Maria Frahm-Arp

Professor in Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Contact:

mariafrahmarp@gmail.com

Francis Essoua Kalu (Enfant Précoce)

Artist (Painting)

Location: France

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Fraser, Robert. West African poetry: a critical history. Cambridge University Press, 1986

This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.

[Cambridge University Press/Cambridge.org].

Free Africa Foundation

Washington DC, USA

Phone: +1(202) 296-7081

Email: contact@freeafrica.org

Website: freeafrica.org

French Studies in Southern Africa

Academic - French and Francophone  Literary Journal

University of Cape Town, South Africa

https://journals.co.za/journal/french

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Freund, Bill. "South Africa: The End of Apartheid and The Emergence Of The ‘BEE Elite’". Review Of the African Political Economy. Volume 34. Issue, 114.  2007.

Recent high-level South African policymaking adopts the developmental state language, framing the ANC government's purpose. This article examines this concept, focusing on the emergence of an elite transcending public-private sectors, and exploring the notion of an 'embedded elite.' The evolution of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies is analysed, drawing comparisons with Malaysia. While creating a black ANC-supporting elite seems necessary to counter past 'embedded elites,' it raises doubts about their direction toward an industrializing economic or broad social model. The new elite's democrat icinstincts are also questioned. Despite shifts in South Africa's social structure and some black sectors benefiting under the ANC, the majority remain uninvolved in a transformative process for radical improvements.

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Freund, Caroline L. Rich People Poor Countries : The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2016.

Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and into a future of multinational industry and service-based mega firms. And more often than not, the new billionaires are using their newfound acumen to navigate the globalized economy, without necessarily relying on political connections, inheritance, or privileged access to resources. This story of emerging-market billionaires and the global businesses they create dramatically illuminates the process of industrialization in the modern world economy.

Source: Book description by publisher

Frindéthié, Martial K. Francophone African Cinema: History, Culture,Politics and Theory. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2009.

Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Continental European critical theory, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films, including Bassek Ba Kobhio’s The Great White Man of Lambarene, Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s Guimba the Tyrant, and Amadou Seck’s Saaraba. The author invites readers to study these films in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and the conventional theorists whose works are more readily available in academia. The book examines black French filmmakers’ treatments of a number of cross-cultural themes, including intercontinental encounters and reciprocity, ideology and subjective freedom, governance and moral responsibility, sexuality and social order, and globalization. Throughout the work, the presentation of literary theory is accessible by both beginning and advanced students of film and culture.

[Source: Google Books].