Freedom Afrika

Author : Jamie Monson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002818
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Freedom Railway written by Jamie Monson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. The book follows the railroad from design and construction to its daily use as a vital means for moving villagers and goods. It tells a story of how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, and the rise of local and regional enterprise.

Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469609681
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Freedom written by Piero Gleijeses and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960190
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Freedom in Africa written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Phyllis Taoua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427413
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Freedom written by Phyllis Taoua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence.

Author : Cosmo Starlight
Publisher : Church Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1310833753
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Afrika written by Cosmo Starlight and published by Church Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noodle Church escapes solitary confinement in Freedom Incorporated to live with people who stand against bombs, bullets, powders, and policemen. Journeying over three continents bringing only a pack which rarely comes off his back wearing canvas pants he’d become accustomed to sleeping in to reach Freedom Afrika, people procure Noodle a home so he doesn't have to live on the street for Christmas. Africans feed Noodle, lend him jackets to wear when it’s cold, and provide security ensured by honest, trustworthy relationships. Noodle suspects wardens tracked his escape and discovers wildland unfolding along a thousand kilometers of rugged coastline to document a system that keeps people working with cameras and clandestine surveillance, Freedom Inc. But where threats are feral bulls soaking in coastal sun, Noodle thought he'd found freedom; that is, until International Intelligence Service agents aid recollection of love lost after being imprisoned without charges, a trial, or record of detainment. Stuck in a place so remote footpaths replaced roads, provocateurs gain Noodle’s trust only to compromise his strength for men riding dirt-bikes to push the boy born with blue skin beyond the boundaries of Freedom’s law. Agents didn't break Noodle. He doesn’t get caught killing anyone. Instead Noodle flees Camp without clean water then sleeps shelter-less on African wildland only to return to the Town where he'd awoken that Christmas morning on the floor of a snack shop. Agents tracked him there too yet, after fighting a twenty-yearlong war, Africans excelled at security. People who'd witnessed brothers being shot, poisoned, and burned alive proclaimed, “Noodle it doesn't matter if men wearing white suits come with masks attached to breathing apparatuses then allege you have a rare disease nobody’s ever heard of. Even if they say it’s a matter of national security we’ll never let those wardens take you again. Here people fight to defend independence.” The Africans were poor but they rejected bombs, bullets, powders, and policemen. Freedom Afrika taught Noodle that people need food, water, shelter, and love in order to survive. Love is all he needed!

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Codesria
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Freedom in Africa written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Codesria. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen of Africa's most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, including Claude Ake, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Issa Shivji and Joseph Ki-Zerbo. As a first step towards greater consideration of the nature of the research environment in Africa and to reflect on the social and material context of research as an intellectual activity, CODESRIA co-organised a major conference on academic freedom and research in Africa in Kampala in 1990. A selection of the conferencepapers are contained in this volume. The papers cover the relationship of capital and the state to academic freedom, the historical processes which have shaped intellectuals in Africa, issue of autonomy and democracy andthe question of funding relationships, and the difficulty of alliances that question the right to independence. The book is divided into fivesections: Reflections; Methodological Perspectives; Global Influences andLocal Constraints; Intelligentsia and Activism; and Organizing Academics.

Author : Adriane Lentz-Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054180
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Struggles written by Adriane Lentz-Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Black and white soldiers clashed as much with one another as they did with external enemies. Race wars within the military and riots across the United States demonstrated the lengths to which white Americans would go to protect a carefully constructed caste system. Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination but battered by the harsh realities of segregation, African Americans fought their own “war for democracy,” from the rebellions of black draftees in French and American ports to the mutiny of Army Regulars in Houston, and from the lonely stances of stubborn individuals to organized national campaigns. African Americans abroad and at home reworked notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. By war’s end, they ceased trying to earn equal rights and resolved to demand them. This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.

Author : Phyllis Taoua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108689132
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Freedom written by Phyllis Taoua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The push for independence in African nations was ultimately an incomplete process, with the people often left to wrestle with a partial, imperfect legacy. Rather than settle for liberation in name alone, the people engaged in an ongoing struggle for meaningful freedom. Phyllis Taoua shows how the idea of freedom in Africa today evolved from this complex history. With a pan-African, interdisciplinary approach, she synthesizes the most significant issues into a clear, compelling narrative. Tracing the evolution of a conversation about freedom since the 1960s, she defines three types and shows how they are interdependent. Taoua investigates their importance in key areas of narrative interest: the intimate self, gender identity, the nation, global capital, and the spiritual realm. Allowing us to hear the voices of African artists and activists, this compelling study makes sense of their struggle and the broad importance of the idea of freedom in contemporary African culture.

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199908788
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sick from Freedom written by Jim Downs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.

Author : C. Peter Ripley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864358
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness for Freedom written by C. Peter Ripley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.