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Weighing the Cost of Pin-making: Ulli Beier in Conversations is a compilation of Ulli Beier’s interviews with Rowland Abiodun, Chinua Achebe, Ibrahim El Salahi, Richard Olaniyan, Sophie Oluwole, Biodun Jeyifo and the 1986 Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka.Included are two interviews Beier granted to Olu Obafemi and Femi Bodunrin respectively, and prefaces by two award-winning authors, Lucia Birnbaum and Niyi Osundare.
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determination in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. it implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one's will by any means available. In relations between peoples, the question of power determines maneuverability in bargaining, the extent to which a people survive as a physical and cultural entity. When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society, that in itself is a form of underdevelopment.
When We Ruled is a landmark publication superbly illustrated with high quality photographs, maps and drawings. It provides an extraordinary and cutting-edge synthesis of the of the archaeological data, the documentary evidence, and the historical linguistic research. When We Ruled recounts the fascinating story of the origin and development of indigenous civilizations across the vast panorama of the African continent.
This collection of essays brings together new and exciting research on Yvonne Vera, one of Zimbabwe’s most influential writers. Vera’s landmark fiction explores subjects previously considered taboo such as incest, abortion, and infanticide. It also re-presents her country’s troubled past from the perspectives of ordinary people rather than official history-makers and politicians. The essays range widely across Vera's work including her five novels, her short fiction and her edited anthology of women’s writing.
Women character portraiture in Achebe’s novels has been seen from the widely explicit inferiority that marks her being. She is schooled from infancy to be docile and be satisfied with being voice-less even in matters that affect her or her children directly. The overall picture of women is one of weakness and self-effacement. This image stuck especially from the background of Achebe’s objective to present real heroes in the culture that is not what Josef Konrad depicted in Heart of Darkness. The story of Things Fall Apart is of Okonkwo and a society of men where women were relegated to the background of domesticity and motherhood and where if they offered any opposition however feeble, they were beaten to submission and silence. True but that did not reflect the whole story.
Metals, and especially iron, are critical factors of production and destruction and deeply embedded in social relations and cultural life. In the Mandara Mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria, anthropological research over a period of six decades has generated a rich body of data that stimulates exploration of the multi-facetted and complex relationship between technology, society and culture. Metals in Mandara Mountains’ Society and Culture is the collaborative product of researchers from six nations, all with long and ongoing experience of the mountains and their multi-ethnic montagnard inhabitants. It is unique in that it explores the implications of metallurgy for society and culture from points of view that together add up to a regional and multidisciplinary mosaic in which the results of their various approaches—ethnographic, archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and social anthropological— throw light upon each other.
In Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews were attributed with dishonorable status because of their perceived dissociation from the land. Yet they derived their self-ascribed honor from their link with Israel, expressed through their name: Beta Israel (“House of Israel”).
In the Israeli context, the Beta Israel’s association with Ethiopia constitutes both a limiting factor to their honor, leading to a concern among Beta Israel with the image of their ethnic group, and constitutes also a medium for the pursuit of honor. It is in these terms, and in its concern to progress, that the Beta Israel Band of Porachat Ha Tikva (Blossoming Hope) is viewed as a microcosm of Beta Israel society in Israel.
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“[In this collection] Ahmed asks us to know ourselves between the fixity of what we want, and the placelessness of where we are: to wander in a diaspora full of meaning, looking at ourselves in all our inarticulateness:
To know the donkey’s opinion
One must--
Would you not say?—
Consult with the donkey’s bray
To read these poems, then, is a long consultation with the donkey’s bray.And as they reverberate back to us, we are reminded of the thing that we cannot see, and reminded that the horizon of the imagination is not our ultimate goal, but what we live with: the necessary conversation that we must have with ourselves...
This book presents a range of innovative and creative methods which have recently been developed in the conduct of migration research in several African countries.
While migration out of Africa has become the subject of growing interest and concern, there has been much less research into patterns of international migration within the continent, only a small fraction of which may result in journeys to Europe, North America and beyond. This dearth of research has been due to limited institutional capacity, the short-term policy agendas of international organisations, and the absence or poor nature of official statistics.
This is the story of Syoum Gebregziabher, who has had an ambitious drive to succeed in life demonstrated by a determined pursuit of education in the United States, and then using his expertise to try and improve the conditions of life in his birth place of Ethiopia. He served the imperial state of Haile Selassie and also the subsequent military junta - the Derg. In both times he tried to change conditions that were archaic and implement progressive administrative ideas in their place. Syoum Gebregziabher's story - ranging from childhood to his mature years - is rich in detail and full of intrigue, suspense and striving by an African determined to survive the many hurdles of life.
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