From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world. More than a passive vessel manipulated by external empires, the African experience has been a complex mix of internal geographic, environmental, sociopolitical and economic factors, and regular interaction with outsiders. Peter Mitchell attempts to outline these factors over the long period of modern human history, to find their commonalities and development over time. He examines African interconnections through Egypt and Nubia with the Near East, through multiple Indian Ocean trading systems, through the trans-Saharan trade, and through more recent incursion of Europeans. The African diaspora is also explored for continuities and resistance to foreign domination. Commonalities abound in the African experience, as do complexities of each individual period and interrelationship. Mitchell's sweeping analysis of African connections place the continent in context of global prehistory and history. The book should be of interest not only to Africanists, but to many other archaeologists, historians, geographers, linguists, social scientists and their students.
Locksley Edmondson who is featured in this collection, like Walter Rodney, lived and worked on the African continent physically, but also engaged Africa politically, culturally and intellectually in teaching and research in the Caribbean ...
This engaging book is packed with fascinating historical details, including more than three hundred recipes and a facsimile of the Carolina Rice Cook Book from 1901.
With this book, the spiritual insights of indigenous Africa take their place alongside those of native America, ancient Europe, and Asia as important influences on Western readers.
Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism, and other genres, this volume represents an activist vanguard in the cultural struggle against oppression.
Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe.
Bishop Henry M. Turner of the AME church , for example , a leading nationalist of the period who was subsequently invited to ( but could not attend ) the first Pan - African Conference in London in 1900 , in 1895 expressed such ...
Also, as Richard Bissell observes, however useful the Israelis made themselves in Africa, their extended presence made ... The reason is simple: the Israeli connection was always inherently vulnerable because it was always politically ...
This book shows all of the language connections that other African tribes have with The Ancient Egyptian language, showing that Egypts roots were African.
This book is not only about connection but also about discovery.
From the pain of religious persecution to the horrors of slavery, followed by the inhumanities of Black codes and Jim Crow, Kinship Concealed sheds light on a mixed race family's struggle to reach its view of the American dream.