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THE RASTA COOKBOOK: VEGETARIAN CUISINE~EATEN WITH THE SALT OF THE EARTH
"You are what you eat" this is the core of the philosophy on which the Rastafari base their eating habits and cuisine. This book presents for the first time in print, a mouthwatering collection of recipes, the best of Rasta...
$16.95
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NOTEBOOK, VOL. 1 PB
Awoonor's earlier collections, Rediscovery (1964), Night of My Blood (1971), Ride Me, Memory (1973), The House by the Sea (1978), Until the Morning After (1987)-- firmly established him as one of the finest poets writing in the English language...
$12.95
Sebgugugu the Glutton: A Bantu Tale from Rwanda
Sebgugugu is a poor man. He lives in a hut with his wife Unanana and their two children. All they own is one cow, and Sebgugugu wants much, much more. So he begs Imana, the Lord of Rwanda, to help...
$14.95
MATIGARI: A Novel
Who is Matigari? Is he young or old? Dead or living... or even Jesus Christ? These are the questions asked by the people when a man who has survived a war for independence emerges from the mountains
$19.95
STOLEN LEGACY: GREEK PHILOSOPHY IS STOLEN EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHY
David Walker's Appeal is an uncompromising African-centered discourse that attacks white injustice and advocates Black self-reliance. Its publication in 1830 intensified the debate and struggle against slavery.
$9.95
What's in a Name? Unaitwaje?: A Swahili Book of Names
Most books about African names have included in their discussions names used by Swahili speaking people but the present books is different.
$14.95
SWINGING ON A RAINBOW
This is a fun story about a little girl named Patrice who just happens to love rainbows. She loves rainbows so much that one day she imagines herself swinging on one. "What a terrific idea," she says.
$14.95
EMERGENT ERITREA
Emergent Eritrea: Challenges of Economic Development is the outcome of an historic conference on economic policy making in Asmara, Eritrea, July 22-24, 1991. The conference was held barely two months after the army of the Eritrean Peoples
$16.95
LIFE AND WORK OF K. NKRUMAH
This unique book about the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana from 1960 to 1966, grew out of a symposium organized by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, which he founded.
$24.95
A BLIGHTED HARVEST: THE WORL BANK AND AFRICAN AGRICULTURE IN THE 1980s
The authors use the World Bank's own information on agricultural and agrarian development to crticise the realities of the Bank's record during the 1980s
$14.95
SINGING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND
"In the long night of struggle and search for meaning," the author asks, "what has kept African Americans from nihilism or capitulation to the assaults of 'outrageous fortune'? What anchored their souls in trouble, stabilized their psyche, kept their hearts...
$12.95
VOICES FROM THE BATTLEFRONT: ACHIEVING CULTURAL EQUITY
Voices From The Battlefront is a collective call to action, a declaration of war, a clarification of intent. The assumptions of multiculturalism--as currently practiced-- are laid bare under the scrutiny of some of the most committed cultural workers of today, making...
$18.95
WAR AND PEACE IN ZAIRE,DRC: ANALYZING AND EVALUATING INTERVENTION, 1996-1997
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide continues to have serious repercussions for peace and stability in the Great Lakes region of Africa. As we recently saw, the key element of the July 30, 2002 Pretoria peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic...
$29.95
HOMEWARD JOURNEY
Designed to promote an understanding of Africa, its unique worldview, and Africa's place in the world, Homeward Journey is a cross-disciplinary anthology that introduces its readers to fundamental historical and contemporary topics about this vast continent. Using a topical approach within an...
$14.95
STRANGERS & TRADERS
In the inter-war years, groups of enterprising Yoruba traders from a few towns in Western Nigeria established a remarkably successful trading network throughout the Gold Coast (Ghana).
$16.95
SWEET REVENGE: A PLAY
This insightful and thought-provoking play is a womans testimony that disappointment is a moving force which can propel one to the top. In the play, Sota Ojo can confidently claim that he is on the right side of opportunities.
$14.95
BLOOD AND BONE: The Call Of Kinship In Somali Society
In Somali political culture, clan solidarity is represented by the evocative symbols of blood and bone - immutable natural endowments inherent in kinship traced through the father in the male line. This book explores the extraordinary persistence and resilience of...
$19.95
Time: Portrait of A Journey Home
The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home powerfully captures the complexities of what it has meant for an urban, educated intelligent and sensitive African American woman to come of age in the 1970s and 1980s.
$24.95
IMANI AND THE FLYING AFRICANS
This is the touching story of a young boy who "returns home" by car with his mother to Savannah, Georgia from Detroit. Imani is introduced, through story telling by his mother, to a part of his race and familial history...
$6.95
LULLABY FOR DADDY
A Lullaby for Daddy is the sleepy-time story of Rosie, an African American child. Rosie is a studio musician's daughter with a precocious aptitude for the keyboard and song.
$8.95
TOO MUCH SCHOOLING, TOO LITTLE EDUCATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CHOICE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
$29.95
TOO MUCH SCHOOLING, TOO LITTLE EDUCATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CHOICE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
Too Much Schooling with its educational focus, fits into the Afrocentric school of thought with its aim to develop subject-centered analysis and solutions for African children
$29.95
THE SWAHILI: IDION AND IDENTITY OF AN AFRICAN PEOPLE
Among the African peoples, the Swahili are unique in at least one respect, for it is about them more than any other people, that the question is perennially asked: who are the Swahili..
$19.95
RE-CREATING OURSELVES: AFRICAN WOMEN AND CRITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Recreating Ourselves is a selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics and social tranformation for at least three decades.
$21.95
GARVEY: AFRICA, EUROPE, THE AMERICAS
This selection of essays marked a breakthrough in studies of the Garvey movement and helped shape subsequent scholarly work. The essays were originally presented to the first international seminar of Garvey scholars held in 1973
$16.95
MAKING OF A RACIST STATE: BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
How did the Union of South Africa come to be dominated by a white minority? That is the obvious but haunting question addressed in this remarkable historical survey which documents and analyses the chain of events that led up to...
$24.95