African Mind, Culture, and Technology
Author | : Yamikani Ndasauka |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031629795 |
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Author | : Yamikani Ndasauka |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 3031629795 |
Author | : Yamikani Ndasauka |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783031629785 |
This book provides a philosophical investigation of technology in Africa, articulating conceptual foundations and analyses rooted in African worldviews and communitarian values. It aims to spur discourse and understanding of how technology can be justly shaped for human advancement in Africa. Yamikani Ndasauka highlights the need to understand African conceptions of existence, ethics, and values as foundations for envisioning more humanistic technological applications. A historical contextualisation traces the layered origins of African technology philosophy in indigenous innovation, resistant adaptation of external systems, and creative fusion of endogenous and exogenous knowledge. The book develops African frameworks to assess and design technology in accord with human dignity and collective advancement.
Author | : Jack Sislian |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781560728153 |
Each essay looks at an African concept, attitude or person, or a combination of these, and hopes to stimulate further reading and reflection on the reader's part."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Willie E. Abraham |
Publisher | : London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson [c1962] |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kingsley I. Owete |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9789785197013 |
Author | : Laurence J. Kirmayer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 683 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1108580572 |
Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience, and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.
Author | : V. Tarikhu Farrar |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1793606439 |
The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.
Author | : Meki Nzewi |
Publisher | : African Minds |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1920051651 |
The 1st three volumes present material in a modular approach. Each volume presents progressively more advanced concepts in the categories: musical structure and form, factors of music appreciation, music instruments, music and society, research project, musical arts theatre, school songs technique, and performance. The 4th volume is a collection of essays. The 5th volume contains printed music.
Author | : Dickson Mungazi [Deceased] |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1996-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031339055X |
The violent colonization of Africa by European nations toward the end of the 19th century—a colonization justified by theories about the African Mind promulgated in the Age of Reason—had a profound impact upon the mind of Black Africa. After World War II, the mind of Black Africa rebelled; this rebellion led to a struggle for the self. After Africans achieved political independence, the new African leaders betrayed their own people. Africans now have the responsibility of restoring and reaffirming their true inheritance—the mind of Black Africa.
Author | : Curtis Keim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429974620 |
For many Americans the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, strangely dressed "tribesmen," and impenetrable jungles. Although the occasional newspaper headline mentions authoritarian rule, corruption, genocide, devastating illnesses, or civil war in Africa, the collective American consciousness still carries strong mental images of Africa that are reflected in advertising, movies, amusement parks, cartoons, and many other corners of society. Few think to question these perceptions or how they came to be so deeply lodged in American minds. Mistaking Africa looks at the historical evolution of this mind-set and examines the role that popular media plays in its creation. The authors address the most prevalent myths and preconceptions and demonstrate how these prevent a true understanding of the enormously diverse peoples and cultures of Africa.Updated throughout, the fourth edition covers the entire continent (North and sub-Saharan Africa) and provides new analysis of topics such as social media and the Internet, the Ebola crisis, celebrity aid, and the Arab Spring. Mistaking Africa is an important book for African studies courses and for anyone interested in unravelling American misperceptions about the continent.