The Heartbeat Of Indigenous Africa

Author : R. Sambuli Mosha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135577307
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa written by R. Sambuli Mosha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowered by findings and insights from the wit and wisdom of the indigenous Chaga educational system, Dr. Mosha contends that an authentic educational program in Tanzania and elsewhere should be holistic in its unrelenting quest to educate the entire person: body, mind, and spirit. He provides a comprehensive description of the indigenous schooling process and its underlying fundamental virtues and then proposes that modern education should give equal emphasis to both the spiritual development of students as well as to their intellectual growth in knowledge, science, and technology. Dr. Mosha argues that for its own advantage and survival, education has to prioritize moral consciousness and responsibility in its students in order to attain academic excellence. Without a consistent moral living and moral action by all who teach and learn, education eventually plunges into hopeless mediocrity, It becomes the proverbial salt which loses its saltiness. This book provides several unique contributions to the academy. First, it illustrates how the Chaga people of N. Tanzania cherish everyday experience and every here-and-now situation as teachable moments, teaching moments, and learning moments. It is also uniquely rich in its description of stories, riddles, proverbs, and rituals as powerful tools of holistic education. Thirdly, the book breaks ground by comprehensively articulating specific indigenous virtues such as reverence, self-control, silence and thoughtfulness, courage, diligence in work, and communality. This book therefor makes a unique contribution in the areas of Indigenous Knowledge, Spirituality, Education, African American Studies, African Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, et cetera. The author's stories, personal experiences, and thick descriptions are so fundamental that every reader will rediscover, in this book, similar experiences in his/her own life.

Author : R. Sambuli Mosha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135577315
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa written by R. Sambuli Mosha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Laher, Ridwan
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0798304642
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous People in Africa written by Laher, Ridwan and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an attempt to provide this intersectional and reflexive space. The thinking behind the book began in Lamu in mid-2010. It was a time when growing community resistance emerged towards the Kenyan government's plan to build a second seaport under a trans-frontier infrastructural project known as the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). The editors agreed that a book that draws community activists, academics, researchers and policy makers into a discussion of the predicament of indigenous rights and development against the backdrop of the Endorois case was timely and needed. Assembled here are the original contributions of some of the leading contemporary thinkers in the area of indigenous and human rights in Africa. The book is an interdisciplinary effort with the single purpose of thinking through indigenous rights after the Endorois case but it is not a singular laudatory remark on indigenous life in Africa. The discussion begins by framing indigenous rights and claims to indigeneity as found in the Endorois decision and its related socio-political history. Subsequent chapters provide deeper contextual analysis by evaluating the tense relationship between indigenous peoples and the post-colonial nation-state. Overall, the book makes a peering and provocative contribution to the relational interests between state policies and the developmental intersections of indigeneity, indigenous rights, gender advocacy, environmental conservation, chronic trauma and transitional justice.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532669305
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Heartbeat and A Vulnerable Fool written by Jim Harries and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a white man thrive living as an African in a village in Africa? Philo’s adventure takes him to the fictional African country of Holima, where he is adopted by an African tribe. Should Philo follow Western wisdom, and cause problems through generous giving? Or can he convince Western people that a vulnerable approach is the best way to reach Africa? Jim Harries’ new novel of Christian fiction is broadly based on his true-life experiences, and shows how God performs his powerful acts through human weakness.

Author : Bernedette Muthien
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781928232940
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Africa written by Bernedette Muthien and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically opens new pathways for de-colonial scholarship and the reclamation of indigenous self-definition by women scholars. Indigenous peoples around the world are often socially egalitarian and gender equal, matricentric, matrifocal, matrilineal, less violent, beyond heteronormative, ecologically sensitive, and with feminine or two-gender deities or spirits, and more. Bernedette Muthien has contributed to several publications over the years, while June Bam has made numerous key contributions in the field of rethinking and rewriting the African past more generally. In this book, indigenous women write their own herstory, define their own contemporary cultural and socio-economic conditions, and ideate future visions based on their lived realities. All chapters herstoricise the accepted 'histories' and theories of how we have come to understand the African past, how to problematise and rethink that discourse, and provide new and different herstorical lenses, philosophies, epistemologies, methodologies and interpretations. In a first of its kind in Africa and the world, this collection of essays is written by, with and for indigenous southern African women from matricentric societies.

Author : Alice Mertens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780002167413
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South West Africa and Its Indigenous Peoples written by Alice Mertens and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gbola Aderibigbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443878401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and Its Diaspora written by Gbola Aderibigbe and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africaâ (TM)s renewal and freedom from the whims of foreign interests. These systems, as argued here, involve balancing short-term thinking and immediate gratification with longer-term planning for future generations of Africans and the continentâ (TM)s diaspora. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with development studies in Africa and its diaspora, as it offers plausible solutions to Africaâ (TM)s chronic developmental problems that can only be provided from within Africa, rather than through the intervention of external third parties. As such, it provides vital contributions to the ongoing search for viable answers to the challenges that Africa faces today.

Author : A. Abdi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403977194
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues in African Education written by A. Abdi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.

Author : Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462096597
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenist African Development and Related Issues written by Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no term so heavily contested in social science literature/nomenclature than ‘Development’. This book brings Indigenous perspectives to African develop¬ment. It is argued that contrary to development as we know it not working, a greater part of the problem is that conventional development approaches that work have in fact not truly been followed to the letter and hence the quagmire. All this is ironic since everything we do about our world is development. So, how come there is “difficult knowledge” when it comes to learning from what we know, i.e., what local peoples do and have done for centuries as a starting point to recon¬structing and reframing ‘development’? In getting our heads around this paradox, we are tempted to ask more questions. How do we as African scholars and research¬ers begin to develop “home-grown solutions” to our problems? How do we pioneer new analytical systems for understanding our communities and offer a pathway to genuine African development, i.e., Indigenist African development? (see also Yankah, 2004). How do we speak of Indigenist development mindful of global developments and entanglements around us? Can we afford to pursue development still mired in a “catch up” scenario? Are we in a race with the development world and where do we see this race ending or where do we define as the ‘finishing line’? A Publication of the Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies [SACOST], University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

Author : E. Bọlaji Idowu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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