Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature, Washington Teresa N.
Автор: Washington Teresa N. Название: The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action! ISBN: 0991073061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991073061 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10700.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action is a probing and politically timely collection of essays, interviews, speeches, poetry, short stories, and proposals. These rich works illuminate the struggles, triumphs, impediments, objectives, and diversity of the contemporary African world.
The African World in Dialogue contains five sections: " Listen: The Ink Speaks"; "Restitutions, Resolutions, Revolutions"; "Africanity, Education, and Technology"; "Life Lines from the Front Lines"; and "Gender, Power, and Infinite Promise." Each section brims with provocative and compelling insights from elder-warriors, wordsmiths, journalists, and academics, many of whom are also activists.
The volume's contributors include Tunde Adegbola, Muhammad Ibn Bashir, Jacqueline Bediako, Charlie Braxton, Alieu Bundu, Baba A. O. Buntu, Chinweizu, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Oyinlola Longe, Jumbe Kweku Lumumba, Morgan Miller, Asiri Odu, Chinwe Ezinna Oriji, Kevin Powell, Blair Marcus Proctor, Ishola Akindele Salami, Aseret Sin, Teresa N. Washington, and Ayoka Wiles. The book also features interviews with Hilary La Force, Mandingo, Kambale Musavili, and Prince Kuma N'dumbe.
With selections designed to critique and in many cases upend conventional political thought, educational norms, fantasies of social progress, and gender myths, The African World in Dialogue challenges its audience. The book's "Appeal to Action" is literal: Rather than offering eloquent elaborations of African world woes, The African World in Dialogue offers detailed plans and paths for emancipation and elevation that readers are urged to implement.
Activists and scholars of African studies, African American studies, Pan-Africanism, criminal justice, Black revolutionary thought and action, gender studies, sociology, and political science will find this book to be both inspirational and indispensable.
With her first book, Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our d104s: Manifestations Aje in Africana Literature, Teresa N. Washington reveals the Pan-African power and profundity of Aje and its myriad sister systems in Pan-African literature and culture. In The Architects of Existence: Aje in Yoruba Cosmology, Ontology, and Orature, Washington undertakes an in-depth exploration of Aje's Yoruba Gods, origins, and manifestations to reveal the force's vast depth, complexity, and scope. By analyzing diverse sources, including published studies, historical texts, divination verses, and interviews with Yoruba wisdom keepers, Washington elucidates the multifaceted and complex nature of Aje and reveals the power to be extraordinarily profound, influential, and logical. Washington's meticulous exposition of Aje includes chapters on the multifold power of Odu, the Great Mother; Aje's signs, symbols, and orders of operation; manifestations of Aje in the Odu Ifa; the roles of Aje in Yoruba secret societies and sacred institutions; and the impact of Aje on some of the Yoruba world's most influential sons, including Olatubosun Oladapo, Wole Soyinka, Toyin Falola, and Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The Architects of Existence is a groundbreaking study that will be essential reading for scholars of Yoruba Studies, Philosophy, African Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and Comparative Religions. Scholars, initiates, and practitioners of Yoruba spiritual arts and sciences will find this book to be indispensable.
