Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982283165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Here is a juxtaposition of the personal and inter-communal dynamics focussed on the West African experience during the pivotal decade of the 1960s, when National Independence demanded a reflexion on the definition of the new states, and how external factors have borne heavily upon their past, present and future. The author blends his experience of study and travel in the region, acknowledging his debt to the pioneering spirit of the School of Oriental and African Studies who facilitated the enterprise, with an analysis of the challenges the new entities have faced, and how they have fared, nationally and globally, in the light of Slavery, Colonialism and Black Lives Matter.
The Apapa Six: West Africa from a 60S Perspective
Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982283165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Here is a juxtaposition of the personal and inter-communal dynamics focussed on the West African experience during the pivotal decade of the 1960s, when National Independence demanded a reflexion on the definition of the new states, and how external factors have borne heavily upon their past, present and future. The author blends his experience of study and travel in the region, acknowledging his debt to the pioneering spirit of the School of Oriental and African Studies who facilitated the enterprise, with an analysis of the challenges the new entities have faced, and how they have fared, nationally and globally, in the light of Slavery, Colonialism and Black Lives Matter.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982283165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Here is a juxtaposition of the personal and inter-communal dynamics focussed on the West African experience during the pivotal decade of the 1960s, when National Independence demanded a reflexion on the definition of the new states, and how external factors have borne heavily upon their past, present and future. The author blends his experience of study and travel in the region, acknowledging his debt to the pioneering spirit of the School of Oriental and African Studies who facilitated the enterprise, with an analysis of the challenges the new entities have faced, and how they have fared, nationally and globally, in the light of Slavery, Colonialism and Black Lives Matter.
The Sacred Language of the Abakuá
Author: Lydia Cabrera
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149682945X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149682945X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.
Report of Apapa Road Project (officers' Assets) Tribunal
Author: Nigeria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apapa Road Project, Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apapa Road Project, Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Report of the Apapa Road Project (Officers' Assets) Tribunal
Author: Nigeria. Apapa Road Project (Officers' Assets) Tribunal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Guarantee Agreement (Apapa Wharf Project) Between Federation of Nigeria and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Author: Nigeria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Comments of the Federal Military Government on the Report of Apapa Road Project (Officers' Assets) Tribunal of Inquiry
Author: Nigeria. Apapa Road Project Tribunal of Inquiry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Misconduct in office
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Misconduct in office
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
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Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Neurosciences. A Study Program
Author: Gardner C. Quarton
Publisher: Rockefeller Univ. Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Publisher: Rockefeller Univ. Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Nigeria, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Sailing Directions for the Southwest Coast of Africa
Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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