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This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists' exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life.

Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa /Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou --Part I: Foundational Visions --Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature /Adrien Mbar Pouille --Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness /Thomas Spreelin MacDonald --"Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel /Lifongo Vetinde --Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence --"Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction /Marie-Thérèse Toyi, André Brink and the Politics of Humanism /Hervé Tchumkam --Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon /Jean-Blaise Samou --Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights --Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism /Uchenna David Uwakwe --Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present /Koni Benson --Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones /Mohamed Kamara --An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes /Janice Spleth.

Afrocentric scholars have consistently emphasized the thematic importance of the humanistic viewpoint to the overall liberation struggles of African Americans. Often, the essential principles defining this humanist outlook have been assumed rather than specified or described. This oversight has facilitated the exclusion of those who represent the main vanguards and chief practitioners of this humanistic vision of social change: African American women. Culling key points presented in the writings of mostly Afrocentric scholars, this article identifies some of the major tenets that characterize that humanistic perspective. It also discusses how African American women have interpreted and applied those principles through their activism in the Black community. Black women activists represent the best instructional models for discourse and analysis on the humanistic vision of liberation. The presentation also highlights what has been commonly perceived and subtly suggested as the feminine characteristics of the humanistic motif.

A general survey of non-African reactions to African literature reveals some characteristic features. First, there are the inexcusable generalizations that fail to take account of the continuity of modern African literature with traditional African modes of expression, and the fact that the study of the multiplicity of cultural groups in the continent, even if the cultures are homologous, must necessarily be of a comparative nature. Second, and this is closely related to the above, non-African scholars with glaring gaps in their knowledge of the continent and its peoples evince a reluctance to acknowledge such gaps—with the result that such scholars often make reprehensibly erroneous assertions.

Der Südafrika-Besuch von Präsident Chirac im Juli 1998 signalisierte das beiderseitige Bemühen um einen neuen Anfang bei den bilateralen Beziehungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag konzentriert sich in diesem Zusammenhang auf die bestehenden und potenziellen Möglichkeiten einer sicherheitspolitischen/militärischen Kooperation und spricht sich für deren Ausweitung aus. Zur Begründung wird die Vielfalt der historischen Verbindungen zwischen Frankreich und Südafrika angeführt. Anschließend geht es um die Frage der französischen Außenpolitik generell und um die aktuelle militärische Präsenz Frankreichs in Afrika. Droht hier eine Reduzierung oder Rationalisierung? Abschließend wird diskutiert, welche Voraussetzungen im 21. Jahrhundert erfüllt sein müssen, damit es zu einer fruchtbaren sicherheitspolitischen Zusammenarbeit mit Südafrika kommen kann. (DÜI-Hlb)

"Half Title" -- "Series Information" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction: Fugitive Humanism in African America" -- "Notes" -- "1 Scenes of Slave Breaking and Making in Moses Roper's and Frederick Douglass' Slave Narratives" -- "Notes" -- "2 "To Admit All Cattle without Distinction": Reconstructing Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City Slaughterhouse" -- "Notes" -- "3 Strange Fruits: Conjure, Slaughter, and The Politics of Disembodiment in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Related Tales" -- "Notes" -- "4 Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Hunting and Domestication in Spectacle Lynchings" -- "Notes" -- "5 Interspecies Welfare and Justice: Animal Welfare and the Anti-Lynching Movement" -- "Notes" -- "Epilogue: Sanctuary and Asylum" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited

This book is a breakthrough in illuminating humanism. For the first time it is presented in an intercultural perspective. It introduces Chinese, Indian, African, Islamic, and Western traditions into the intercultural discussion about basic issues of understanding the human world. By this means it recognizes different disciplinary perspectives: history, philosophy as well as religious, literary and gender studies. Special emphasis is put on the controversial relationship between humanism and religion. This complex network of argumentations is an answer to the challenge of cultural orientation at the age of globalization. Humanism is brought to life as a synthesis of transcultural values and a mutual and critical recognition of cultural differences.