Author: Francois van Wyk
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483693376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Tells the story of an African girl and her unbridled love for her masters son. Characters in this true-to-life novel are fi ctitious yet to be found on the South African scene. The story is fi lled with passion, sincere devotion, sacrifi ce, political intrigue, and inevitable hardship suffered by the various peoples of the land in their oftenfutile quest for a better tomorrow.
When Cultures Intertwine – the African Way
Author: Francois van Wyk
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483693376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Tells the story of an African girl and her unbridled love for her masters son. Characters in this true-to-life novel are fi ctitious yet to be found on the South African scene. The story is fi lled with passion, sincere devotion, sacrifi ce, political intrigue, and inevitable hardship suffered by the various peoples of the land in their oftenfutile quest for a better tomorrow.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483693376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Tells the story of an African girl and her unbridled love for her masters son. Characters in this true-to-life novel are fi ctitious yet to be found on the South African scene. The story is fi lled with passion, sincere devotion, sacrifi ce, political intrigue, and inevitable hardship suffered by the various peoples of the land in their oftenfutile quest for a better tomorrow.
When Cultures Intertwine The African Way
Author: Francois van Wyk
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148369335X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Tells the story of an African girl and her unbridled love for her master's son. Characters in this true-to-life novel are fi ctitious yet to be found on the South African scene. The story is fi lled with passion, sincere devotion, sacrifi ce, political intrigue, and inevitable hardship suffered by the various peoples of the land in their oftenfutile quest for a better tomorrow.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148369335X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Tells the story of an African girl and her unbridled love for her master's son. Characters in this true-to-life novel are fi ctitious yet to be found on the South African scene. The story is fi lled with passion, sincere devotion, sacrifi ce, political intrigue, and inevitable hardship suffered by the various peoples of the land in their oftenfutile quest for a better tomorrow.
Slangosphere
Author: Onesimus Malatji
Publisher: Onesimus Malatji
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
"Slangosphere: Navigating Global Street Talk and Social Media Buzzwords" is an encyclopedic journey through the colourful and diverse vernaculars of our global village. This dictionary stands as a testament to the rich tapestry of linguistic innovation found in urban environments and digital spaces across continents. From the vibrant street markets of Johannesburg to the bustling urban centres of London, New York, and Lagos, this volume captures the essence of contemporary street talk and digital communication. The dictionary is structured to provide readers with an alphabetical and numerical exploration of slang terms and social media language. It includes popular expressions from South Africa like "lekker" and "braai," West African favourites like "nyash," American and British urban lexicons, and universally recognized social media acronyms like "LOL" and regional favourites such as "SBWL." Each entry in "Slangosphere" not only provides definitions but also delves into the cultural origins and contextual usage of the terms. This approach offers insights into the social, cultural, and historical underpinnings of slang and social media language, highlighting how these expressions reflect societal trends, cultural identities, and generational shifts. In addition to being a linguistic guide, "Slangosphere" is also an educational tool that fosters understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity. It serves as a bridge for readers to connect with the nuanced and often unspoken aspects of global cultures, promoting cross-cultural understanding in an increasingly interconnected world. Through "Slangosphere," readers will embark on a linguistic adventure, gaining not just knowledge of words and phrases, but an appreciation for the dynamic and creative nature of language as it evolves within urban streets and the digital realm. This dictionary is an invaluable resource for linguists, cultural enthusiasts, social media aficionados, and anyone intrigued by the rich diversity of global street talk and the lexicon of the digital age
Publisher: Onesimus Malatji
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
"Slangosphere: Navigating Global Street Talk and Social Media Buzzwords" is an encyclopedic journey through the colourful and diverse vernaculars of our global village. This dictionary stands as a testament to the rich tapestry of linguistic innovation found in urban environments and digital spaces across continents. From the vibrant street markets of Johannesburg to the bustling urban centres of London, New York, and Lagos, this volume captures the essence of contemporary street talk and digital communication. The dictionary is structured to provide readers with an alphabetical and numerical exploration of slang terms and social media language. It includes popular expressions from South Africa like "lekker" and "braai," West African favourites like "nyash," American and British urban lexicons, and universally recognized social media acronyms like "LOL" and regional favourites such as "SBWL." Each entry in "Slangosphere" not only provides definitions but also delves into the cultural origins and contextual usage of the terms. This approach offers insights into the social, cultural, and historical underpinnings of slang and social media language, highlighting how these expressions reflect societal trends, cultural identities, and generational shifts. In addition to being a linguistic guide, "Slangosphere" is also an educational tool that fosters understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity. It serves as a bridge for readers to connect with the nuanced and often unspoken aspects of global cultures, promoting cross-cultural understanding in an increasingly interconnected world. Through "Slangosphere," readers will embark on a linguistic adventure, gaining not just knowledge of words and phrases, but an appreciation for the dynamic and creative nature of language as it evolves within urban streets and the digital realm. This dictionary is an invaluable resource for linguists, cultural enthusiasts, social media aficionados, and anyone intrigued by the rich diversity of global street talk and the lexicon of the digital age
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
Author: Harvey Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359592
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359592
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
Youth Resilience and Culture
Author: Linda C. Theron
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401794154
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important considerations for researchers as they continue to investigate resilience. Using research from majority and minority world contexts, ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ highlights that non-stereotypical, critical appreciation of the cultural systems in which youth are embedded, and/or affiliate with, is pivotal to understanding why particular resilience processes matter for particular youth in a particular life-world at a particular point in time. In doing so, this book sensitizes readers to the importance of accounting for the influence of cultural contexts on resilience processes, and to the danger of conceptualising and/or operationalising resilience, culture, and their interplay, simplistically or idealistically. In short, the progressive contents of ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ make it an essential read for resilience-focused scholars, students, academics, and researchers, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and humanitarian workers engaged with high-risk populations.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401794154
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important considerations for researchers as they continue to investigate resilience. Using research from majority and minority world contexts, ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ highlights that non-stereotypical, critical appreciation of the cultural systems in which youth are embedded, and/or affiliate with, is pivotal to understanding why particular resilience processes matter for particular youth in a particular life-world at a particular point in time. In doing so, this book sensitizes readers to the importance of accounting for the influence of cultural contexts on resilience processes, and to the danger of conceptualising and/or operationalising resilience, culture, and their interplay, simplistically or idealistically. In short, the progressive contents of ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ make it an essential read for resilience-focused scholars, students, academics, and researchers, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and humanitarian workers engaged with high-risk populations.
Culturally Alert Counseling
Author: Dr. Garrett J McAuliffe
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1483378209
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
A reader-friendly introduction to the cultural dimensions of counseling and psychotherapy. Garrett McAuliffe, along with international experts in their fields, provides an accessible survey of culturally alert counseling techniques that broadens the discussion of culture from ethnicity and race to include social class, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Culture is defined broadly in the text, which features a mindful exploration of seven ethnic groupings, inclusive of all people within dominant and non-dominant cultural groups. With the help of this text, readers will leave informed and ready to begin practice equipped with both a vision of the work and practical skills for effectively implementing it.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1483378209
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
A reader-friendly introduction to the cultural dimensions of counseling and psychotherapy. Garrett McAuliffe, along with international experts in their fields, provides an accessible survey of culturally alert counseling techniques that broadens the discussion of culture from ethnicity and race to include social class, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Culture is defined broadly in the text, which features a mindful exploration of seven ethnic groupings, inclusive of all people within dominant and non-dominant cultural groups. With the help of this text, readers will leave informed and ready to begin practice equipped with both a vision of the work and practical skills for effectively implementing it.
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
Author: Grace A Musila
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000588343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000588343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.
Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation
Author: Cyril Orji
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227906357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation argues that though it is a difficult and delicate task, inculturation is still a requisite demand of a World Church and that without it the Church is unrecognisable and unsustainable. The book also suggests that the past failures of inculturation experiments in Africa can be overcome only by critically applying the science of semiotics, which can serve as an antidote to the nature of human knowing and reductionism that characterised earlier attempts to make Christianity African to the African. Drawing from the semiotic works of C.S. Peirce, Clifford Geertz, and Bernard Lonergan, Cyril Orji shows why semiotics is best suited to an African theology of inculturation and offers ten pinpointed precepts, identified as 'Habits', which underline the attentiveness, reasonableness, and responsibility required in a semiotic approach to a theology of inculturation. The 'Habits' are also akin to the imperatives inherent in the notion of catholicity - that catholicity is not identified with uniformity but with reconciled diversity, and also that catholicity demands different forms in different places, times, and cultural settings.
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227906357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation argues that though it is a difficult and delicate task, inculturation is still a requisite demand of a World Church and that without it the Church is unrecognisable and unsustainable. The book also suggests that the past failures of inculturation experiments in Africa can be overcome only by critically applying the science of semiotics, which can serve as an antidote to the nature of human knowing and reductionism that characterised earlier attempts to make Christianity African to the African. Drawing from the semiotic works of C.S. Peirce, Clifford Geertz, and Bernard Lonergan, Cyril Orji shows why semiotics is best suited to an African theology of inculturation and offers ten pinpointed precepts, identified as 'Habits', which underline the attentiveness, reasonableness, and responsibility required in a semiotic approach to a theology of inculturation. The 'Habits' are also akin to the imperatives inherent in the notion of catholicity - that catholicity is not identified with uniformity but with reconciled diversity, and also that catholicity demands different forms in different places, times, and cultural settings.
African Metalwork
Author: Crafts Council (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art metal-work
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art metal-work
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Lega Culture; Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People
Author: Daniel P. Biebuyck
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A young Highland boy discovers he has the gift of Second Sight.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A young Highland boy discovers he has the gift of Second Sight.