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Author: Charlotte Hahn Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467071102 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 51
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Belle struggles with the fact that she looks different from the other girls in her class. When her father finds out how she feels, he tells Belle a story about her family and her African heritage from Sierra Leon, in the hope that she will feel unique, special, and proud of who she is.
Author: Charlotte Hahn Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467071102 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 51
Book Description
Belle struggles with the fact that she looks different from the other girls in her class. When her father finds out how she feels, he tells Belle a story about her family and her African heritage from Sierra Leon, in the hope that she will feel unique, special, and proud of who she is.
Author: Tony Binns Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429647751 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 627
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Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa’s diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space. The book examines the background and diversity of Africa’s social, cultural, economic, political and environmental systems, as well as key development issues which have affected Africa in the past and are likely to be significant in shaping the future of the continent. These include: the impact of HIV/AIDS; sources of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction; the state and governance; the nature of African economies in a global context and future development trajectories. This second edition features new chapters on history and governance, health, separate chapters on rural and urban development and updated content on all aspects of the continent, particularly aspects of culture and ethnicity. It is richly illustrated throughout with diagrams and plates and contains a wealth of detailed up-to-date case studies and current data. This textbook is a refreshing interdisciplinary text which enhances understanding of the background to Africa’s current position and clarifies possible future scenarios. It will be a valuable resource for students taking modules on Africa, African Development and Geography of Africa, and will also prove useful to students in the wider fields of Geography, Development Studies, Global Studies, Environment and Society and African Politics.
Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books ISBN: 9781847808318 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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From Beads to Drums to Masquerades, from Grandmother to Yams, this photographic alphabet captures the rhythms of day-to-day village life in Africa. Ifeoma Onyefulu's lens reveals not only traditional crafts and customs, but also the African sense of occasion and fun, in images that will delight children the world over.
Author: Matthias Krings Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253016401 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
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This exploration of African adaptations of global pop culture is “a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies” (American Ethnologist). Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an “original” or “faithful copy,” but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture. “The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Author: MaryEllen Higgins Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821444336 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 281
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Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood’s colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West’s representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues—child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation of the poor by multinational corporations, dictatorial rule, truth and reconciliation—within the contexts of celebrity humanitarianism, “new” military humanitarianism, and Western support for regime change in Africa and beyond? A number of films after 1994, such as Black Hawk Down, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, The Constant Gardener, Shake Hands with the Devil, Tears of the Sun, and District 9, construct explicit and implicit arguments about the effects of Western intervention in Africa. Do the emphases on human rights in the films offer a poignant expression of our shared humanity? Do they echo the colonial tropes of former “civilizing missions?” Or do human rights violations operate as yet another mine of sensational images for Hollywood’s spectacular storytelling? The volume provides analyses by academics and activists in the fields of African studies, English, film and media studies, international relations, and sociology across continents. This thoughtful and highly engaging book is a valuable resource for those who seek new and varied approaches to films about Africa. Contributors Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higgonet Joyce B. Ashuntantang Kenneth W. Harrow Christopher Odhiambo Ricardo Guthrie Clifford T. Manlove Earl Conteh-Morgan Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J. R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade Christopher Garland Kimberly Nichele Brown Jane Bryce Iyunolu Osagie Dayna Oscherwitz
Author: Dokotum, Okaka Opio Publisher: NISC (Pty) Ltd ISBN: 1920033661 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 334
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Hollywood and Africa - recycling the ‘Dark Continent’ myth from 1908–2020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa as a cognitive-based system of knowledge, especially in history, literature and film. Hollywood and Africa identifies the ‘colonial mastertext’ of the Dark Continent mythos by providing a historiographic genealogy and context for the term’s development and consolidation. An array of literary and paraliterary film adaptation theories are employed to analyse the deep genetic strands of Hollywood–Africa film adaptations. The mutations of the Dark Continent mythos across time and space are then tracked through the classical, neoclassical and new wave Hollywood–Africa phases in order to illustrate how Hollywood productions about Africa recycle, revise, reframe, reinforce, transpose, interrogate — and even critique — these tropes of Darkest Africa while sustaining the colonial mastertext and rising cyberactivism against Hollywood’s whitewashing of African history.
Author: Mat Dry Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781466485730 Category : Safari guides Languages : en Pages : 0
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THIS is Africa is a compilation of stories that defines the maxim "Truth is sometimes stranger, and more wondrous than fiction." From a place known for its continent-wide diversity, notorious for its dramatic turbulence, and beloved for its animals and untamed wildness, Mat Dry brings his incredible, true tales of living and working in Africa as a Safari Guide. Filled with the awe of discovery, heart-break of tragedy, hilarity of compromising situations African-style, and, of course, the love of a place unlike any other on Earth, THIS is Africa will inspire you to kick your Bucket-List and get on the next flight to Capetown or Nairobi...
Author: Leanne Plein Micinilio Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449046959 Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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Saturday mornings in the kitchen, is Tia's favorite time with her mom, when she helps make tasty treats for her friends for tea. One morning, Tia's mom bakes a delicious chocolate cake - Tia's absolute favorite treat in the whole world! When her mom leaves the kitchen to take a nap before her friends arrive, Tia is unable to resist a taste ........ and her love for chocolate gets her into a sticky situation that she has to quickly find a way out of!. With her mischievous nature, Tia finds a very creative solution to her problem - one that we know most children can relate to very well indeed!
Author: Ademola Adesola Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1666954500 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 237
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In Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives, Ademola Adesola examines the dominant factors that writers privilege in their portrayals of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa. In his textual-interpretive analyses of selected novels in the African child soldier genre, Adesola contends that critical discussions of African child soldier literature have depended on the interpretive frameworks supplied by Western humanitarian discourses which oversimplify and de-historicize experiences of war in Africa. The author argues that such reductive decontextualization of war realities serve to champion a narrow vision of war in African contexts centered on a moral and humanitarian urge for Western intervention. Regardless of whether the casus belli legitimating those wars are genuine or not, those conflicts (and children’s involvement in them) are understood within the same racist colonial and ethnocentric stereotypes about Africa that have been privileged in Western thought and the Western moral-political imagination for centuries. Thus, in studying African child soldier narratives, this book provides an alternative reading of novels whose settings feature African ethnopolitical conflicts – such as in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria – notable for their exploitation of children for military ends. The author maintains that these works are significant in the varying ways they reify and challenge the Western ideas of “child” and “childhood,” as well as privilege child soldiers as social actors whose intricate makeups disavow being simply understood as innocent victims or irredeemable perpetrators of atrocities.
Author: Charlotte Hahn
Author: Charlotte Hahn
Author: Tony Binns
Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Author: Matthias Krings
Author: Larry Dinkins
Author: MaryEllen Higgins
Author: Dokotum, Okaka Opio
Author: Mat Dry
Author: Leanne Plein Micinilio
Author: Ademola Adesola