Author: Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am MainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : un
Pages : 288
Book Description
Fachkatalog Afrika: Politik
Author: Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am MainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : un
Pages : 288
Book Description
African Homecoming
Author: Katharina SchrammPublisher: Left Coast Press
ISBN: 1598747002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.
Whitaker's Cumulative Book List
Author: Book Review Digest
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1784
Book Description
Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
The Negro
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du BoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Author: Olufemi VaughanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Djibril Tamsir NianePublisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852550946
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic
Author: Lisa TomlinsonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004342338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The African- Jamaican Aesthetics Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders centres on the use of African Jamaican Aesthetics in Jamaica’s literary traditions and its transformation and transmission in the diaspora.
The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
Author: David LowenthalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521635622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.
As a City on a Hill
Author: Daniel T. RodgersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words--from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.