The Making of the African Road

The Making of the African Road
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004339043

The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.

Tomorrow Is Another Country

Tomorrow Is Another Country
Author: Allister Sparks
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226768557

He concludes with a vivid assessment of the problems facing South Africa in the new era.

Ghana on the Go

Ghana on the Go
Author: Jennifer Hart
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253023254

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.

Jazz on the Road

Jazz on the Road
Author: Christopher Wilkinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520229835

In addition to providing a vivid account of life on the road and imparting new insight into the daily existence of working musicians, this book illustrates how the fundamental issue of race influenced Albert's life, as well as the music of the era."

Red Road to Freedom

Red Road to Freedom
Author: Tom Lodge
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 184701321X

Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa.

The Bright Continent

The Bright Continent
Author: Dayo Olopade
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0547678339

“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters). Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs driven by kanju—creativity born of African difficulty. It’s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa’s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world. “[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension.” —The New Yorker “A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —The New York Times Book Review

Roads Through Mwinilunga

Roads Through Mwinilunga
Author: Iva Peša
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2019-07-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004408967

Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archival and oral history sources, Iva Peša shows the relevance of Mwinilunga to broader processes of colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation. Through a focus on daily life, this book complicates transitions from subsistence to market production and dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Roads through Mwinilunga is a crucial addition to debates on historical and social change in Central Africa.

Stony the Road We Trod

Stony the Road We Trod
Author: Cain Hope Felder
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 1506472044

A hallmark of American Black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. Stony the Road We Trod accomplishes this--and much more. This expanded edition contains a new introduction and three new essays that underscore the historic importance of this book for a new generation.

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Author: Beth Tompkins Bates
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807835641

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

The Famished Road

The Famished Road
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1529114918

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE ‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’ The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story. ‘In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child’ Michael Palin