African Cultural Values
Author | : Kwame Gyekye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kwame Gyekye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An introductionto African culture - its literatures, arts,and values.
Author | : Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030705501 |
This book charts technological developments from an African ethical perspective. It explores the idea that while certain technologies have benefited Africans, the fact that these technologies were designed and produced in and for a different setting leads to conflicts with African ethical values. Written in a simple and engaging style, the authors apply an African ethical lens to themes such as: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the moral status of technology, technology and sexual relations, and bioethics and technology.
Author | : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1546296670 |
This notwithstanding, over the years, the African culture in all its manifestations became the bulls eye for attack especially during the Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, Racism. During these periods, Europe dealt coup de grace to the African personality, to his is-ness, by destroying the African cultural values. They disrespected African peculiarities, languages enriched with traditions of centuries, parables, many of them the quintessence of family and national histories; modes of thought, influenced more or less by local circumstances, local poetry which reveals the profundity of African literary wizardry. A lot of these were altered against the background that the African in all his susceptibilities is an inferior race and that it is needful to give him a foreign model beacon to emulate and follow. In our time of globalization, bringing about a new sweep of changes on the African cultural values, a more careful, historically grounded interpretation of the cultural changes occurring on the continent is, therefore, needed and for it to be useful, it should enable us to transcend the narrow and narrowing parameters that currently dominate the discourse on the processes and structures of change occurring in contemporary Africa. This piece is a great accomplishment by African scholars to do a grounded hermeneutics of the structures of changes taking place in Africa. The different chapters are the fruits of the 2018 International Conference of the Association for the Promotion of African Studies (APAS). The authors, like artists, combine originality with insightful imagination. They have carefully treated the historical, conceptual, basic and substantive issues in cultural change in Africa. Their coherent, systematic and encyclopedic approaches have the capacity to expand the intellectual and professional horizon of its readers.
Author | : Oluwaseun Tella |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 100040224X |
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry and Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, Kenya’s sport diplomacy, fashion and tourism industries, and finally Egypt’s Pan-Arabism and its reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria’s Omolúwàbí, South Africa’s Ubuntu, Kenya’s Harambee, and Egypt’s Pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003176022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author | : Joseph Mbele |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 141162341X |
This book discusses differences between African and American culture, to help prevent cultural miscommunications which might poison or ruin relationships between Africans and Americans. I am lucky to have lived in both Africa and America, and I feel priviledged and obliged to share my views and experiences with others.
Author | : Uche Lynn-Teresa Ugwueze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : African American families |
ISBN | : 9781433117527 |
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192802488 |
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author | : John S. Mbiti |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-01-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1478628928 |
In his widely acclaimed survey, John Mbiti sheds light on the survival and prosperity of African Religion in different historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, and physical environments. He presents a constellation of African worldviews, beliefs in God, use of symbols, valued traditions, and practices that have taken root with African peoples throughout the vast continent. Mbiti’s accessible writing style sympathetically portrays how African Religion manifests itself in ritual, festival, healing, the human life cycle, and interplay with the mystical and invisible world. The account embraces foundational traditions, while touching on elements that spawn transitions, including migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, political-economic development, and modern communication. This popular introduction leaves readers with informed knowledge of the riches of African heritage.
Author | : Nwabuisi Iroaga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2015-05-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781329107212 |
This book describes the village structure, moral values etc of the Ohuhu Clan of the Igbo race of Nigeria.