By MAMADOU DIOUF,Seagull Books.Africa in the World’s Time.In this book,distinguished historian Mamadou Diouf repositions Africa at the centre of global historical imagination.Countering long-standing colonial narrati...By MAMADOU DIOUF,Seagull Books.Africa in the World’s Time.In this book,distinguished historian Mamadou Diouf repositions Africa at the centre of global historical imagination.Countering long-standing colonial narratives that relegated the continent to the margins,Diouf uncovers the intellectual,artistic,and cultural traditions through which Africans have continuously interpreted,debated,and rewritten their own histories.展开更多
The Lord’s Lawn:Dispatches from East Africa By J.D.BREEN Independently published The book offers a clear-eyed,often wry account of two weeks crossing Tanzania and Kenya.The author traces landscapes older than memory,...The Lord’s Lawn:Dispatches from East Africa By J.D.BREEN Independently published The book offers a clear-eyed,often wry account of two weeks crossing Tanzania and Kenya.The author traces landscapes older than memory,wildlife indifferent to human itineraries,and societies shaped as much by colonial boundaries and modern bureaucracy as by geology and climate.From Zanzibar to the Serengeti,and from Amboseli and Kilimanjaro to the Masai Mara,the essays weave together history,anthropology,politics and personal reflection without sentimentality or cynicism.Africa is not explained or simplified;it is encountered briefly and imperfectly,on its own terms.展开更多
文摘By MAMADOU DIOUF,Seagull Books.Africa in the World’s Time.In this book,distinguished historian Mamadou Diouf repositions Africa at the centre of global historical imagination.Countering long-standing colonial narratives that relegated the continent to the margins,Diouf uncovers the intellectual,artistic,and cultural traditions through which Africans have continuously interpreted,debated,and rewritten their own histories.
文摘The Lord’s Lawn:Dispatches from East Africa By J.D.BREEN Independently published The book offers a clear-eyed,often wry account of two weeks crossing Tanzania and Kenya.The author traces landscapes older than memory,wildlife indifferent to human itineraries,and societies shaped as much by colonial boundaries and modern bureaucracy as by geology and climate.From Zanzibar to the Serengeti,and from Amboseli and Kilimanjaro to the Masai Mara,the essays weave together history,anthropology,politics and personal reflection without sentimentality or cynicism.Africa is not explained or simplified;it is encountered briefly and imperfectly,on its own terms.
