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Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore
the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter
hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western
interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial
in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic
domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the
West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range
of perspectives to address the intersection between missions,
evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors
address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the
colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between
missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries
and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European
epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans;
and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African
societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of
these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary
endeavours and official colonial actions could all be
conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the
same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies
in their encounter with African societies.
Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated
political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in
general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that
analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives,
values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the
diachronic impact of indigenous and Western agencies in the
upbringing, socialization, and careers of the colonial Igbo
political elite of southeastern Nigeria. The thesis argues that the
new elite manifests the continuity of traditions and culture and
therefore their leadership values and the impact they brought on
African society cannot be fully understood without looking closely
at their lived experiences in those indigenous institutions where
African life coheres. The key has been to explore this question at
the level of biography, set in the context of a carefully
reconstructed social history of the particular local communities
surrounding the elite figures. It starts from an understanding of
their family and village life, and moves forward striving to
balance the familiar account of these individuals in public life,
with an account of the ongoing influences from family, kinship, age
grades, marriage and gender roles, secret societies, the church,
local leaders and others. The result is not only a model of a new
approach to African elite history, but also an argument about how
to understand these emergent leaders and their peers as individuals
who shared with their fellow Africans a dynamic and complex set of
values that evolved over the six decades of colonialism.
Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave
remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne
sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements
of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation. Furthermore,
the spatial resolution of passive microwave observations matches
the special scales of large-scale models of land-atmosphere
interactions both for data assimilation and validation. In order to
stimulate and focus this research a workshop, sponsored by ESA and
NASA, was organized to review the state-of-the-art in microwave
radiometry related to land applications and to exchange ideas
leading into new directions for future research. This volume
contains the refereed papers from the aforementioned ESA/NASA
workshop, which are arranged by topic, as well as the (edited)
working group reports.
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore
the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter
hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western
interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial
in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic
domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the
West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range
of perspectives to address the intersection between missions,
evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors
address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the
colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between
missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries
and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European
epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans;
and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African
societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of
these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary
endeavours and official colonial actions could all be
conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the
same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies
in their encounter with African societies.
Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated
political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in
general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that
analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives,
values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the
diachronic impact of indigenous and Western agencies in the
upbringing, socialization, and careers of the colonial Igbo
political elite of southeastern Nigeria. The thesis argues that the
new elite manifests the continuity of traditions and culture and
therefore their leadership values and the impact they brought on
African society cannot be fully understood without looking closely
at their lived experiences in those indigenous institutions where
African life coheres. The key has been to explore this question at
the level of biography, set in the context of a carefully
reconstructed social history of the particular local communities
surrounding the elite figures. It starts from an understanding of
their family and village life, and moves forward striving to
balance the familiar account of these individuals in public life,
with an account of the ongoing influences from family, kinship, age
grades, marriage and gender roles, secret societies, the church,
local leaders and others. The result is not only a model of a new
approach to African elite history, but also an argument about how
to understand these emergent leaders and their peers as individuals
who shared with their fellow Africans a dynamic and complex set of
values that evolved over the six decades of colonialism.
The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and
are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe.
In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola
and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative
examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora.
Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers
the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience of the
Igbo as well as their return to Africa and aspects of Igbo
language, society, and cultural arts. By employing a variety of
disciplinary perspectives, this volume presents a comprehensive
view of how the Igbo were integrated into the Atlantic world
through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Igbo
identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed
by the Igbo in the New World. Moving beyond descriptions of generic
African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by
prominent scholars throughout the world.
A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories
of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair,
complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural
existence. Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era
and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and
introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized
contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus
(2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your
Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a
preeminent story-teller. Americanah (2013), with
ingeniouscraftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate
love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with
extravagant and versatile narrative innovations. Through her
writings, she has made herself relevant topeople of all ages -
across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings
on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for
budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her
imaginativecreativity as they expand and define her mission as a
writer. "We Should All be Feminists" she proclaimed in an essay,
giving feminism a "tweak and twist" and suggesting new outlooks in
literary theory. Her contributionsto African, Diasporic and World
literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and
interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines
her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to
war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of
multicultural existence and complex human identities.
Represents the first encyclopedic work dedicated to remote sensing
Serves as the best point of entry for anyone wishing to explore the
world of remote sensing Offers clear, reliable descriptions and
plenty of references to help readers continue their research
Fulfills the need for a scholarly, yet accessible resource for
scientists, engineers, educators, managers, policy makers and
anyone interested in the impact and implications of remote sensing
Remote sensing has revolutionized the scientific study of the Earth
by enabling measurements of more detailed and hitherto unexplored
phenomena with spatially-extensive and global perspectives. Various
disciplines and industries have benefited from the dramatic
discoveries enabled by remote sensing. This volume cuts across
these disciplines and describes the basic foundations, principles
and state of the art of remote sensing. It covers the development
of remote sensing, the theoretical underpinnings, forward modeling,
commercial applications, and global and international coordination
and policy. This first encyclopaedic reference on remote sensing
describes the concepts, techniques, instrumentation, data analysis,
interpretation, and applications of remote sensing, both airborne
and space-based. Scientists, engineers, academics, and students can
quickly access answers to their reference questions and direction
for further study.
A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in
transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on
the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African
American cultural artifacts In recent decades, there has been an
explosion of scholarly interest in African-styled traditions and
the influence of these traditions upon the African diaspora. In
this important new analysis, author Raphael Njoku explores the
transnational connections between masquerade narratives and memory
over the past four centuries to show how enslaved Africans became
culture carriers of inherited African traditions. In doing so, he
questions the scholarly predisposition toward ethnicization of
African cultural artifacts in the Americas. As Njoku's research
shows, the practices reenacted by the Igbo and Bight of Biafra
modelers in the Americas were not exact replicas of the African
prototypes. Cultural modeling is dynamic, and the inheritors of
West African traditions often adapted their customs to their
circumstances--altering and transforming the meaning and purpose of
the customs they initially represented. With the Bantu migrations
serving as a catalyst for ethnic mixing and change prior to the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, African-themed cultural activities in
the New World became dilutions of practices from several ethnic
African and European nations. African cultures were already
experiencing changes through Bantuization; in this well-researched
and engagingly written scholarly work, the author explores the
extension of this process beyond the African continent. This book
is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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