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Author | : Michael Veal |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781439907689 |
Musician, political critic, and hedonist, international superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created a sensation throughout his career. In his own country of Nigeria he was simultaneously adulated and loathed, often by the same people at the same time. His outspoken political views and advocacy of marijuana smoking and sexual promiscuity offended many, even as his musical brilliance enthralled them. In his creation of afrobeat, he melded African traditions with African American and Afro-Caribbean influences to revolutionize world music. Although harassed, beaten, and jailed by Nigerian authorities, he continued his outspoken and derisive criticism of political corruption at home and economic exploitation from abroad. A volatile mixture of personal characteristics -- charisma, musical talent, maverick lifestyle, populist ideology, and persistence in the face of persecution -- made him a legend throughout Africa and the world. Celebrated during the 1970s as a musical innovator and spokesman for the continent's oppressed masses, he enjoyed worldwide celebrity during the 1980s and was recognized in the 1990s as a major pioneer and elder statesman of African music. By the time of his death in 1997 from AIDS-related complications, Fela had become something of a Nigerian institution. In Africa, the idea of transnational alliance, once thought to be outmoded, has gained new currency. In African America, during a period of increasing social conservatism and ethnic polarization, Africa has re-emerged as a symbol of cultural affirmation. At such an historical moment, Fela's music offers a perspective on race, class, and nation on both sides of the Atlantic. As Professor Veal demonstrates, over three decades Fela synthesized a unique musical language while also clearing -- if only temporarily -- a space for popular political dissent and a type of counter-cultural expression rarely seen in West Africa. In the midst of political turmoil in Africa, as well as renewal of pro-African cultural nationalism throughout the diaspora, Fela's political music functions as a post-colonial art form that uses cross-cultural exchange to voice a unique and powerful African essentialism.
Author | : Emmanuel Fru Doh |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9956579874 |
Shadows, as the title insinuates, splits open and lays bare the frightening vision of humanity, the heart of man depressed, a veritable inferno in which there is little to be enjoyed and everything to be endured, as all is vanity, a gnawing emptiness. Nothing is but what it seems. Simple but without being simplistic, there is in the damp climate of Doh's poetry broken promises, displaced emotional centres, a pervading sense of doom, of impending disaster, and a total helplessness reminiscent of Plato's proverbial mythical cave in which all reality is but shadow, devoid of substance, with the observer chained to the walls of his feelings, beliefs, and unfulfilled ambitions. The second section, 'Celebration', is, however, a source of warmth, of light, the sun's rays in an otherwise damp and and dark collection.
Author | : Holger G. Ehling |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042014862 |
Includes articles, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.
Author | : Mustapha Anako |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2022-03-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1665554940 |
If you have ever been curious about the Nigerian Pidgin English language used by Nigerians—also called “9ja” (nine-jar) by Nigerian youth—this is the book for you. It will give you a good foundation on the intrinsic facts you need to know to appreciate Nigerian Pidgin English, its organic development, and how to use it to communicate sufficiently like a Nigerian. You will also gain insight into the plight faced by the everyday Nigerian, their achievements both at home and on the world stage, and some famous people with Nigerian lineage.
Author | : Jean Muteba Rahier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135316872 |
This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.
Author | : Daniel John-Sor̦inolu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Yoruba language |
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Author | : Sefi Atta |
Publisher | : Interlink Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 162371009X |
Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper headlines in a range of Nigerian voices. Men, women, and children speak out to us from these stories, from immigration centers and police barracks, from street corners and maternity wards. Ghanaian writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali says, Sefi Atta "writes like one who has lived the life of each single character in her dazzling collection of short stories."
Author | : Peter McKenzie |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2023-08-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004664688 |
Orisha worshippers who were not subjected to forced migration to the Americas in the nineteenth century remained their own masters, inhabiting cities, towns and farm villages in their West African kingdoms. This study uses documentation from Yoruba writings and from the written record of European missionaries to describe the various facets of their religious life. Arranged in the form of a phenomenology, the work deals with such matters as the veneration of the environment; carved images of the divine; the orisha celebrated in festival, worship and sacrifice; systems of divination; female and male religious specialists; and the protean divinities themselves. The comprehensive use of archival material will ensure the abiding value of this historical picture of the orisha, useful for comparisons with the present day.
Author | : Romanus Aboh |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1920033343 |
Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities ethnic, cultural, national and gender are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. This approach enables the author to engage with the novels, to illuminate the link between the ways Nigerians use language and the identities they construct. Being a context-driven analysis, this book critically scrutinises literary language beyond stylistic borders by interrogating the micro and macro levels of language use, a core analytical paradigm frequently used by discourse analysts who engage in critical discourse analysis.
Author | : James Tooley |
Publisher | : Cato Institute |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-08-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 193970913X |
Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart of education. This book follows Tooley in his travels from the largest shanty town in Africa to the mountains of Gansu, China, and of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and learning to save themselves. Now in paperback with a new postscript, The Beautiful Tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in some of the world's poorest communities. It is a book about what is going right, and powerfully demonstrates how the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can be found in every corner of the globe.