To mark World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Cairo’s Heliopolis University, in collaboration with ICARDA and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), will take part in a panel discussion webinar.
Publisher: Beacon Academic, Manchester, UK
Date: May 2021
Reviewer: Tony Bradley
I can think of no more important time than the current one in which to welcome this important book on the study of African identity, culture, innovation, research, and enterprise. x
Anselm Adodo and Ronnie Lessem turn their attention to Africa’s cultures and the economics that that culture has, in the past, and is, in the present, distinctively generating. This exercise could not be timelier. The current culture wars – which have sparked an acute phase of violence in the United States and is threatening to spill over into other parts of the world, not least the United Kingdom, where I live and work – has focused on the simple, irreducible fact that Black Lives Matter. Of course, all black lives, as all human cultures, have their origins Out of Africa, as Karen Blixen, the Danish anthropologist and agriculturalist, famously wrote.