Critical dimensions of African studies : re-membering Africa / edited by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Maio, Jennifer L., editor.

Scheld, Suzanne, editor.

Spencer-Walters, Tom, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora--Study and teaching (Higher).

African diaspora.

Africa--Study and teaching (Higher).

Africa.

Africa--History--1960-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

Contents:

Introduction / by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters

Tom Spencer-Walters: Intellectual Freedom Fighter / by Selase W. Williams

Terms Matter: The Use of "Tribe" in African Studies / by Jennifer L. De Maio and Daniel N. Posner

Speaking Africa: Re-Membering Africa through Language, Culture, and Aesthetics / by Sheba Lo

"Africa for the Africans" Garvey & African Transnationality: The Idea of Flexible Citizenship / by W. Gabriel Selassie I

"Back Home This Never Would Have Happened": Imagining Tradition and Modernity Among Ugandan Pentecostals in Los Angeles / by Kevin Zemlicka

Bumuntu Humanism and "Values Discourse": Reflection on the Importance of African Studies in Our Tumultuous Time / by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha

"Working the Past:" Memory, Language, and Echoes of Slavery in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa / by Raquel Kennon

The Power of Memory and Language: Counter-Stories as Oppositional Remembering / by Renee M. Moreno

Marché Sandaga: The Language of the Built Environment in Remembering and Re-Membering / by Suzanne Scheld

Africa's Adult Literacy Landscape in The Age of Globalization: A Path to Increased Access and Change / by Daphne W. Ntiri

Remembering Africa: Memory and The Narrative Imagination in the Polio Survivor's Experience / by Rodney B. Hume-Dawson

Reconciling Traditional and Nontraditional Approach to Mental Health Services: African Diaspora Experience / by Senait Admassu, Kofi Peprah, and Edwin Aimufua

Conclusion

Afterword / by Tom Spencer-Walters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Critical dimensions of African studies

ISBN:

9781666917246

1666917249

Publisher Number:

40031940242

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.