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Author : Toyin Falola
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Book Synopsis Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora: Narrating War and Peace in Africa by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora: Narrating War and Peace in Africa written by Toyin Falola. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toyin Falola
Release : 2010
Genre : Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Book Synopsis Narrating War and Peace in Africa by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Narrating War and Peace in Africa written by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Solimar Otero
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Narrating War and Peace in Africa by : Solimar Otero
Download or read book Narrating War and Peace in Africa written by Solimar Otero. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.
Author : E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs
Release : 2005-12-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Africa and the African Diaspora by : E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs
Download or read book Africa and the African Diaspora written by E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs. This book was released on 2005-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa and the African Diaspora is the outcome of a symposium held atPortland State University in Portland, Oregon (February 2002), entitled “Symposium on Freedom in Black History,” designed to celebrate Black History Month. The major themes of the conference were how Africans both at home on the continent and dispersed abroad, often by forces beyond their control, reacted to oppression and subjugation in seeking freedom from slavery, colonialism, and discrimination. The volume documents the many forms that oppression has taken, the many forms that resistance has taken, and the cultural developments that have allowed Africans to adapt to the new and changing economic, social and environmental conditions to win back their freedom. Oppressive strategies as divide-and-rule could be based on any one of a number of features, such as skin color, place of origin, culture, or social or economic status. People drawn into the vortex of the Atlantic trade and funneled into the sugar fields, the swampy rice lands or the cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations of the new world and elsewhere, had no alternative but to risk their lives for freedom. The plantation provided the context for the dehumanization of disadvantaged groups subjected to exhausting work, frequent punishment and personal injustice of every kind, This book demonstrates that the history and interpretation of these struggles of the oppressed peoples to free themselves have not received proportionate attention and analysis, as have other aspects of that history.
Author : Richard J. Reid
Release : 2012-04-16
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Warfare in African History by : Richard J. Reid
Download or read book Warfare in African History written by Richard J. Reid. This book was released on 2012-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.
