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This work is a translation of Abderrahman Beggar's L'Amerique latine vue sous une perspective maghrebine as An African Gaze: The Quest for the Other. This book contributes to revealing the otherized gaze/look of the usually otherized and ostracized on others. The translation offers the opportunity to aficionados of travelogues to have an African addition to the existing stock of volumes dealing with travel literature and accounts.
New and Selected Poems on various subjects
Islamic Poetry for spiritual and moral uplifting of the unnecessarily doubtful
This edited book consists of proceedings of a symposium that Siendou A. Konate and Lacina Yeo organized back in 2012 at the Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa
Le mot a aussi une valeur inestimable dans la conception et la propagation du savoir. Dans notre tradition islamique il l’est davantage dans sa version écrite (...). La poésie n’est pas nouvelle dans la tradition scripturale islamique. Nos devanciers sont Ibn Thâbbit, lui que le Prophète (ASWS) autorisa à faire la poésie pour vanter les mérites de l’islam naissant, Ibn Rushdie, Ibn Arabî, Abû Ahmad Al-Ghazali, Muhayyid-Dine Rûmi, entre autres, qui ont magnifié Allah (SWT) par la plume. L’heure est grave pour le monde musulman. Notre foi est essaimée et attaquée de toutes parts par toutes sortes de défis visant à la noyer dans l’océan du discrédit, de la dérision, ...
Les études réunies ici ne se veulent pas exhaustives, exclusives et hyper-objectives comme certains intellectuels sont prompts à qualifier leurs réflexions pourtant par essence subjectives. Cependant, elles n’ont point manqué de pointer du doigt les responsabilités et les responsables de la tragédie ivoirienne. Aussi, les contributions se veulent-elles toutes prescriptives au sens de tirer la sonnette d’alarme pour le futur aussi bien immédiat que lointain afin que la bombe tribalo-religieuse, pour emprunter cette expression de la star reggae Seydou Koné alias Alpha Blondy, soit désamorcée. Les temps ont peut-être changé, mais les mentalités de défiance, et toujours empreintes des attitudes qui conduisirent à la crise, persistent.
This book is a series of refelctions conducted on the Ivoirian crisis as well as the reasons and the people behind it.
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
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