Download or read book Th orie critique et modernit n gro africaine written by Jean Godefroy Bidima and published by Publications de la Sorbonne. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book tat africain violence et th orie critique written by Abou Karamoko and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage interroge à nouveaux frais la difficile question africaine du développement. Abou Karamoko y entreprend un double procès, celui des « princes africains » à côté de l'esthétique nègre qui a besoin d'une nouvelle vitalité. Au-delà du souci affiché d'une approche plus horizontale que verticale des contributions intellectuelles, l'auteur offre la possibilité de concevoir l'art comme une modalité forte de transformation sociale alternative à la classe des élites.
Download or read book Rationalit esth tique et modernit en Afrique written by Mounkaïla Abdo Laouali Serki and published by Ouverture Philosophique. This book was released on 2013 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une approche de l'esthétique développée autour de quatre thèmes principaux : l'art et l'esthétique modernes et postmodernes ; la question de la rationalité esthétique ; l'art entre utopie et praxis ; le panafricanisme, la culture et la francophonie comme facteurs possibles de démarginalisation de l'Afrique.
Download or read book Marxisme et critique de la modernit en Afrique written by Thierno Diop and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A partir de plusieurs textes relatifs entre autres à la problématique de la philosophie africaine, à Amilcar Cabral, aux positions de Cheikh Anta Diop sur le matérialisme historique, à la démocratie en Afrique..., l'auteur fait le procès des pratiques, des contradictions, des conflits, des illusions et des systèmes de pensée qui ont pour cadre le Sénégal, l'Afrique et le reste du monde.
Download or read book Histoire de la philosophie africaine Entre la postmodernit et le n o pragmatisme written by Grégoire Biyogo and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parce que mal connue dans les universités occidentales et dans celles d'Afrique, la philosophie africaine gagne à être questionnée et examinée minutieusement. C'est ainsi que la nécessité de l'élaboration d'une histoire de la philosophie est devenue impérieuse. Ainsi le Livre I jette-t-il les bases d'une histoire de la philosophie ancienne, tandis que le Livre II s'est donné pour tâche la constitution d'une histoire de la philosophie africaine moderne et contemporaine (1945-1990). Le Livre III étudie les grands courants de pensée ainsi que les principaux ouvrages de cette philosophie. Le Livre IV, qui achève le programme, examinera pour sa part le travail le plus récent et sans doute le plus ambitieux de cette philosophie, qui s'est effectué de 1990 à nos jours.
Download or read book Modernit africaine written by Alphonse Elungu Pene Elungu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of Africa written by Manthia Diawara and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There I was, standing alone, unable to cry as I said goodbye to Sidimé Laye, my best friend, and to the revolution that had opened the door of modernity for me--the revolution that had invented me." This book gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future. In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York City, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. He is beginning work on a documentary about Sékou Touré, the dictator who was Guinea's first post-independence leader. Despite the years that have gone by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is shocked to discover that he is not. The Africa that Diawara finds is not the one on the verge of barbarism, as described in the Western press. Yet neither is it the Africa of his childhood, when the excitement of independence made everything seem possible for young Africans. His search for Sidimé Laye leads Diawara to profound meditations on Africa's culture. He suggests solutions that might overcome the stultifying legacy of colonialism and age-old social practices, yet that will mobilize indigenous strengths and energies. In the face of Africa's dilemmas, Diawara accords an important role to the culture of the diaspora as well as to traditional music and literature--to James Brown, Miles Davis, and Salif Kéita, to Richard Wright, Spike Lee, and the ancient epics of the griots. And Diawara's journey enlightens us in the most disarming way with humor, conversations, and well-told tales.
Download or read book Renewals in the Theory of Literary History written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anthropology of Africa Challenges for the 21st Century written by Nkwi, Paul Nchoji and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed "The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century", was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time - a long term partner of the PAAA; she was present at the inaugural conference in 1988. The conference proceedings were initially published in 2000 with very limited circulation. Given the continued relevance of the papers presented, and in view of the call by the President of the PAAA for African anthropologists to reunite anthropological theory and practice in the teaching programmes of African universities, the PAAA is pleased to republish the proceedings of its landmark 9th Annual Conference. The book consists of forty three divided into eight parts, namely: i) teaching anthropology in the decades ahead; ii) Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives; iii) NGOS: Use and Misuse of Anthropology; iv) Anthropological Focus on Environment; v) Some Applied Issues in Anthropology; vi) The African Family in Crisis; vii) Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts; and viii) Population issues and anthropology: Fertility Crisis. Paul Nkwi concludes his introduction to the volume with these words: "The Anthropology of Africa will remain for a long time, fundamentally applied if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century."
Download or read book Afropolitanism written by Carli Coetzee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection comprises an original and activist group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan. The contributors do not aim to define or fix the term anew; the reboot is, instead, the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which 'the Afropolitan' is reimagined to include the stealthy figure crossing the Mediterranean by boat, and the Somali shopkeeper in a South African township. In their pieces included here, the authors insist on the need to ask questions about the inclusion of such globally mobile Africans in any theorisations of the transnational circuits we call Afropolitan. This collection, from some of the foremost voices on Afropolitanism, invigorates anew the debate, and reboots understandings of who the Afropolitan is, the many places he calls his origin, and the multiple places she comes to call home in the world. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of African Cultural Studies.
Download or read book Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems written by Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.
Download or read book Knowledge Belief Witchcraft written by B. Hallen and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.
Download or read book Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate written by Klaas Bom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a thorough study of the ‘lived theology’ of Christian students and university professors in Abidjan, Kinshasa and Yaoundé, this book proposes a theoretical framework that makes an intercultural and interdisciplinary debate on science and religion possible.
Download or read book Time s Arrow written by Martin Amis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves through foreplay and exhausts itself on flirtation. The plot is about a doctor whose story begins with his death. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Download or read book The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States written by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and sociocultural orders in Morocco and Algeria, while serving as an important counterpoint to the oppositionist Islamist current. This is the first book-length study to analyze the rise of the modern ethnocultural Berber/Amazigh movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman begins by tracing North African history from the perspective of its indigenous Berber inhabitants and their interactions with more powerful societies, from Hellenic and Roman times, through a millennium of Islam, to the era of Western colonialism. He then concentrates on the marginalization and eventual reemergence of the Berber question in independent Algeria and Morocco, against a background of the growing crisis of regime legitimacy in each country. His investigation illuminates many issues, including the fashioning of official national narratives and policies aimed at subordinating Berbers in an Arab nationalist and Islamic-centered universe; the emergence of a counter-movement promoting an expansive Berber "imagining" that emphasizes the rights of minority groups and indigenous peoples; and the international aspects of modern Berberism.
Download or read book A History of African Linguistics written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Download or read book Museum Culture written by Daniel J. Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in contemporary society. Discussing exhibition histories and practice in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States, the authors explore the ways in which museums assign meaning to art through various kinds of exhibitions and display strategies, examining the political implications of these strategies and the forms of knowledge they invoke and construct. The collection also discusses alternative exhibition forms, the involvement of some museums with the more spectacular practices of mass media culture, and looks at how museums construct their public.
