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African culture and global politics : language, philosophies, and expressive culture in Africa and the diaspora / edited by Toyin Falola and Danielle Porter Sanchez.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Africa Conference (Tex.) (2011 : University of Texas at Austin)
- Series:
- Routledge African studies ; 15.
- Routledge African studies ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, African.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Globalization.
- International relations.
- Civilization.
- Africa--Civilization--Political aspects--Congresses.
- Africa.
- Africa--International relations--Congresses.
- Globalization--Africa--Congresses.
- Authors, African--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
- Contents:
- Ideologies of development in French Algeria : Saint-Simonians, manifest destiny and globalization / Emma Deputy
- Islam and the politics of assimilation in French colonial Algeria / Dino Palaj
- Theorizing conflict and conflict resolution in African philosophical discourse / Oladele Abiodun Balogun
- The emergent church in Africa and the phenomenon of reverse missions / Kelvin Onongha
- Africa's unheralded contributions to world politics / Kunirum Osia
- Failed state or political inspiration? / Kathleen R. Smythe
- A parallel evolution : the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, 1968-1994 / Myra Ann Houser
- Ensuring that Africa's voice is heard in international forums in the future : the language issues involved / Ann Albuyeh
- Strongmen and strategists : perspectivising models of conflict resolution in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart and Anthills of the savannah / Alexander Kure
- Antjie Krog's Country of my skull, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the new South Africa / Michael Sharp
- Evangelism as political protest in nineteenth century African diaspora : appraising Julia Foote's spiritual autobiography, A brand plucked from the fire / Samantha Earley
- 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
- African and African-Brazilian family and kinship in nineteenth-century Brazil / Isabel Cristina Ferreira dos Reis
- A global education : Cold War networks, imperial angst and the development of Tanzanian schools, 1960-1970 / Timothy Nicholson
- Race and social islands in Kenya's urban social spaces / Brillian Besi Muhonja
- Zoot suiters and sapeurs : the politics of dress in the World War II era / Danielle Porter Sanchez
- Democratizing traditional rulership and the question of women traditional rulers : a comparison of Nigeria and South Africa / F.A. Olasupo.
- Notes:
- "This volume is the product of the 2011 Africa Conference at the University of Texas, the theme of which was Africa and World Politics"--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415713021
- 9780415713023
- OCLC:
- 853494194
- Publisher Number:
- 99961452776
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