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The Mind of Africa
(2015)
William Abraham studied Philosophy at the University of Ghana, and even more Philosophy at Oxford University. Thereafter, he gained permission to take part in the competitive examination and interview for a fellowship at All Souls' College. The examination was once described, with some exaggeration, as 'the hardest exam in the world!' It included a three-hour essay. Following his success in becoming the first African fellow of All Souls, his interest in African politics quickly developed into a Pan-African perspective. The Mind of Africa, written while he was still at All Souls, was a fruit of that enlarged perspective. After several years as a Fellow, he had occasion to visit Ghana in 1962. There Kwame Nkrumah, then President of Ghana, successfully persuaded him to return to Ghana to teach at the University of Ghana, Legon and he subsequently resigned from All Souls. In 1968, he went to the United States as a visiting professor. This was followed by invitations to teach at various academic institutions there, including Berkeley and Stanford. He subsequently settled in California, where he continued to teach and research philosophy in the University of California at Santa Cruz until his retirement. ...The Mind of Africa appeared at a time when a number of African countries were obtaining, or fighting for, their political freedom from their colonial rulers and becoming independent nations and expecting to build new societies in accordance with their own visions and conceptions, though not necessarily jettisoning all the features of their colonial heritage. Building new societies requires appropriate ideologies and philosophies fashioned within the crucible of their cultural and historical experiences. Thus, the relation between ideology and society is taken up at the very outset of the book... The Mind of Africa is important for Africa's future and identity.
This regional study documents the life and the destruction of the Jewish community of Magdeburg, in the Prussian province of Saxony, between 1933 and 1945. As this is the first comprehensive and academic study of this community during the Nazi period, it has contributed to both the regional historiography of German Jewry and the historiography of the Shoah in Germany. In both respects it affords a further understanding of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Commencing this study at the beginning of 1933 enables a comprehensive view to emerge of the community as it was on the eve of the Nazi assault. The study then analyses the spiralling events that led to its eventual destruction. The story of the Magdeburg Jewish community in both the public and private domains has been explored from the Nazi accession to power in 1933 up until April 1945, when only a handful of Jews in the city witnessed liberation. This study has combined both archival material and oral history to reconstruct the period. Secondary literature has largely been incorporated and used in a comparative sense and as reference material. This study has interpreted and viewed the period from an essentially Jewish perspective. That is to say, in documenting the experiences of the Jews of Magdeburg, this study has focused almost exclusively on how this population simultaneously lived and grappled with the deteriorating situation. Much attention has been placed on how it reacted and responded at key junctures in the processes of disenfranchisement, exclusion and finally destruction. This discussion also includes how and why Jews reached decisions to abandon their Heimat and what their experiences with departure were. In the final chapter of the community’s story, an exploration has been made of how the majority of those Jews who remained endured the final years of humiliation and stigmatisation. All but a few perished once the implementation of the ‘Final Solution’ reached Magdeburg in April 1942. The epilogue of this study charts the experiences of those who remained in the city, some of whom survived to tell their story.
Die erste von drei Leitlinien meiner Untersuchung besteht [...] darin, die Frage nach den historischen, philosophischen und intertextuellen Einflüssen auf die Gestaltung der fünf Figuren für jede Erzählung neu zu stellen. Hier wird sich auch zeigen, warum vom Paradigma und nicht vom Motiv des 'wilden Mädchens' zu sprechen ist: Stifter hat bei der Gestaltung der 'wilden Mädchen' nicht einfach nur ein literarisches Motiv, sondern unterschiedlichste literarische Stoffe und philosophische Konzepte rezipiert. Die Beschreibung dieser Einflußfaktoren soll im folgenden aber nicht als Selbstzweck betrieben werden, sondern dazu beitragen, für jede der vier Erzählungen einen individuellen Interpretationsansatz bereitzustellen.
Die zweite Leitlinie hinterfragt die in Einzelinterpretationen der vier Erzählungen immer wieder auftauchende Behauptung, Stifter thematisiere mit der Konfrontation von 'wildem Mädchen' und zivilisierter Gesellschaft den Gegensatz zwischen Natur und Kultur. Obwohl dieser Komplex, an dem "seit dem 18. Jahrhundert keine kulturelle Selbstverständigung mehr vorbeikommt", bei der Interpretation der Erzählungen berücksichtigt werden muß (dies gilt besonders für Die Narrenburg und Turmalin), darf er nicht verallgemeinert werden. In den erwähnten Einzeluntersuchungen zeigt sich nämlich oft, daß ein Verweis auf den Gegensatz zwischen Natur und Kultur, der aufgrund der Unschärfe der beiden Begriffe nur zu einfach in beliebige Argumentationszusammenhänge zu integrieren ist, den Blick auf schlüssigere Interpretationsansätze verstellen kann.
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Eine dritte Leitlinie ergibt sich aus der folgenden Überlegung: Wenn ein pädagogischer Erzähler von Erziehungsprozessen berichtet, so liegt die Vermutung nahe, daß die dabei entstehenden Texte Erziehung nicht nur thematisieren, sondern selbst zur Erziehung beitragen sollen. Tatsächlich wies Stifter der Literatur eine erste Funktion in der Erziehung des Volkes zu: "Ein einziger Dichter, der sein Volk durchgängig zu entzünden vermochte, hat es oft in einem Ruk mehr gehoben, als jahrelange Belehrungen und vortreffliche Geseze". Im folgenden ist deshalb auch zu untersuchen, auf welche Weise die Erzählungen im Paradigma des 'wilden Mädchens' eine erzieherische Wirkung auf den Leser ausüben wollen.
Disturbing the Peace
(2008)
If Minna has a successful career, a loving husband, wonderful children - all well-deserved - is it compulsory that she must also toil for a reckless sister who has diametrically opposed priorities? Her biased mother thinks so. What if the sister dumps her child on Minna's veranda and vamooses and in trying to find the sister to give back her child, there appear some strange persons and a cult intended on grabbing the child? A decision has to be made and made fast. How could Minna ever envisage that in trying to help her careless sister and baby while taking care of her own family she would end up antagonising everyone in spite of her desperate battle to spread love to all? Just where are her priorities? How prepared is she for the unexpected conclusion to her simmering travails? Hell definitely breaks lose in this emotionally charged family saga in which Emmanuel Achu carves a world where such opposites as love and hate, sympathy and apathy, despair and hope, fear and courage, friendship and enmity reside as bedfellows. Disturbing the Peace is definitely a lyrical treat where you would be shocked to discover that being responsible can equate to being cursed.