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Relocating Agency

Modernity and African Letters

By: Olakunle George

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Relocating Agency

Modernity and African Letters

By: Olakunle George

2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Combining a sustained critical engagement of Anglo-American theory with focused close-readings of major African writers, this book performs a long-overdue cross-fertilization of ideas among poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and African literature. The author examines several influential figures in current theory such as Habermas, Althusser, Laclau and Mouffe, as well as the theorists of postcolonialism, and offers an extended reading of the Nigerian writers D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. He argues that contrary to what the purism and voluntarism common to postcolonial theory might suggest, one lesson of African letters is that significant agency can result from acts that are blind to their determinations. For George, African letters offer an instance of "agency-in-motion," as opposed to agency in theory.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487768

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9780791487761

Zones of Conflict in Africa

Theories and Cases

By: George Klay Kieh,Ida Rousseau Mukenge

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Zones of Conflict in Africa

Theories and Cases

By: George Klay Kieh,Ida Rousseau Mukenge

Torn by ongoing civil and military violence, Africa presents a challenge to scholars interested in the root causes of conflict. Each conflict is unique, but overall they exhibit common patterns. The contributors of this book employ an eclectic array of current explanations of civil strife and how to resolve it. The first half of the book provides the relevant theoretical background. Theories of conflict and conflict resolution, the larger context of African strife in Africa, and patterns and trends of conflict are discussed. Shifting from the general to the particular, the remaining chapters of this volume gauge the accuracy and usefulness of the current thinking on conflicts by grounding it in case studies drawn from the Great Lakes Region, Liberia, Nigeria, and Zambia.

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188

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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0275974472

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9780275974473

Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

This book provides a meticulous examination of the work of playwright Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It considers the question of individualism—or its extreme form, solipsism—on the one hand, and activism or a social conscience on the other. Theatrical innovation is another key concern. It deconstructs the ruling histories, historiography and performance analysis of the time as irremediably tainted by a ferocious post-independence nation-statism. This is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, resistance, resilience, struggle, signification and survival; a theatre born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship, and incarceration. For the very first time, Serumaga’s work is examined in its entirety and afforded the room, complexity and scope it requires and deserves. For the very first time, too, scholars of the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre will have to make no more than a single stop in their search for what were hitherto scattered tidbits and sources of Uganda’s theatre history.

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300

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527528936

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9781527528932

Popular Media in Kenyan History

Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors

By: George Ogola

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Popular Media in Kenyan History

Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors

By: George Ogola

The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and informal interpenetrate, how the past and present are reconciled, and how the local and transnational collide but also collude in the making of the Kenyan identity.

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190

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Springer

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3319490974

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9783319490977

Ethno-erotic Economies

Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

By: George Paul Meiu

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Ethno-erotic Economies

Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

By: George Paul Meiu

Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases for long-term relationships. George Paul Meiu uses his deep familiarity with the communities these men come from to explore the long-term effects of markets of ethnic culture and sexuality on a wide range of aspects of life in rural Kenya, including kinship, ritual, gender, intimate affection, and conceptions of aging. What happens to these communities when young men return with such surprising wealth? And how do they use it to improve their social standing locally? By answering these questions, Ethno-erotic Economies offers a complex look at how intimacy and ethnicity come together to shape the pathways of global and local trade in the postcolonial world.

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324

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University of Chicago Press

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022649120X

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9780226491202

Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language

By: George Petrie

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Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language

By: George Petrie

Including notes on subject, date, script, decoration and linguistic features, this two-volume collection of Irish-language inscriptions appeared in 1872-8.

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259

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Cambridge University Press

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1108080146

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9781108080149

Regenesis

How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

By: George M Church,Edward Regis

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Regenesis

How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

By: George M Church,Edward Regis

A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life. In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms. These technologies-far from the out-of-control nightmare depicted in science fiction-have the power to improve human and animal health, increase our intelligence, enhance our memory, and even extend our life span. A breathtaking look at the potential of this world-changing technology, Regenesis is nothing less than a guide to the future of life.

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305

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Basic Books

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0465038654

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9780465038657

African Christian God-talk

Matthew Ajuoga's Johera Narrative

By: George F. Pickens

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African Christian God-talk

Matthew Ajuoga's Johera Narrative

By: George F. Pickens

Pickens (mission and cultural studies, Kentucky Christian College) examines Matthew Ajuoga's description of his role in the development of a very significant African-Initiated Church (AIC) and the story of his life and Christian experience. Ajuoga, a key figure in the East African Revival of the late 1950s, was a leader in the establishment of the Church of Christ in Africa-Johera, along with 16,000 former Anglican communicants and a handful of priests in Kenya. Pickens has collected and presented Ajuoga's largely oral Johera Narrative, complete with commentary and resources, which heretofore had only been available within Ajuoga's immediate religious community. In doing so Pickens has not only illuminated the largely unnoticed AIC movement but also created a template for similar work by scholars working with nontraditional primary sources. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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University Press of America

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0761829210

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9780761829218

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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

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Popular Media in Kenyan History

Popular Media in Kenyan History

Ethno-erotic Economies

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Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language

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