Global Africa : into the twenty-first century /
"Global Africa will complicate conventional views of Africa as a place of violence, despair and victimhood--a place and space that other people, states, and organizations act on and steal from. Instead, they aim to document some of the significant global connections, circulations, and contribut...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Why global Africa? / Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield
- Profile : Ibn Khaldun : the father of the social sciences / Oludamini Ogunnaike
- Trade and travel in Africa's global golden age (AD 700-1500) / François-Xavier Fauvelle
- Three women of the Sahara : Fatma, Odette, and Sophie / E. Ann McDougall
- Afro-Iberians in the early Spanish empire, ca. 1550-1600 / Leo J. Garofalo
- "From the land of Angola" : slavery, marriage, and African diasporic identities in Mexico City before 1650 / Frank Trey Proctor III
- "Ethiopia shall stretch" from America to Africa : the pan-African crusade of Charles Morris / Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson
- Africans in India, past and present / Renu Modi
- Profile, Leymah Gbowee : speaking truth to power / Pamela Scully
- Pan-Africanism : an ideology and a movement / Hakim Adi
- Mwalimu Nyerere as global conscience / Chambi Chachage
- Power, conflict, and justice in Africa : an uncertain march / Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa
- Where truth, lies, and privilege meet poverty... What is hope? : Reflecting on the gains and pains of South Africa's TRC / Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande
- Commerce, crime, and corruption : illicit financial flows from Africa / Masimba Tafirenyika
- Working history : China, Africa, and globalization / Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan
- The radicalization of environmental justice in South Africa / Jacklyn Cock
- Profile : a taste of Africa in Harlem : Red Rooster / Judith A. Byfield
- Networks of threads : Africa, textiles, and routes of exchange / Victoria Rovine
- Sending forth the best : African missions in China / Heidi Østbø Haugen
- Photo essay : Baohan Street : an African community in Guangzhou, China / Michaela Pelican and Li Dong
- The African literary tradition : an interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o / Mukoma wa Ngugi
- African soccer's global story / Peter Alegi
- Art, identity, and autobiography : Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi / Christa Clarke
- Raï and Rap : globalization and the soundtrack of youth resistance in North Africa / Zakia Salime
- Profile : a conversation with microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh / Tamara Giles-Vernick
- The politics, perils, and possibilities of epidemics in Africa / Douglas Webb
- Generative technologies from Africa / Ron Eglash
- "Money in your hand" : M-PESA and mobile money in Kenya / Dillon Mahoney
- What's in your cell phone? / James H. Smith
- Bioprospecting : moving beyond benefit sharing / Rachel Wynberg
- Of waste and revolutions : environmental legacies of authoritarianism in Tunisia / Siad Darwish
- Profile : Africa calling : a conversation with Mo Ibrahim / Stuart Reid
- From Lesotho to the United Nations : the journey of a gender justice advocate / Keiso Matashane-Marite
- Meschac Gaba : museum of contemporary African art / Kerryn Greenberg
- Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa / Onookome Okome
- Globalizing African Islam from below : west African Sufi masters in the United States / Cheikh Anta Babou
- Afropolitanism and its discontents / Obadias Ndaba
- Photo essay : Awra Amba : a model "Utopian" community in Ethiopia / Salem Mekuria.