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Black Thought A Theory of Articulation

Black Thought: A Theory of Articulation

1st Edition

By Victor Peterson II
September 25, 2023

This book uncovers a logical fallacy underlying Afro-Pessimism and provides a formal theory of Articulation, teasing out new reflections on race and Blackness. Afro-Pessimism maintains that Blacks, subject to a subordinate position in society, suffer a cultural death. In this monograph, Victor ...

Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo Writing on the Brink

Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo: Writing on the Brink

1st Edition

By Gilbert Shang Ndi
September 25, 2023

The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature. Examining a variety of novels that offer insightful representations of violence in their respective historical settings, the author argues that similar historical experiences ...

Naming and Othering in Africa Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language

Naming and Othering in Africa: Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language

1st Edition

By Sambulo Ndlovu
September 25, 2023

This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self. Drawing on global and African examples, but with particular reference to Zimbabwe, the author demonstrates how names are used in class, race, ethnic, national, ...

African Language Media Development, Economics and Management

African Language Media: Development, Economics and Management

1st Edition

Edited By Abiodun Salawu
May 31, 2023

This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable ...

African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies Reflections on Exile and Migration

African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies: Reflections on Exile and Migration

1st Edition

Edited By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
May 31, 2023

This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities. The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine...

African Transnational Mobility in China Africans on the Move

African Transnational Mobility in China: Africans on the Move

1st Edition

By Roberto Castillo
May 31, 2023

Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The ...

Blackness in Israel Rethinking Racial Boundaries

Blackness in Israel: Rethinking Racial Boundaries

1st Edition

Edited By Uri Dorchin, Gabriella Djerrahian
May 31, 2023

This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The contributors engage with expressions and appropriations of modern forms of blackness for boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and ...

Black–Arab Encounters in Literature and Film

Black–Arab Encounters in Literature and Film

1st Edition

By Touria Khannous
May 31, 2023

This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and film. The book offers direct readings of a representative selection of primary texts, shedding light on the divergent ways these authors understood race across different genres, ...

Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora

Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora

1st Edition

Edited By Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam, Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe, Sola Timothy Babatunde, Olutola Opeyemi Akindipe
May 31, 2023

This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the most significant factors in development, the book examines diverse topics such as the migrations of ...

Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa Literary and Cultural Representations

Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa: Literary and Cultural Representations

1st Edition

By Oduor Obura
May 31, 2023

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa. Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking...

Endogenous Regional Policy and Development Planning in Ghana

Endogenous Regional Policy and Development Planning in Ghana

1st Edition

By Sam Ofori
May 31, 2023

This book examines regional development and planning in a poor administrative region of Ghana, assessing  the effectiveness of the programmes and projects initiated to reduce poverty, disadvantage and deprivation. The author analyses the local context of institutions, planning ...

Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies

Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies

1st Edition

Edited By John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller, John C. Yoder
May 31, 2023

This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community. The book chronicles the lives of twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the immediate post-colonial period in...

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