Download or read book Africa s Long Road to Rights Long Trajet de l Afrique vers les Droits written by Korir Sing'Oei Abraham and published by Fahamu Books. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reviews the achievements of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on issues such as the rights of indigenous peoples, the position of refugees and displaced people in Africa, child rights and freedom of expression.

Download or read book Description de L Afrique written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collective Mobilisations in Africa Mobilisations collectives en Afrique written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram. Cet ouvrage regroupe un éventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautés marronnes au début de la colonisation, aux mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberté des homosexuels, tous font prévaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de manière plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine où s’exerce parfois de manière violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilité sociale. Les guerres électorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une géographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve à se déplacer en milieu rural dans certaines dérives sectaires comme en témoigne l’étude sur Boko Haram. Contributors are: Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Raphaël Botiveau, Christophe Broqua, Michel Cahen,Thomas Fouquet, Adam Hizagi, Alcinda Honwana, Alexander Keese, Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Dominique Malaquais, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Ophélie Rillon, Johanna Siméant, Benjamin Soares, Kadya Tall.

Download or read book Theories of Africans written by Christopher L. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe

Download or read book L Afrique africaine written by Robert Anders and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Africa written by Cheikh Anta Diop and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.

Download or read book Capacity Building Governance and Economic Reform in Africa written by Mr.Michel Dessart and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, edited by Michel A. Dessart and Roland E. Ubogu, records the presentations made and discussions held during the Inaugural Seminar of the Joint Africa Institute (JAI). The JAI was established in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, by the African Development Bank, the IMF, and the World Bank to meet the pressing training needs of the African continent. The participants discussed four main topics: the changing role of the state, governance, and new capacity requirements; the challenge of achieving macroeconomic stability in Africa; the requirement for capacity building in Africa; and the role of international financial institutions in capacity building in Africa. The seminar was held in November 1999, but the topics and recommendations of the seminar remain current and of particular importance today. The seminar was held in English and French, and both language versions are contained in this volume. 240 pp. 2001

Download or read book Afrique noire written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4ème de couv. indique : "A partir d'une ample bibliographie confrontée à vingt-cinq ans d'expériences comparées de terrain, l'auteur s'interroge sur les processus de longue durée qui ont fait du continent africain noir ce qu'il apparaît aujourd'hui : un ensemble contrasté d'Etats en train de se chercher qui vivent sans doute actuelllement la plus grave révolution sociale de leur histoire puisque, au début du prochain millénaire, ce continent jusqu'alors relativemeny sous-peuplé, à large dominante rurale, mais qui connaît désormais les taux d'accroissement démographique les plu élevés du monde, comptera une nette majorité de citadins appelés de plus en plus à vivre en marge de l'économie "moderne", mais aussi en symbiose avec elle. Quatre thèmes majeurs sont ici privilégiés, à travers le temps long de l'histoire : le peuplement, qui fut de longue date le plus irrégulier et peut-être le plus fragile du monde ; la génèse du pouvoir et de l'Etat, où s'enchevêtrent intimement filiations et modèles pré-coloniaux, coloniaux et contemporains (de l'éthnicité au tribalisme, de la chefferie aux factions et de l'Etat-Providence à la quête de la démocratie) ; la crise des paysanneries, dont le malaise croissant s'est exprimé de façon tantôt brutale, tantôt sublimée - des révoltes aux syncrétismes religieux - depuis les touts débuts de l'ère coloniale; enfin la formation du monde du travail et des villes, où se jouera assurément l'avenir politique du continent. Au demeurant, un diagnostic de pessimisme raisonné face à cette grande leçon de l'histoire : l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui ne doit rien au hasard. On ne peut comprendre son présent, on ne peut agir sur son avenir sans prendre la mesure de son passé, où s'entrecroisent de façon indissociable données internes et pressions mondiales."

Download or read book La d couverte de l Afrique written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recueil de textes qui retrace l'histoire de la découverte de l'Afrique de l'Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle. Relate la découverte par les Egyptiens, les Carthaginois et les Romains dans l'Antiquité, par les marchands et les géographes de l'Islam au VIIe siècle, par les Portugais puis la colonisation et la promesse de temps nouveaux avec le siècle des lumières.

Download or read book Africa written by American Society of African Culture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Afrotopia written by Felwine Sarr and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent. Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer stigmatized by stereotypes or encumbered by the traumas of the past—yet unsure of the future—Africa has other options than simply to follow paths already carved out by the global economy. Instead, the philosopher Felwine Sarr urges the continent to set out on its own renewal and self-discovery—an active utopia that requires a deep historical reflection on the continent’s vast mythological universe and ancient traditions, nourishes a cultural reinvention, and embraces green technologies for tackling climate change and demographic challenges. Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape—concepts such as ubuntu, the life force in Dogon culture; the Rwandan imihigo; and the Senegalese teranga. Sarr takes the reader on a philosophical journey that is as much inward as outward, demanding an elevation of the collective consciousness. Along the way, one sees the contours of an africanity, a contemporary Africa united as a continent through the creolization of its cultural traditions. This is Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia.

Download or read book Demographic Handbook for Africa written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Declaration on the African University in the Third Millennium written by Association of African Universities and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le monde africain noir written by Joseph Ki-Zerbo and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Citizenship Law in Africa written by Bronwen Manby and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality. Laws and practices governing citizenship leave hundreds of thousands of people in Africa without a country to which they belong. Statelessness and discriminatory citizenship practices underlie and exacerbate tensions in many regions of the continent, according to this report by the Open Society Institute. Citizenship Law in Africa is a comparative study by the Open Society Justice Initiative and Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project. It describes the often arbitrary, discriminatory, and contradictory citizenship laws that exist from state to state, and recommends ways that African countries can bring their citizenship laws in line with international legal norms. The report covers topics such as citizenship by descent, citizenship by naturalization, gender discrimination in citizenship law, dual citizenship, and the right to identity documents and passports. It describes how stateless Africans are systematically exposed to human rights abuses: they can neither vote nor stand for public office; they cannot enroll their children in school, travel freely, or own property; they cannot work for the government.--Publisher description.

Download or read book The Struggle for Meaning written by Paulin J. Hountondji and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While the book's immediate concern is with Africa, the theoretical nature of its analyses and its bearing on postmodern theories of the "Other" will make this translation of great interest to many disciplines especially ethnic gender and multicultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Idea of Africa written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.