Sociology of Africa: March 2020

Monday, March 23, 2020

POLITICS:

Faces Of Africa - Haile Selassie: The Pillar of a Modern Ethiopia, part 1 & 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVki9t3anJU

Faces of Africa - Jomo Kenyatta : The Founding Father of Kenya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtAxH8jgyY

Faces Of Africa- Kwame Nkrumah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMY0iTcspNA

Documentary on Patrice Lumumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3MKWZ9slnM

Faces Of Africa - Mwalimu Julius Nyerere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6noZPkLwwU

Faces Of Africa- The Jerry Rawlings story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHpFgKJax8

The Return of Steve Biko (Documentary by Jeff Ogola) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_iKkOy134

Nelson Mandela: Madiba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfCoyu7m4a4

Faces Of Africa - Sankara's Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cobVBgQKdlc

Faces Of Africa - Chief Obasanjo at your service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azj7qk6RQdQ

Faces Of Africa - Dr. Sam Nujoma: Love for the People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW9iCDtiKLY

Faces of Africa— Idi Amin: Famous for the wrong reasons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQQ_b9bMb5U

TR 1 0:02 / 29:23 Faces Of Africa Ken Saro-Wiwa: All For My People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcJIaSw8-98

Faces Of Africa - Kenneth Kaunda: The Man with a Big Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQFmp9CDcw

Faces of Africa - Wangari Maathai: The Eco-warrior with a smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOK1I8tIAqo

Faces of Africa - Mugabe: The Old Man and The Seat of Power, Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwCUhOHe9Sg

Faces of Africa - Mugabe: The Old Man and the Seat of Power, Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U1yoAih0-0

MUSIC:

Faces of Africa - Fela Kuti: The Father of Afrobeat, Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS_Yd_iMYWo

Faces of Africa - Fela Kuti: The Father of Afrobeat, Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ts87oRqdfQ

Faces of Africa - Youssou N'Dour: A Music Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mpSKb0euNw

Mali music documentary: Under African skies. 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TaPI28xDQ

A Visit to Ali Farka Touré https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1bNX6dgTs0

Senegal Music Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jujmxu_Bs

Hirde dyama - 1971 Guinean documentary featuring Bembeya Jazz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_0SxrnMxU

LITERATURE:

Faces of Africa - Wole Soyinka: Glutton of Tranquility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrOwxoOomk

Biography of Chinua Achebe,Origin,Education,Awards,Family,Wife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRr9k44eYk4

TALK AFRICA: A conversation with Wole Soyinka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFKYJBAnjV4

The Deamon, the Woman and the Bird - african fairy tale from Senegal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNw0hOh0hk

THE LEGEND OF NGONG HILLS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJ0oyF3IGQ

RELIGION:

Faces of Africa— Rastafarians: coming home to Africa 07/10/2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2-h7ooGgAg

SPORT:

Faces of Africa - King George Serves His Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR1X6BwGd_I

Recommended Books on Africa, Africana and Black Studies

Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young. Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2003. ISBN 0-7391-0547-7.
Maulana Karenga. Introduction to Black Studies. University of Sankore Press, 2010.
Peter Gran. Beyond Eurocentrism: A new view of modern world history. Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Michael George Hanchard. Black Transnationalism, Africana Studies, and the 21st Century. Journal of Black Studies, Nov 2004; vol. 35: pp. 139 - 153.
James L. Conyers. The Evolution Of Africology: An Afrocentric Appraisal. Journal of Black Studies, May 2004; vol. 34: pp. 640 - 652.
Mark Christian. Black Studies in the 21st Century: Longevity Has Its Place. Journal of Black Studies, May 2006; vol. 36: pp. 698 - 719.
Molefi Kete Asante. A Discourse on Black Studies: Liberating the Study of African People in the Western Academy. Journal of Black Studies, May 2006; vol. 36: pp. 646 - 662.
A. Adu Boahen. African Perspectives on Colonialism. John Hopkins University Press 1989.
David Birmingham. Decolonization Of Africa. Routledge 1995.
Frederick Cooper. Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Terry Kershaw. Toward a Black Studies Paradigm: An Assessment and Some Directions. Journal of Black Studies, Jun 1992; vol. 22: pp. 477 - 493.
Mervat Hatem. Africa on My Mind. International Journal of Middle East Studies. (41) 2009.
Carolyn Somerville. The “African” in Africana/Black/African and African American Studies. International Journal of Middle East Studies. (41) 2009.
Terence Walz. The Fruit of the Africanist Contribution. International Journal of Middle East Studies. (41) 2009.
John O. Voll. Reconceptualizing of the “Regions” in “Area Studies”. International Journal of Middle East Studies. (41) 2009.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. 1992. “The Invention of Africa.” Pp. 3-27. In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2003. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism And the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Comaroff, Jean and John. 1991. “Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination.” Pp. 86-125, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. X
Grant-Thomas, Andrew and john a. Powell. 2009. “Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States. Pp. 118-144 in Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America. Edited by Andrew Grant-Thomas and Gary Orfield. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. X
Mazrui, Ali. 2005. The Re-invention of Africa: Edward Said, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Beyond. Research in African Literatures 36 (3): 68-82.
Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1998.
Achebe, Chinua. A Man of the People. New York: Anchor, 1967, 1989.
Maier, Karl. Into the House of Ancestors: Inside the New Africa. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
Peterson, Scott. Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Tugrul Keskin - Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies

Tugrul Keskin is an Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies and an affiliated faculty of Black Studies, Sociology and the Center For Turkish Studies at Portland State University. He is also the Middle East Studies Coordinator (INTL). His research and teaching interests include Sociology of Islam and the Middle East, Social and Political Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Islamic Movements, Development and Urbanization in the Middle East, Sociology of Africa, and Modern Kurdish, Uyghur and Turkish Nationalism. Previously, Dr. Keskin taught as an instructor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech University and has also taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University and Radford University. He received his PhD in Sociology from Virginia Tech, with certificate degrees in Africana Studies, Social and Political Thought, and International Research and Development. He is the founder and moderator of the Sociology of Islam mailing list, and editor of the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies Newsletter: http://www.pdx.edu/sociologyofislam. Dr. Keskin has recently had his edited book, The Sociology of Islam: Secularism Economy and Politics published by Garnet/Ithaca Press, 2011. Tugrul Keskin is a board member of Sociologists Without Borders and serves as a book review editor of Societies Without Borders http://societieswithoutborders.org/.

Monday, March 23, 2020

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