Le Memorial Des Saints de la Qadiriyya Fadiliyya
by Cheikh Talibouya Niang
Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, EmigrE Croatians, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies. Even as the creators of official history jealously guarded the right to produce historical texts, alternative histories survived and on occasion even prospered in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China. Contes...
Building on the legacy of Writing Culture, Critical Anthropology Now vividly represents the changing nature of anthropological research practice, demonstrating how new and more complicated locations of research-from the boardrooms of multinational corporations to the chat rooms of the Internet-are giving rise to shifts in the character of fieldwork and fieldworker.
This work comments on three decades of development theory, discusses the determinants of the course of its evolution and decline, and exemplifies it from the viewpoint of a leading participant in the debate. The author suggests that the African experience has some lessons to teach about the real meaning of uncontrolled capitalist development on a global scale.
African Narratives of Orishas, Spirits and Other Deities - Stories from West Africa and the African Diaspora
by Alex Cuoco
To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in his essay Okey Ndibe explores the country that draws conflicting emotions from him through the memory of his grandfather's life and the histories that ma...
The Obasinjom Warrior. The Life and Works of Bate Besong
by Emmanuel Fru Doh
Africa Inside Out - an anthology of stories, tales and testimonies - challenges the global newscast, daily, nightly, of an Africa of dictatorships, starvation and disease. Writers inside and outside the continent were invited by Time of the Writer Festival instead to respond to an Africa of the now: an Africa inescapably part of contemporary world culture. In seeking to portray an Africa that goes against the stereotype, writers pushed boldly against literary expectation. Responses range from qu...
African Literature, Mother Earth and Religion (Series in Literary Studies)