Critical dimensions of African studies : re-membering Africa / edited by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters.
| Other author | De Maio, Jennifer L., editor. |
| Other author | Scheld, Suzanne, editor. |
| Other author | Spencer-Walters, Tom editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023. |
| Description | xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters -- Tom Spencer-Walters: Intellectual Freedom Fighter / by Selase W. Williams -- Terms Matter: The Use of "Tribe" in African Studies / by Jennifer L. De Maio and Daniel N. Posner -- Speaking Africa: Re-Membering Africa through Language, Culture, and Aesthetics / by Sheba Lo -- "Africa for the Africans" Garvey & African Transnationality: The Idea of Flexible Citizenship / by W. Gabriel Selassie I -- "Back Home This Never Would Have Happened": Imagining Tradition and Modernity Among Ugandan Pentecostals in Los Angeles / by Kevin Zemlicka -- Bumuntu Humanism and "Values Discourse": Reflection on the Importance of African Studies in Our Tumultuous Time / by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha -- "Working the Past:" Memory, Language, and Echoes of Slavery in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa / by Raquel Kennon -- The Power of Memory and Language: Counter-Stories as Oppositional Remembering / by Renee M. Moreno -- Marché Sandaga: The Language of the Built Environment in Remembering and Re-Membering / by Suzanne Scheld -- Africa's Adult Literacy Landscape in The Age of Globalization: A Path to Increased Access and Change / by Daphne W. Ntiri -- Remembering Africa: Memory and The Narrative Imagination in the Polio Survivor's Experience / by Rodney B. Hume-Dawson -- Reconciling Traditional and Nontraditional Approach to Mental Health Services: African Diaspora Experience / by Senait Admassu, Kofi Peprah, and Edwin Aimufua -- Conclusion -- Afterword / by Tom Spencer-Walters. |
| Abstract | "Critical Dimensions of African Studies emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Critical dimensions of African studies Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2023 9781666917246 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023020215 |
| ISBN | 9781666917239 |
| ISBN | 1666917230 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |