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Author: Kwasi Konadu
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781937306663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking study tells the story of a West African people, the origins and character of their cultural forms and ideas, and how these Akan, or "pioneering peoples," shaped the politics and societies of their homeland as well as the European colonies in the Americas that received their enslaved members since the sixteenth century.
Author: Kwasi Konadu
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1478005637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers Dᴐnkᴐ's life story and experiences in a communography of Dᴐnkᴐ's community and nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial Ghana's cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious parochialism. Although Dᴐnkᴐ touched the lives of thousands of citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take their cues from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.
Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1975-09-18
Total Pages: 764
ISBN-13: 9780521204132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume looks at developments in Africa during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author: Kwasi Konadu
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1937306496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories, archival documents, and visual evidence, the book connects those experiences to local and international slaving systems. It also tackles the themes of commodification, capitalism, abolitionism, and reparations. By integrating these views with critical interpretations, Transatlantic Africa balances intellectual rigor with broad accessibility, helping readers to think anew about how transoceanic slaving made the modern world
Author: Kwasi Konadu
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1787388883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century—the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today’s world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to grasp the complexities of modernity’s gestation.
Author: KEVIN SHILLINGTON.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1908
ISBN-13: 1135456704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Riches
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 871
ISBN-13: 1316194116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the Bible's role in the modern world - beginning with a treatment of its production and distribution that discusses publishers, printers, text critics, and translators and continuing with a presentation of new methods of studying the text that have emerged, including historical, literary, social-scientific, feminist, postcolonial, liberal, and fundamentalist readings. There is a full discussion of the changes in understandings of and approaches to the Bible in various faith communities. The dissemination of the Bible throughout the globe has also produced a host of new interpretations, and this volume provides a comprehensive geographical survey of its reception. In the final chapters, the authors offer a thematic overview of the Bible in relation to literature, art, film, science, and other disciplines. They demonstrate that, in spite of challenges to the Bible's authority in western Europe, it remains highly relevant and influential, not least in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107198321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
Author: Walther Manshard
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789280806366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →UN publication sales no. E.88.III.A.4
