UID:
almahu_9949384202002882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780429015144
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0429015143
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9780429506710
,
0429506716
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9780429015151
,
0429015151
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9780429015137
,
0429015135
Series Statement:
Global Africa ; 11
Content:
Africa's modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century where European countries conquered and subsequently balkanized Africa and shared the continent to European powers; and to the postcolonial era where many African leaders have maintained several instruments of exploitation, the continent has seen different forms of encounters, exploitations and oppressions. These encounters and exploitations have equally been met with resistance in different forms and at different times. The mode of Africa's encounters with the rest of the world have in several ways, shaped and continue to shape the continent's social, political and economic development trajectories. Essays in this volume have addressed different aspects of these phases of encounters and resistance by Africa and the African Diaspora. While the volume document different phases of oppression and conflict, it also contains some accounts of Africa's resistance to external and internal oppressions and exploitations. From the physical guerilla resistance of the Mau Mau group against British colonial exploitation in Kenya and its aftermath, to efforts of the Kayble group to preserve their language and culture in modern Algeria; and from the innovative ways in which the Tuareg are using guitar and music as forms of expression and resistance, to the modern ways in which contemporary African immigrants in North America are coping with oppressive structures and racism, the chapters in this volume have examined different phases of oppressions and suppressions of Africa and its people, as well as acts of resistance put up by Africans.
Note:
Introduction: Phases of oppression and resistance /
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Emerging African women writing the diaspora /
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Acts of culture: similarities between Amílcar Cabral's Unity and struggle and Walter Rodney's The groundings with my brothers /
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Ali Mazrui's analytical penchant for the dialectics: intellectual creativity and the explanatory potency of Mazruiana /
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Heroes are usually honored: hip hop's revival of Dedan Kimathi /
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The lasting cultural impact of the Haitian revolution in the Spanish Caribbean /
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Emerging trajectories in the Niger Delta struggle /
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Kabyle resistance & Berber oppression /
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From gun to guitar: the performance of Tuareg nationalism /
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African reconstruction (or reinvention) in confederate and neo-colonial landscapes of the twenty-first century /
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Transcending violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through art /
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Faith-based and African traditional perspectives in conflict transformation and resolution /
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African "communal" ritual as tool for conflict transformation /
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Conclusion /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Oppression and resistance in Africa and its diaspora. New York : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138583498
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429506710
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429506710
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