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The Idea of Africa
Author | : V. Y. Mudimbe |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1994-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253208726 |
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"... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.
African History A Very Short Introduction
Author | : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192802484 |
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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
The Invention of Africa
Author | : V. Y. Mudimbe |
Publsiher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1988-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253204682 |
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"What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V. Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge." -- P. 4 of cover.
The Idea of Development in Africa
Author | : Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107103696 |
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An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
The Surreptitious Speech
Author | : V. Y. Mudimbe |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1992-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226545075 |
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Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.
The Invention of Women
Author | : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0816624410 |
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The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.
Africans
Author | : John Iliffe |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2017-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107198326 |
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An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
The Contested Idea of South Africa
Author | : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni,Busani Ngcaweni |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000476934 |
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This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have struggled to translate a mere geographical description into the identity of a people. Today the new struggles ‘for South Africa’ and ‘to become South African’ are inextricably intertwined with complex challenges of transformation, xenophobia, claims of reverse racism, social justice, economic justice, service delivery, and the resurgent decolonization struggles reverberating inside the universities. This book covers the genealogy of the idea of South Africa, exploring how the country has been conceived of by a broad group of actors, including the British, Afrikaners, diverse African nationalist traditions, and new formations such as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Black First Land First (BLF), and student formations (Rhodes Must Fall & Fees Must Fall). Over the course of the book, a broad range of themes are covered, including identity formation, modernity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, poetics of South Africanness, language, popular culture, truth and reconciliation, and national development planning. Concluding with important reflections on how a colonial imaginary can be changed into a free and inclusive postcolonial nation-state, this book will be an important read for Africanist researchers from across the humanities and social sciences.