Africana

Revisiting" What's In a Name?

by Nikol Alexander-Floyd

Expanding the History of the Black Studies Movement: Some Prefatory Notes

by Jonathan Fenderson

Co-authored with James Stewart (of Penn State University) and Kabria Baumgartner (of Wooster)

Fluid attachment: reframing peacebuilding through Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé

by Christina Lux

Color Me Invisible: The Hidden Legacy of African American Muslims

by Donna Auston

chapter in The Black Experience in America, Second Edition, Gayle T. Tate & Edward Ramsamy, eds. Kendall-Hunt, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7575-9414-4

African Women: Reflections on their social, political and economic power

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Globalization, feminism, and power: an African perspective

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Published by John Archers for Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies (PEFS), University of Ibadan, 2003

Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity (review)

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

This is a review of a book titled: Gendering Global Transformations.... , edited by Korieh & Okeke-Ihejirika. It is published in African Studies Review, Volume 53, Number 3, December 2010

AFRICAN WOMEN: REFLECTIONS ON THE PERILS OF UNWARRANTED COSMOPOLITANISM

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Peer group cooperation as a resource for promoting socially responsible intelligence

by Robert Serpell

Serpell, R. (2011). Peer group cooperation as a resource for promoting socially responsible intelligence: ku-gwirizana ndi anzache. In A.B.Nsamenang & T.M.S. Tchombe (Eds)African Educational Theories and Practices: A Generative Teacher Education Textbook (Chapter 13, pp.195-204 ). Bamenda, Cameroon: HDRC.

This chapter sets out to explain how peer group cooperation (ku gwirizana ndi anzache) is conceptualized in Chewa... more This chapter sets out to explain how peer group cooperation (ku gwirizana ndi anzache) is conceptualized in Chewa culture as an essential ingredient of socially responsible intelligence (nzelu), a developmental goal for the children and youth that is widely valued among parents in Chewa and other African societies.
A case study is presented of how peer group cooperation was actively promoted in the Child-to-Child approach to health education adopted by a group of innovative Bemba-speaking teachers at a Government primary school in Zambia’s Northern Province in the 1990s. By studying the chapter, it is hoped that other teachers will derive inspiration and guidance for the design and delivery of effective education for social responsibility in rural and urban African sociocultural settings.

Rethinking Ancestors in Africa

by John C. McCall

1995. "Rethinking Ancestors in Africa." Africa. (Journal of the International African Institute.) 65(2): 256-270.

Dimensions of African Migration to the United States: Labor, Brain Drain, Identity Formation and Naturalization

by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Somalia soccer seeks Diaspora support as Islamists lose ground

by James M. Dorsey

By James M. Dorsey

Somalia, racked by civil war and famine, is seeking soccer players and fan support from... more By James M. Dorsey

Somalia, racked by civil war and famine, is seeking soccer players and fan support from the country’s large Diaspora to rebuild shattered infrastructure in advance of 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

The recruitment and fundraising campaign follows military setbacks in which the country’s Al Shabab, jihadist insurgents associated with Al Qaeda have lost their control of a majority of the capital Mogadishu to forces of the Transition Federal Government backed by African Union peacekeepers.

The campaign takes on special significance because Al Shabab has banned the game as un-Islamic in the chunks of Somalia that it controls. Somalia’s Under-20 soccer team suffered a serious setback in February when a militant Islamist suicide bomber killed one of its star internationals and wounded two other players.

Mogadishu’s stadium -- once one of East Africa’s most impressive filled with 70,000 passionate fans during games – was turned into an Islamist training and recruitment center while the jihadists controlled much of the city, reducing the transitional government’s writ to a few blocks around the presidential palace. Included in that writ was the country’s police academy where the national soccer team trained and played matches in mismatched attire on a forlorn patch of earth that is covered with mud, rocks and rusty cans in puddles, and has no goal posts.

The Somali Football Federation’s campaign constitutes a major advance in its battle with the jihadists for the hearts and minds of the country’s youth. A federation campaign supported by world soccer body FIFA and local businessmen successfully sought to lure child soldiers with the prospect of a soccer career away from the Islamist militia.

The campaign under the slogan ‘Put down the gun, pick up the ball’ challenged the jihadists’ ban on soccer that they enforced with militants in their trademark green jumpsuits and chequered scarves driving through towns in the south of the country in Toyota pickup trucks mounted with megaphones. Families were threatened with punishment if their children fail to enlist as fighters. Boys were plucked from makeshift soccer fields. Childless families were ordered to pay al-Shabab $50 a month, the equivalent of Somalia's monthly per capita income. Local soccer club owners were detained and tortured on charges of misguiding youth.

As part of its bid to rebuild infrastructure and prepare for the World Cup qualifiers, the federation has appointed technical and administrative representatives in Europe and North America to promote and garner support for the Somali national team, the federation’s secretary Abdi Qani Said said in a statement.

"About ninety-five per cent of these representatives are former coaches and former national team players whose job is expected to yield positive results for Somalia's future international football appearances," Mr. Abdi Qani said.

Somalia is scheduled to play Ethiopia in November in the preliminary rounds of the 2014 World Cup. It will also compete in the annual Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) Senior Challenge Cup in Tanzania and the All Arab Games in Doha in December.

Mr. Abdi Qani said the newly appointed representatives would help the federation recruit young Diaspora players who would
train primarily in their exile home countries.

James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer .

Lifted Out of the Commonplace Grandeur of Modern Times: Reappraising Edward Wilmot Blyden's Views of Islam and Afrocentrism in Light of His Scholarly Black …

by Jacob Dorman

This will become a chapter in my second book project, "Black Orientalism." I'm honored it was published in the late Manning Marable's journal, Souls.

Although the West Indian-born West African intellectual Rev. Edward Wilmot Blyden praised the societies of Africa and... more Although the West Indian-born West African intellectual Rev. Edward Wilmot Blyden praised the societies of Africa and the Orient, he was actually a lifelong Christian whose thought followed Orientalist templates, from his acquisition of “Oriental” languages, to his use of Orientalist learning to evangelize Muslims, to his advocacy of Islamic education as a means of strengthening British imperialism in West Africa. While Blyden’s view of Islam was far more Orientalist and far less positive than most accounts portray, it nonetheless played an important part in the formation of Afrocentrism and in Black appreciation of Islam.

Perverse and Necessary Dialogues in African Philosophy

by Jennifer Lisa Vest

Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 1.2 (2009)

Fixity and Fluidity: Chiefly Authority and Settlement Movement in Colonial Botswana

by Christopher Morton

2004. History and Anthropology, Vol. 15, No. 4. (Dec.), 345-365

The Anthropologist as Photographer: Reading the Monograph and Reading the Archive

by Christopher Morton

2005. Visual Anthropology, Vol. 18 (4), 389-405

Remembering the House: Memory and Materiality in Northern Botswana

by Christopher Morton

2007. Journal of Material Culture, 12 (2) (July), 157-179

Paro Manene: Exhibiting Photographic Histories in Western Kenya

by Christopher Morton

(with G. Oteyo) 2009. Journal of Museum Ethnography, 22 (Dec.), 155–64.

Fieldwork and the Participant-Photographer: E. E. Evans-Pritchard and the Nuer rite of gorot

by Christopher Morton

2009. Visual Anthropology, 22 (4), 252–74

Black No More?

by Hettie Williams

This paper is an examination of the "new" racial genetics and African Americans. This paper is an examination of the "new" racial genetics and African Americans.