Womens Voices From West Africa

Author : Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253356709
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Voices from West Africa written by Aissata G. Sidikou and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.

Author : Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010217
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Songs from West Africa written by Thomas A. Hale and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.

Author : Twinkle Suri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Room of Their Own written by Twinkle Suri and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amina Mama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women's Voices written by Amina Mama and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786990075
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing African Women written by Stephanie Newell and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference? This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. Beginning with a ground-breaking overview of African gender theory, the book goes on to analyse women's writing, uncovering the ways different writers have approached issues of female creativity and colonial history, as well as the ways in which they have subverted popular stereotypes around African women. The contributors also explore the related gender dynamics of mask performance and oral story-telling. This major analysis of gender in popular and postcolonial cultural production remains essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, cultural studies and literature.

Author : Elizabeth Allo Isichei
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461795
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Poor in Africa written by Elizabeth Allo Isichei and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather than that of colonizers and foreigners. Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory -- an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines -- ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them -- to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest to an ongoing experience of exploitation. Elizabeth Isichei is Professor of Religious Studies, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand and author of over a dozen books on African history and religion. She holds an Oxford doctorate, and aD.Litt from the University of Canterbury, and is a fellow of the Royal Society [N.Z.]

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women in the Age of Transformation written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelly Ann Krawczyk
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9789811981890
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Contributions to Development in West Africa written by Kelly Ann Krawczyk and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines women’s participation in social, economic and political development in West Africa. The book looks at women from the premise of being active agents in the development processes within their communities, thereby subverting the dominate narrative of women as passive recipients of development.

Author : Aïssata G. Sidikou
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds written by Aïssata G. Sidikou and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meehyun Chung
Publisher : Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
ISBN 13 : 9788184651058
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextual Theology written by Meehyun Chung and published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: