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KONKABABY
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Konkababy follows the rhythms of artists such as Fela Kuti, Aimé Césaire, and Zim Ngqawana through “the poorly lit paradise” of the Atlantic world. Divining both the mundane and the spectacular, these poems feel their way through a net of bewildered visions and sudden ecstasies towards an elusive new world that flashes just beyond the horizon.
*******************************Spree MacDonald's collection reveals a truly innovative voice in contemporary US-global poetry—a waking-shuffling-dream book of surrealist visions drawn more from anticolonial tendencies than the oft-imitated Eurocentric canon, as lived through urban experience in
Latin American Modernisms and Technology
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This collection of essays documents the creative involvement of Latin American artists and intellectuals with modern technologies (mechanical, electronic, digital, and imaginary) from the nineteenth-century to the present. Acknowledging the extensiveness of the histories of both modern technologies and modernism, the essays cover a diversity of media, technologies, and conceptual aspects of techno-culture that Latin American artists and intellectuals have engaged with to depict individual and collective visions of sociocultural progress. These visualizations always had the potential to affect the development of visual culture regionally and internationally. To study these works in relation to the existing histories of art and media arts can lead scholars to rethink notions of artistic innovation and to generate new chronologies and theories for these histories.
The contributors to this volume examine works of literature, art, and design from a variety of perspectives includi
LEARNER'S GUIDE TO POSTGRADUATE LEVEL RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSES
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The book presents practical examples and lessons to learners on commonly used quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analyses for postgraduate level research. All relevant steps have been simplified and supplemented with numerical examples. Results of data analyses have been interpreted clearly. The book covers topics such as conducting literature review and scientific writing, study designs, how to write-up postgraduate level research proposals and dissertations, how to calculate sample sizes and power for quantitative studies, how to summarize raw and grouped data sets using quantitative and graphical methods, one and two-sample tests on means and proportions, the Pearson chi-square test of association (cross-tab analyses), simple and multiple linear regression and correlation analysis, binary and multinomial logistic regression analysis, and qualitative methods of data collection and analyses. The book demonstrates how quality research matters and is very ideal
ON BUILDING A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited
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On Building a Social Movement focuses, as its sub-title suggests, on the North American campaign for southern African liberation. It does so by first evoking both the region-wide battle for liberation from racial oppression that emerged in southern Africa between 1960 and 1994 and the world-wide mobilization of support for that regional struggle which emerged alongside it. It then examines in some detail the building of movements in both Canada and the United States designed to contribute to this notable global effort. These movements sought to publicize the positive goals and concrete undertakings of the liberation struggles on the ground in southern Africa while also focusing public attention on the policies of the governments and the corporations in North America that pulled the two countries focused on in this book to the wrong - the racist and exploitative - side of this African contestation. “Solidarity is the soul of the workers’ movement. This is a book ab
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This book is based on a comprehensive survey that was conducted in the City of Tshwane, South Africa to identify key predictors of efficiency in the management of solid waste produced by 1, 034 commercial businesses operating in the city. Efficiency in the management of solid waste was measured based on a structural time-based model. Data analyses were performed by fitting a binary logistic regression model and multilevel analysis. The study showed that 17% of the businesses selected for the study were inefficient with regards to the management of solid waste. The study identified four predictors of efficiency in the management of solid waste. These four predictor variables were lack of adherence to waste management regulations, wrong perception on the value and importance of proper management of waste, failure to provide customers with enough trash cans, and the operation of businesses by non-owners, in a decreasing order of importance. Results obtained from multilevel analysis showed
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STATE-MAKING IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
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The book is about the politics of developmental state-making in post-apartheid South Africa. Specifically, the focus is on tracing and providing well considered political and ideological explanations for some of the most salient obstacles confronting the South African transition. The central argument is that until the intellectual and ideological template underpinning the transition is fundamentally overhauled, South Africa is unlikely to fulfill Mandela’s promises of ending poverty, employment creation and equality for all. What is more, the politics and policy framework that springs from this template is essentially counter developmental and only serves to reproduce the power relations and structural arrangements they are meant to overcome.“This research work opens up an opportunity for further scrutiny of South Africa’s development challenges from the dawn of democracy into the future. Scholars, policy makers and students must seriously explore this book and make c
THE AMERICAN AFRICAN: Essays on the Life and Scholarship of Ali A. Mazrui
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Ali Mazrui once defined an American African as one who is usually first or second generation immigrant from Africa to the Americas, who may be a citizen or permanent resident of countries in the Western hemisphere, whose mother tongue is still an African language, who has immediate blood relatives in Africa, who is likely to be still attached to the food culture of his/her African ancestry and who is still likely to bear African family name, although this is by no means universal, especially among Lusophone Africans, Liberians and Sierra Leoneans. Mazrui’s own definition makes Ali Mazrui the classic example of an American African person, and hence this book, The American African, in which Mazrui’s peers explore his life and scholarship spanning over more than half a century.
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The essays assembled in this book present a highly-deserved tribute to the outstanding scholarship of Ali A. Mazrui. During his forty years of
SECTORAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS IN AFRICA
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All innovation systems have elements, components, parts with linkages, interconnections and interactions with boundaries at spatial, sectoral, or disciplinary levels. The elements are related to innovation creation, absorption, transfer and adaptation being either strong or weak with boundaries that range spatially from local to city, community, region, national and global levels. Innovation systems at national or sectoral level are influenced by conceptual frame and ideas, policy setting, context and environment, institutions, networks, actors, knowledge and incentives. The way the politics of system building plays out heavily influences the outputs, outcomes and impacts at various levels selected to locate the innovation system dynamics. Franco Malerba considers sectoral systems to be based on knowledge and technologies, actors, networks, and institutions.
The complexity and dynamics of innovation at the sectoral level in the African context are not researched fully yet. This
AFRICA AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS: Conquest and Counter-Conquest, The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Volume II, Series Editor: Toyin Falola
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Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest is the second volume of the Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui that will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings. This second volume considers the interaction of Africa with other civilizations from historical, sociological, philosophical and political perspectives, with a special emphasis on the inextricability of conquest and counter-conquest. The essays reproduced herein provide a refreshing approach to such seminal themes as “culture,” “civilization,” “universalism,” and “modernization” as they address the complex interactions between Africa and other civilizations throughout history?including economic, political, religious, ideological and artistic interactions. Mazrui’s essays are very timely and will contribute to our understanding of current world events: particularly relevant are his reflections on the place of Africa
AFRICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Adu Boahen Reader
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Adu Boahen is one of the most influential scholars of Ghana. His dedication to the teaching of African history is indisputable, and his career has been wide-ranging and successful. This compilation of Boahen's essays is a celebration of his scholarship and a testament to the career of a great man.
This edited volume captures the importance of Boahen’s work and the lasting contributions that he has made to African history. Offering the reader a unique chance to read various essays that have previously gone unpublished, it covers various ideas pertaining to different facets of African affairs. The volume also reflects the thinking of Africa's postcolonial scholars and provides the new and future generation with ideas to understand their continent and themselves as well.
"After Kwame Nkrumah, one is hard pressed to look further than Adu Boahen when seeking an individual whose influence is all-pervading in the lives of Ghanaians
AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY, Vol. 18, Orature in African Literature
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African novelists, playwrights and poets, even when they are writing in one of the colonial languages, draw on their rich ethnic bases. These resources provide ideas, themes and linguistic delight. The myriad languages of the continent, although used today mainly for workday communication, have through the centuries been vehicles for the oral artistic verbal compositions and transmission now formalized as orature
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: The Analytic Approach
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African Philosophy: The Analytic Approach sets out to demonstrate that the analytic approach to philosophy, which is prominent in the world today, can both be applied to and derived from Africas indigenous cultural heritage. The author achieves this via critiques of the viewpoints of several leading scholars who maintain, for various reasons, that there is insignificant evidence of substantive philosophical thought in the indigenous African cultural context.
The text also uses the very same analytic approach, embraced and espoused by most of these critics to deny Africa a place in the philosophical universe, to demonstrate that there is indisputable evidence of original and valuable philosophical enterprise in Africas indigenous conceptual systems that is of direct relevance to such canonical core disciplines of philosophy as epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.
"Here is a rich assortment of methodological and substantive ruminations (to borrow one of the authors favorite wor
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"Like its companion volume Palavers of African Literature, African Writers and their Readers is a magnificent and monumental tribute to Bernth Lindfors, the scholar who transformed African literary studies in North America. But his second volume is more than a tribute to a distinguished scholar-- it is a high powered exercise in critical scholarship, which in its choice of issues and methodologies, takes up many of the questions that Lindfors put at the forefront of scholarship on Africa and its literary traditions. As in the first volume, the essays collected in this antholoy bear testimony to Lindfors' influence on two generations of scholars of African literature and his imprint on the literary history of the continent. In their treatment of subjects ranging from autobiography and performance, the construction of heroes in Yoruba literature, African language literatures, post-Apartheid culture to cinema, the essays in this collection represent the coming of age of African
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Africanity Redefined: Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Volume I is the first of three volumes of Ali A. Mazrui's most important essays. The eventual three-volume work will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Professor Mazrui's writings during his four decades as a scholar and public intellectual. This first volume redefines the meaning of Africanity across geographical spaces, time, and cultures. The resulting definition is dynamic. It forces us to reject neo-imperialist paradigms and ontologies of what it means to be African. By encouraging us to think about Africanity as an idea rather than as point of origin, the ideas contained in these essays force us to reposition ourselves in the debate of our place in global cultures and civilizations, and they prepare us to take a more active role in social and political affairs.
Ali A. Mazrui is the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at SUNY-Binghamton. He also se
AHMADU FULANI: An African Poetry
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Ahmadu Fulani: An African Poetry" is a poetry volume in English, Yoruba and Hausa, celebrating the memory of the poets father and speaking to the lessons the poet learned from his father as a child. The volume addresses issues of national and international significance, human and environmental rights, and speaks against injustice no matter who the oppressed or the oppressors are or where they come from.
"Ahmadu Fulani" is a book of performance poetry, exploring oral performance traditions of Ilorin and Sokoto cultures, from Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani traditions of Nigeria and West Africa. From memorial contours, to social inquiry, to praise and mobilization poems, readers would need to perform the poems in order to realize their full meanings and literary aesthetics. A person can perform this poetry alone at home, or with others in the classroom or at the market square. Even the poems that do not have refrains can be read with performance flavor.
As in his first volume, "Almajiri