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Free Download Abiodun Salawu, "Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 2: Social Crusades and the Future "
English | ISBN: 3030987043 | 2022 | 492 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it subsequently focuses on how the music portrays the African future, its use by African youths, and how it is affected by advanced broadcast technologies and the digital media. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which can only be unraveled by the knowledge of myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores how, during the colonial period and post-independence dispensation, indigenous African music genres and their artists were mainstreamed in order to tackle emerging issues, to sensitise Africans about the affairs of their respective nations and to warn African leaders who have failed and are failing African citizenry about the plight of the people.

Free Download Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy
by Ada Agada
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030788962 | 338 Pages | True PDF | 4.5 MB

Free Download Bruce A. Glasrud, "Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0826219047, 0826222358 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.6 mb
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle in the Revolutionary War. But by the War of 1812, the United States had come to maintain what one writer called "a whitewashed army." Yet despite that opposition, during the early 1800s, militia units made up of free black soldiers came together to aid the official military troops in combat.

Free Download Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance by William Loren Katz, Robin D. G. Kelley
English | January 30, 2024 | ISBN: 164421265X | 256 pages | MOBI | 55 Mb
Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.

Free Download John Siko, "African Security: An Introduction"
English | ISBN: 1788317416 | 2020 | 280 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The world’s fastest growing continent demographically, Africa displays nearly all the features of today’s global security challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration, organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and economic turbulence.

Free Download Michael Bollig, Olaf Bubenzer, "African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approache"
English | 2008 | pages: 519 | ISBN: 0387786813, 144192695X | PDF | 14,6 mb
Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways that natural landscapes themselves are the product of historical and cultural processes.

Free Download Donna Hubbard McCree PhD MPH RPh, "African Americans and HIV/AIDS: Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic"
English | 2010 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1489996729, 0387783202 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Among U. S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this disparity as well as methods for intervening and positively impacting the e- demic in the U. S. The book is divided into two sections. The first section includes chapters that explore specific contextual and structural factors related to HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention in African Americans. The second section is composed of chapters that address the latest in intervention strategies, including best-evidence and promising-evidence based behavioral interventions, program evaluation, cost effectiveness analyses and HIV testing and counseling. As background for the book, the Introduction provides a summary of the context and importance of other infectious disease rates, (i. e. , sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] and tubercu- sis), to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in African Americans and a brief introductory discussion on the major contextual factors related to the acquisition and transmission of STDs/HIV. Contextual Chapters Johnson & Dean author the first chapter in this section, which discusses the history and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Specifically, this ch- ter provides a definition for and description of the US surveillance systems used to track HIV/AIDS and presents data on HIV or AIDS cases diagnosed between 2002 and 2006 and reported to CDC as of June 30, 2007.

Free Download E. Lâle Demirtürk, "African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in "
English | ISBN: 1498596215 | 2019 | 268 pages | PDF | 2 MB
African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life explores the undoing of whiteness by black people, who dissociate from scripts of black criminality through radical performative reiterations of black vulnerability. It studies five novels that challenge the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in interracial social encounters, showing how they use strategic performances of Blackness to enable subversive practices in everyday life, which is constructed and governed by white mechanisms of racialized control. The agency portrayed in these novels opens up alternative spaces of Blackness to impact the social world and effects transformative change as a forceful critique of everyday life. African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era shows how these novels reformulate the problem of black vulnerability as a constitutive source of the right to life in their refusal of subjection to vulnerability, enacted by white institutional and individual forms of violence. It positions a white-black-encounter-oriented reading of these "neo-resistance novels" of the Black Lives Matter era as a critique of everyday life in an effort to explore spaces of radical performativity of blackness to make happen social change and transformation.

Free Download John S. Saul, "A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation"
English | 2014 | pages: 209 | ISBN: 0745334806, 0745334792 | PDF | 4,8 mb
Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S Saul reexamines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.

Free Download African American History: From the African Coast to the Civil War [TTC Audio]
English | February 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0CSZD9GJQ | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 30m | 356 MB
Lecturer: Leslie Alexander
Owing to the legacy of slavery, African Americans have faced significant obstacles to obtaining the fundamental rights of freedom and citizenship. The consistent struggle among African Americans to gain their human rights live at the heart of the American experiment in democracy.