This year's African Heritage Month Theme is Strength in Unity and the Online Library is sharing some inspiring stories from across the African Diaspora of how unity has created change.
Uniting Africa: The Politics of Regional Integration and Development Cooperation by Malusi Mncube
An inspiring in-depth look into regional examples of productive projects. Mncube takes the time to look on a micro-level of Africans working with other Africans to provide stability and development.
African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage
Follow this book on a great cinematic and cultural adventure. In a time, where visual arts are the driving force of our century, Africana Film Festivals is a fun and inspiring read for anyone interested in Cinema, African Culture or Festival Life.
The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa by Pype, Adunbe and Fischer
What's exciting about this book is rather than focus on local culture or regional politics, it reveals what is actually happening in the Globalized Tech Booming Africa of today. The authors seamlessly weave in current technological booms with how the face of urban Africa is changing under the modern influences of tech in diverse aspects of African life.
BLACK WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER: JAZZ, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF VALIDATION by Tammy Kernodle
Black Culture's influence on the rest of the world is finally getting it's proper recognition. However, Women in Jazz are still not getting their full acclaim for opening many doors for members of the Black Diaspora in the West. Kernodle writes a powerful fact filled historical article for anyone following the role of women in Music and Activism.
Cultural Heritage, Community Engagement and Sustainable Tourism: Case Studies from Archaeological Sites in the Global South by S. Mithen & M. Rabbani
Following Case Studies from Archaeological Sites across the Global South, the African examples cited by Mithen and Rabbani provide incite into the complex and beautiful diversity of African Heritage. It also provides readers with inspirational stories of how cultivating relationships and creating unity actually can promote, celebrate and stabilize cultural sustainability.
If you'd like to read more of any of these topics, please check out some of our Africa focused collections below:
Middle Eastern and African Newsstream
Africa Culture Collection in Jstor
African Studies in Archives Unbound
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