The African Renaissance And The Afro Arab Spring

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626161984
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 264 pages. 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.

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626161976
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope and despair surrounding the Afro-Arab Spring in North Africa has only begun to be played out in regional and global politics. And the call for an African renaissance that followed the miraculous political transition in South Africa is, twenty years later, viewed with similar ambiguity. What is clear is that current developments in Africa, north and south, promise something markedly different from what has prevailed at any point since the dawn of the African independence movements of the 1950s and 60s. But the continent's own identity remains unresolved, posing the question whether and how its multiple and divergent experiences can be understood and perhaps woven into a basis for unity. Contributors to this volume explore whether or not events north of the Sahara and on the southern tip of Africa can be catalysts for change in other parts of the continent. Chapters assesses the nature of political resistance, revolution, and transition in North and Southern Africa, addressing critical factors--economics, culture, gender, theology--that reveal the promises and perils of African reform. Includes a foreword by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington A. Jalango Okumu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592210121
Total Pages : 295 pages
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Download or read book The African Renaissance written by Washington A. Jalango Okumu and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ḥilmī Shaʻrāwī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro Arab Times written by Ḥilmī Shaʻrāwī and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards the African Renaissance written by Cheikh Anta Diop and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000068064
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of politics, economy, and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial global designs and global coloniality. With a focus on Africa and its Diaspora, the author calls for a radical turning over of a new leaf, predicated on decolonial turn and epistemic freedom. The key themes subjected to decolonial analysis include: (1) decolonization/decoloniality – articulating the meaning and contribution of the decolonial turn; (2) subjectivity/identity – examining the problem of Blackness (identity) as external and internal invention; (3) the Bandung spirit of decolonization as an embodiment of resistance and possibilities, development and self-improvement; (4) development and self-improvement – of African political economy, as entangled in the colonial matrix of power, and the African Renaissance, as weakened by undecolonized political and economic thought; and (5) knowledge – the role of African humanities in the struggle for epistemic freedom. This groundbreaking volume opens the intellectual canvas on the challenges and possibilities of African futures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Politics and International Relations, Development, Sociology, African Studies, Black Studies, Education, History Postcolonial Studies, and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies.

Author : Mammo Muchie
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Africa-nation written by Mammo Muchie and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. 2. Conceptual and theoretical issues. 3. Africa-nation, Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance : issues, challenges and prospects. 4. Afro-Arab relations : co-operation or conflict?. 5. Africa-nation, Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance : alternative guideposts. 6. General conclusions. A list of the contributions is available in the full-text area of this record.

Author : Lehasa Moloi
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 183999083X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Africa? written by Lehasa Moloi and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity aims to contest the Eurocentric narrative of an African development discourse. This book deploys the theory of Afrocentricity as an intellectual standpoint from which African thinkers should interrogate and reconceptualize the discourse of development in Africa. Particularly, the book argues in favour of the Afrocentric re-interpretation of African history, African culture and assertion of African agency as the core building wedge in the reconceptualization of the ideal African development trajectory.

Author : Peter Magubane
Publisher : Struik Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Renaissance written by Peter Magubane and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term African Renaissance, first used by liberation leaders in the early 1960's, has been revived by South Africa's new president, Thabo Mbeki, as a rallying call for the re-birth of pride and prosperity on the continent. With the flowering of democracy in South Africa, there is an awakening sense of pride in being African, in all it's dimensions. African Renaissance, from the camera of renowned photographer Peter Magubane, celebrates something of what it means to be African. His insightful eye explores not only fast-disappearing traditional cultures, but also the developing customs of modern Africa, an amalgam of the ancient and the contemporary. The guide is arranged by theme, covering subjects such as dress and adornment, rites of passage and homesteads. The section on dress and adornment examines beadwork, headgear and traditional dress, while the section on rites of passage takes a look at various initiation ceremonies, and at traditional and modern weddings.