Tag: African

Free Download Lamin Sanneh, "Summond from the Margin: Homecoming of an African"
English | 2012 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0802867421 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
Summoned from the Margin tells the story of Lamin Sanneh’s fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, and Ghana.

Free Download Prestige Tatenda Makanga, "Practicing Health Geography: The African Context "
English | ISBN: 3030634701 | 2021 | 221 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health. The book describes various contemporary and traditional themes that have characterized the discipline of health geography, and uses its 13 case studies across 14 chapters to challenge the perceived dichotomy between health geography and medical geography among health researchers and practitioners. In 3 sections, the book provides readers with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding health geography in Africa.

Free Download Andrew Nyongesa, "Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1032577606 | 2024 | 144 pages | EPUB | 1117 KB
This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame their reckless conduct and shabbiness miss the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematise gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematisation and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society.

Free Download Plants and People in the African Past: Progress in African Archaeobotany by Anna Maria Mercuri
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 577 Pages | ISBN : 3319898388 | 129.99 MB
There is an essential connection between humans and plants, cultures and environments, and this is especially evident looking at the long history of the African continent. This book, comprising current research in archaeobotany on Africa, elucidates human adaptation and innovation with respect to the exploitation of plant resources. In the long-term perspective climatic changes of the environment as well as human impact have posed constant challenges to the interaction between peoples and the plants growing in different countries and latitudes.

Free Download Arianna Huhn, "Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town "
English | ISBN: 1789208890 | 2020 | 234 pages | PDF | 1421 KB
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.

Free Download Geneva Cobb Moore, Andrew Billingsley, "Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1611177480 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.8 mb
An in-depth examination of Black women’s experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history

Free Download Sylvia Croese, "Localizing the SDGs in African Cities "
English | ISBN: 3030959783 | 2022 | 246 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This volume brings together a unique set of interventions from a variety of contributors to bridge the gap between research and policy with a distinct focus on Africa, drawing on work conducted as part of multiple interconnected research projects and networks on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and global policy implementation in African cities. Through the framework of the SDGs, and in particular Goal 11, the book aims to contribute to generating new knowledge about approaches to SDG localization that are grounded in complex and diverse local contexts, needs and realities, integrated perspectives and collaborative research.

Free Download Abiodun Salawu, "Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 2: Social Crusades and the Future "
English | ISBN: 3030987043 | 2022 | 492 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it subsequently focuses on how the music portrays the African future, its use by African youths, and how it is affected by advanced broadcast technologies and the digital media. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which can only be unraveled by the knowledge of myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores how, during the colonial period and post-independence dispensation, indigenous African music genres and their artists were mainstreamed in order to tackle emerging issues, to sensitise Africans about the affairs of their respective nations and to warn African leaders who have failed and are failing African citizenry about the plight of the people.

Free Download Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy
by Ada Agada
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030788962 | 338 Pages | True PDF | 4.5 MB

Free Download Bruce A. Glasrud, "Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0826219047, 0826222358 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.6 mb
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle in the Revolutionary War. But by the War of 1812, the United States had come to maintain what one writer called "a whitewashed army." Yet despite that opposition, during the early 1800s, militia units made up of free black soldiers came together to aid the official military troops in combat.