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3 wrz 2024 · This chapter examines how the cultural diversity of the nations that comprise the Horn of Africa have contributed to its rising significance in the twenty-first century as globalization has continued to progress.
28 lis 2020 · The chapter suggests that African nations will have to address the question of how to domesticate both the concepts of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘heritage’ to make them appropriate for the needs of the continent and its constituent parts.
In Volume 2, we are introduced to African societies and cultures in all of their richness and diversity. Coming of age, family values, changing gender roles, rites of passage, the search for identity in the modern world, and many other aspects of African life are skillfully woven into a coherent narrative under the overarching themes of ...
27 gru 2021 · This article proposes that there is a gap in our current understanding of the globalising and deglobalising dynamics of mid-twentieth-century East Africa, one that might be addressed by consolidating and taking forward recent developments in the historiography of decolonisation.
9 paź 2018 · This chapter provides an introduction to the volume and summarizes the arguments advanced by the contributors. The central argument is that the lot of the average African citizen has, in several respects, followed the same path from colonial exploitation to...
17 lis 2020 · The first section of this article takes stock of and discusses four interrelated challenges of African Studies: (1) the field’s domination by outside, non-African, mostly Western scholars; (2) a tendency towards undifferentiated views on “Africa” with an often strongly negative tone; (3) a neglect of methodologies that focus on causal ...
15 mar 2019 · Our study has shown that for some countries in Africa, it is now possible to use data on national culture. In others, it is not. Every country and ethnolinguistic group will have to be examined on its own merits.
