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The writings in this edition explore historical and contemporary
issues in Ethiopia as the country underwent change and celebrated
its new millennium. However, despite the recognizance of
socio-economic and political changes, Ethiopia still faces enduring
problems and challenges to its stability and continuity. The
political past haunts the country while it is facing the future
with optimism and hope. The contributors in this edition examine
historical and contemporaneous issues with different lenses; they
investigate the multiplicity and complexity of the contradictions
that define traditional and modern Ethiopia. The contributions
highlight the significance of the instability, dislocation,
conflict and transformation inherent in any society. None of these
writings, however, celebrate the forces that create the conflict;
they are cautious not to glorify the present and romanticize the
past. On the contrary, they seek to contextualize the challenges
which the country faces with a view to open a dialogue, not
exclusively among Ethiopians, but with scholars and social
activists in the rest of Africa, as well as the international
community. The contributions cover and examine such important
topics as historiography, political power and legitimacy, ideology
and radical views, knowledge transmission and modernity, emigration
and the Ethiopian Diaspora, ethnic and linguistic identity,
patriarchy and feminist discourses in a traditional society, public
policies and economic development, traditional and modern art and
culture, and neo-liberalism and globalization. This book was
published as a special issue of African Identities.
European and African works have found it difficult to move past
the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality.
This book explores the status and critical relationship between
politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and
publishing in the context of promoting Africa's indigenous
knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans
continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It
both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis
informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that
postcolonial theories have taken, and arguing for a selective
appropriation of theory that emerges from Africa's lived
experiences.
This title was first published in 2003. Aimed at examining
contemporary debates and issues which are at the cutting edge of
the social sciences, Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye have put
together a book on subjects of critical importance to the African
condition. A combination of empirical and theoretical materials,
this text introduces new perspectives.
This title was first published in 2003. Aimed at examining
contemporary debates and issues which are at the cutting edge of
the social sciences, Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye have put
together a book on subjects of critical importance to the African
condition. A combination of empirical and theoretical materials,
this text introduces new perspectives.
Empire and Cricket illuminates the complex relationship between
cricket and the making of South African society between 1884 and
1914. This critical era for South Africa and the British Empire
encompassed the economic revolution following: the discoveries of
diamonds and gold, the South African or Anglo-Boer War, and the
segregationist structuring of society. It is the gripping story of
how cricket lay at the heart of social and political developments
in South Africa and the wider British Empire, brought to life with
numerous historic photographs of players and historic sites. The
book's contributors describe how cricket acted as a vehicle for the
Empire, and how it impacted race and class. It maps the role of the
small and tightly knit white elite with overlapping interests in
cricket, politics, and business, as well as the largely ignored
world of the 'non-white' (African, 'colored, ' and Indian)
cricketers and politicians. The close connection between politics
and cricket goes back to the emergence of South Africa as a test
playing country in the late 19th century. Cape Prime Minister Cecil
John Rhodes included cricket in his drive to impose a
segregationist structure in the African sub-continent, effectively
ensuring the segregationist nature of South African cricket for
much of the 20th century. The feats of those who first placed South
African cricket on the international map are recalled, along with
chronicles of many other unsung local heroes. Empire and Cricket
explores the widespread enthusiasm for cricket among all of South
Africa's communities, and the passion and success with which blacks
played the game
Mulatu was the first Ethiopian jazz music-maker to study abroad and
thus be exposed to Western musical trends. When he returned to
Addis Ababa he pursued his dream of drawing on the musical heritage
of his homeland a heritage that has been buffeted by Ethiopia s
turbulent history to produce a unique, compelling blend of music:
Ethiopian sounds with a twist . In the late 1960 s, his Ethio jazz
introduced, among other new ideas, the Afro-Latin soul where he
played conga, piano, vibraphone and innovative musical
arrangements. These included compositions of popular Ethio jazz
music which took on a modern, funk, jazz-infused quality that soon
had recording companies knocking at his door.
After the fall of Haile Selassie in 1974 Ethiopian society
experienced a short period of unprecedented freedom and
decentralization. This was followed by one of the most stringent
regimes of centralized control over people and resources, in the
name of socialism. This volume contains contributions by Ethiopian
and European scholars from several disciplines who review the
historical issues, economic policy, environmental questions and
politics. They try to draw lessons from the past and suggest
solutions by which the local people - the peasants and the poor -
can be involved in a more decentralized structure which will
harness their resources, initiatives and capacities.
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