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Transformation and resiliency in Africa : as seen by Afro-American scholars

Title
Transformation and resiliency in Africa : as seen by Afro-American scholars / edited by Pearl T. Robinson and Elliott P. Skinner.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Robinson, Pearl T., 1945-
  • Skinner, Elliott P. (Elliott Percival), 1924-2007.
Description
ix, 277 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Social change
  • Subsaharan Africa
  • social change
  • social development
  • Civilization
  • Social change
  • Social conditions
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Kulturwandel
  • Africa > Civilization
  • Africa > Social conditions
  • Africa
  • Subsaharisches Afrika
  • Afrika
  • Africa > Civilization
  • Africa > Social conditions
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Afro-Americans in search of Africa : the scholars' dilemma / Elliott P. Skinner -- Case studies -- Rural-urban labor migration and family arrangements among the Kamba / Cheryl Benoit Mwaria -- Public corporation expansion in Nigeria : political interests, state structure and government policy / Ernest J. Wilson III -- Ethiopia : the revolutionary transformation of a twentieth-century bureaucratic empire / Edmond J. Keller -- Traditional clientage and political change in a Hausa community / Pearl T. Robinson -- Societal implications of changes in the University of Dakar (Senegal) / Robert C. Johnson -- Transformation in the mental landscape of French-speaking Africa : self-perception as reflected in the novel / John A. Dennis -- African initiative and indigenous Christianity in the Ivory Coast / Sheila Walker -- Toward a theory of transformation in African music / Barbara L. Hampton -- Symbols of cutural transformation in urban Africa : indigenous relations and popular art as new expressive forms / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Conclusion -- Looking toward the future with an eye on the past / Pearl T. Robinson.
ISBN
  • 088258054X
  • 9780882580548
  • 088256054X (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
82023211
OCLC
  • ocm09066249
  • 9066249
  • SCSB-49270
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library