Re-centring Mother Earth

Re-centring Mother Earth
Author: Andrew Nyongesa
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1779243235

Literary critics have focused on the nexus between literature and the ecological environment. As a mirror of society, literature encapsulates the natural ecosystem to address environmental degradation as one of the major issues being confronted by communities the world over. Individual literary critics have demonstrated how literary writers have deliberately presented the impact of Mother Nature on the lives of characters. However, most critics have hardly demonstrated the essential role of the ecological environment on the political, social and religious attributes of human life.in Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction, Andrew Nyongesa investigates the role of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels. Using eco-criticism, the study challenges homocentric attributes of literature and shows how the ecological environment affects all facets of human life.

Re/centring Lives and Lived Experience in Education

Re/centring Lives and Lived Experience in Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2022-07-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004521186

Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection explores the co-curricular capacity of lived experience to re/centre human being in education.

Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education

Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
Author: Sandra D. Styres
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1487521634

Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education is an exploration into some of the shared cross-cultural themes that inform and shape Indigenous thought and Indigenous educational philosophy.

Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies

Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
Author: Brendan Hokowhitu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429802374

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include: • Indigenous Sovereignty • Indigeneity in the 21st Century • Indigenous Epistemologies • The Field of Indigenous Studies • Global Indigeneity This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought. This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in Indigenous peoples across Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Māori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.

Africa’s Contemporary Food Insecurity

Africa’s Contemporary Food Insecurity
Author: Nkwazi Mhango
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1779314795

The contribution works toward achieving its mentality-changing goals by essentially providing Afrikentication lessons radiating principally around the theme: Making African education relevant to African liberation and progress. The linchpin of the book is that we Africans truly need to cease dangling uselessly and reclaim our authentic roots if we have to independently move forward. This is an objective we clearly cannot correctly achieve when our intellectuals and universities (among others) who are supposed to be furnishing our liberation movements with sane policy and thought-leadership do continue in the same old colonial way of sheepish ‘theorising’ that excessively indulges in obliterating genuine African perspectives. Indigenous African education is the way to go! An inevitable rethinking in education, culture, and religion in Africa is recommended, basing on innovation and critical thinking which are sure highlights of communalism, which is a defining feature of the African way of life. The book thus harps on the need to recentralise African values and philosophy in the freedom and governance of the continent, as well as stressing the dire need for unity and visionary, dedicated and patriotic leadership.

Experimental Writing

Experimental Writing
Author: Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1779272758

This project comes from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being, on thinking, so that we will all benefit. Sixty-two writers and poets are included, of which 19 were purely fiction writers, six were mixed genres writers, one a non-fiction writer, one a playwright, and 35 are poets. Altogether there are 92 pieces in two languages: English and Spanish.

Zimbabwe: Essays, Non Fictions and Letters

Zimbabwe: Essays, Non Fictions and Letters
Author: Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1779272766

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka wrote letters to Robert Mugabe, Constantine Chiwenga, Morgan Tsvangirai, The Zimbabweans, Emerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, The Police, and in between infused the letters with deeply literary and psychoanalytic essays on the motivations of political players in Zimbabwe. Using this nonfiction literary form, the letter writing form, to protest against Robert Mugabe and the Mugabeism the letters were initially written to protest against Mugabe's continuing clinging to power, the collection has been expanded to include other issues related to Zimbabwe society. As the country moves towards a better multiparty democracy if there is change in thinking in these very important facets shaping Zimbabwe such as constitutionalism and rule of law, change and devolution of government, developmental agenda, and freedom of expression and association.

School Based HIV Education Affecting Girls in Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

School Based HIV Education Affecting Girls in Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Musa Charmaine
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177927257X

An in-depth, accessible study of school based intervention programs that affect girls in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as a representative subset of Sub Saharan Africa. This book indulges in the reasons why HIV goals are lagging behind particularly with adolescent girls and young women. It tackles issues such as access to quality HIV education and delivery methods used by teachers. It discusses culture and religion as barriers to HIV education. It concludes by suggesting ways for a multi-sectoral approach and transformational change in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the 90-90-90 targets.

Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice

Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
Author: Janine Natalya Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110884362X

Explores innovative ways to build peace after large-scale violence by combining resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice.