Africa
Africa
DANCE OF DEATH: NIGERIAN HISTORY AND CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S POETRY
Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets whose life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This book represents a definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay,...
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DECOLONIZING THEOLOGY: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE
This book is a fascinating historical study of the complex nature of Afro-Christianity in the Caribbean and the American South. This study is an in-depth assessment of the Caribbean Church, Black Theology, Revivalism, and Rastifarianism. Continuing in the tradition of...
$24.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
This is a stunning collection of Marechera's last writings, evoking city life with its many disparate facets - from the glittering fashion shops in First Street Mall to the tramps in the alleys, and in Marechera's only known piece in...
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LANGUAGE OF AFRICAN LITERATURE PB
Most African writers are at least bilingual, speaking an African language and writing in an acquired one.How adequately do poets, novelists, playwrights and short story writers use their adopted languages of English and French?
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JIFUNZE KISWAHILI CHETU VOL 2
This workbook is to provide you, the learner, with more exercises in hearing yourself, speaking, writing and reading the Swahili language. It is very important that you hear and pronounce the language correctly.
$34.95
ALA ANNUALS, Vol. 3, The Growth of African Literature: Twenty-Five Years after Dakar & Fourah Bay
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ALA ANNUALS, Vol. 3, The Growth of African Literature: Twenty-Five Years after Dakar & Fourah Bay
This publication is the result of an historic event: the first annual meeting of the African Literature Association (ALA) on African soil. The 15th meeting of the ALA took place in Dakar, Senegai from march 20-23, 1989
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UNEVEN ZIMBABWE
"Patrick Bond's Uneven Zimbabwe strikes me as timely, thoroughly researched and stimulating. Anyone interested in the role of Finance capital in processes of development/underdevelopment should read it"
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WOMEN'S RITES VERSUS WOMEN'S RIGHTS: CIRCUMCISION AMONG THE KETU OF YORUBA OF SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA
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WOMEN'S RITES VERSUS WOMEN'S RIGHTS: CIRCUMCISION AMONG THE KETU OF YORUBA OF SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA
The outpouring of western concern over the issue of female circumcision offers a case study in how well-intentional efforts of Americans to improve the lot of oppressed people elsewhere in the world can have precisely the opposite effect.
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BEYOND SURVIVAL: AFRICAN LITERATURE AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW LIFE
Even in the best of times, the artist is constantly reaching beyond the present; the severity of Africa's present situation of crisis must urge our artists even farther into their version of a new life. Product details Publisher : Africa World...
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Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho
This book has, from its first publication, been an essential reference tool for research of any aspect of society, history and culture in this part of Africa.
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CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21
African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue...
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THE LONG STRUGGLE OF ERITREA FOR INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE
History in the area known as the 'Horn of Africa' is at a turning point—not because of any massive act of charity by the western world to combat that area's horrific burden of drought and famine, but because of the...
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BLACK SPIRITUALITY AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Contrary to some misguided perceptions about the religion of black folk, African-American Spirituality plays a vital role in the formation and practice of black freedom in American. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 1998) Language : English Paperback : 248...
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URBAN OBSESSIONS, URBAN FEARS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KENYAN NOVEL
Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the "first generation" of...
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SAINTS AND SOMALIS: Popular In A Clan Based Society
This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa.
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BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT (THE): AND OTHER ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
In an intellectual climate dominated by formalistic theoretical concerns, biographical criticism may seem an unfashionable mode of academic discourse, but it is sorely needed when writers and readers hail from different countries.
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OUR LADY OF CLASS STRUGGLE: THE CULT OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN HAITI
This discussion of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti is the fruit of one of the most extensive ethnographical studies on religion yet conducted in the Caribbean. Rey reveals the differences between the Marian devotion of the Haitian...
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ECCENTRIC GRACES: Eritrea and Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveller
Prologue: This is a travel narrative about Eritrea, a tiny sun-drenched country along the Red Sea, and Ethiopia, its giant southern neighbor and former colonial overlord.
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Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana
This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AMA ATA AIDOO
A Fitting Tribute to the artistry, proverbial strength and uncompromising voice of a committed writer and truth-teller, the collection of powerful and illuminating essays memorialize Ama Ata Aidoo's deep sense of history and consciousness
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WIT & WISDOM OF AFRICA: PROVERBS FROM AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
No great deeds, works of art or books of history reveal so much about a culture as the folklore and collective wisdom of its proverbs.
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MAI WEINI: A Village in Highland Eritrea
Eritrean society and traditional culture had been off limits for social anthropological research for three decades due to the prolonged liberation war, which came to an end in may 1991.
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FIRE FROM THE ASHES: A Chronicle of the Revolution in Tigray, Ethiopia, 1975-1991
Fire from the Ashes tells the extraordinary story of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) revolution, from its beginning in February 1975 by a handful of students, its expansion into the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
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CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
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CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
A profound even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry, "My whole life...
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THE BLACK INSIDER
A profound even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and Bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry, 'My whole life...
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PARADOX OF AFRICA'S POVERTY (THE): The Role of Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Practices and Local Institutions; The Case of Ethiopia
This study challenges the prevailing pessimistic view concerning Africa's future performance. It argues that the current situation can be reversed by attacking the root causes of poverty provided these have been properly understood.
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SURVIVAL AND MODERNIZATION: Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present A Philosophical Discourse
The book tackles the enigmatic question on Ethiopia's failure to modernize. The enigma springs from the absence in Ethiopia of the major deficiencies invoked to explain underdevelopment
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GOLDEN CAGE:REGENARATION IN LUSOPHONE AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
A solid examination of Lusophone African works from a critical, cultural-theoretical vantage point. The interviews with authors open windows of light while analysis is convincingly rooted through African eyes, particularly Yoruba eyes."-Donald Burness, Franklin Pierce College
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SACRED SPACES AND PUBLIC QUARRELS: AFRICAN CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES
How do African conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, an in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change?
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