This volume presents a wide array of essays that offer insight into the intersection of expressive culture, daily life, and global politics through analyses of power, colonialism, modernity, and change in Africa and the African diaspora. These essays challenge us to reconsider the role of culture in the making of larger discourses of politics in a global setting.
This volume presents a wide array of essays that offer insight into the intersection of expressive culture, daily life, and global politics through analyses of power, colonialism, modernity, and change in Africa and the African diaspora. These essays challenge us to reconsider the role of culture in the making of larger discourses of politics in a global setting.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Danielle Porter Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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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
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
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