African Culture and Global Politics: Language, Philosophies, and Expressive Culture in Africa and the Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780415713023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 400 str.

Toyin Falola; Danielle Sanchez

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The rest of the world often relegates the continent of Africa as a place that must be "saved," failing to examine Africans' long history of agency and political ideas that may inform present and future attempts at attaining stability throughout the continent. This book addresses the ways in which Africans are actively engaging in domestic and international policy debates through music, literature, art, and philosophies that shape both the politics of daily life and international discourses on development.

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Introduction The Intersection of Africanity and World Politics: Considering African and Diasporic Expressive Cultures in Global Politics Toyin Falola and Danielle Porter Sanchez  Part I. African Philosophies and Philosophies for Africa  1. Ideologies of Development in French Algeria: Saint-Simonians, Manifest Destiny and Globalization Emma Deputy  2. Islam and the Politics of Assimilation in French Colonial Algeria Dino Palaj  3. Theorizing Conflict and Conflict Resolution in an African Philosophical Discourse Oladele Abiodun Balogun  4. The Emergent Church in Africa and the Phenomenon of Reverse Missions Kelvin Onongha  5. Africa’s Unheralded Contributions to World Politics.Kunirum Osia  6. Failed State or Political Inspiration? Kathleen R. Smythe  7. A Parallel Evolution: The Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1968-1994 Myra Ann Houser  Part II. Literature, Language, Rhetoric, and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora  8. Ensuring that Africa’s Voice is Heard in International Forums in the Future: The Language Issues Involved Ann Albuyeh  9. Strongmen and Strategists: Perspectivising Models of Conflict Resolution in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah Alexander Kure  10. Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the New South Africa Michael Sharp  11.Evangelism as Political Protest in Nineteenth Century African Diaspora: Appraising Julia Foote's Spiritual Autobiography, A Brand Plucked from the Fire Samantha Manchester Earley  Part III. The Politics of Culture in Africa and the African Diaspora  12. The Politics of Gender Roles: A Comparative Analysis of Female Husbands, Male Daughters and Sworn Virgins Among the Igbo of West Africa, the Nandi and Kikuyu of East Africa, and the Gheg of North Albania  Fiosa Begai Mjeshtri  13. The African and Afro-Brazilian Family and Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Isabel Cristina Ferreira dos Reis  14. A Global Education: Cold War Networks, Imperial Angst and the Development of Tanzanian Schools, 1960-1970 Timothy Nicholson  15. Race and Social Islands in Kenya's Urban Social Spaces  Besi Brillian Muhonja  16. Zoot Suiters and Sapeurs: The Politics of Dress in the World War II Era Danielle Porter Sanchez  17. Democratizing Traditional Rulership and the Question of Women Traditional Rulers: A Comparison of Nigeria and South Africa. F.A. Olasupo