Africa has fostered a rich culture of gender and sexuality from which non-African societies can learn. Most African traditional sexual customs differ greatly from Western colonial …
The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in the African sociolinguistic sphere, that is, metalinguistic discourse in East Africa, sociolinguistic dynamism in Angola, conflict reconciliation speech performed in Ethiopia, and syncretic urban linguistic code called Sheng in Kenya. The volume also explores multi-dimensional relationships between literary arts and the society by investigating such topics as traditional Swahili poetry, publication of children books in Benin, and transformation and reconstruction of Yoruba popular music. The book elucidates dynamic process of creation through mixing of traditional and foreign elements of culture.
In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisati…
The term ‘African Potentials’ refers to the knowledge, systems, practices, ideas and values created and implemented in African societies that are expected to contribute…
In searching for the potential that lies in African societies, the chapters of this volume consider relationships between knowledge, education and social structure from multiple an…
This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is “mobilizing resources fro…
The Center for African Area Studies (CAAS) publishes African Study Monographs, periodical journal with occasional supplements. Some of full-text contents of ASM which have gained a…
https://journals.openedition.org/tc/16054 A special issue of Techniques & Culture on “Waza,” edited by Professor Akira Takada, Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. X…
Our Research Associate Tamahi Kato’s article has been published in Journal of International Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.32204/jids.30.2_129
Prof. Akira Takada’s book has been published. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49439-1 resents an important contribution to existing scholarship given the rel…