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Author: Mercy Maseko Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665592249 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 59
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Cry Africa, My Motherland is a poem articulating the trauma and hardship faced by the descendants of the African continent. It is a cry for a better Africa, one that demands an end to the corruption within the leadership in different parts of the continent, due to the greed and selfishness of the African leaders. Author Mercy Maseko calls for hope through a united continent—for Africans to rewrite their history as their own liberators and leave a legacy for the coming generations.
Author: Mercy Maseko Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665592249 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 59
Book Description
Cry Africa, My Motherland is a poem articulating the trauma and hardship faced by the descendants of the African continent. It is a cry for a better Africa, one that demands an end to the corruption within the leadership in different parts of the continent, due to the greed and selfishness of the African leaders. Author Mercy Maseko calls for hope through a united continent—for Africans to rewrite their history as their own liberators and leave a legacy for the coming generations.
Author: Kevin J. Wetmore Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527526062 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 252
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This volume brings together fifteen scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States to explore how Africa is represented in and through the performing arts and cinema. Essays include discussions of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, American influences on Nollywood, Nigerian video films, the representation of women in cinema, African dance in the diaspora, children’s music, and media portrayals of savagery from pop cinema through news reports of Ferguson, Missouri. Using a variety of methodologies and approaches, the contributors consider how African societies and cultures have been represented to themselves, to the continent at large, and in the diaspora. The volume represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their respective societies within and without Africa. Many of the contributors are scholar-practitioners, offering practical guides on how to approach these performance and media forms as artists. As such, this book will serve as both model and building block for the next generation of representors, students, and audiences.
Author: Lilian Njoki Publisher: Infra Text ISBN: 3952312681 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages :
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As a European and a Kenyan, I have an important message to share. It’s a message of identity, pride, and motivation. It’s a message of hope, value, and pride in being African. And why Africans belong to Africa.
Author: Laurie Livingston St. Ledger Lyle Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462851649 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 147
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Rise from the Diaspora—Narration of life, action, thoughts and deeds of people. The way it was, the way it is and the way it should be. About you, about me. This world with its intricacies of love, greed, revulsion, cruelty, success, failure, division, ideology, happiness, pain and suffering. From apartheid to emancipation. Of love, life and broken dreams. Of positive motivation, enlightenment, encouragement and upliftment. From the door of no return. Across the oceans to the masters. From the cotton fields to the . . . Colored House . . . A work of passion!
Author: Ann Reed Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317674987 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 246
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Processes of globalization have led to diasporic groups longing for their homelands. One such group includes descendants from African ancestors displaced by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, who may be uncertain about their families' exact origins. Traveling home often means visiting African sites associated with the slave trade, journeys full of expectations. The remembrance of the slave trade and pilgrimages to these heritage sites bear resemblance to other diasporic travels that center on trauma, identification, and redemption. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork with both diaspora Africans and Ghanaians, this book explores why and how Ghana has been cast as a pilgrimage destination for people of African descent, especially African Americans. Grounding her research in Ghana’s Central Region where slavery heritage tourism and political ideas promoting incorporation into one African family are prominent, Reed also discusses the perspectives of ordinary Ghanaians, tourism stakeholders, and diasporan "repatriates." Providing ethnographic insight into the transnational networks of people and ideas entangled in Ghana’s pilgrimage tourism, this book also contributes to better understanding the broader global phenomenon of diasporic travel to homeland centers.
Author: Firdous Azim Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134866089 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 264
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In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the coherent and consistent subject which found expression in the novels of the eighteenth century, Azim demonstrtes how certain categories: women and people of colour, were silenced and excluded. The Colonial Rise of the Novel makes an important and provocative contribution to post-colonial and feminist criticism. It will be essential reading for all teachers and students of English literature, women's studies, and post-colonial criticism.
Author: Shane Graham Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813944104 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 475
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In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and—perhaps above all—pan-Africanist. In Cultural Entanglements, Shane Graham examines Hughes’s associations with a number of black writers from the Caribbean and Africa, exploring the implications of recognizing these multiple facets of the African American literary icon and of taking a truly transnational approach to his life, work, and influence. Graham isolates and maps Hughes’s cluster of black Atlantic relations and interprets their significance. Moving chronologically through Hughes’s career from the 1920s to the 1960s, he spotlights Jamaican poet and novelist Claude McKay, Haitian novelist and poet Jacques Roumain, French Negritude author Aimé Césaire of Martinique, South African writers Es’kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams, and Caribbean American novelist Paule Marshall. Taken collectively, these writers’ intellectual relationships with Hughes and with one another reveal a complex conversation—and sometimes a heated debate—happening globally throughout the twentieth century over what Africa signified and what it meant to be black in the modern world. Graham makes a truly original contribution not only to the study of Langston Hughes and African and Caribbean literatures but also to contemporary debates about cosmopolitanism, the black Atlantic, and transnational cultures.
Author: Sandra Jackson-Opoku Publisher: One World ISBN: 0307559467 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 433
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This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
Author: Allan Boesak Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA ISBN: 1919980660 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 247
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With this book, theologian and political observer Allan Boesak once again displays the strengths of his writings that were evident in the seventies and eighties: bringing Christian theology to bear on the political and socio-economic realities of our world. “A serious and open-hearted commentary on the African Renaissance and the spirituality of politics, but with the clarity of the deeply embedded Christian message.” – Danny Titus
Author: Ronald J. Stephens Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813057035 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 341
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Arguing that the accomplishments of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers have been marginalized in narratives of the black freedom struggle, this volume builds on decades of overlooked research to reveal the profound impact of Garvey’s post–World War I black nationalist philosophy around the globe and across the twentieth century. These essays point to the breadth of Garveyism’s spread and its reception in communities across the African diaspora, examining the influence of Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Africa, Australia, North America, and the Caribbean. They highlight the underrecognized work of many Garveyite women and show how the UNIA played a key role in shaping labor unions, political organizations, churches, and schools. In addition, contributors describe the importance of grassroots efforts for expanding the global movement—the UNIA trained leaders to organize local centers of power, whose political activism outside the movement helped Garvey’s message escape its organizational bounds during the 1920s. They trace the imprint of the movement on long-term developments such as decolonization in Africa and the Caribbean, the pan-Aboriginal fight for land rights in Australia, the civil rights and Black Power movements in the United States, and the radical pan-African movement. Rejecting the idea that Garveyism was a brief and misguided phenomenon, this volume exposes its scope, significance, and endurance. Together, contributors assert that Garvey initiated the most important mass movement in the history of the African diaspora, and they urge readers to rethink the emergence of modern black politics with Garveyism at the center.
Author: Mercy Maseko
Author: Mercy Maseko
Author: Kevin J. Wetmore
Author: Lilian Njoki
Author: Laurie Livingston St. Ledger Lyle
Author: Ann Reed
Author: Firdous Azim
Author: Shane Graham
Author: Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Author: Allan Boesak
Author: Ronald J. Stephens