The African Renaissance

2002 Business & Economics

Author : Washington A. Jalango Okumu
Release : 2002
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book The African Renaissance written by Washington A. Jalango Okumu. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual tour de force, this bold, imaginative and provocative analysis of Africa's striving for political stability and economic growth demonstrates the potential for an African Renaissance today. One of Africa's leading intellectuals, Okumu analyses new initiatives such as NEPAD and discusses their potential role in Africa's economic welfare and future, while putting forward his own practical, policy oriented programme for an African Renaissance.

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

2005-05-26 History

Author : Thomas Foster Earle
Release : 2005-05-26
Genre : History
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Download or read book Black Africans in Renaissance Europe written by Thomas Foster Earle. This book was released on 2005-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.

The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring

2015-04-22 Political Science

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Release : 2015-04-22
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring written by Charles Villa-Vicencio. This book was released on 2015-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring addresses the often unspoken connection between the powerful call for a political-cultural renaissance that emerged with the end of South African apartheid and the popular revolts of 2011 that dramatically remade the landscape in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Looking between southern and northern Africa, the transcontinental line from Cape to Cairo that for so long supported colonialism, its chapters explore the deep roots of these two decisive events and demonstrate how they are linked by shared opposition to legacies of political, economic, and cultural subjugation. As they work from African, Islamic, and Western perspectives, the book’s contributors shed important light on a continent’s difficult history and undertake a critical conversation about whether and how the desire for radical change holds the possibility of a new beginning for Africa, a beginning that may well reshape the contours of global affairs.

African Renaissance

2002-09-15 Art

Author : M Okediji
Release : 2002-09-15
Genre : Art
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Download or read book African Renaissance written by M Okediji. This book was released on 2002-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Renaissance: New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Moyo Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the attainment of Nigeria’s independence and the new nation’s subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland.

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