Africa
Africa
GODS, ORACLES & DIVINATION: FOLKWAYS IN CHINUA ACHEBE'S NOVELS
A cultural exegesis of the four novels of Chinua Acheb. Focus of exegis is the 'folkways,' the inclusive category of verbal performances peculiar to the world of Achebe's novels: cosmology, traditional religion; gods, divination
$19.95
HOW FAST THE WIND?: SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1975-2000
How Fast the Wind? asks the question, what is the reality of the fast-moving, continuous change in southern Africa from 1975 to the year 2000? Clearly there has been political independence-- of Mozambique and Angola, of Zimbabwe, of Namibia. And now...
$21.95
LAST POETS
Since 1968, the Last Poets have been central to New York street poetry. In the rap explosion their poems are being rediscovered, re-mixed and reviewed. Successful gigs in Britain, and now albums on the Celluloid label, are winning a new...
$9.95
NEVER AGAIN
Written by Flora Nwapa after the Nigerian Civil War, Never Again looks at her society at the time of war and she concentrates on the importance of Biafran women in sustaining their fighting men and the society in general.
$12.95
SPIRIT OF AFRICA: THE HEALING MINISTRY OF ARCHBISHOP EMMANUEL MILINGO OF ZAMBIA
Only after his appointment as RC Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, in 1969 did Emmanuel Milingo become aware of his healing powers.
$21.95
THUNDER AND SILENCE: The Mass Media in Africa
Contents:The FoundationsNewspapers and the Colonial ContextMedia Control and National DevelopmentElectronic Broadcasting in AfricaTwo National Perspectives on the MediaProblems and PrerogativesThe Potential for Press FreedomAccess to International InformationThe Media and Ideology: A Final NoteThe Leading media Institutions in AfricaRural Newspapers in...
$16.95
THIS IS LAGOS: AND OTHER STORIES
From Flora Nwapa comes another collection of absorbing short stories centered around women. Common to all stories is the involvement of women in all kinds of wars.
$16.95
TO TANGLE WITH TARZAN
"The trauma of Nigeria's encounter with the West provides the theme for these engaging stories of village and urban life. Introduced by a fable and concluded with a lively retelling of an Igbo epic of resistance to 'The Pink Men...
$12.95
WIVES AT WAR
From Flora Nwapa comes another collection of absorbing short stories centered around women. Common to all stories is the involvement of women in all kinds of wars.
$16.95
PAINFUL SEASON A STUBBORN HOPE (A): Odyssey Of An Eritrean Mother
Abeba Tesfagiorgis has a startling story. A story which might as well have been acted out on the dark side of the moon for the world knew of what befell her. her record of her experiences at the hands of...
$19.95
EDUCATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: ESSAYS AND SPEECHES BY NEVILLE ALEXANDER
The following essays and speeches have been selected from among numerous attempts to address the relationship between educational and the national liberation struggle. All of them were written or delivered in the period 1985-1989
$21.95
CAPTAIN AFRICA: The Battle For Egyptica
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (March 1, 1992)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0865433356
ISBN-13 : 978-0865433359
$12.95
EDUCATION IN A FUTURE SOUTH AFRICA
The political changes announced by F.W. De Klerk on 2 February 1990 brought into focus new possibilities for social transformation in South African and an immediate need to establish policies to effect the end of the apartheid system in every...
$16.95
MISSING IN ACTION AND PRESUMED DEAD
In these brilliant poems, human life intersects with the human heart, the inner and outer cities, the bushes and the backwaters of our days and nights collide with fate and hope in rivers of song, in crystal diction
$16.95
ST. EUSTATIUS: THE TREASURE ISLAND OF THE CARIBBEAN
The main theme of this book is a concise, lucid, ethno-historical account of a small insular community. It is intended to be an ethnographic study, albeit, eclectic in content and global in sweep
$16.95
ORATURE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY #18
African novelists, playwrights and poets, even when they are writing in one of the colonial languages, draw on their rich ethnic bases. These resources provide ideas, themes and linguistic delight.
$21.95
AFRICANS IN BRAZIL: A PAN-AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing, constructing, debating, and preserving the study of African World history. Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 1, 2005)...
$18.95
WOLE SOYINKA
The aim of this book is to provide a reasonably broad introduction to the works of Soyinka and to the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represnted, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture...
$19.95
UGANDA SINCE INDEPENDENCE: A STORY OF UNFULFILLED HOPES
Early in the twentieth century, Winston Churchill called Uganda the 'pearl of Africa'. It became independent from British colonial rule in 1962 amid high hopes on all sides.
$21.95
QUEST FOR EQUALITY: TRENTON'S BLACK COMMUNITY, 1890-1965
"Jack Washington's carefully researched and uniquely valuable history of Black Trenton will reward anyone who opens its pages." -Nell Painter, Edwards professor of American History, Princeton University"Jack Washington has done it again
$12.95
SEME: ANC FOUNDER
There are two good reasons for the publication of this book. Firstly, the name of Pixley kaIsaka Seme is today almost completely unknown. Yet it was largely because oft his ideas and inspiration that the African National Congress was founded
$12.95
PANAMA INVADED
Panama Invaded is a timely book for two reasons. First, it clarifies the fact that Manuel Noriega was not the reason for the invasion on December 20, 1989 but merely the excuse
$11.95
