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This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of
contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people
across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
contributors provide international perspectives on the effects of
this "corohysteria" in areas such as education, healthcare,
religion, psychology, mathematics, economics, media, racism,
politics, etc. They argue the hysteria, angst, fear, unrest, and
difficulties associated with the pandemic are exploited to foster
political and social agendas and have led to the undermining of
national and global responses to the virus.
This edited volume examines the challenges of globalization in
light of the need to revisit and reconceptualize the notion of
Pan-Africanism. The first part of the book examines globalization
and Africa's socioeconomic and political development in this
century by using the Diopian Pluridisciplinary Methodology. This
approach is imperative because the challenges faced by Africa
vis-a-vis globalization and socioeconomic development are so
multiplexed that no single disciplinary approach can adequately
analyze them and yield substantive policy recommendations. The
chapters in the second part analyze the imperatives for Africa's
global knowledge production, development, and economic
transformation in the face of the pressures of globalization. Part
two demonstrates an urgent need for Africa's significant
participation in the global knowledge economy in order to meet the
continent's modern transformation and development aspirations. The
final part examines lessons from old and new Pan-Africanism and how
they can be utilized to deal with the challenges emanating from the
forces of modern globalization. With its multidisciplinary approach
to a wide range of pressing, modern issues for the African content,
this book is essential reading for scholars across the social
sciences interested in where Africa is now and where it should go
in this increasingly globalized world.
This book contributes to the debate over the culpability of the
Trans-Atlantic Slave from various disciplinary perspectives. The
general thesis that undergirds the book is that by knowing who was
predisposed to benefit the most from the trade and why, prompting
them to initiate it, appropriate culpability can be assigned. This
approach also allowed for a more in-depth analysis of the issue
from many disciplines, making it the first of its kind. For the
sake of cohesion and coherence, some of the major questions
addressed by every chapter are quite similar, albeit authors were
encouraged to fine-tune and add to these questions to meet their
disciplinary requirements. By emphasizing the why in some of the
questions, a qualitative explanatory case study approach was
utilized. Both primary and secondary data sources were also used
for each chapter to offer a cogent analysis and new information on
the topic.
This edited volume is the first comprehensive text to provide an
evidence-based (i.e. emphasizing the practical application of the
findings of the best available current research) and nonpartisan
(i.e. not biased, especially toward any particular political group)
analyses of the United States Presidential Election of 2020. The
contributors to this volume present evidence pertaining to polling
and improbabilities, the modernization of United States elections
administration and the voting process, voting strategy and legal
wrangling, the Black view, and challenges to democracy. The
collection ends with a unifying theme, predicts the probability for
the 2024 Presidential Election, and offers policy recommendations
for future Presidential Elections.
Corruption in Society: Multidisciplinary Conceptualizations is the
first book to address the notion of corruption in a truly
multidisciplinary manner, augmented with empirical evidence. The
prevalent definition in books and articles on corruption is that it
is a dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those with political and/or
economic power, typically involving bribery. This political-economy
or public choice denotation, while very useful, is inadequate for a
comprehensive understanding of the concept because the notion of
corruption appears in every discipline. For example, in the field
of chemistry, chemical corruption concerns (a) the incorporation of
defective compounds into experiments to better simulate conditions
on the early-Earth and to help us understand how the first
molecules of life formed and (b) how to make chemicals appear
safer, sometimes dodging restrictions on their use, by minimizing
the estimates of how much is released into the environment. In
order to address this shortcoming, this book provides a
discipline-by-discipline conceptualization of corruption buttressed
with evidence from the discipline.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the
debate between proponents of Black Lives Matter and All Lives
Matter has been reignited. For proponents of Black Lives Matter,
the slogan All Lives Matter is not a call for inclusiveness but a
criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. On the other hand,
advocates of All Lives Matter insist their slogan is about
diversity and colorblindness. The contributors included in Black
Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter: A Multidisciplinary Primer
approach the subject from fields as wide ranging as sociology,
mathematics, linguistics, business, politics, and psychology, to
name a few. This collection adds complexity and international
perspectives to the debate, allowing these seemingly simple
quarrels over phrasing to be unpacked from many angles. A
refreshing variety of looks at one of the defining social movements
of the last decade and the reaction to it, this collection will be
valuable to those seeking to understand these movements in ways
beyond how they are typically framed.
This book is about the "Hundred-Word Eulogy," a 100-character
praise of Islam and Prophet Muhammad written by Zhu Yuanzhang, who
reigned as the Hongwu Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398. The
analysis of the eulogy is augmented with relevant Islamic texts.
The book has become quite revered by many Muslim individuals and
organizations across the globe. Yet, no work exists that has
systematically analyzed the text. The purpose of this book, then,
is to fill this vacuum. Methods from the fields of history,
literary analysis, and pragmatic linguistics are employed to
provide multidisciplinary and comprehensive analyses of the text,
undergirded by the notion of meaning.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the
debate between proponents of Black Lives Matter and All Lives
Matter has been reignited. For proponents of Black Lives Matter,
the slogan All Lives Matter is not a call for inclusiveness but a
criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. On the other hand,
advocates of All Lives Matter insist their slogan is about
diversity and colorblindness. The contributors included in Black
Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter: A Multidisciplinary Primer
approach the subject from fields as wide ranging as sociology,
mathematics, linguistics, business, politics, and psychology, to
name a few. This collection adds complexity and international
perspectives to the debate, allowing these seemingly simple
quarrels over phrasing to be unpacked from many angles. A
refreshing variety of looks at one of the defining social movements
of the last decade and the reaction to it, this collection will be
valuable to those seeking to understand these movements in ways
beyond how they are typically framed.
The impetus for this book emerged from our belief that as Africans
across the globe are confronted with a myriad of challenges that
have been birthed by globalization (i.e., the process of going to a
more interconnected world by diminishing the world's social
dimension and expansion of overall global consciousness), they must
turn to their own ideas for solutions. While many books exist on
individual African Isms, such as Afrocentrism, Nasserism, and
Pan-Africanism, none exists that has looked at a series of these
Isms together. This book is the first to do so and, thus, its
justification. Consequently, through this edited volume, we address
the applicability of different African Isms to various issues,
particularly current issues, on the continent of Africa. Each
chapter provides a theoretical framework and topics or issues
concerning African people of the continent. It is therefore an
innovative scholarly work as no other work has examined these Isms
in this manner. Thus, the ideas are quite appealing. Reexamining
and applying each of the African Isms in order to challenge
Eurocentric myth and reality in current African political,
economic, cultural, and social matters is quite logical and clear.
'Sweden vs Apartheid' examines the effort by the Swedish government
and civil society in Sweden to abolish the system of apartheid that
was instituted in South Africa in 1948. There are many reasons why
this book is important. It explores the foreign policy 'posture' of
a state, looks at Sweden's neutrality policy which embraced the
idea of international solidarity with weaker states and groups, and
examines the first Western state to adopt an active anti-apartheid
stance when such a position was quite unpopular in the West. The
analysis blends both international relations and comparative
political approaches to take a critical look at the role played by
Sweden in the defeat of the apartheid system.
This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama s
foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to
continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments. The
examination begins with the theme of policy continuity and change,
followed by those on military intervention, competition and
perceived threats, crisis management, politics, economic
development, and social policy. Each chapter starts with an
introduction of the policy instrument, provides an analysis of the
instrument, and concludes with suggestions. This book presents the
objectives for vibrant and lasting relations between Africa and the
United States and the concrete measures to achieve them."
The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic
elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As
democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium,
orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing
military coups but deaths and destructions came in the wake of
elections in many countries. Inspired by decades-long pro-democracy
movements across Africa that culminated in the Arab Spring of
2010-2011, and motivated by the desire to find long-term solutions
to election-related violent conflicts in the continent, this book
explores the terrain of democratization, elections, and conflict
management. It raises and answers many questions, such as: What are
the root causes of election-related conflicts? How free, fair, and
credible are elections in many African countries? What
institutional mechanisms are available for ballot and voter
security and for mandate protection? What has been the role of
civil society organizations in conflict prevention and management?
What are the responsibilities of the international community,
especially regional organizations like the Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), in
conflict resolution? What indigenous mechanisms for conflict
management have been identified that may be proactively engaged?
This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that
can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area.
These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational
change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests,
performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural
differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class
and differences, equal education, teaching methods, knowledge
level, educational guidelines and policies, transitional schools,
comparative education, other subjects such as physics and social
studies, surveys, talent, educational research, teacher education
and qualifications, academic standards, teacher effectiveness,
lesson plans and modules, teacher characteristics, instructional
materials, program effectiveness, program evaluation, African
culture, African history, Black studies, class activities,
educational games, number systems, cognitive ability, foreign
influence, and fundamental concepts. What unifies the chapters in
this book can appear rather banal, but many mathematical insights
are so obvious and so fundamental that they are difficult to
absorb, appreciate, and express with fresh clarity. Some of the
more basic insights are isolated by accounts of investigators who
have earned their contemporaries' respect. Winner of the 2012 Cecil
B. Currey Book Award.
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.
'Sweden vs Apartheid' examines the effort by the Swedish government
and civil society in Sweden to abolish the system of apartheid that
was instituted in South Africa in 1948. There are many reasons why
this book is important. It explores the foreign policy 'posture' of
a state, looks at Sweden's neutrality policy which embraced the
idea of international solidarity with weaker states and groups, and
examines the first Western state to adopt an active anti-apartheid
stance when such a position was quite unpopular in the West. The
analysis blends both international relations and comparative
political approaches to take a critical look at the role played by
Sweden in the defeat of the apartheid system.
This unique book goes beyond examining individual aspects of
political behavior. In Political Behavior, the authors pose a model
of how citizens behave in the political arena and suggest that
particular expressions provide clues about where citizens locate
their behaviors within the contexts defined by this model. The
focus is on how ethical, empirical, and prudential issues affect
political behavior. The author's approach is contextual, making the
discussion energetic and enlightening. Political Behavior serves as
a multidisciplinary approach to the study of political behavior. It
will be a valuable text for courses and seminars such as political
behavior, political theory, logic, political philosophy, political
participation, government, business, political economy, and
political sociology.
This edited volume examines the challenges of globalization in
light of the need to revisit and reconceptualize the notion of
Pan-Africanism. The first part of the book examines globalization
and Africa's socioeconomic and political development in this
century by using the Diopian Pluridisciplinary Methodology. This
approach is imperative because the challenges faced by Africa
vis-a-vis globalization and socioeconomic development are so
multiplexed that no single disciplinary approach can adequately
analyze them and yield substantive policy recommendations. The
chapters in the second part analyze the imperatives for Africa's
global knowledge production, development, and economic
transformation in the face of the pressures of globalization. Part
two demonstrates an urgent need for Africa's significant
participation in the global knowledge economy in order to meet the
continent's modern transformation and development aspirations. The
final part examines lessons from old and new Pan-Africanism and how
they can be utilized to deal with the challenges emanating from the
forces of modern globalization. With its multidisciplinary approach
to a wide range of pressing, modern issues for the African content,
this book is essential reading for scholars across the social
sciences interested in where Africa is now and where it should go
in this increasingly globalized world.
Branches of Asanteism explores the epistemologies and research
methodologies that have sprung from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante’s
treatises on Afrocentricity. The book identifies and analyzes
thirteen such epistemologies and methodologies while defining and
explicating the various “branches” of Asante’s idea of
Afrocentricity.
This book presents a textual analysis of the three most popular
hymns that have served as important political symbols to
African-Americans for many years: (1) Lift Every Voice and Sing
(the Negro National Anthem), (2) We Shall Overcome, and (3)
Precious Lord, Take My Hand. The major questions probed in the
present book are: (1) What salient political presuppositions and
implicatures are imbedded in the three texts studied? (2) How can
the delineated presuppositions and implicatures be explained? In
exploring these questions, the systematic application of discovery
procedures well-known in linguistic pragmatics will help to uncover
propositions that will illuminate the texts examined for readers.
The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship
-- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and
West Africa. Over the last several decades, historians have
conducted extensive research into contact between the United States
and West Africa during the era of the transatlantic trade. Yet we
still understand relatively little about more recent relations
between the two areas. This multidisciplinary volume presents the
most comprehensive analysis of the U.S.-West African relationship
to date, filling a significant gap in the literature by examining
the social, cultural, political, and economic bonds that have, in
recent years, drawn these two world regions into increasingly
closer contact. Beginning with examinations of factors that linked
the nations during European colonial ruleof Africa, and spanning to
discussions of U.S. foreign policy with regard to West Africa from
the Cold War through the end of the twentieth century and beyond,
these essays constitute the first volume devoted to interrogating
thecomplex relationship -- both historic and contemporary --
between the United States and West Africa. Contributors: Abdul
Karim Bangura, Karen B. Bell, Peter A. Dumbuya, Kwame Essien,
Andrew I. E. Ewoh, Toyin Falola, Osman Gbla, John Wess Grant,
Stephen A. Harmon, Harold R. Harris, Olawale Ismail, Alusine
Jalloh, Fred L. Johnson III, Stephen Kandeh, Ibrahim Kargbo, Bayo
Lawal, Ayodeji Olukoju, Adebayo Oyebade, Christopher Ruane, Anita
Spring, Ibrahim Sundiata, Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, Ken Vincent, and
Amanda Warnock. Alusine Jalloh is associate professor of history
and founding director of The Africa Program at the University of
Texas at Arlington. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger
Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished
Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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