Download or read book Money Has No Smell written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In Money Has No Smell, Paul Stoller offers us a more complete portrait of the complex lives of West African immigrants like Diallo, a portrait based on years of research Stoller conducted on the streets of New York City during the 1990s. Blending fascinating ethnographic description with incisive social analysis, Stoller shows how these savvy West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks, in part through selling a simulated Africa to African Americans. These and other networks set up by the traders, along with their faith as devout Muslims, help them cope with the formidable state regulations and personal challenges they face in America. As Stoller demonstrates, the stories of these West African traders illustrate and illuminate ongoing debates about globalization, the informal economy, and the changing nature of American communities.
Download or read book The Africanization of the Labor Market written by Remi Clignet and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Download or read book Muslim Societies in African History written by David Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims in the Muslim state of Morocco and in the Hausaland region of Nigeria. He portrays the ways in which Islam was practiced in the 'pagan' societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda) and in the ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia - beginning with the first emigration of Muslims from Mecca in 615 CE, well before the foundational hijra to Medina in 622. He concludes with chapters on the Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan and the Murid Sufi movement that originated in Senegal, and reflections in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.
Download or read book Africanization and Americanisation Anthology Volume 1 Africa Vs North America written by Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, comprises of 107 pieces from 43 poets, 4 essayists, 6 storytellers, and 1 playwright from North America and Africa regions: professors, leading theorists and researchers. The contributors are: Barbara Foley, Barbara Howard, Biko Agozino, poets; A.D Winans, Tim Hall, C Liegh McInnis, Nat Turner, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Changming Yuan, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Diane Raptosh, Wanjohi wa Makokha, storytellers; Paris Smith, Sheree Renée Thomas, and journalists; Kenneth Weene and several other essayists, street poets, academicians, musicians, visual artists... This collection is vibrant, discursive, penetrating, and is invaluable to literary and language experts, poetry collections, social and human scientists, political theorists, race theorists, development practioners, students, general readers and many others.
Download or read book Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization written by Ludovic Lado and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an ethnographic study of a Charismatic movement in Cameroon and Paris, the book explores the dialectics between a ~Pentecostalizationa (TM) and a ~Africanizationa (TM) within contemporary African Catholicism. It appears that both processes pursue, although for different purposes, the missionary policy of dismantling local cultures.
Download or read book The De Africanization of African Art written by Denis Ekpo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. This book critiques and dismantles the tropes of Africanism and Afrocentrism, providing the criteria and methodology for a Post-African art theory or Post-African aesthetics. Grounded initially in essays by Denis Ekpo, the father of Post-Africanism, the book then explores a range of applications and interpretations of Post-African theory to the art forms and creative practices in Africa. With particular reference to South Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers across the disciplines of Art, Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and African Studies.
Download or read book Wolf Tracks written by Peter A. Szok and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation
Download or read book Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa written by Edward A. Alpers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of a contribution to an important controversy on African underdevelopment." Alpers has written a history of the penetration and changing character of international trade in East Central Africa from the fifteenth to the later nineteenth century. His study focuses on a vast and little known region that includes southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Malawi, with extension north along the Swahili coast and west as far as the Lunda state of the Mwata Kazembe. He examines both the competition between traders and their internal impact on the various societies of East Central Africa. Alpers' main concern is to demonstrate that the historical roots of underdevelopment in the area are to be found 'in the system of international trade which was initiated by Arabs in the fifteenth century, seized and extended by the Portuguese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by a complex mixture of Indian, Arab and Western capitalisms in the nineteenth century'. Thus this readable and original book places East African trading systems within the larger Western Indian Ocean system and in the world capitalist system. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Download or read book The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century Onward written by Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century Onward : A Review of the Evidence
Download or read book African Soccerscapes written by Peter Alegi and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity. African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. Soccer was a rare form of “national culture” in postcolonial Africa, where stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in which Africans challenged colonial power and expressed a commitment to racial equality and self-determination. New nations staged matches as part of their independence celexadbrations and joined the world body, FIFA. The Confédération africaine de football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals. In this compact, highly readable book Alegi shows that the result of this success has been the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the growing influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of women’s soccer and South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, “tribal” continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease.
Download or read book The African Diaspora written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the character of New World black cultures and their relationships with the plural societies within which they function. This volume seeks a balanced look at the fate of the African presence in Western society as well as insights into the sources of periodic conflict between blacks and others."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book Africanizing Anthropology written by Lyn Schumaker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africanizing Anthropology tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker gives the assistants and informants of anthropologists a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge. Schumaker shows how local conditions and local ideas about culture and history, as well as previous experience of outsiders’ interest, shape local people’s responses to anthropological fieldwork and help them, in turn, to influence the construction of knowledge about their societies and lives. Bringing to the fore a wide range of actors—missionaries, administrators, settlers, the families of anthropologists—Schumaker emphasizes the daily practices of researchers, demonstrating how these are as centrally implicated in the making of anthropological knowlege as the discipline’s methods. Selecting a prominent group of anthropologists—The Manchester School—she reveals how they achieved the advances in theory and method that made them famous in the 1950s and 1960s. This book makes important contributions to anthropology, African history, and the history of science.
Download or read book Mozambique the Africanization of a European Institution written by Allen F. Isaacman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the historical role of Portugal's crown estates (prazos da coroa) established in Mozambique during the early 17th century as the institutional framework of feudalism and political power - assesses the impact of this social institution on the social and cultural anthropology of zambezi indigenous peoples, and covers political systems, economic structures, social structures, interethnic relations, the decline of the system and the growth of social conflict. Bibliography pp. 238 to 252, maps and references.
Download or read book The Dilemmas of Africanization written by L. Dalton Casto and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyses the various "Africanization" policies of replacing non-citizen businesses with African Citizen business ownership. Topics cover the Africanization struggles in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Anti-Apartheid, the African National Congress, and South African Homelands. L. Dalton Casto's many years of work and travel in Africa, helping people cope with post-independent government experiments, have contributed to an original, intriguing analysis of Africa's policies and politics, successes and failures.
Download or read book A Theory on Africanizing International Law written by Micha Wiebusch and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the publication Key reference work for diplomats and legal experts participating in international legal negotiations and transnational policy debates on governing the African continent. Highly recommended for developing courses, reading lists and other teaching materials on African International Law and African International Relations. Instrumental for developing innovative and impact-oriented research and policy strategies on the politics of making and implementing African International Law. What is African about African international law? The main aim of this book is to answer this question by developing a theory to explain how and why international law is Africanized. This includes explaining how Africanization relates both to the extent of continental norm setting by the Organization of African Unity and later the African Union, as the principal agent responsible for ‘African solutions to African problems’, and to the degree to which this African International Organization enforces these norms through varied continental accountability mechanisms. In this specific context, the book considers the different modalities through which the idea of Africa shapes, is shaped by and is embedded in international law making and implementation.
Download or read book The Alternative A Separate Nationality or The Africanization of the South written by William H. Holcombe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Alternative: A Separate Nationality; or, The Africanization of the South" by William H. Holcombe is a thought-provoking exploration of the complex issue of racial identity and its impact on American society. Holcombe presents a compelling argument for a separate African-American nationality in the South, delving into the historical context and social implications of such a proposition. The book challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about the legacy of slavery and its enduring influence on the nation's identity.
Download or read book Africanization written by Frederick Nwosu and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers 100% indigenous African perspectives. Therefore, readers can relate to the content, especially considering the pervasiveness of the situations expressed or implied in the book. This book offers 100% indigenous African perspectives. Therefore, readers can relate to the content, especially considering the pervasiveness of the situations expressed or implied in the book. This book is the result of consistent qualitative research encompassing observations, interactions, questions and answers, and attention to current affairs. Initial users of the material herein contained confessed to the usefulness of the content to them in their bid to explore roadmaps to the Africa of their dreams. Without a doubt, readers can be doers rather than hearers only. Hearers only will deceive themselves, deceive others, and hurt Africa. Africanization should be philosophical to everyone philosophical, mental, physical, and emotional indigenization of the African way of life in every sphere of human endeavor.
