Tag: African

Free Download Komla Aggor Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, "African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 1527507653 | 2018 | 170 pages | PDF | 736 KB
African, Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue is a collection of essays of broad historical and geographic scope that advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and colonialism and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism. Mostly grounded in literary studies, the essays discuss the interconnections between Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora. Particular focus is given to how they relate to the politics of identity and assimilation, migration and displacement, the concept of nation, Eurocentrism and racial essentialisms, as well as Black aesthetics.

Free Download Kathryn Nash, "African peace: Regional norms from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union"
English | ISBN: 1526152819 | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 5 MB
African regional organizations have played leading roles in constructing collective conflict management rules for the continent, but these rules or norms have not been static. Currently, the African Union (AU) deploys monitors, authorizes peace support operations, and actively engages to resolve internal conflicts. Just a few decades ago, these actions would have been deeply controversial under the Organization of African Unity (OAU). What changed to allow for this transformation in the way the African regional organization approaches peace and security?

Free Download Godfrey B. Tangwa, "African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems"
English | ISBN: 1527534669 | 2019 | 225 pages | PDF | 818 KB
This collection of essays addresses an important cross-section of issues in contemporary bioethics. It represents an essential contribution to global bioethics anchored and grounded on a continent most remarkable for its biological, cultural and linguistic diversity. It is a fitting beginning to addressing the observable absence of African voices in the rather lively global discourses of bioethics. The issues treated here include a discussion of the fundamental principles of bioethics; the place of African thought in medical research ethics, traditional medicine, and assisted conception; the moral status of embryonic stem cells; research with vulnerable human beings; and sexual and reproductive health in Africa. It explores a paradigm of how the universal and the particular may be blended, how global bioethics can remain firmly anchored and committed locally, regionally, continentally.

Free Download Maria Hussey, "The Rise of the Jim Crow Era (The African American Experience: from Slavery to the Presidency)"
English | 2015 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 1680480421 | EPUB | 9,6 mb
Starting in the 187s, Jim Crow laws began to appear across the South. Their aim was to enforce racial segregation, consolidating power in the hands of whites. This book examines the impact of these laws and other challenges that African Americans faced between the Reconstruction period and World War I. Topics discussed include the rise of groups promoting white supremacy, laws designed to quash African-American voting, Plessey v. Ferguson, the success of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, racially motivated riots, and the formation of the NAACP.

Free Download Peter Moopi, "Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures "
English | ISBN: 1032578793 | 2023 | 184 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 10 MB
This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America.

Free Download Bolaji Bateye, "Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development "
English | ISBN: 1793630755 | 2023 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 712 KB + 2 MB
Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of the potentials inherent in cultural, spiritual, and political traditions since pre-colonial times. Edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, this collection explores branches of thought from wisdom or oral traditions to political thought and philosophy of culture. This book is urgent reading material for any policy maker, scholar, or student wishing to attend to the voices of African(ist) thinkers who search for alternative approaches to global questions of development in a time of climate change and increasing socio-economic inequality.

Free Download Anthony Ephirim-Donkor, "African Personality and Spirituality: The Role of Abosom and Human Essence"
English | ISBN: 1498521223 | 2015 | 210 pages | EPUB | 745 KB
There is a divine pronouncement among the Akan that all human beings are children of God (Nana Nyame), none a child of the earth (mother); meaning that human beings are spiritual in origin, descending directly from God via the Abosom (gods and goddesses). Every person then has a deity as father (Ᾱgya-bosom), recognition of which existentially enables a person to fulfil one’s career or professional blueprint (Nkrabea). Intrinsically, therefore, human beings embody the very essence of the Abosom, which manifests itself behaviorally and psychologically in a manner identical to those of the gods and goddesses.

Free Download Jennifer R. Curry, "African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled "
English | ISBN: 1498506860 | 2015 | 378 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
College and career readiness is essential to promoting the success of all students. Educational and economic changes in today’s society demands well thought out strategies for preparing students to survive academically, socially, and financially in the future. African American students are at a disadvantage in this strategic planning process due to a long history of racism, injustice, and marginalization.

Free Download Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP4KJ7M4 | 2023 | 12 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Sylviane A. Diouf
Narrator: Ja’Air Bush
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously researched, groundbreaking volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale. She details how, even while enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts of their religion. Literate, urban, and well-traveled, they drew on their organization, solidarity and the strength of their beliefs to play a major part in the most well-known slave uprisings.

Free Download Achille Mbembe, "The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings "
English | ISBN: 1509551093 | 2023 | 308 pages | PDF | 17 MB
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life materialize in practices that draw deeply from collective memory while simultaneously assuming distinctly contemporary, even futuristic, guises.