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SOUTH AFRICA

Book Review

Book Review

AFRICA GENERAL

Book Review

SOUTH AFRICA

Book Review

AFRICA GENERAL

Book Review

WEST AFRICA

Book Review

SOUTH AFRICA

Book Review

Keyword

  • African Studies Keyword: Science

  • Damien Droney
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 November 2024, pp. 1-21
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  • Vernacular discourse about science reveals theorizations of it as a power-laden, morally charged experimentation with the world guided by (often implicit) ethical orientations. Applying these vernacular theorizations to interpret professional class science on the continent, the author argues that this science has been shaped most profoundly by the politics of independence. While indigenous projects, European imperialism, and neoliberalism shape scientific institutions, African independence continues to inform the moral and political ends toward which science is thought to work. Understanding the alignment of professional class science with nation-building can help guide the recalibration of science toward the goal of substantive independence.

AFRICA GENERAL

Book Review

Scholarly Review Essay

  • Apartheid South Africa: The Narratives of Three Different Nationalistic Survivors

  • J. Chidozie Chukwuokolo
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    21 November 2024, pp. 1-9
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  • The apartheid experience in South Africa was a horrendous one for mankind, in which humans unleashed all sorts of evil on one another due to unfounded categorization based on color. This led to a superiority complex where a class saw another as not worth the treatment their dogs received. The fact is that black color was an adaptive one, given the environment of the possessors; the melanin which is the pigmentation that makes the skin black is meant to prevent the skin from cancer emanating from radiations from the sun. It shouldn’t be a thing of social disequilibrium. Following the release of Nelson Mandela from jail in 1990 and the demise of the apartheid system of rule, South Africa became a free country, which provided the ground for South Africans and others to embark on penning books of personal histories of these painful experiences under apartheid.

Erratum

  • Pathways to Peace – ERRATUM

  • Anna Chitando, Vincent Chenzi
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    18 November 2024, p. 1
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  • “Watch Your Tone!”: Music and Meaning in Bobi Wine’s “Tugambire ku Jennifer” and the Kampala Street Vendors

  • Charles Lwanga
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    14 November 2024, pp. 1-21
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  • Music enhances participation in emerging democracies where the rights of association, assemblage, and and the freedom of expression are suppressed by the state apparatus meant to guarantee them in the first place. Ugandan Afropop musician and politician, Robert Kyagulanya (aka Bobi Wine), composed the song “Tugambire ku Jennifer” (Tell Jennifer on Our Behalf), which articulated the social aspirations of Kampala’s street vendors. The song’s meaning does not begin and end with the composer’s intent but stretches to its effects on the listeners. Analyzing meaning through the lens of speech act theory provides an understanding of what music means when it simultaneously reflects and shapes society.

WEST AFRICA

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AFRICA GENERAL

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WEST AFRICA

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

Book Review

NORTH AFRICA

Book Review

Scholarly Review Essay

  • Conceptualizing Africa

  • Melvin E. Page
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    30 October 2024, pp. 1-4
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  • A gathering of African intellectuals in 2016—Ateliers de la Pensée I [Workshops of Thought]—aimed to be a “renewal of French-speaking Afro-diasporic critical thinking; it also served as an impetus for generating new perspectives concerning … Africa’s future” (2). Somewhat ironically, the participants—some of whose essays appear in To Write the Africa World—seem to have widely accepted one key idea as a significant part of their thinking: double consciousness. First clearly articulated more than a century before by W.E.B. Dubois, that awareness reverberates through many of their twenty-one collected articles. Yet only one among them, Hourya Bentouhami, actually mentions “DuBois’s reflections” on the subject, describing them “as a strange and painful cognitive disjunction … in the dialogue of the soul with itself”(125). Another contributor, Benaouda Lebdai, instead credits Sudanese born British writer Jamal Maljoub with integrating “his status of being double” as part of his authorial identity (53). Other writers of essays included in the book merely assume an understanding of the concept as fundamental to their thought and, perhaps more importantly, in conveying a concept of Africa to the wider world.

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Film Review

  • Joël Akafou. After the Crossing (Traverser). 2020. 77 minutes. French. VraiVraiFilms.

  • Sasha Newell
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    30 October 2024, pp. 1-2
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