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China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

The Baobab Grows

By: Kobus Jonker,Bryan Robinson

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China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

The Baobab Grows

By: Kobus Jonker,Bryan Robinson

This book provides the first comprehensive academic study of what China's trade with, and investment in, African countries mean for the socio-economic well-being of the continent. Based on the African Tree of Organic Growth Framework developed in the book, Jonker and Robinson outline the factors necessary in realizing Africa's Renaissance vision and the impact that the Chinese might have on this process. Using the metaphor of the Baobab tree, the authors analyze the historical, cultural and economic contexts within African countries, the channels available to produce development and growth, and the fruits or social and economic well-being created by this integrated process. The book takes readers on a journey of numerous African examples and case studies, describing and analyzing the challenges and complexities of countries in their desire to achieve organic, cultural, scientific and economic renewal, and the improvement of the well-being of their citizens. This book will be of great value to economists, people who wish to do business in Africa, China-watchers, those who are following the development and growth of Africa, and more.

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Springer

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9811301794

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9789811301797

Churches in the mirror

Developing contemporary ecclesiologies

By: Kobus Schoeman

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Churches in the mirror

Developing contemporary ecclesiologies

By: Kobus Schoeman

Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local practices of actual congregations. The ecclesiology or, more correctly, the ecclesiologies of this volume mainly focuses on the second aspect, i.e., understanding the local congregation or parish as a community of believers. A congregation may firstly be described by posing a theological question: What is the local missional church or congregation all about? This question may be answered from different perspectives, but it remains essential to answer it from a theological perspective. The first five chapters in this book focus mainly on a theological understanding of the congregation. This is done from different disciplines within the study field of theology. Congregations are, secondly, social realities and should be described and analysed through an analytical or empirical lens, or, to answer the question attached to the first empirical-descriptive task of practical theology, “What is going on?”. The remaining chapters use a quantitative and qualitative lens and give an empirical analysis of the congregation. The intention is to critically reflect on the church and congregations’ ecclesiology from a theological and analytical perspective with an emphasis on the South African context. It wants to map markers for the development of contemporary ecclesiologies, and the different chapters are meant as mirrors to look in and reflect on the theological and contextual relevance of denominations and congregations in South Africa.

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UJ Press

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1928424716

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9781928424710

A Book of Rooms

By: Kobus Moolman

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A Book of Rooms

By: Kobus Moolman

Kobus Moolman has published six previous collections of poetry, and several plays. He has been awarded the Ingrid Jonker prize, the PANSA award, the South African Literary Award, the DALRO poetry prize and the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry award. He teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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African Books Collective

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1928476201

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9781928476207

China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

The Baobab Grows

By: Kobus Jonker,Bryan Robinson

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A Book of Rooms

By: Moolman, Kobus

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By: Moolman, Kobus

There is a wide window with pale green curtains, facing onto Burger Street and the provincial offices of the Department of Transport There are two doors that lead, one outside onto the front stoep with its cracked and broken red tiles, the other into a long and dark passage with a dusty wooden floor and a dead light bulb that is never replaced There is the same old pine desk with four drawers filled with unopened NBS bank statements and old school exercise books he had bought because the girl with the red hair, who had a boyfriend waiting for her at home, had told him that all real writers keep notebooks for their profound thoughts and ideas But since he had never had any profound thoughts and ideas (or the discipline to be still and listen for them) the books are still sealed in their brown paper wrapping

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Deep South

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0987028243

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9780987028242

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China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

Churches in the mirror

Churches in the mirror

A Book of Rooms

A Book of Rooms

China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

China’s Impact on the African Renaissance

A Book of Rooms

A Book of Rooms

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