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Free Download Jonathan O. Chimakonam, "African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 3030724441 | 2021 | 245 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Free Download African Industrial Design Practice: Perspectives on Ubuntu Philosophy
by Richie Moalosi and Yaone Rapitsenyane
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032218312 | 306 Pages | True ePUB | 6.1 MB

Free Download African Heritage Australian Youth: Forced Displacement, Educational Attainment, and Integration Outcomes
by Tebeje Molla
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367742365 | 264 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Free Download Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal By John F. Hoffecker
2017 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 0231543743 | EPUB | 44 MB
Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent-and perhaps the most important-phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a "major transition" in the evolution of living systems in terms of fundamental changes in the role of non-genetic information. Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the critical role of genetic and non-genetic forms of information in living systems as well as how changes in the storage, transmission, and translation of information underlie major transitions in evolution. He also draws on information and complexity theory to explain the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa several hundred thousand years ago and the rapid and unprecedented spread of our species into a variety of environments in Australia and Eurasia, including the Arctic and Beringia, beginning between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago. This magisterial work will appeal to all with an interest in the ever-fascinating field of human evolution.

Free Download Blessing Diala-Ogamba, "Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature"
English | ISBN: 1793644381 | 2021 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1116 KB
Through an analysis of historical and contemporary literature, Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature argues that African women were not relegated to the background in African society until after colonization. Blessing Diala-Ogamba analyzes the history of women’s roles in African society through oral stories and biographies to show how colonialization worked to oppress women in Africa and explores the ways contemporary African literature confronts and works to overcome its colonial past. Using works by authors such as Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, Lilian Masitera, Nawal El Sadaawi, Lauretta Ncgobo, Sembene Ousmane, and many others, Diala-Ogamba reveals the consistent progression of women and their roles in African novels and society.

Free Download African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
by Rose A. Sackeyfio
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1793642435 | 147 Pages | True PDF | 5.62 MB

Free Download Rose A. Sackeyfio, "African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 1793642435 | 2021 | 146 pages | EPUB | 330 KB
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, and political transformation. African Women Writing Diaspora illustrates that for African women, life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey across new landscapes of identity beyond Africa’s borders as a unifying theme. The fictional works analyzed represent the leading women writers who dominate the African literary canon, and the contributors explore diverse themes of immigrant life, racialized identities, and otherness within transnational spaces of the west.

Free Download Yuan Wang, "The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development "
English | ISBN: 0198873034 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The growing presence of China in Africa has drawn increasing scholarly and public attention. With Beijing’s announcement of the ‘going global’ policy in the early 2000s and further institutionalization through the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, Chinese policy banks and state-owned companies have cooperated with African countries to finance and complete multiple infrastructure projects. These projects, despite their ‘Chinese-ness,’ demonstrate starkly different development trajectories in different countries. Why do some Chinese-financed and constructed projects develop better than others? And what explains the variation in the effectiveness of different African states with regard to public goods delivery? The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development uses three case studies of Chinese-financed and constructed rail projects to explore the broader phenomenon of the fast-progressing relations between China and Africa and to offer insights into African domestic politics.

Free Download LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey, "Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening "
English | ISBN: 1793640939 | 2020 | 152 pages | EPUB, PDF | 310 KB + 2 MB
Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners, and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which the reclamation of and recognition of Yemonja, the African female deity who is the mother of the entire world of the Orisha, facilitates cultural survival and the formation of African-centric identity. Also known as Yemaya, Iemanya and Yemaya-Olokun, Yemonja is the deity whose province is the ocean and, given that the Middle Passage was the cultural and spatial crossroad to Africa’s numerous diasporas, this deity links the shared histories of African and African descent cultural praxis worldwide. This work provides the context for understanding how the spiritual conceptualizations of the African feminine divine underpin critical cultural forms, even when it has been previously unacknowledged and despite the cultural encounters with European and Western models of being. Scholars of African diaspora studies and the arts will find this book particularly interesting.

Free Download Anthony Sean Neal Mississippi State Univers, "Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze "
English | ISBN: 1793640513 | 2022 | 130 pages | EPUB, PDF | 249 KB + 1048 KB
Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze describes the ideas that defined the movement and struggle to be free by Black people in the United States during their Modern Era. Using a historical perspective, this work engages the question of how the historical experience of oppression and the denial of humanity created space for the development of a certain consciousness. The existence and demonstration of agency within the ideas of the African diaspora and the creation of an intentional community with the aim of defining and attaining freedom are dissected in order to understand the Black community as a whole during the modern era.