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Author: Rob Bowden Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library ISBN: 9781432924409 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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Describes the culture of Africa, discussing ancient traditions, languages, family life, eating customs, education, diseases, the arts, recreation, religion, and the influence of African culture on the rest of the world.
Author: Molefi Kete Asante Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Africa, according to the contributors to this anthology, is one cultural river with numerous tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the environment. They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions, and technologies of African culture that tie those tributaries together. The fourteen original essays by leading scholars of African studies are organized in four general divisions which consider the ethno-cultural motif, the artistic tradition, concepts of cultural value, and cultural continua.
Author: Rob Bowden Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library ISBN: 9781432924409 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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Describes the culture of Africa, discussing ancient traditions, languages, family life, eating customs, education, diseases, the arts, recreation, religion, and the influence of African culture on the rest of the world.
Author: Kevin Dawson Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812224930 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
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Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Author: Toyin Falola Publisher: University Rochester Press ISBN: 9781580462976 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
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An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations. This book focuses on the modern cultures of Africa, from the consequences of the imposition of Western rule to the current struggles to define national identities in the context of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization.The book argues that it is against the backdrop of foreign influences that Africa has defined for itself notions of identity and development. African cultures have been evolving in response to change, and in other ways solidly rooted in a shared past. The book successfully deconstructs the last one hundred and fifty years of cultures that have been disrupted, replaced, and resurrected. The Power of African Cultures challenges many preconceived notions, such as male dominance and female submission, the supposed unity of ethnic groups, and contemporary Western stereotypes of Africans. It also shows the dynamism of African cultures to adapt to foreign imposition: even as colonial rule forced the adoption of foreign institutions and cultures, African cultures appropriated these elements. Traditions were reworked, symbols redefined, and the past situated in contemporary problems in order to accommodate the modern era. Toyin Falola is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. He is the recipient of the 2006 Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Exemplary Scholarship in AfricanStudies, and the 2008 Quintessence Award by the Africa Writers Endowment. He holds an honorary doctorate from Monmouth University and he is University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin where heis also the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. His books include Nationalism and African Intellectuals and Violence in Nigeria, both from the University of Rochester Press.
Author: Catherine Chambers Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1484611268 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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African Culture covers a vast array of subjects on African culture -- from fine arts to ceremonies, from legends to the culture's global influence.
Author: Karin Barber Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108340253 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 213
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history.
Author: Rob Bowden
Author: Molefi Kete Asante
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Author: Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow
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