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A Comprehensive Bibliography of Modern African Religious Movements

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A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 : Updated and Revised Edition.
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ISBN: 1782047867 0821445723 9780821445723 9994452525 9789994452521 0821414402 9780821414408 0852557868 9780852557860 9994452525 9781782049869 178204986X Year: 2001 Publisher: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,

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Updated and revised edition.


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Nigeria, nationalism, and writing history
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ISBN: 9781580463584 1580463584 9781580467087 9786612947049 1580467083 1282947044 Year: 2010 Volume: 46 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in the context of the rise and decline of African nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historical writing about Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history, but has also produced members of the first generation of African historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University.


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Fabriquer le regard : marchands, réseaux et objets d'art africains à l'aube du XXe siècle
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ISBN: 9782840662839 2840662833 Year: 2019 Publisher: Dijon Les Presses du réel

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En Occident, le regard esthétisant posé sur les objets venant d'ailleurs n'est ni neutre ni spontané. Pour ce qui est des arts d'Afrique, ce regard construit s'est forgé au début du XXe siècle, dans le contexte d'une Afrique colonisée, par le biais d'actions concrètes et délibérées initiées par un petit groupe d'acteurs, mené par Guillaume Apollinaire: artistes d'avant-garde, critiques, collectionneurs et marchands. Prenant appui sur un ensemble d'archives largement inédites, le présent ouvrage se concentre sur le rôle joué par les marchands d'art au tournant du siècle dernier, dans la définition, la promotion et la circulation d'objets africains en tant qu'œuvres d'art, en Europe et aux États-Unis. Cette fabrique du regard fut activée par un cercle étroit d'individus qui peuvent être considérés comme les principaux protagonistes de la création du marché des arts africains des deux côtés de l'Atlantique avant 1920: Joseph Brummer, Robert J. Coady, Marius de Zayas, Paul Guillaume et Charles Vignier. Par le choix des œuvres qu'ils opérèrent, les expositions qu'ils organisèrent et les ouvrages qu'ils publièrent, ils furent largement responsables de la construction du 'canon' des arts africains, et influencèrent leur perception en Occident jusqu'à ce jour.

J'aime Chéri Samba
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ISBN: 2742747060 0500970149 Year: 2004 Publisher: Arles Editions Actes Sud

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Born in 1956, Cheri Samba lives and works in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After leaving school in 1972, he earned his living painting advertising billboards, and at the same time created comic strips for his publication Bilenge Info.


In 1975, he began to put his comic strips onto canvas, thus inaugurating African painting with word bubbles. His work illustrates social life: customs, sexuality, AIDS, social inequalities, corruption. Along with the painter Moke, he is one of the principal founders of the movement in painting known as "Popular Zairean," His acrylic paintings, imbued with political awareness, are always representational, realistic, and colorful.


"My painting focuses on people's lives. I'm not interested in myths or beliefs. I appeal to people's consciences. Artists must make people think."From the 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings, "so that people would nut only know my name, but also my face."

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