{"product_id":"global-africa-9780520287365","title":"Global Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book serves as an invaluable resource for geographers, historians, and all social scientists, as well as any members of the public interested in learning more about this complicated and fascinating continent.” * Polymath *\u003cbr\u003e\"In the collection of essays \u003ci\u003eGlobal Africa Into the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Dorothy Hodgson and Judith Byfield tackle the challenge V.Y. Mudimbe identified as 'the idea of Africa.' Their aim is to push readers to think deeply about and grapple with the dynamic nature of Africa as a geographic space, situating Africa at the center of global processes by demonstrating the pivotal roles Africans have played in producing and circulating ideas and initiating 'transformations throughout the world'.\" * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Challenging popular perceptions of Africa as a place of despair and violence, this volume describes the contributions that African people, ideas and goods have made throughout the world – contributions which, according to the editors, demonstrate that Africa occupies a central position in global historical processes.\" * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *\u003cbr\u003e\"A refreshingly edited collection that offers a number of unusual views on Africa’s global connectedness and entanglements.\" * New Global Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 0.1 • Why Global Africa?\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I.\u003cbr\u003e ENTANGLED HISTORIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.1 • PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences\u003cbr\u003e Oludamini Ogunnaike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.2 • Trade and Travel in Africa’s Global Golden Age (AD 700–1500)\u003cbr\u003e François-Xavier Fauvelle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.3 • Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie\u003cbr\u003e E. Ann McDougall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.4 • Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550–1600\u003cbr\u003e Leo J. Garofalo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.5 • “From the Land of Angola”: Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650\u003cbr\u003e Frank Trey Proctor III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.6 • “Ethiopia Shall Stretch” from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris\u003cbr\u003e Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.7 • Africans in India, Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e Renu Modi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II.\u003cbr\u003e POWER AND ITS CHALLENGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.1 • PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power\u003cbr\u003e Pamela Scully\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.2 • Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement\u003cbr\u003e Hakim Adi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.3 • Mwalimu Nyerere as Global Conscience\u003cbr\u003e Chambi Chachage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.4 • Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.5 • Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa’s TRC\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.6 • Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa\u003cbr\u003e Masimba Tafirenyika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.7 • Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization\u003cbr\u003e Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.8 • The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa\u003cbr\u003e Jacklyn Cock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART III.\u003cbr\u003e CIRCULATIONS OF COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.1 • PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster\u003cbr\u003e Judith A. Byfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.2 • Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange\u003cbr\u003e Victoria Rovine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.3 • Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China\u003cbr\u003e Heidi Østbø Haugen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.4 • PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China\u003cbr\u003e Michaela Pelican and Li Dong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.5 • The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o\u003cbr\u003e Mukoma Wa Ngugi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.6 • African Soccer’s Global Story\u003cbr\u003e Peter Alegi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.7 • Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi\u003cbr\u003e Christa Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.8 • Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa\u003cbr\u003e Zakia Salime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART IV.\u003cbr\u003e SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.1 • PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh\u003cbr\u003e Tamara Giles-Vernick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.2 • The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa\u003cbr\u003e Douglas Webb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.3 • Generative Technologies from Africa\u003cbr\u003e Ron Eglash\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.4 • “Money in Your Hand”: M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya\u003cbr\u003e Dillon Mahoney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.5 • What’s in Your Cell Phone?\u003cbr\u003e James H. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.6 • Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing\u003cbr\u003e Rachel Wynberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.7 • Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia\u003cbr\u003e Siad Darwish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART V.\u003cbr\u003e AFRICA IN THE WORLD TODAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.1 • PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim\u003cbr\u003e Stuart Reid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.2 • From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate\u003cbr\u003e Keiso Matashane-Marite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.3 • Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art\u003cbr\u003e Kerryn Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.4 • Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa\u003cbr\u003e Onookome Okome\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.5 • Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Cheikh Anta Babou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.6 • Afropolitanism and Its Discontents\u003cbr\u003e Obadias Ndaba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.7 • PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model “Utopian” Community in Ethiopia\u003cbr\u003e Salem Mekuria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About the Editors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402878755159,"sku":"9780520287365","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520287365.jpg?v=1730481758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-africa-9780520287365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}