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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Global Africa Ser |
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Global Africa Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: Phases of oppression and resistance; The layout of the book; Conclusion; Notes; 1. Emerging African women writing the diaspora; Background; Situating diasporic perspectives in emerging African women's writing; Border crisscrossing in Americanah; Cultural hybridity in We Need New Names; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Acts of culture: Similarities between AmÃlcar Cabral's Unity and Struggle and Walter Rodney's The Groundings with my Brothers; I; II; III |
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IVV; VI; VII; VIII; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Ali Mazrui's analytical penchant for the dialectics: Intellectual creativity and the explanatory potency of Mazruiana; Introduction; The dialectical method and the essence of paradoxes; Mazrui's penchant for the dialectical method; On the Origins of Pan-Movements; Pan-Africanism: realities and prospects; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Heroes are usually honored: Hip hop's revival of Dedan Kimathi; Dedan Kimathi's mixed legacy; Mau Mau veterans and Kimathi's legacy: "he was our hero." |
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Hip hop and Kimathi's legacy: reviving and remembering the fightResurrecting Kimathi in hip hop music -- Angalia Saa; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 5. The lasting cultural impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Spanish Caribbean; Introduction; The lasting impact of cultural contact: some observations; The Spanish Caribbean colonies: some thoughts on language; Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804); The impact of sugar cultivation on demographics in Cuba and Puerto Rico; The ethnic identities of Africans in Cuba, Puerto Rico and SaintDomingue |
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Saint-Domingue emigrants to Cuba and Puerto RicoEastern Cuba and western Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean dance; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; 6. Emerging trajectories in the Niger Delta struggle; Introduction; The rise of new insurgent groups; Immediate causes; Tactics of the new groups; The response of the Nigerian state; Conclusion: an insurgency without end?; Notes; Appendix A; Bibliography; 7. Kabyle resistance and Berber oppression; Prologue; Introduction; Defining terminology to promote Berber or Amazigh identity, culture, and language; Tamazight vs. Taqbaylit |
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Kabyle resistance and growing Berberist consciousnessTafsut Imazighen: the Berber Spring; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 8. From gun to guitar: The performance of Tuareg nationalism; The challenge of history; The political aesthetic; Articulating nationalism; Marker of identity; Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai; Notes; Bibliography; 9. African reconstruction (or reinvention) in confederate and neo-colonial landscapes of the twenty-first century; Identity; The mysteries; Memory of the future; Notes; Bibliography; 10. Transcending violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through art |
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Introduction |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people -- Civil rights -- Africa
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Government, Resistance to -- Africa
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African diaspora -- Social conditions
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Black people -- Civil rights
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Government, Resistance to
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kalu, Kenneth E
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| ISBN |
9780429015151 |
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0429015151 |
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