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An Interdisciplinary Primer in African Studies (Paperback, New)
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An Interdisciplinary Primer in African Studies (Paperback, New)
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This book addresses the troubling dearth of knowledge that many
American undergraduate students have about Africa. Many scholars
with research interest in Africa are caught by surprise at the
superficial knowledge that students bring to their classrooms; it
is a knowledge base that is bereft of an insightful analytical
framework of the pertinent issues just as it is deprived of a
well-informed historical context of the events. There is no
mistaking of the import the mass media and neighborhood folklore in
shaping the students' perception about the realities of Africa's
developments. Mitigating these effects requires access to a
college-level introductory textbook on Africa covering a gamut of
themes that are germane to the contemporary realities of the
continent. It is a textbook that does not romanticize Africa, but
addresses the persistent stereotypes that characterize issues about
the region. The book does so in two significant ways. First, it
offers a refreshing examination of African issues from an
afrocentric perspective. This allows the writers to present issues
from which they have practical experience, and for the reader to
examine them from insider scholarship. Second, it provides an
opportunity for scholars and readers to analyze the issues from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Interdisciplinarity is a testament
that issues are complex and no single discipline can sufficiently
address them. A combination of these two approaches ensures that
the book does not develop into a limited and parochial view of
issues. The themes covered in the book include: disciplinary
perspectives in African studies, ethnocentricism in teaching human
geography of Africa, and topics of geography, religion and
spirituality, mathematics, psychology, government and public
policy, the transformation of higher education, rural development,
communication and socio-economic development, culture and decision
making styles all as they relate to Africa.
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