Download or read book African Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bronzes d Afrique written by Bertrand Goy and published by Sepia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kongo written by Dibombari MBOCK and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'ouvrage que voici marque assurément un tournant décisif dans l'effort entrepris par les Africains de bonne foi de réhabiliter l'Histoire du Continent noir. Nous y découvrons que la notion de Dieu est une notion traditionnelle et intellectuelle africaine, les origines africaines des dieux de l'Olympe, les noms africains des dieux d'Égypte, les origines africaines du Judaïsme, du Christianisme et de l'Islam, les sources africaines de la démocratie parlementaire et du Droit, les sources vivifiantes de cette extraordinaire épopée qui conduira à l'émergence de la civilisation appelée égyptienne, le sens de l'iconographie des principales divinités de la vallée du Nil, les sources africaines de la franc-maçonnerie, les sources de la légende du Saint-Graal, l'objet de la circoncision, l'origine et la fonction des cathédrales, la fonction du sarcophage, les origines de la chimie et de la biologie, et les fondations africaines de Rome sont autant de sujets spécifiquement abordés.
Download or read book The Growth of African Literature written by Edris Makward and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers results from the 15th annual meeting of the African Literature Association which was held in Dakar, Senegal, and was the first such meeting to be held in Africa. Topics covered include approaches and literary theory, language and history, thematic analysis, and literature in the African Diaspora.
Download or read book African Spirituality written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (Ɔbra Bↄ) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea). Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana. At old age, Ɔbra Bↄ ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (Ɔbra pa). Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship. Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood. Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).
Download or read book The African Palimpsest written by Chantal J. Zabus and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of `indigenization? whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively `African'. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest ? a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again ? the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro?Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film.Hailed as a classic in the 1990s, The African Palimpsest is here reprinted in a completely revised edition, with a new Introduction, updated data and bibliography, and with due consideration of more recent theoretical approaches.'A very valuable book ? a detailed exploration in its concern with language change as demonstrated in post-colonial African literatures? Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales ?Apart from its great documentary value, The African Palimpsest provides many theoretical concepts that will be useful to scholars of African literatures, linguists in general ? as well as comparatists who want to gain fresh insights into the processes by which Vulgar Latin once gave birth to the Romance languages.' Ahmed Sheikh Bangura, University of California, Santa Barbara ?As Zabus? book suggests, it is the area where the various languages of a community meet and cross-over ? that is likely to provide the most productive site for the generation of a new literature that is true to the real linguistic situation that pertains in so much of contemporary urban Africa.' Stewart Brown, University of Birmingham
Download or read book Akan Weights and the Gold Trade written by Timothy F. Garrard and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Art in Motion written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Face of African Literature Les nouveaux visages de la litt rature africaine written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at least ten national literatures. Such a large, comparative frame is implied by most discussion of African literature but is too seldom seen. At the same time, the collection also problematizes the comparison: the goal is to make clear what African literatures have in common but also where they diverge. What difference do distinct literary traditions, readerships, and publishing patterns make to literatures which share a common thematic and so many of the same questions and needs? By juxtaposing contemporary texts form several traditions, the intention of this collection is to bring out the themes that are currently dominant in African literatures generally. After a preface by Liz Gunner and a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, the collection presents keynote essays on new paradigms in African literature, before treating specific themes – recent crime fiction, the Afrikaans and anglophone novel, feminist literature, ‘migritude’ – and studies of recent works by individual authors such as André Brink, Henri Djombo, Pie Tshibanda, Bessora, Nadine Gordimer, and Paulina Chiziane, as well as the South African television series Yizo Yizo.
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Download or read book Crossroads Carrefour Sahel written by Sonja Magnavita, Lassina Koté, Peter Breunig, Oumarou A. Idé and published by Africa Magna Verlag. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference “Cultural developments and technological innovations in first millennium BC/AD West Africa” held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in March 2008, with participants from eleven countries and three continents. The rationale behind the meeting was the conviction that the first millennium before and after the beginning of the Common Era, like no other period before, encompasses the origins of developments that are directly related to the modern world – particularly in Africa. Current archaeological research in West Africa has been providing an increasing amount of relevant evidence on this period, including a series of significant developments that had critical impacts on human ways of life in subsequent times. The papers of the present volume deal with different aspects of these developments and contribute towards the understanding of the unique cultural diversity of this part of the African continent.
Download or read book Commonwealth written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mariage F condit Et R le Des Parents en Afrique de L Ouest written by Christine Oppong and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depression and Suicide written by J.P. Soubrier and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression and Suicide
Download or read book La participation d mocratique en Afrique written by Mawuto R. Afan and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2001 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
