Timbuktu Unbound

Timbuktu Unbound
Author: Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9783031348242

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Babel Unbound

Babel Unbound
Author: Lesley Cowling,Carolyn Hamilton
Publsiher: Wits University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2020-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781776145935

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In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of democracy and often centers on the ideal of the public sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk – or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the 10 essays in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. Babel Unbound examines charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela as a powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the challenges to the terms of contemporary debate around the student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These show how issues of public discussion span both archive and media, verbal debates in formal spaces and visual performances that circulate in unpredictable ways.

Babel Unbound

Babel Unbound
Author: Lesley Cowling,Carolyn Hamilton
Publsiher: Wits University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781776145898

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In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of democracy and often centers on the ideal of the public sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk – or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the 10 essays in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. Babel Unbound examines charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela as a powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the challenges to the terms of contemporary debate around the student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These show how issues of public discussion span both archive and media, verbal debates in formal spaces and visual performances that circulate in unpredictable ways.

Islamic Scholarship in Africa

Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Author: Ousmane Oumar Kane
Publsiher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781847012319

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Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the europhone/non-europhone knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.

Somewhere in the Sand

Somewhere in the Sand
Author: Chris Berggren
Publsiher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781440163647

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Chris and his fellow adventurers are back from a wild, four-month stretch of world travel. Together, they climbed Mount Sinai, rode donkeys through the Valley of Kings, and partied every step of the way. The young men have become addicted to travel, and it isn't long before they are plotting their next trip this time to Timbuktu, a place of seemingly mythical proportions in the West African country of Mali. Before long, their group gets larger in number, and soon, a small army of nine is making plans to head to Africa. They don't know what to expect, but then again, they don't care. Once in Africa, they will need to navigate the desert, deal with corrupt officials, and stomach extreme images of hardship and poverty. Along the way, they find quite a bit of adventure but also quite a bit of trouble. Through it all, this group of adventure junkies finds out that the perfect place to quench their thirst for excitement is Somewhere in the Sand.

Frail Dream of Timbuktu

Frail Dream of Timbuktu
Author: Bettina Selby
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1993
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:60025221

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The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa

The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa
Author: Scott Reese
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789047413349

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In a series of essays this collected volume challenges much of the conventional wisdom regarding the intellectual history of Muslim Africa. Ranging from the libraries of Early Modern Mauritania and Timbuktu to mosque lectures in contemporary Mombasa the contributors to this collection overturn many commonly accepted assumptions about Africa's Muslim learned classes. Rather than isolated, backward and out of touch, the essays in this volume reveal Muslim intellectuals as not only well aware of the intellectual currents of the wider Islamic world but also caring deeply about the issues facing their communities.

The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age
Author: Peter Marber,Daniel Araya
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781317291343

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Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.