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Author: Njeri Kinyanjui Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956551902 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 314
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The coronavirus has rattled humanity, tested resolve and determination, and redefined normalcy. This compelling collection of 29 short stories and essays brings together the lived experiences of covid19 through a diversity of voices from across the African continent. The stories highlight challenges, new opportunities, and ultimately the deep resilience of Africans and their communities. Bringing into conversation the perspectives of laypeople, academics, professionals, domestic workers, youth, and children, the volume is a window into the myriad ways in which people have confronted, adapted to, and sought to tackle the coronavirus and its trail of problems. The experiences of the most vulnerable are specifically explored, and systemic changes and preliminary shifts towards a new global order are addressed. Laughter as a coping mechanism is a thread throughout.
Author: Njeri Kinyanjui Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956551902 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
The coronavirus has rattled humanity, tested resolve and determination, and redefined normalcy. This compelling collection of 29 short stories and essays brings together the lived experiences of covid19 through a diversity of voices from across the African continent. The stories highlight challenges, new opportunities, and ultimately the deep resilience of Africans and their communities. Bringing into conversation the perspectives of laypeople, academics, professionals, domestic workers, youth, and children, the volume is a window into the myriad ways in which people have confronted, adapted to, and sought to tackle the coronavirus and its trail of problems. The experiences of the most vulnerable are specifically explored, and systemic changes and preliminary shifts towards a new global order are addressed. Laughter as a coping mechanism is a thread throughout.
Author: Peter Leman Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1789625203 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., both promoting and retreating from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously appropriate orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa’s “oral jurisprudence” ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.
Author: Masake Pilisano Harris Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1666924814 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 233
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This book examines the legal and security threat posed by pandemics in Africa and beyond. The authors propose that to effectively counter pandemics, it is necessary for states to transcend beyond a realism approach and to adopt security policies that reflect the multidimensional nature of state authority and functions.
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"This book examines the social, legal, and ethical dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa both during the pandemic and in the post-COVID era. The contributors analyze the regulations that were passed during COVID-19 and evaluate the impact of these regulations on African society"--
Author: Nancy Henaku Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000936562 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 245
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This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local contexts in global crises. The volume critically reflects on the significance of communicative dimensions, understood here as the effects of communication on bidirectional flows between senders and receivers, on many different aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Grounded in transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives and drawing on data from the Ghanian experience, the book showcases how important it is for local factors to be taken into account by governments, medical professionals, social commentators, and everyday people in communicating during a pandemic, when local cultures, histories, and infrastructures all play a role in shaping communication and the dissemination of knowledge. Chapter examines such topics as the role of metaphor, the use of social media in disinformation, and the range of strategies and channels employed by stakeholders. This volume centers the pandemic experience in a Global South context, demonstrating the importance of a greater focus on local contexts in understanding communication in a time of pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, crisis communication, health communication, discourse analysis, and African studies.
Author: Emma Wild-Wood Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1847012469 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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A vivid portrayal of Kivebulaya's life that interrogates the role of indigenous agents as harbingers of change under colonization, and the influence of emerging polities in the practice of Christian faiths.
Author: Dr Neha Sinha Publisher: Indus Scrolls Press ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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Covid-19 reared its ugly head in 2020 and had a worldwide impact. This book looks at the impact of Covid-19 from the lens of International Relations with a specific and sharp focus on Indo-African ties. A nation and a continent, with shared concerns and opportunities, need to build, strengthen and sustain their ties; and take nearly 45% of the world’s population into a resurgent, post-covid world.
Author: Brenda Oulo Publisher: AMPLIFY Girls ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages :
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Conducted in collaboration with 18 community-driven organizations making up the AMPLIFY Girls network, this report synthesizes data from 382 adolescent girls in East Africa, who were school-going prior to COVID-19. Girls were asked about their pandemic-related experiences, their challenges in returning to school and their recommendations for action. At the highest level, our findings suggest that pregnancy is the primary driver of girls’ dropout from school during the pandemic, but that pregnancy is a symptom of underlying, acute, economic vulnerabilities and is augmented by situations of social and physical isolation that are often mutually reinforcing. This data is among the first of its kind and scope, reporting on girls' lived experiences during the Global Pandemic.
Author: Sonia Shah Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374122881 Category : MEDICAL Languages : en Pages : 289
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"Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-- one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-- and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--
Author: Njeri Kinyanjui
Author: Njeri Kinyanjui
Author: Peter Leman
Author: Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi
Author: Masake Pilisano Harris
Author: Masake Pilisano Harris
Author: Nancy Henaku
Author: Emma Wild-Wood
Author: Dr Neha Sinha
Author: Brenda Oulo
Author: Sonia Shah