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Global Africa : into the twenty-first century / edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global square ; 2.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xii, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520287358 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520287365 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC800 .GLO 2017
Contents:
Entangled histories -- Power and its challenges -- Circulations of communities and cultures -- Science, technology, and health -- Africa in the world today.
Summary: "Global Africa will complicate conventional views of Africa as a place of violence, despair and victimhood--a place and space that other people, states, and organizations act on and steal from. Instead, they aim to document some of the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made in the world--not just in the United States, but in South Asia, Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. They will showcase new framings of Africa, but will not romanticize the conditions and circumstances in which too many people on the continent currently live. The essays in this volume will amplify those voices that offer complex and insightful explanations, strategies for solutions, and inspiration for the future."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Entangled histories -- Power and its challenges -- Circulations of communities and cultures -- Science, technology, and health -- Africa in the world today.

"Global Africa will complicate conventional views of Africa as a place of violence, despair and victimhood--a place and space that other people, states, and organizations act on and steal from. Instead, they aim to document some of the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made in the world--not just in the United States, but in South Asia, Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. They will showcase new framings of Africa, but will not romanticize the conditions and circumstances in which too many people on the continent currently live. The essays in this volume will amplify those voices that offer complex and insightful explanations, strategies for solutions, and inspiration for the future."--Provided by publisher.

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