Hip-Hop in Africa

Hip-Hop in Africa
Author: Msia Kibona Clark
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0896805026

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa’s biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African narratives of social, political, and economic realities. Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems. She also details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa following its emergence in the United States, assessing the impact of urbanization and demographics on the spread of hip-hop culture. Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its artists as well as a timely examination that pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions. Accessibly written by one of the foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will easily find its place in the classroom.

Shaping the Future of Power

Shaping the Future of Power
Author: Lina Benabdallah
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 047212689X

China’s rise to power is one of the biggest questions in International Relations theory (IRT) and foreign policy circles. Although power has been a core concept of IRT for a long time, the faces and mechanisms of power as it relates to Chinese foreign policymaking has changed the contours of that debate. The rise of China and other powers across the global political arena sparks a new visibility for different kinds of encounters between states, particularly between China and other Global South states. These encounters are more visible to IR scholars because of the increasing influence that rising powers have in the international system. This book shows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or investment strategies of Euro-American hegemons. Instead, they have distinctive features that require new theoretical frameworks for analysis. Shaping the Future of Power probes the types of power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa. One must take into account the processes of knowledge production, social capital formation, and skills transfers that Chinese foreign policy directs toward African states to fully understand China’s power-building mechanisms. The relational power framework requires these elements to capture both the material aspects and ideational people-centered aspects to power. By examining China’s investments in human resource development programs for Africa, the book reveals a vital, yet undertheorized, aspect of China’s foreign policy making.

Consciousness and Moral Responsibility

Consciousness and Moral Responsibility
Author: Neil Levy
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198704631

Neil Levy presents a new theory of freedom and responsibility. He defends a particular account of consciousness—the global workspace view—and argues that consciousness plays an especially important role in action. There are good reasons to think that the naïve assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral responsibility, is in fact true.

Democracy in Ghana

Democracy in Ghana
Author: Jeffrey W. Paller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316513300

A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.

Constraining Dictatorship

Constraining Dictatorship
Author: Anne Meng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108834892

Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.

Colonialism by Proxy

Colonialism by Proxy
Author: Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253011655

Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim civilization rather than carriers of the white man's burden. Stressing that this type of Indirect Rule violated its primary rationale, Colonialism by Proxy traces contemporary violent struggles to the legacy of the dynamics of power and the charged atmosphere of religious difference.

13000+ Swedish - Swahili Swahili - Swedish Vocabulary

13000+ Swedish - Swahili Swahili - Swedish Vocabulary
Author: Jerry Greer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
Total Pages: 402
Release:
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

""13000+ Swedish - Swahili Swahili - Swedish Vocabulary" - is a list of more than 13000 words translated from Swedish to Swahili, as well as translated from Swahili to Swedish.Easy to use- great for tourists and Swedish speakers interested in learning Swahili. As well as Swahili speakers interested in learning Swedish.

Dawn of the Akashic Age

Dawn of the Akashic Age
Author: Ervin Laszlo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1620551527

A preview of the post-mechanistic, holistic world in 2020 and 2030 as well as a map of the obstacles we must overcome to get there • Reveals how the youngest generation is seeding the shift in consciousness • Explains how society will be reorganized into grassroots networks like those revealed by quantum physics and experienced through social media • With contributions from futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, and other visionaries The world is changing. The transition from the mechanistic worldview to one that recognizes the interconnectedness of all life is upon us. It is the dawning of the Akashic Age. The Akashic field that connects the universe is now recognized by cutting-edge science. What we know about communication, energy, and consciousness is rapidly evolving in tandem with the new quantum worldview. Many adults are consciously evolving to meet the transitional challenges at hand, while today’s youth have arrived already hard-wired with the new consciousness. Rising from the ashes of the old systems, this Phoenix generation of radical change agents is seeding our evolution and spiritual transformation, a process that will continue over the next few decades. Authors Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley Dennis look at the chief engine of the coming changes--the growing global understanding of nonlocality--and the development of practical applications for it. They examine how the new values and new consciousness taking hold will reorganize society from top-down hierarchies into grassroots networks like those revealed through quantum physics’ understanding of energy and information waves and experienced daily by millions through social media. With contributions from visionary thinkers such as futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, systems scientist Alexander Laszlo, and spiritual economist Charles Eisenstein, this book explores the future of education, spirituality, the media, economics, food, and planetary citizenship as well as the expansion of consciousness necessary to reach that future.

Psychedelic Consciousness

Psychedelic Consciousness
Author: Daniel Grauer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1644110318

An examination of the use of psychedelics for understanding ourselves, connecting with the world around us, and enacting outer change through inner transformation • Explores sacred tools and technologies to help us reestablish a lost ideology of unity, with a specific focus on natural plant/fungi psychedelics • Looks at the history of psychedelics and their role in facilitating natural intelligence’s ability to increase itself through ongoing analysis of its own experience • Provides guidelines for safely using natural plant/fungi psychedelics and integrating them into society to access unified consciousness and restore balance to our world Our ecological, social, and political issues all stem from the ideologies that drive our collective actions. In contrast to our innate humanity, which is rooted in unity, these ideologies have led us to believe that we are separate from each other, separate from nature, and separate from the results of our actions. Such a worldview encourages individuals to maximize self-interest, which then causes fragmentation, conflict, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources. Offering practical steps that we can take to heal ourselves and our fragmented world, author Daniel Grauer explores the use of sacred tools and technologies, such as natural psychedelics, meditation, and yoga, in order to reestablish an ideology of unity, work in symbiotic harmony with the Earth, and restore our world as a sustainable and prosperous whole. Grauer explains how individuals--and by extension societies--benefit from safely accessing transcendent states of consciousness, such as those provided by psychedelics. He explores how psychoactive substances have been used throughout history all over the world for healing, personal growth, spiritual development, and revealing hidden truths, such as in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Soma practices in Vedic India, and rituals in several South American indigenous cultures. Drawing on the plant intelligence work of Paul Stamets and Stephen Buhner, Grauer shows that the growth of individual and collective intelligence is hindered by the prohibition of psychedelics, which naturally foster humanity’s capacity for analysis, innovation, and cooperation. In addition to creating a sense of unity with all things, psychedelics offer the mind a new perspective from which to analyze its experience and heighten its awareness. Drawing on his own experience and research, Grauer provides guidelines for how to safely use natural plant/fungi psychedelics in order to access the unified consciousness of our ancestors and induce the states of awareness we need to restore natural harmony to our world.

15000+ Spanish - Swahili Swahili - Spanish Vocabulary

15000+ Spanish - Swahili Swahili - Spanish Vocabulary
Author: Jerry Greer
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
Total Pages: 478
Release:
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

""15000+ Spanish - Swahili Swahili - Spanish Vocabulary" - is a list of more than 15000 words translated from Spanish to Swahili, as well as translated from Swahili to Spanish.Easy to use- great for tourists and Spanish speakers interested in learning Swahili. As well as Swahili speakers interested in learning Spanish.