The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online) back issues from June 2008:
No Stone Unturned: From Aimé Césaire to Zimbabwe
Jun 01, 2008; ... Thank you for reading this publication, we are again pleased to offer some of the most engaging insights on the African experience in scholarly publishing. In this edition we provide: a tribute to the life and work of Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) via an interview wherein he talks about the ...
The Liberating Power of Words: An Interview with Poet Aimé Césaire
Jun 01, 2008; ... Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was born in Martinique. In his poetry, plays and political activities he waged a lifelong struggle to restore dignity to colonized peoples. First and foremost a poet, here he talks to Annick Thebia Melsan about his faith in the power of words. The following interview is ...
What Neighborhood Poverty Studies Can Learn from African American Studies
Jun 01, 2008; ... For the past twenty-five years, urban poverty research has not received sufficient attention from scholars in African American Studies, leaving this important research in the hands of sociologists, psychologists, and urban studies scholars, whose research focuses primarily on the detrimental ...
Using Cultural Competence to Close the Achievement Gap
Jun 01, 2008; ... Introduction It is clear that the number one issue for public education is finding appropriate ways to close the student achievement gap, especially as this relates to African Americans, other minorities and lower socioeconomic children in our schools. Americans of African descent have ...
Barack Obama's Dual Triple Heritage
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract Contributing to Ali A. Mazrui's (1986) Africa's triple heritage concept, this paper argues that United States Senator Barack Obama from Illinois has a dual triple heritage: (1) race or ethnicity (ethnic origin) and (2) religion. The paper argues that the new positive friendship ...
Estelusti Marginality: A Qualitative Examination of the Black Seminole
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract Approximately four years ago, I began collecting interview data with Black Seminoles/Estelusti in Oklahoma. My research focused on how the Black Seminoles negotiated their marginal status within the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and with non-freedman Blacks. Using Weisberger's ...
Danceable Capitalism: Hip-Hop's Link to Corporate Space
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract The article discusses hip-hop's progression from communal art to commodity and argues that the change is attributed to the lack of strong social justice activism in the years the music became popular, a lack of communal critique; the change from an industrial to the ...
Africa's Political, Industrial and Economic Development Dilemma in the Contemporary Era of the African Union
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract The time for Africa to initiate its industrial and economic development through the efforts and initiatives of African states and citizens has dawned. The habit of begging and borrowing coupled with the blaming of Colonialism and Neo-colonialism and the Multi National ...
Reclamation in Walker's Jubilee: The Context of Development of the Historical Novel
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract This article attempts to contribute to the scholarship on Margaret Walker's Jubilee, ancestor of a wave of neo-enslaved narratives and African-American historical fictions, by shedding more light on the context of its development. While most critics implicitly tie the ...
An Interview with Marouba Fall: Premier Senegalese Novelist, Poet and Dramatist
Jun 01, 2008; ... Senegalese novelist, poet and dramatist Marouba Fall discusses his latest novel, Betty Allen, in the context of his earlier work. The novel addresses various preconceptions about the nature of Islam and African society as well as different perceptions of the idea of liberty. Tamara-Diana ...
Pan Africanism and Development: The East African Community Model
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract The EAC (East African Community), created in 2001, is the umbrella organization overseeing a pan-nation trade bloc consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. This confederation features a single currency, common language (Kiswahili), and shared regional ...
Mother Tongue Usage in Learning: An Examination of Language Preferences in Zimbabwe
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper is based on findings from a study conducted to examine children and parents' language preferences in view of the Zimbabwean language policy derived from the 1987 Education Act, which requires instruction to be conducted in the mother tongue in grades 1-3. This study ...
Shona Traditional Children's Games and Play: Songs as Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract This article aims to show that Shona traditional children's games and play songs are an indigenous way of knowing. It also seeks to show how the knowledge embedded in these songs and play songs is accessed. As methodology, examples of Shona traditional children's games and play ...
Commemoration, Memory and Monuments in the Contested Language of Black Liberation: The South African Experience
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract In the last thirty years, the June 16, 1976 student uprisings have been commemorated in various ways. The commemorations have taken the form of expression of grief, loss and the will to continue pursuing the liberation project in South Africa. These processes of commemoration ...
Shona Womanhood: Rethinking Social Identities in the Face of HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract The prevalence of HIV and AIDS places a new moral imperative on the Shona society and especially women for the need to revisit and possibly reconstruct their usual way of seeing themselves and the prevailing discourse about women in Zimbabwe. It is making it mandatory for Shona ...
Public Awareness and Sensitization Campaigns on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract The communicative effectiveness of language use is examined in this paper. This is done with particular reference to the texts of public awareness/sensitization campaigns on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Hence texts primarily meant to create awareness and sensitize the general public on ...
Shona Reasoning Skills in Zimbabwe: The Importance of Riddles
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract Riddles are important logical tools in the traditional Shona system of education. While Shona riddles have important functions like socialisation and recreation, this paper is focused on the functions of riddles in sharpening one's reasoning skills and quickness of wit, and ...
Books Received
Jun 01, 2008; ... An Afrocentric Manifesto by Molefi Kete Asante. Polity Press (Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA). 2007. ISBN-10: 0745641024; ISBN- 13: 978-0745641027; pp.178. An examination and exploration of the cultural perspective closest to the existential reality of African people in order to present an ...
The Aftermath of Slavery: Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria
Jun 01, 2008; ... Chima Korieh and Femi J. Kolapo eds., The Aftermath of Slavery: Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007). iv + 261pp. Maps, pictures, tables, index. The abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade produced far- reaching political, ...