Leisure in Urban Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leisure in Urban Africa write by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. This book was released on 2003. Leisure in Urban Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together often unconnected modes of analysis, research and debate on leisure in African studies, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflects on the complex conceptions, creation and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present, drawing intriguing comparisons with leisure studies in Western Europe and North America. Covering leisure activities from football to music and dance to films and television in cities from Cairo to Cape Town, this book opens a new chapter in African cultural studies.
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa write by Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois. This book was released on 2017-03-22. Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist destinations. This book makes a case for a critical reading of Victoria Falls as much more than a localized natural wonder. Europeans with multiple and often competing agendas, as well as African leaders and laborers were brought into contact with one another at Victoria Falls. Their visions of the past and hopes for the future shared Victoria Falls as a common point of inspiration. The value these parties placed on the Falls extended far beyond its location on the Zambezi and had broad implications for the British Empire in Southern and Central Africa.
Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation
Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation write by Michael J. Gennaro. This book was released on 2019-04-01. Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African societies throughout history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse levels of African societies. The contributors detail various sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress. Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on African sports, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and society, and sports history and politics.
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Identity on the Swahili Coast write by Steven Fabian. This book was released on 2019-11-07. Making Identity on the Swahili Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A re-examination of the historical development of urban identity and community along the Swahili Coast.
Mapping Leisure
Mapping Leisure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Leisure write by Ishwar Modi. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Mapping Leisure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses the rich and varied thoughts, concepts, approaches and leisure practices in sixteen countries of three continents---Australia, Asia and Africa. The chapters showcase the diversity in the forms and ways in which the idea and practice of leisure have developed across space and time. However, the common thread through the chapters is that concepts and practices of leisure are found all over the world, from pre-historic settlements to the present-day consumer societies. Seemingly, being at leisure is a capacity of the human species present at birth and which develops in a variety of individual and societal contexts. Even in situations where leisure gets little official recognition as being an aspect of life---such as under colonial rule or in extremely work-centric societies---it needs to be contextually understood. This is a welcome addition to the literature on leisure studies from a global and comparative perspective.
