The Tragedy of Masaneh Ceesay
Title | The Tragedy of Masaneh Ceesay PDF eBook |
Author | A. M. Sering Secka |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | African drama (English) |
ISBN | 9789983951042 |
Arts News
Title | Arts News PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Arts |
ISBN |
Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia
Title | Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia PDF eBook |
Author | Marloes Janson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107040574 |
This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama'at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century, and its impact in the Gambia (West Africa) in the past decade. The Jama'at offers Gambian youth, and women in particular, new opportunities to express their religious identity in a way that is in line with a modern lifestyle. The book investigates how Gambian youth have incorporated the South Asian Tablighi ideology into their daily lives and adapted it to their local context.
New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal
Title | New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal PDF eBook |
Author | M. Diouf |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2009-01-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230618502 |
This book brings together scholars for their fresh perspectives on religious conversion, transnational migration, economic globalization, and the politics of education, power, and femininity in African Islam in Senegal.
The Walking Qurʼan
Title | The Walking Qurʼan PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolph T. Ware |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1469614316 |
Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Title | The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Knörr |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1785330705 |
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.
Bush Bound
Title | Bush Bound PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Gaibazzi |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2015-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782387803 |
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.