PAST AND PRESENT: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN EUROPEAN PERCEPTION

• Authors: Horáková Hana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to look at the complexity of the condition of past and present sub-Saharan Africa, as it is seen from the perspective of Europeans. By pointing to the contemporary, historical, social, anthropological and political studies on Africa, there is an attempt to overcome two widespread cliches on Africa that are being perpetuated, particularly by the media, opinion makers and to a certain extent through the public education system. The crucial question raised here is whether an ordinary inhabitant of the Western World can understand todays' sub-Saharan Africa , that is characterized by ongoing poverty, pandemic diseases, armed conflicts, political mismanagement, but also by Africa's current endeavour to resolve all these predicaments by adopting a vision of a rebirth of Africa: the African Renaissance.

Keywords

EN

'TRADITIONAL’ AFRICA; AFRICAN CRISIS; AFRICAN RENAISSANCE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45 - 54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Horáková Hana

• Faculty o f Informatics and Management, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, 500 03 Hradec Králové 3,Czech Republic

• H. Horakova, Fakulta informatiky a managementu, Katedra aplikovanej lingvistiky, Univerzity v Hradci Kalovem, Namestie Svobody 331, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03336882