Global Africa

Into the Twenty-First Century

Dorothy Hodgson, Judith Byfield (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28736-5 (ISBN)

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Global Africais a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world-from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly original view of a continent at the center of global historical processes rather than on the periphery. Global Africa offers fresh, complex, and insightful visions of a continent in flux.

Dorothy L. Hodgson is Professor of Anthropology and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School - New Brunswick at Rutgers University. Judith A. Byfield is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University.

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Acknowledgments

0.1 • Why Global Africa?
Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield

PART I.
ENTANGLED HISTORIES

1.1 • PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences
Oludamini Ogunnaike

1.2 • Trade and Travel in Africa’s Global Golden Age (AD 700–1500)
François-Xavier Fauvelle

1.3 • Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie
E. Ann McDougall

1.4 • Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550–1600
Leo J. Garofalo

1.5 • “From the Land of Angola”: Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650
Frank Trey Proctor III

1.6 • “Ethiopia Shall Stretch” from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris
Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson

1.7 • Africans in India, Past and Present
Renu Modi

PART II.
POWER AND ITS CHALLENGES

2.1 • PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power
Pamela Scully

2.2 • Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement
Hakim Adi

2.3 • Mwalimu Nyerere as Global Conscience
Chambi Chachage

2.4 • Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March
Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa

2.5 • Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa’s TRC
Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande

2.6 • Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa
Masimba Tafirenyika

2.7 • Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization
Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan

2.8 • The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa
Jacklyn Cock

PART III.
CIRCULATIONS OF COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES

3.1 • PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster
Judith A. Byfield

3.2 • Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange
Victoria Rovine

3.3 • Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China
Heidi Østbø Haugen

3.4 • PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China
Michaela Pelican and Li Dong

3.5 • The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Mukoma Wa Ngugi

3.6 • African Soccer’s Global Story
Peter Alegi

3.7 • Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi
Christa Clarke

3.8 • Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa
Zakia Salime

PART IV.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH

4.1 • PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh
Tamara Giles-Vernick

4.2 • The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa
Douglas Webb

4.3 • Generative Technologies from Africa
Ron Eglash

4.4 • “Money in Your Hand”: M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya
Dillon Mahoney

4.5 • What’s in Your Cell Phone?
James H. Smith

4.6 • Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing
Rachel Wynberg

4.7 • Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia
Siad Darwish

PART V.
AFRICA IN THE WORLD TODAY

5.1 • PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim
Stuart Reid

5.2 • From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate
Keiso Matashane-Marite

5.3 • Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art
Kerryn Greenberg

5.4 • Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa
Onookome Okome

5.5 • Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States
Cheikh Anta Babou

5.6 • Afropolitanism and Its Discontents
Obadias Ndaba

5.7 • PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model “Utopian” Community in Ethiopia
Salem Mekuria

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Global Square ; 2
Zusatzinfo	40 b-w photos and 2 maps, scat
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-28736-3 / 0520287363
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28736-5 / 9780520287365
Zustand	Neuware