African Culture and Global Politics

Introduction I African Philosophies and Philosophies for Africa 1. Ideologies of Development in French Algeria: Saint-Simonians, Manifest Destiny and Globalization 2. Islam and the Politics of Assimilation in French Colonial Algeria 3. Theorizing Conflict and Conflict Resolution in African Philosophical Discourse 4. The Emergent Church in Africa and the Phenomenon of Reverse Missions 5. Africa's Unheralded Contributions to World Politics 6. Failed State or Political Inspiration? 7. A Parallel Evolution: The Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1968-1994 II Literature, Language, Rhetoric, and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora 8. Ensuring that Africa's Voice is Heard in International Forums in the Future: The Language Issues Involved 9. Breaking the Yoke of the Culture of Dependency: A Critical-Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Political Speeches of Prominent African Leaders 10. "Playing the Russian Game": George Padmore and the Labelling of African resistance as Soviet Propaganda, 1946-50 11. Strongmen and Strategists: Perspectives on Models of Conflict Resolution in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah 12. Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the New South Africa's Place in World Memory 13. Evangelism as Political Protest in Nineteenth Century African Diaspora: Appraising Julia Foote's Spiritual Autobiography, A Brand Plucked from the Fire III The Politics of Daily Life in Africa and the African Diaspora 14. The Politics of Gender Roles: A Comparative Analysis of Female Husbands, Male Daughters and Sworn Virgins Among the Igbo of West Africa, the Nandi and Kikuyu of East Africa, and the Gheg of North Albania 15. African and African-Brazilian Family and Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 16. At Home in Exile: Dar es Salaam's Transnational Activist Scene and the Politics of Everyday Life 17. A Global Education: Cold War Networks, Imperial Angst and the Development of Tanzanian Schools, 1960-1970 18. Democratizing Traditional Rulership and the Question of Women in it in Africa: a Comparison of Nigeria and South Africa 19. Race and Social Islands in Kenya's Urban Social Spaces 20. Music and the Politics of Culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS Experience: Implications for a "Post-Apartheid" Discourse Conclusion