The Narrative of Africa Rising

Changing Perspectives

Darlingtina K. Esiaka, Jamaine Abidogun (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5851-5 (ISBN)

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Throughout time, African civilizations have manoeuvred and negotiated successfully to maintain their societies and ensure cultural continuity despite encountering expanding trade, foreign invasion, and imposition of colonial and neocolonial states. The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives evaluates the discourse on “Africa Rising” through representative case studies to create a complex and layered account of Africa’s struggles to rise above challenges and conflict in the twenty-first century. Using empirical data and field observations, editors Darlingtina K. Esiaka and Jamaine Abidogun measure Africa’s complex and uneven development over time to provide insight into how Africans across the continent utilize indigenous socio-political economic processes in the face of neocolonial “nation state” systems that routinely fail them. Africa’s twenty-first century rise is erratic as it struggles to undo the damage of colonialism and to fight neocolonial exploitation, but what stands the test of time are African civilizations’ sophisticated societal institutions that continue to vie for the wellbeing of their citizens.

Darlingtina K. Esiaka is assistant professor in the Center for Health Equity Transformation and Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Jamaine Abidogun is professor emeritus in the History Department at Missouri State University.

List of Figures

Introduction: Is Africa Rising: Competing Narratives

– Darlingtina K Esiaka

Chapter 1: DR Congo Rising? A Case Study Exploring the Africa Rising Narrative

– Ashley E Leinweber

Chapter 2: Parliamentary Power in a New East Africa

– Ryan Gibb

Chapter 3: Terrorism and Ethnic Violence in Northwest Africa: Recent Developments along the Mali-Libya Axis

– Stephen Harmon

Chapter 4: The Evolution of the Political Influence of the Buganda Muslim Community, 1844―1900

– Brenda McCollum

Chapter 5: Enacting Feminine Respectability: Unpacking a Wardrobe of Malinké, Islamic and Western Styles in Guinea

– Erin Kenny

Chapter 6: Exploring Intergenerational Perceptions and Negotiations of Social Support in Nigeria

– Kafayat Mahmoud

Chapter 7: Abe J. B. Desmore at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935―1936: Catalyst to Political Eclipse and Exile, Research in Progress

– Richard S. Glotzer

Conclusion: Reflections on Africa: Rising or Falling

– Jamaine Abidogun

About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
Co-Autor	Ryan Gibb, Richard S. Glotzer, Stephen Harmon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-6669-5851-4 / 1666958514
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-5851-5 / 9781666958515
Zustand	Neuware