The Journal Of Modern African Studies Review : The Structures And Roles Of Journals

In the form of African culture, the country Ghana has its own definitive form that is somehow similar with other African country’s culture but different in various elements. This is why it is the most intrinsic characteristic of Ghananese culture; with its deployment of systems, structures and social elements, it is set apart from other African cultures. But what should be given importance is its original context, which also sprung from the African importance of culture. According to Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola (2002), “Africans regard culture as essential to

The process for selecting the articles for further investigation included a review of the authors, title, year of publication, research method, major variables studied, measurement, data analysis, and the findings. Moreover, this process for article selection, led to an appraisal, identification, selection, and refining of research topics (Brown, 2014). In summary, the search strategy and the different approaches with the ability to save the various search formulations was effective and efficient.

When looking at each of the articles presented, there are defining factors that allow researchers to determine whether or not it is a scholarly or popular resource. Of the two articles, one can assert that the USA Today Article is a popular source and the article by Baker and Algorta (2016) is a scholarly source. Each of these sources has their advantages and disadvantages due to the stylistic devices employed by the writers. With the help of each article, knowledge of readers and viewers is expanded, and while there are some facets that detract from the quality of the knowledge gained, the readers benefits from the time spent reading.

The motivations behind the civilization of Africa are viewed in documents 1, 4, 7 and 11. Economic motivations and political global power such as the advantages of

A debate ensures on a proper definition of Africana and it extends to culture. There are discrepancies between various Africana Studies scholars on the exact definition. Wade Nobles, defined culture as “a general design for living and patterns for interpreting reality.” Based on the Kawaida Theory of culture, he describes culture as a “scientific construct” and explains it in a tertiary model. In the first two levels, it includes behaviors or patterns that are developed in reality. Furthermore, he defines the two levels; the primary consist of what he calls “cultural factors” and the secondary level as “cultural aspects”. The third level involves expressing the behaviors such as language or ideas. That is where the differences in culture can

Throughout the 20th century there was a multitude of organizations, ideologies, and most importantly, leaders, which helped Africans internationally to promote and advance their liberation. These groups and people made lasting impacts in nations worldwide that are still prevalent today. When analyzing the sixth framing question, the conceptual categories of social structure and technology are evident. Organizations such as the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the African Blood Brotherhood contradicted the social structure at the time and defined new governance for the African people. Leaders such as Madame Walker, MLK, Nelson Mandela, among others assisted in defining new governance as well. Also, an important aspect of the 20th century was the incorporation of technology, also a conceptual category, into persuading the public about the necessity of change within the generation, and for upcoming generations. Parallel to the organizations and leaders, the ideologies that contradicted themselves progressed the Africana culture in its entirety. Liberalism and conservatism, while differentiating, showed the public that while ideologically there were discrepancies, within the construct of society, these divergences were not adequate reason for physical violence.

terms of demography and territory in the Ethiopian state, were targeted for destruction, and instead forced to glorify the identities and cultures of the oppressive group (xxx, xxx).

From 1914 to the present, one of the most powerful trends of the postwar era was the importance of the developing world and their desire for independence. Nationalism was an important factor in the growing independence movements in Sub- Saharan Africa. Regardless of political changes, social conflict and tensions remained a problem. Tensions between Europeans and Africans, which had been a problem since the Europeans’ arrival and social unrest in communities didn’t change.

In a freezing class, two brilliant minds unlocked the fiery passion that is their talent one an artist the other a writer. Bringing to light a history long forgotten creating abstract thoughts arbitrary to our own. Komi Olaf the artist and Okey Ndibe the writer not only enlightening the class but also the world with each brush stroke and each word. Every creation stemming from the hands of these masters tell of issues at the heart of Africa from colonialism to existential dilemmas. Thru spoken word, hip-hop, art, music, poems and literature issues close at heart to the artists and to Africa are portrayed. This paper will focus on the art exhibit by Komi Olaf and Foreign Gods inc by Okey Ndibe as spoken by them during their discussion in the class on October 13th. Where the talks focused on the key course objectives being stereotypes, post-colonialism, youth culture, and resistance.

The themes that I thought connect to the texts and videos we have expanded on in class are Identity and Boundaries (barriers). In this essay I will group the readings and videos and explore the theme in each and relate it back to Identity and Boundaries. Then how we can perhaps use related topics to illustrate my point.

The authors believe that this divide was made stronger by four main factors. Those factors include editorial polices, exigence of funding agencies, leadership leaning towards translational research, and the rise of functional analysis. They choose to compare the two studies by a multitude of factors including the degrees of interaction, changes of the history individuals and topics. The study they ultimate set up is about how social networks cause a lot of collaborative work and ultimately what coauthors can bring to the table as far as research in the two perspective fields. They started their first study by pulling back issues of both JABA and JEAB and pulling authors names to see if any overlapped and if they had a coauthor. The study proved that over the three decades there was an increase

Academic publishing is something that many people will experience at some point, either in school or at their job, and some of whom are being paid to publish in academic journals. When published in academic journals, to read the papers, those interested would need to buy an expensive subscription and annually renew it. However, this is starting to take a toll on many universities and researchers around the world because they do not have the past research that others performed to base their future research on. Michael P. Taylor’s “Opinion: Academic Publishing is Broken,” addresses the fact that many people do not have access to academic literature, due to the high cost of purchasing subscriptions for the academic journals, and that is

Reilly: Identity is an issue that Africa has struggled with for centuries due to European invasion and the racist ideas that they brought with them. They viewed Africans as barbaric, animalistic, and uneducated. They did not think that these indigenous peoples could comprehend culture, let alone create it. The Europeans arrived to Africa with a sense of entitlement to the land, thus forming the Berlin Conference to divide and colonize Africa. This is the event that Yinka Shonibare depicts in his piece The Scramble for Africa. Through this work, Shonibare expertly combines the historical event with artistic elements that mix both traditional African art with Western ideals. In doing so, Shonibare explores the identity of Africa through its history and Western influence.

It is a common and well known saying that history repeats itself. This saying has more to it than the literal definition of it, it means we need to study it and learn from it, in order to avoid repetition. Often times we have that opportunity to study and learn from history in a way that can impact the future, in a hopefully positive way. In terms of education, improvement and innovation is always a top priority. If we can properly combine the study of other cultures with the study of history, we can have an extremely effective tool for learning ways to positively impact our own generation and future. In this essay, I will attempt to uncover the differences between current education and traditional African education, with intention of learning how to apply it today. The idea behind studying history is that it is a vital part of learning and adopting successful techniques and a good tool for avoiding the repetition of mistakes. If pre-colonial Africa can have success without the resources and technologies we have today, then it is valuable to invest time and effort in mirroring some of their methods.

Feature Engineering - I consider four groups of features: Authors, Institutions, Affiliations, References Network. The first three (group 1)—Authors, Institutions and Affiliations—describe the reputation of the paper’s venue, of its authors and of its author’s institutions. I start by calculating the following features for each venue, author and institution in the dataset: the sum of citation counts of papers published by the entity, mean citations over papers published by the entity, and max citations, e.g. the citation count of the most cited work by the entity. I also calculate the h-index and g-index of these entities. The h-index is defined as the largest h such that at least h papers by the entity received at least h citations. The g-index is defined as the largest g such that the top g papers by the entity received together at least g2 citations. Both h-index and g-index numbers are easily calculable using the capabilities in the Scopus database. For each paper I aggregate the features of the entities (authors, institutions and