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This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the
study of African urban history and culture. Moving between
precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the
major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan
Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new
and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban
history and culture. It presents original research and integrates
historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography,
literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial,
colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major
regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa.
The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration,
globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations,
politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what
makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban
historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study
of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban
history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities
provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new
potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those
avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build.
Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery
Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno,
Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima
Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph,
Jeremy Rich,Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. 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; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor
of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.
On August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of
radical military officers, communist activists, labor
leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the
Republic of Upper Volta. Almost immediately following the coup’s
success, the small West African country—renamed Burkina
Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international
attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic,
cultural, and political development based on its people’s
needs rather than external pressures and Cold War politics.
James E. Genova’s Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and
Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 recounts in detail
the revolutionary government’s rise and fall, demonstrating
how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African
history between the era of decolonization and the dawning of
neoliberal capitalism. It also uncovers one of the
revolution’s most enduring and significant aspects: its promotion
of film as a vehicle for raising the people’s
consciousness, inspiring their efforts at social
transformation, and articulating a new self-generated image
of Africa and Africans. Foregrounding film and drawing
evocative connections between Sankara’s political philosophy and
Frantz Fanon, Making New People provides a deeply nuanced
explanation for the revolution’s lasting influence
throughout Africa and the world.
While previous EW exploited flaws in the analogue equipment to
corrupt or degrade the sensor detection or localisation
capabilities, EW is now an information battle. Modern autonomous
threat sensors can readily detect and locate targets by
incorporating state of the art high speed digital signal processing
(DSP) algorithms that focus on the classification of targets via
target physical features. As a result the autonomous threat has a
significant advantage over attacking forces consisting of armoured
vehicles, aircraft or ships. To elucidate the state of EW, this
book focuses on the example of autonomous anti ship missiles (ASM)
attacking a naval fleet rather than airborne battles, thus filling
a significant gap in the EW literature. It describes modern DSP
algorithms that have been published by ASM development personnel
from several nations, including the People's Republic of China and
the Russian federation and outlines instances where it has been
successfully used against ships. The book elaborates on the
mathematical techniques employed and the advantages of
incorporating digital signal processing algorithms into the
autonomous sensor. With straight forward DSP algorithms, ASM can
rapidly identify and distinguish electronically generated false
targets, passive decoys, chaff and true targets. Moreover, special
sensor waveforms now proactively probe the targets for enhanced
feature measurements, and modern multi-channel optimal DSP readily
mitigates noise jamming.
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