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Afridentity
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Afridentity
This book discusses in seven essays the glorious years of Africa marked by technological advancements, the present Africa discussed in terms of poverty, hunger, wars, disease. It explains in details the effects of slave trade and colonializm on Africa and presents what is African culture or characterizes the African identity. The whole book is written in the light of the Afridentity project, a word coined by the author to represent that aspect of African philosophy that seeks to rediscover lost values in African culture and universalize them.
Africanity Redefined
The first in a three volume set of Mazrui's most important essays, this volume redefines the meaning of Africanity across geographical space, time and cultures. The resulting definition 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 civilisations, and prepare us to take an active role in social and political affairs.
Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora
This volume brings together fifteen scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States to explore how Africa is represented in and through the performing arts and cinema. Essays include discussions of Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun, American influences on Nollywood, Nigerian video films, the representation of women in cinema, African dance in the diaspora, childrens music, and media portrayals of savagery from pop cinema through news reports of Ferguson, Missouri. Using a variety of methodologies and approaches, the contributors consider how African societies and cultures have been represented to themselves, to the continent at large, and in the diaspora. The volume represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their respective societies within and without Africa. Many of the contributors are scholar-practitioners, offering practical guides on how to approach these performance and media forms as artists. As such, this book will serve as both model and building block for the next generation of representors, students, and audiences.
The American African
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Think African
This collection of short essays attempts to depict life, thought and actions indigenous to Black Africa and what has been happening there especially as a result of the White Man's penetration into the Black Man's life and institutions. This penetration was gradual at first, as in colonial times, but since the end of the Second World War it has become massive. Each essay looks at an African concept, attitude or person, or a combination of these, and hopes to stimulate further reading and reflection on the reader's part.
Pan African Spaces
This book examines the transcultural nature of Black and African identities, globally based on the shifting identities and experiences that have been precipitated by increased migration by Africans and African diasporans.
Across the Atlantic
Across the Atlantic is a fascinating and lucid reminiscence of a series of events and results: the age of love in Africa, the reign of terror, the capture and commoditization of human beings, their shipment to the Americas, the incessant and onerous exactions meted on them, the brutalization and cruelties they experienced, the survival and tenacity of African values, the struggle for freedom, and emancipation, and the triumphant return to Africa.
