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Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes
"Tidjani Alou's writing sketches the commonplace and the metaphysical, with heft, honesty, and audacity. The range is compelling, as she takes us through lives in places as diverse as Accra and Niamey. The prose is deft, her metaphors sting with accuracy. This is a writer to think and feel with."--Emmanuel Iduma, Editor, Saraba Magazine. A grandmother with a food-induced encounter, an ecclesial romance with a tomcat set in the throes of uncertain times, eating and drinking for freedom, wife battery under the watchful eyes of communal love, desperately seeking lovers burdened by violent pasts, and a woman taking liberty after nine children with nine husbands are some of the characters and sto...
Performance and Power
While the lead singer had the privilege of composing the theme, of leading rehearsal and performance and of singing the main parts of the song, the success of the performance required 4 the participation of a powerful chorus and of an experienced san kira or answerer capable of relaying the lead, and of injecting new energy into the act by echoing or reworking the theme. [...] The stakes of the actors in this arena are, of course, important to this discussion since performance in the court of the sultan represented the holy of holies, the acme of the public cultural space, itself at the cross-roads of the public and the private. [...] But in the case of Damagaram, the strong centralizing pow...
Performance and Power
While the lead singer had the privilege of composing the theme, of leading rehearsal and performance and of singing the main parts of the song, the success of the performance required the participation of a powerful chorus and of an experienced san kira or answerer capable of relaying the lead, and of injecting new energy into the act by echoing or reworking the theme. [...] It is related to the commanding, pervasive trope of 'work' that organizes the entire piece, readable at a variety of levels: as the panegyric of the taskmaster and master-worker Baudot, as a metaphor of the advent of a new power in the public as well as the private sphere, as the instrument of reversal of social hierarch...
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Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology
Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology provides a systematic examination of the empirical foundations of interpretations and grounded theories in anthropology. Olivier de Sardan explores the nature of the links between observed reality and the data produced during fieldwork, and between the data gathered and final interpretative statements. Olivier de Sardan's research asks how anthropologists develop a 'policy of fieldwork', what the advantages and limits of observation are, and if the dangers of over-interpretation and scientific ideologies be minimized. Exploring the space between epistemology and methodology, the book critically juxtaposes Anglo and Francophone writings about fieldwork, plausible interpretations, emicity, reflexivity, comparison, and scientific rigor.
The Black Diaspora of the Americas
The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the trnasatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States - the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still does not) have the uniformity of a national framework. Instead, the region presents differing situations and social experiences born of the varying colonial systems from which they were developed. Using the Caribbean experience as the focus, Christine Chivallon examins the transatlantic slave trade and slavery as founding events in the identification of a black diaspora experience. The exploration...
Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Exodus!
In 1977, Bob Marley composed Exodus, a reggae masterpiece that evokes the return of Rastafari to Africa. Over the past fifty years, Rastafari have made the journey to Ethiopia, settling in the country as "repatriates". This little-known history is told in Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia. Giulia Bonacci recounts, with sharpness and rigour, this amazing journey of Rastafari who left the Caribbean, the United States and the United Kingdom. Exiting from the Babylon of the West and entering the Zion that is Ethiopia, the exodus has a pan-African dimension that is significant to the present day. Despite facing complex challenges in their relations with the Ethiopian state ...
Beyond the Sacred Forest
Scholars rethink the translation of environmental concepts between East and West, particularly ideas of nature and culture; what conservation might mean; and how conservation policy is applied and transformed in the everyday landscapes of Southeast Asia.
Securing Land Rights in Africa
This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how government legislation and reform (formalization) interact with local innovations (informalization) to form land tenure systems.
