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
PublicationLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023.
Descriptionxvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Critical dimensions of African studies Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2023 9781666917246
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LCCN 2023020215
ISBN9781666917239
ISBN1666917230 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book