Autore	Mentan Tatah
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Mankon, Bamedna, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (507 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	303.4826
Soggetto topico	Globalization - Africa Postcolonialism - Africa Imperialism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9956-764-22-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	part I. Prolegomena to the colonial ages of empire-old and new -- Introduction and summary -- On colonial empire : theoretical situatedness -- part II. Africa in the old colonial age of empire -- The cotton empire of slavery, racism and resistance -- Africa in the old empire of territorial colonization -- Africa : legacies of old colonial age of empire -- part III. Africa in the new colonial age of empire -- Africa between independence and neocolonial age of empire -- Africa in the neoliberal colonial age of empire -- Africa in the colonial age of globalization empire -- Part IV. Back to the future and exiting the colonial ages of empire -- Reprise, summary, and conclusion -- Which way Africa-towards Africa-exit from colonial empire?
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910468022003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Athens, : Ohio University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina	300
Altri autori (Persone)	CrearyNicholas M
Collana	Ohio University Research in international studies. Africa series
Soggetto topico	Postcolonialism - Africa African literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-89680-486-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; Part I: representation and retrospection We need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: Malcolm X's political lessons for today -- / George Hartley -- Nkrumah/Lumumba: representations of masculinity / Janet Hess -- Trauma and narrativity in Adichie's Half of a yellow sun: privileging indigenous knowledge in writing the Biafran War / Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán -- ; Part II: decolonizing public spheres: conflicts and negotiations -- The emergent self in South African Black consciousness literary discourse / T. Spreelin Macdonald -- The public life of reason: orchestrating debate in postapartheid South Africa / Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton -- Setting the agenda for decolonizing African media systems / Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi -- The African renaissance and discourse ownership: challenging debilitating discourses on africa / Steve Odero Ouma -- ; Part III: decolonizing knowledge: intellectual imperatives and epistemic dialogues -- Decolonization and the practice of philosophy / Tsenay Serequeberhan -- Beyond gender centric models: restoring motherhood to Yoruba discourses of art and aesthetics / Oyeronke Oyewumi.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452966403321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Athens, : Ohio University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina	300 306.096
Altri autori (Persone)	CrearyNicholas M
Collana	Ohio University Research in international studies. Africa series
Soggetto topico	Postcolonialism - Africa African literature - History and criticism
ISBN	0-89680-486-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; Part I: representation and retrospection We need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: Malcolm X's political lessons for today -- / George Hartley -- Nkrumah/Lumumba: representations of masculinity / Janet Hess -- Trauma and narrativity in Adichie's Half of a yellow sun: privileging indigenous knowledge in writing the Biafran War / Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán -- ; Part II: decolonizing public spheres: conflicts and negotiations -- The emergent self in South African Black consciousness literary discourse / T. Spreelin Macdonald -- The public life of reason: orchestrating debate in postapartheid South Africa / Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton -- Setting the agenda for decolonizing African media systems / Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi -- The African renaissance and discourse ownership: challenging debilitating discourses on africa / Steve Odero Ouma -- ; Part III: decolonizing knowledge: intellectual imperatives and epistemic dialogues -- Decolonization and the practice of philosophy / Tsenay Serequeberhan -- Beyond gender centric models: restoring motherhood to Yoruba discourses of art and aesthetics / Oyeronke Oyewumi.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910810147403321

Autore	Drame Patrick P.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Montreal, [Quebećbec] : , : Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations, tables
Disciplina	320.96
Soggetto topico	Postcolonialism - Africa
ISBN	979-1-03-650181-4 2-7606-3809-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	fre
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910467100703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bamenda, [Cameroon] : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (330 p.)
Disciplina	960
Soggetto topico	Indigenous peoples - Africa Postcolonialism - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; List of Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1 - Rethinking African Indigenous Knowledges and World Civilisations: Pasts, presents and the Futures; Introduction; Background to Africa, world civilisations, and knowledge development; A guide through the book; References; Chapter 2 - Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Management in Africa: Some showcases from Zimbabwe; Introduction; Objectives and methodological issues: A brief overview; Understanding indigenous knowledge; The use of indigenous knowledge in Zimbabwe Showcases of indigenous knowledge for disaster risk prediction and mitigationWhy the hour hand is ticking towards modern science?; Recommendations; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 - An Evaluation of African Traditional Scientific Knowledge and Technological Devices; Introduction; The Backwardness of Traditional Africa; A brief history of Africa's backwardness; African science and technology in the pre-colonial era; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 - Indigenous Knowledge, Conflation and Post-colonial Translation: Lessons from Fieldwork in Contemporary Rural Zimbabwe; Introduction Overview on Indigenous knowledge, animism and translationThe worlds, entities and knowledge practices related to droughts and rains; Meteorological Sciences and Connections in the Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Brief Note; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 - Traditional Healers and Medicine in South Africa: A Quest for Legal and Scientific Recognition; Introduction; Background to the use of Traditional Medicine in South Africa; Challenges to the use of Traditional Medicine in South Africa; Traditional Medicine in post-Apartheid South Africa; Critique of the Act No. 22 of 2007 The prospects of traditional medicine and its practitioners in South AfricaConclusion; References; Chapter 6 - A History of Pre-colonial and Colonial Wildlife Conservation in Ghana; Introduction; Conservation; Wildlife Conservation in Pre-Colonial Times; Wildlife Preservation Laws and the creation of Game Reserves during the colonial era; The Appointment of a Game Warden and Establishment of a Wildlife Department; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 - 'Sheep in Sheep's Clothing or Wolves in Sheep's Clothing?' Interventions by Non-state Actors in a Changing Climatic Environment in Rural Zimbabwe IntroductionUnderstanding Non-State Actors (NSAs); NSAs interventions in Zimbabwe's rural communities: A case of Zvishavane Rural; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 - Religion and the Restoration of Health in Africa: A Case Study of the Traditional Akan People of Ghana; Introduction; Methodology; Who are the Akan?; Medicine among the Akan; Who is a traditional medical practitioner?; The nexus between Religion and Medicine; The Akan etiology of illness; The Akan medical practitioner and the 'Germ Theory'; The prospects of indigenous/traditional medicine in Ghana today; Conclusion; References Chapter 9 - Indigenous Knowledge and the Management of Ecological Resources for Africa's Development
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463488203321