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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"African traditions"”.
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A philosophical and theoretical analysis of African socialism with particular reference to Ghana : and the implications for political modernization
… dissertation attempts to analyze the concept of African Socialism particularly in Ghana under the leadership of the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. African Socialism is defined in various ways by contemporary African thinkers. What they all have in common is the tendency to emphasize the point that …
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A Convergence of Surrealism and Realism: Why Spirituality, Folklore, and the Supernatural Saturate the Work of Toni Morrison
… bridge between the cultural past and present for African Americans. Moreover, I will discuss how the use of the surreal in Morrison’s work represents a dive into African traditions. Formed as a direct result of slavery, she aims to subvert the past and present “cultural imprisonment” of African …
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Ingonyuluka mayelana nokubhidlika kwemishado kugxilwe esifundeni Sasothungulu, Emhlathuze
… Modernisation. Chapter three looks at various African traditions and customs that are performed during the process of wedding ceremony. It also compares the traditional marriage and modern marriage. Chapter four analyses closely the causes of divorce which include disrespect, education, …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will focus on the popular trend of referencing historic photographs in revisionist art and explore how Saar's method of including found images and objects differs from her contemporaries and the implications of her …
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The social and cultural impact of internally displaced persons, IDPs’ camps on the host community in Nigeria: a sociological evaluation
… host communities, constructively utilises African traditions of hospitality and promotes a sense of community living in combination with new social integration strategies. Such a model is considered necessary to address issues arising in relation to the country’s economic instability, …
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Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism.
… to examine the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
… of Catholicism and its local expressions among Africans and their descendants in seventeenth-century New Spain. In that century, New Spain (the Spanish term for colonial Mexico) was home to the second largest enslaved population and the largest free black population in the Western Hemisphere. My …
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The revival and revitalization of musical bow practice
… think on events which stimulated my interest in African musical bows. I grew up in a rural area in the Eastern Cape, historical home of the Xhosa-speaking people, and in which so much Xhosa traditional music has always been actively practiced. It seems hard to believe that musical bow performance …
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Ucwaningo olunzulu ngesiko lemvelo lokunakekelwa kokukhulelwa nokubeletha = A critical analysis of indigenous knowledge systems related to pregnancy care (antenatal) and infant delivery
… for pregnancy, following the procedures and African traditions because culture is the backbone of human life and the most important factor in human development. In this thesis, explanations are also given for the infertility of young brides and what is done traditionally to solve such …
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An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil
<p>Palm oil extracted from the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the world’s most produced vegetable oil, commanding a roughly 50 billion dollar global industry. In contrast to the agroindustrial firms and monocultures that dominate global production, a biodiverse cultural landscape of …
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FOURTH SPACE: Sonic & /aural dimensions of Cape Town's historic urban landscape
… are imbued with monumentality alongside those of African traditions and practices. The two divergent frameworks in sound studies, that of sound versus that of noise, illuminate the tensions of colonialism and coloniality, and the reinforcement of systems of inequality and imbalances of legislation …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
… white rice. The intermingling of European and African traditions are appreciated in Cuban culture, however there is also a tremendous degree of racism in Miami. The powerful and wealthy exiles are mainly light-skinned. Newer arrivals are more ethnically mixed, they come from a wider variety of …