Muslim women in postcolonial Kenya: leadership, representation, and social change
In: Women in Africa and the diaspora
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- When Kuble (Seclusion) Literacy Invades the Electronic Space -- Women and the Political Economy of Education -- Politics, Popular Culture, and Women Performing Artists -- Cinderella Goes to the Sahel -- Islamisms, the Media, and Women's Public Discursive Practices -- Through the Eyes of Agaisha -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- References -- Index.
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 671-678
ISSN: 1548-226X
This article uses Rudolph T. Ware III's original and compelling book, The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, as a window through which to reflect on the contribution of West African clerisy of the classical Quran tradition to Islamic thought and the social transformative aims of their teachings and epistemologies. It focuses on the ways in which the West African clerisy of the historical period covered by Ware framed philosophical resistance strategies, based on their embodied knowledge of the Quran, to combat hegemonic forces of enslavement. In this way, they were able to reconstitute a sense of emancipatory noble citizenship. In the process, the essay shows how Ware's study challenges both the perceived notion, reiterated in many studies of the classical Quran school, that this classic institution, once catering equally to both men and women, is a purveyor of a passive, Thomistic education, and the Hegelian dismissal of Africa South of the Sahara as a place of no philosophy and, according to Hugh Trevor-Roper, of no history. The discussion also draws attention to the philosophical distinctiveness of the classical Quran school tradition and modernist puritanical Wahhabi Salafism sweeping through West Muslim African societies.
In: Africa today, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 20-36
ISSN: 1527-1978
In: Africa today, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 21-36
ISSN: 0001-9887
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In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 81-99
ISSN: 1741-3125
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In: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Writing Through the Visual and Virtual:Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean explores the various cultures of writing in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean, and their relation to literature, orality, language, the visual arts, film, and popular culture. It is an invaluable resource to Francophone and cultural studies alike.