The Rise And Fall Of Philanthropy In East Africa

Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351475053
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa written by Howard Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert G. Gregory challenges the apparent assumption that non-Western peoples lack a significant indigenous philanthropic culture. Focusing on the large South Asian community in East Africa, he relates how, over a century, they built a philanthropic culture of great magnitude, and how it finally collapsed under the ascendency of increasing state regulation and policies directed against non-African communities.Compelled by poverty to seek better oppurtunities overseas, most Asians arrived in East Africa as peasant farmers. Denied access to productive land and sensing economic opportunity, they turned to business. Despite severe forms of racial discrimination in the colonial society, they suffered few restrictions on their business enterprises and some became very wealthy. Gregory's historical analysis shows philanthropy as an important contribution, one that stemmed from deep roots in Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist culture. The sense of nonracial social responsibility cultivated social, medical, and educational facilities designed for all.This age of philanthropy terminated with the Asian exodus. The socialist and racial policies adopted by East African governments over the past few decades have virtually destroyed the foundation necessary for philanthropy as well as the distinct Asian cultural identity. Gregory's account of the East Asian's role in philanthropy deserves great attention and sober reflection.

Author : Robert G. Gregory
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412833356
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa written by Robert G. Gregory and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important contribu-tion to the literature on Asian communities in Africa, interesting and readable." --Richard S. Glotzer, "The Journal of Asian Studies" Asian participation in the development of East Africa is usually assessed in economic terms, but as Gregory's historical analysis shows, philanthropy was an important contribution, one that stemmed from deep roots in Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist culture. Initially, it took the form of providing for the needs of Asians, but soon philanthropy branched out to aid Europeans, Africans, and Arabs in areas that were inadequately served by the state.

Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138538276
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa written by Howard Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert G. Gregory challenges the apparent assumption that non-Western peoples lack a significant indigenous philanthropic culture. Focusing on the large South Asian community in East Africa, he relates how, over a century, they built a philanthropic culture of great magnitude, and how it finally collapsed under the ascendency of increasing state regulation and policies directed against non-African communities. Compelled by poverty to seek better oppurtunities overseas, most Asians arrived in East Africa as peasant farmers. Denied access to productive land and sensing economic opportunity, they turned to business. Despite severe forms of racial discrimination in the colonial society, they suffered few restrictions on their business enterprises and some became very wealthy. Gregory's historical analysis shows philanthropy as an important contribution, one that stemmed from deep roots in Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist culture. The sense of nonracial social responsibility cultivated social, medical, and educational facilities designed for all. This age of philanthropy terminated with the Asian exodus. The socialist and racial policies adopted by East African governments over the past few decades have virtually destroyed the foundation necessary for philanthropy as well as the distinct Asian cultural identity. Gregory's account of the East Asian's role in philanthropy deserves great attention and sober reflection.

Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351475061
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa written by Howard Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert G. Gregory challenges the apparent assumption that non-Western peoples lack a significant indigenous philanthropic culture. Focusing on the large South Asian community in East Africa, he relates how, over a century, they built a philanthropic culture of great magnitude, and how it finally collapsed under the ascendency of increasing state regulation and policies directed against non-African communities.Compelled by poverty to seek better oppurtunities overseas, most Asians arrived in East Africa as peasant farmers. Denied access to productive land and sensing economic opportunity, they turned to business. Despite severe forms of racial discrimination in the colonial society, they suffered few restrictions on their business enterprises and some became very wealthy. Gregory's historical analysis shows philanthropy as an important contribution, one that stemmed from deep roots in Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist culture. The sense of nonracial social responsibility cultivated social, medical, and educational facilities designed for all.This age of philanthropy terminated with the Asian exodus. The socialist and racial policies adopted by East African governments over the past few decades have virtually destroyed the foundation necessary for philanthropy as well as the distinct Asian cultural identity. Gregory's account of the East Asian's role in philanthropy deserves great attention and sober reflection.

Author : Connie Ngondi-Houghton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904167105
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philanthropy in East Africa written by Connie Ngondi-Houghton and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilmot Godfrey James
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412819718
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Caste, and Color written by Wilmot Godfrey James and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first general social and economic history of the Western Cape of South Africa. Until recently, this region had been largely neglected by historians because it does not occupy a central place in the national political economy. Wilmot G. James and Mary Simons argue that a great deal about modern South Africa has been shaped by the distinctive society and economy of the Western Cape. Its history also reveals striking parallels and contrasts with other regions of the African continent. The Western Cape is the only region of South Africa to have experienced slavery. In this sense, the Western Cape has historical traditions more akin to colonial slave societies of the Americas than to those of the rest of Africa. Moreover, in contrast to the rest of South Africa, a proletariat emerged in the Western Cape early in its history, at the start of the eighteenth century. There developed a much more stable and enduring system of class and labor relations. In the twentieth century, these became closely enmeshed with race and status. Racial paternalism and the close correlation between class, caste, and color have their historical roots in the Western Cape. The book is arranged thematically and explores the social and economic consequences of slavery and emancipation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Issues of economy and labor, such as economic underdevelopment in the Western Cape, the labor market, and trade-union organization in the twentieth century are examined. The authors also treat the role of the state in shaping Western Cape society. "Class, Caste, and Color" is not only a groundbreaking work in the study of South Africa, but provides an agenda for future researchers. It will be essential reading for historians, economists, and Africa area specialists. "Wilmot G. James" is the executive director of the Africa Genome Education Institute. He has taught at The University of Cape Town, Yale University, and Indiana University. "Mary Simons" is a senior lecturer in the department of political studies at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include social relations in Cape Town, gender politics, and third world comparative politics.

Author : Gaurav Desai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231164548
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commerce with the Universe written by Gaurav Desai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa’s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization. Rather than approach literature and culture from a nation-centered perspective, Desai connects the medieval trade routes of the Islamicate empire, the early independence movements galvanized in part by Gandhi’s southern African experiences, the invention of new ethnic nationalisms, and the rise of plural, multiethnic nations to the fertile exchange taking place across the Indian Ocean.

Author : Kenneth J. King
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 1937306437
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pan-Africanism and Education written by Kenneth J. King and published by Diasporic Africa Press. This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to pattern politics and education in colonial Africa upon the example of the U.S. South. This export of United States race relations to Africa was resisted by Black intellectuals in the United States and many of the early nationalists in Africa. At another level, the study offers an original account of the parallel and related development of the education systems of the U.S. South and Kenya, revealing in both spheres the essentially political nature of African and Black American education. Through extensive research in Black colleges, philanthropic foundations, and Christian missions, a wealth of new material has been collated also on early pan-African politicians, Black missionaries to Africa, and African students in the United States.

Author : Juma Khamis Juma
Publisher : IIUM PRESS
ISBN 13 : 9674184988
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East African Muslim Welfare Society (1945-1968): The Case of Tanzania written by Juma Khamis Juma and published by IIUM PRESS. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study focuses on identifying the East African Muslim Welfare Society since the time of the European colonial rule which started the beginning of the Christian domination in the region.

Author : Michael O’Sullivan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674271904
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Birds of Passage written by Michael O’Sullivan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as “Westernized” and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.