants and to exploration of interreligious (especially Christian-Muslim) relations. These dimensions of transnational migration have not been widely researched, yet. After introducing the new African religious diaspora, the situation of the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants – both Christian and Muslim – in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland is analysed. The impact the migrants make on their communities of origin in Africa is also taken into account. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Tilmann Heil, Monika Salzbrunn, José C.M. van Santen, Miriam Schader, Etienne Smith and Gina Gertrud Smith.
Tumbulu, the Only Daughter
Author: Bakary Camara
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514461153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is a rare testimony of a fascinating and thrilling biography of the only daughter of a privileged Gambian couple in Faraba Banta village. Tumbulu was raised under excessive and indulgent parental attachment, and she was not well accustomed to the myths and the traditions of the Mandinka culture as other girls are. In the dawn of her adulthood, clouds darkened the horizon over her as challenging mishaps circumvented her lifea life her mother created. I told you so, her mother said when time witnessed her most awkward predicament that rendered melancholic boomerang on her family.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514461153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is a rare testimony of a fascinating and thrilling biography of the only daughter of a privileged Gambian couple in Faraba Banta village. Tumbulu was raised under excessive and indulgent parental attachment, and she was not well accustomed to the myths and the traditions of the Mandinka culture as other girls are. In the dawn of her adulthood, clouds darkened the horizon over her as challenging mishaps circumvented her lifea life her mother created. I told you so, her mother said when time witnessed her most awkward predicament that rendered melancholic boomerang on her family.
Reconfiguring Slavery
Author: Benedetta Rossi
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
Living through Crises
Author: Rasmus Heltberg
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821394606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book brings together qualitative studies conducted during 2008-11 in communities in sixteen countries, with eight case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks and what coping mechanisms they used.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821394606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book brings together qualitative studies conducted during 2008-11 in communities in sixteen countries, with eight case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks and what coping mechanisms they used.
Environnement africain
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa
Author: Fallou Ngom
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030457591
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They provide readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that have taken place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the varied forms of Jihād movements that have occurred on the continent. The handbook provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic, political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African societies reflected in the lived experiences of African Muslims and the corpus of African Islamic texts.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030457591
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They provide readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that have taken place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the varied forms of Jihād movements that have occurred on the continent. The handbook provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic, political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African societies reflected in the lived experiences of African Muslims and the corpus of African Islamic texts.
African Environment
Postcolonial African Cities
Author: Fassil Demissie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317991389
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities – made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa – offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of African Identities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317991389
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities – made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa – offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of African Identities.