Global Africa : into the twenty-first century / Dorothy Hodgson, Judith Byfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgson, Dorothy Louise.

Contributor:

Byfield, Judith, editor.

Hodgson, Dorothy, editor.

Series:

Global square ; 2.

Global Square ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Africa--21st century.

Globalization.

National characteristics, African.

Africa--Economic conditions--21st century.

Africa.

Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

Africa--Politics and government--21st century.

Africa--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world-from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly original view of a continent at the center of global historical processes rather than on the periphery. Global Africa offers fresh, complex, and insightful visions of a continent in flux.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

0.1 Why Global Africa? / Hodgson, Dorothy L. / Byfield, Judith A.

Part I . Entangled Histories

1.1 PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences / Ogunnaike, Oludamini

1.2 Trade and Travel in Africa's Global Golden Age (AD 700-1500) / Fauvelle, François-Xavier

1.3 Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie / McDougall, E. Ann

1.4 Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550-1600 / Garofalo, Leo J.

1.5 "From the Land of Angola": Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650 / Proctor, Frank Trey

1.6 "Ethiopia Shall Stretch" from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris / Carton, Benedict / Vinson, Robert Trent

1.7 Africans in India, Past and Present / Modi, Renu

Part II. Power and Its Challenges

2.1 PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power / Scully, Pamela

2.2 Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement / Hakim, Adi

2.3 Mwalimu Nyerere as a Global Conscience / Chachage, Chambi

2.4 Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March / Mogaka, Stephen / Ndegwa, Stephen

2.5 Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa's TRC / Malotane Henkeman, Sarah / Whande, Undine

2.6 Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa / Tafirenyika, Masimba

2.7 Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization / Monson, Jamie / Xiaoyang, Tang / Shaonan, Liu

2.8 The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa / Cock, Jacklyn

Part III. Circulations of Communities and Cultures

3.1 PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster / Byfield, Judith A.

3.2 Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange / Rovine, Victoria

3.3 Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China / Haugen, Heidi Østbø

3.4 PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China / Pelican, Michaela / Dong, Li

3.5 The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o / Ngugi, Mukoma Wa

3.6 African Soccer's Global Story / Alegi, Peter

3.7 Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi / Clarke, Christa

3.8 Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa / Salime, Zakia

Part IV. Science, Technology, and Health

4.1 PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh / Giles-Vernick, Tamara

4.2 The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa / Webb, Douglas

4.3 Generative Technologies from Africa / Eglash, Ron

4.4 "Money in Your Hand": M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya / Mahoney, Dillon

4.5 What's in Your Cell Phone? / Smith, James H.

4.6 Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing / Wynberg, Rachel

4.7 Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia / Darwish, Siad

Part V. Africa in the World Today

5.1 PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim / Reid, Stuart

5.2 From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate / Matashane-Marite, Keiso

5.3 Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art / Greenberg, Kerryn

5.4 Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa / Okome, Onookome

5.5 Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States / Babou, Cheikh Anta

5.6 Afropolitanism and Its Discontents / Ndaba, Obadias

5.7 PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model "Utopian" Community in Ethiopia / Mekuria, Salem

About the Editors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780520962514

0520962516

OCLC:

985461385