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Arabic literature of Africa.
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ISSN: 01699423 ISBN: 9004104941 9004094504 9004109382 9004124446 9789004260382 9789004302600 9789004302617 9786610463923 1423710959 1280463929 9047401328 9789004109384 9789004508514 9789004094505 9789004104945 9781423710950 9789047401322 9789004124448 9781280463921 6610463921 Year: 2003 Volume: 13 Publisher: Leiden New York E.J. Brill


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Francophone Afropean literatures
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ISBN: 9781781380345 1781380341 9781781385906 1781385904 1781387184 9781781387184 Year: 2014 Volume: 5(2014) Publisher: Liverpool

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What does Afro-Europe signify? This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European society, culture and history. Through the different contributions in this volume, readers will discover the symbiotic ways in which Africa has transformed/been transformed (in/by) Europe and in turn how Africanness has (re)defined Europeanness. To this end, the volume places scholarly articles addressing the relationship between the francophone and Afro-European context alongside new, specially commissioned short stories and essays by some of the most critically-acclaimed and influential producers of Afropean writing today: Fatou Diome, Alain Mabanckou, Léonora Miano, Wilfried N'Sondé, Sami Tchak and Abdourahman Waberi. Works by these authors are discussed in and across the scholarly interventions, generating dialogue around what it means to be 'Francophone' and 'Afropean' in the twenty-first century. At a time when it is no longer easy to define what Europe really is, this book considers to what extent the category 'Afropean' may prove helpful in improving our understanding of the complex ways in which minority communities conceive of identity in Europe today and address the range of issues impacting them. The notion of 'Afropeanism' is of course relatively new, and this book does not claim to offer an exhaustive analysis of the term's usage and/or potential pertinence. Rather, the cultural, political, and social circumstances of Europe today are reflected in discussions surrounding the term and perhaps not surprisingly, in the diverse and diverging perspectives adopted by the scholars and creative writers in this volume.

The African diaspora
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ISBN: 9780231144704 9780231513555 9780231144711 0231144717 0231513550 0231144709 1282897764 9781282897762 9786612897764 6612897767 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a g


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How colonialism preempted modernity in Africa
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ISBN: 1282539817 9786612539817 0253003970 9780253003973 0253353742 9780253353740 0253221307 9780253221308 9781282539815 661253981X Year: 2010 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought modernity to Africa, Olmi Two claims that Africa was already becoming modern and that colonialism was an unfinished project. Africans aspired to liberal democracy and the rule of law, but colonial officials aborted those efforts when they established indirect rule in the service of the European powers. Two looks closely at modern


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Journal of African Cultural Studies
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ISSN: 13696815 14699346

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The Journal of African Cultural Studies is an international journal providing a forum for perceptions of African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to African scholarship. It focuses on dimensions of African culture including African literatures both oral and written, performance arts, visual arts, music, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender. It has evolved from the journal African Languages and Cultures, founded in 1988 in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Although the journal no longer carries articles on African languages that are primarily linguistic in character, it remains strongly interested in the languages of Africa as channels for the expression of their culture. All views expressed are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editors.

Ancient Egypt in Africa
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ISBN: 1315435004 1315435012 1598747568 1843147580 9781843147589 9781598747560 9781844720002 1844720004 1844720004 9781598742053 9781315435015 9781315434988 9781315434995 9781138404328 1315434997 Year: 2003 Publisher: London UCL

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Geographically, Egypt is clearly on the African continent, yet Ancient Egypt is routinely regarded as a non-African cultural form. The significance of Ancient Egypt for the rest of Africa is a hotly debated issue with complex ramifications. This book considers how Ancient Egypt was dislocated from Africa, drawing on a wide range of sources. It examines key issues such as the evidence for actual contacts between Egypt and other early African cultures, and how influential, or not, Egypt was on them. Some scholars argue that to its north Egypt's influence on Mediterranean civilization was do

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