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By Banning Eyre
Published: 27 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7542-5
... Rise Up Africa Calling Murambatsvina Legends of Zimbabwe ...
Published: 27 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375425-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7542-5
... in Harare, claiming they were illegally purchased. Though his musical output has now slowed, Mapfumo continues to produce new work, notably the album Rise Up , released on Peter Gabriel’s RealWorld records and coordinated with an appearance at the 2006 Live 8: Africa Calling concert in the United Kingdom...
Published: 21 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375548-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... The calls for capitalism with an ethic were nowhere more pronounced or more passionate than in the 1970s debate about economic disengagement from South Africa. It was surprising to many that a black executive at a large Fortune 500 company was taking the “divestment” side of the debate rather...
Book Chapter

By Banning Eyre
Published: 27 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7542-5
... musical output has now slowed, Mapfumo continues to produce new work, notably the album Rise Up , released on Peter Gabriel’s RealWorld records and coordinated with an appearance at the 2006 Live 8: Africa Calling concert in the United Kingdom. Rise Up Africa Calling Murambatsvina Legends...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 26 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059424-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5942-4
... to adulthood. While variations of initiatory rituals are found throughout West and West Central Africa, five phases—call, wilderness seclusion, instruction from tutors or guides, physical impression, and communal reintegration, or covenant—represent a general model and provide the organizational structure...
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027188-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... that education can improve these conditions. And in her 2016 speech, “Women's Rights and Human Rights in Africa,” she highlights the challenges that women in Africa still face regarding secondary education, health care, sexual violence, and politics. feminism empowerment womanhood education ...
Series: Errantries
Published: 10 May 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059455-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9400-5
... Part 2, “Remains of Revolution,” turns to how people opposed the accumulation of remains, explored in part 1, through four intersecting spatiotemporal moments in South Africa's revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, a revolution that was and was not. The first moment is explored in chapter 6...
Book: Brutalism
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 24 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027720-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2772-0
... and to articulate a critique of contemporary materialism. This allows us to relativize the dominant nature-artifice polarity of the West's thinking on technology and open the way to what Africa has been the sign of throughout the centuries—that of potential humanity and of the future object. politics...
Published: 21 July 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373636-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7363-6
... This chapter connects local danger and ngoma’s bravado to the network of national violence that dramatically charged the notions of masculine Zuluness during South Africa’s transition, 1990–94. It focuses on ngoma lyrics composed in response to national struggle, and on the variations...
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By Bill Anthes
Published: 04 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374992-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7499-2
... with indigenous artists in South Africa and North America, and a 2013 photomural permanently installed in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Nation. These artworks are contextualized in terms of what Anishnaabe writer Gerald Vizenor has called “survivance,” a neologism that brings together the terms “survival” and “resistance...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... rain as well as ancestor spirits called nzumbi. The chapter also discusses how and why Palmaristas may have incorporated “evil” practices associated with the Imbangala in West Central Africa in order to forge community and defeat rivals. African religion spiritual terror comparative historical...
Published: 22 July 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375357-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7535-7
... Africa, Europe, and other parts of the Middle East, these couples have reached Conceive through global networks of referral, and are attracted to this IVF clinic because of its medical cosmopolitanism, or clinical care delivered across national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural boundaries...
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By Swanee Hunt
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373568-051
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7356-8
..., political icons, and women's activists, it highlights what is unique about this country's women leaders, but also how their masterful strategies can be applied elsewhere in Africa, in other postconflict societies, and in any country that lags on gender parity (such as the United States). Debunking myths...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375852-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7585-2
...—as extension of Europe, Africa, Asia, and other global geographies and histories, as well as a location where various kinds and types and embodiments of freedom and unfreedom emerge—identifies it as a place where the cosmo-political takes route in all the messiness of ethnicity and raciological thinking...
Published: 29 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060321-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6032-1
... that continues to shape black/ened life in postapartheid South Africa. vulnerability feminized labor trauma slow death ...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373230-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7323-0
... and practices, produced the Black Man as an animal presence, a site of savage exteriority. But Black reason as Black consciousness painted Africa as homeland or strange land, responsibility and opportunity, and found its voice in written histories and revolutionary activity. Today biopolitical warfare...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... in their lives. Rooted within more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, this essay analyzes the music tracks and political worldviews of American desi rappers who forge connections across nations and religions to identify with other Brown youth in North Africa and the Middle East. “Muslim-looking” rappers...
Published: 15 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060062-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6006-2
.... Through multisited archives and oral history interviews, The Second Battle for Africa reconfigures the history of global Garveyism, the US heartland, and the African Diaspora. Diasporic Midwest Black nationalism Midwestern Garveyite Front global Garveyism ...
Published: 21 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
...The 1990s<subtitle>Moral Lessons from South Africa</subtitle> This chapter describes the author’s transformation from consummate activist to the lead American diplomat in South Africa. It had been a long journey for Nelson Mandela, who went from prison to president, but it was no small step...
Published: 21 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... in Tuscaloosa and continued in Claremont. corporate ethics social capital beyond grantmaking domestic bribery political payoffs The calls for capitalism with an ethic were nowhere more pronounced or more passionate than in the 1970s debate about economic disengagement from South Africa...