Events & Issues
– French Election Maps
Message:
Dear colleagues,
I thought members of this list might be interested in how the results of the first round of the presidential elections in France is mapped out cartographically. Based on 2 maps (from the Ministry of Interior and the New York Times, respectively) I have quickly designed the following entry: https://wordpress.com/posts/mapivoir.wordpress.com. I hope you finds it helpful.
Bien cordialement,
Abou
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Abou B. Bamba
Department of History/Africana Studies
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-337-6566
abamba@gettysburg.edu
http://mapivoir.wordpress.com/
http://gettysburg.academia.edu/AbouBBamba
– Life of African-Russians In Russian Federation
By: Wilk Vatroslawski
When we think of multicultural society we always think of USA, and naturally during Cold War Era of Soviet Union one could not see black people from Africa located inside Russia. In other words, maybe just some African delegations but as a Russian population, none. However as USSR fell apart, and as Russia also turned to a capitalist system, things have changed in last years. As you are about to see, many more people have come to become naturalized Russians. Today, people live in Russia and work on positions from mayors, to policemen, to army-men, and anything else that comes to ones mind.
Read the article in this attachment:
– Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
By: James Somers/ April 20, 2017
You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else – a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe – would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one. At the terminal, you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You’d be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you’d be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable – as alive in the digital world – as webpages.
Read more on the story in this link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/?utm_source=fbb
– TOFAC 2017 Conference; Conference Theme: “Education and Africa’s Transformation”
Venue: Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria
Monday, July 3 to Wednesday July 5, 2017 (Arrival Sunday, 2 July, 2017, departure July 6th)
Please see attachment for more details.
NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
– Political Communication in Africa
[لغة السياسية في أفريقيا]
Author: Ayo Olukotun (Editor), Sharon Adetutu Omotoso (Editor)
This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa. In light of the growing number of African states now turning towards democratic rule, as well as the growing utilization of information technologies in Africa, the contributors examine topics such as: the role of social media in politics, strategic political communication, political philosophy and political communication, Habermas in Africa, gender and political communication, image dilemma in Africa, and issues in political communication research in Africa, and identify the frontiers for future research on political communication in Africa.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, 2017
– African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality:Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions
[المناقب الأفريقية في حل النزاعات:ايجاد الحلول المحلية في ضوء المواصفات العالمية]
Author: Itaru Ohta, Motoji Matsuda, Yntiso Gebre (editors)
African societies have rich histories, cultural heritages, knowledge systems, philosophies, and institutions that they have shaped and reshaped through history. However, the continent has been repeatedly portrayed negatively as plagued by multitudinous troubles: famine, conflict, coup, massacres, corruption, disease, illiteracy, refugees, failed state, etc. Even worse, Africans are often viewed as incapable of addressing their problems on their own. Based on such erroneous perspectives and paternalism, exogenous solutions are prescribed, out of context, for African problems. This book sheds light on the positive aspects of African reality under the key concept of ‘African potentials’. It is the product of sustained consultation over a five-year period between seasoned African and Japanese anthropologists, sociologists and scholars in other areas of African studies.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon, 2017
Website: http://www.langaa-rpcig.net/
– Afro-Iran : The Unknown Minority
[الأفريقيون-الايرانيون: الأقلية المجهولة]
Author: Mahdi Ehsaei
The photographic series of German-born Iranian Mahdi Ehsaei shows a side of Iran, which is unknown by even Iranians. A trip to a place which is inhabited and dominated by the descendants of enslaved people and traders from Africa. The Hormozgan province in the Persian Gulf is a traditional and historical region with a diverse and unexplored population. It is framed with unique landscapes and people with profound personalities. Iranians, who continue the African heritage with their clothing style, their music, their dance and their oral traditions and rituals. The resulting portraits reveal new facets and unfamiliar faces, which are not typical for the common picture of Iran. They show details documenting the centuries-long history of this ethnic minority. A confrontation between the Persian culture and the, for Iran unusual, African consciousness. A surprisingly new experience for the viewer, which shows the current presence of Afro-Iranians in Iran.
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Heidelberg, Germany)
http://www.mahdi-ehsaei.com/afro-iran
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