War in African Literature Today - 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 War in African Literature Today write by Ernest Emenyo̲nu. This book was released on 2008. War in African Literature Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development of Africa more than senseless fratricidal wars which rapidly followed the political independence of nations. This issue of African Literature Today is devoted to studies of how African writers, as historical witnesses, have handled the recreation of war as a cataclysmic phenomenon in various locations on the continent. The contributors explore the subject from a variety of perspectives: panoramic, regional, national and through comparative studies. War has enriched contemporary African literature, but at what price to human lives, peace and the environment? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. The contributors include: CHIMALUM NWANKWO, CHRISTINE MATZKE, CLEMENT A. OKAFOR, INIBONG I. UKO, OIKE MACHIKO, SOPHIE OGWUDE, MAURICE TAONEZVI VAMBE, ZOE NORRIDGE and ISIDORE DIALA. Nigeria: HEBN
War and Conflict in Africa
War and Conflict in 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 War and Conflict in Africa write by Paul D. Williams. This book was released on 2016-06-23. War and Conflict in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace. Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged. Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion. Part III, Responses, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent. War and Conflict in Africa will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.
Of War and Women, Oppression and Optimism
Of War and Women, Oppression and Optimism - 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 Of War and Women, Oppression and Optimism write by Eustace Palmer. This book was released on 2008. Of War and Women, Oppression and Optimism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Palmer then on African women novelists. A detailed and absorbing examination of African feminist theory leads to a discussion of novels by Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Ba, Nawal El Saadawi, and Tsitsi Dangerembga, showing the differing ways in which these novelists explore the condition of the African woman and considering the established as well as new narrative conventions they use to give voice to their concerns. Palmer is particularly impressive in the section where he deals with those novelists, established as well as recent, who deal with social comment, a perennial concern of the African novel and one that is even manifest today. His analyses of Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, Okri's The Famished Road, Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, and Benjamin Kwakye's The Sun By Night are particularly illuminating as he shows how these novelists bend the novel form or use new techniques to articulate their own perceptions of recent history.
The Rise of the African Novel
The Rise of the African Novel - 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 The Rise of the African Novel write by Mukoma Wa Ngugi. This book was released on 2018-03-27. The Rise of the African Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Critical Theory and African Literature
Critical Theory and African Literature - 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 Critical Theory and African Literature write by Ernest Emenyo̲nu. This book was released on 1987. Critical Theory and African Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
