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The Struggle to Convert Nationalism to Pan-Africanism: Taking Stock of 50 years of African Independence

Upphovsperson: Shivji, Issa
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala, Sweden
År: 2011
Ämnesord: keynote lecture, ECAS 4, European conference on African Studies, , SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Keynote speech held during the opening of the Conference ECAS 4, Uppsala, Sweden, 15-18 June 2011.Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, delivered the first keynote lecture entitled “The Struggle to Convert Nationalism to Pan-Africanism: Taking Stock of 50 years of African Independence”. Issa Shivji argues that the narrative of Pan-Africanism as to be located within the narrative of worldwide capitalist accumulation during the last five centuries of Africa’s encounter with Europe.The film's length: 64 min.

Eritrea and Ethiopia : the federal experience

Upphovsperson: Negash, Tekeste
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1997
Ämnesord: Ethiopia, Eritrea, East Africa, National liberation movements, Political parties, Political power, State, Civil war, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book examines the rise and fall of the Ethio-Eritrean federation which existed from 1952 to 1962. The author argues that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia. The UN imposed federation and its constitution was doomed to fail, as these were foreign to Eritrean and Ethiopian conceptions of power. ... a book on a subject on which very little authentic material is otherwise available. [...] On the whole, the book is extremely well written with remarkable clarity of language. (Africa Quarterly, No. 1/1998.)

Playing with identities in contemporary music in Africa

Medarbetare: Palmberg, Mai | Kirkegaard, Annemette
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Sibelius Museum; Dept. of Musicology, Åbo Academy University
År: 2002
Ämnesord: cultural identity, music, popular culture, South Africa, Uganda, Cape Verde, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Senegal, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyse various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions for a conference organised by the research project "Cultural Images in and of Africa" of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Museum/Department of Musicology and the Centre for Continuing Education at Åbo Akademi University in Åbo (Turku), Finland in Oct. 2000. The book includes a keynote speech by Christopher Waterman (UCLA), and an introduction by Annemette Kirkegaard, Copenhagen University. Both Southern, West and East Africa are represented in the studies, which cover a great variety of musics.

The migration experience in Africa

Medarbetare: Baker, Jonathan | Aina, Tade Akin
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1995
Ämnesord: Africa, Migration, Environment, Poverty, Small towns, Gender, Rural-urban relations, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
In this book different authors investigates the range of the migration experience in Africa. Because of the variety and complexity of the reasons which surround and underpin why African populations are so mobile, this volume adopts an eclectic approach which illustrates the diversity of theoretical positions, as well as methodological and analytical trends. Examples of the great breadth and richness of empirical insights into human migrations in the contemporary african context are also given.

Chelewa, chelewa : the dilemma of teenage girls

Medarbetare: Liljeström, Rita | Tumbo-Masabo, Zubeida
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1994
Ämnesord: Tanzania, East Africa, Adolescents, Youth, Education of women, Women's role, Marriage, Pregnancy, Abortion, Sexual behaviour, Rites of passage, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
In the past, the transition from childhood to womanhood was immediate and direct, and menarche was a sign of initiation and readiness to marry. Nowadays girls find themselves trapped between customary expectations and the claims of modernization. This book by the Teenage Girls and Reproductive Health Study Group at the University of Dar es Salaam presents empirical studies of the situation of teenage girls in Tanzania.

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