Africa
Africa
TWO WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES
Murray Last, the eminent editor of Journal of Modern African Studies, says about Two Weeks in the Trenches, “ I found it so moving that I couldn’t put it down....” He further notes that he found “The Heart,” one of the short...
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IN THE KINGDOM OF SONGS
In the Kingdom of Songs, a harvest of many years (1995-2000), Tanure Ojaide brings together related, but different poetic expeditions: “In the Kingdom of Songs, “ “Home Truths,” and “When It No Longer Matters
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VISIONS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: BLACK SCIENCE FICTION NOVELISTS WRITE THE FUTURE
In Visions of the Third Millenium, Sandra Grayson analyzes how writers of African descent use the codes of science fiction to explore race and gender, myth and language, slavery and freedom, alienation and difference.
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POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN WRITERS FROM AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THE U.S.
Postcolonial literary criticism has specialized in intercultural comparisons of literatures produced both under and after colonialism, focusing most often on groupings determined by the colonizing power.
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FEDERALISM IN AFRICA VOL. I: FRAMING THE NATIONAL QUESTION
This book is the first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development. It interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism.
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MIDDLE PASSAGE (THE): 105 DAYS
In The Middle Passage: 105 Days, Estella Conwill Majozo returns after her award-winning autobiography, Come Out the Wilderness, to delve into the awesome voyage of her captured ancestors
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FROM TYRANNY TO ANARCHY: The Somali Experience
What can be learned from the struggles in Somalia and Somaliland to help prevent the collapse of independent states and cultural groups when confronted by a series of today’s complex challenges, ranging from militarism, dictatorship
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CLOTHES OF NAKEDNESS
Into a poor, if jovial, world of a group of friends descends the intriguing and dapper Mystique Mysterious bearing attractive offers of a better life. Embracing him is to fall prey to his diabolical machinations; however, those that dare challenge...
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PAINTING FOR THE GODS: ART AND AESTHETICS OF YORUBA RELIGIOUS MURALS
This book focuses on indigenous painting traditions found on ancestral shrines of Yoruba divinities collectively known as orisa in southwestern Nigeria.
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NO EASY VICTORIES: AFRICAN LIBERATION AND AMERICAN ACTIVISTS OVER A HALF-CENTURY, 1950-2000
Tell no lies; claim no easy victories.-Amilcar Cabral, 1965 African news making headlines in the U.S.A. today is dominated by disaster: wars, famine, HIV/AIDS. Americans who respond—from Hollywood stars to ordinary citizens—are learning that real solutions require more than charity....
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IT GROWS IN WINTER: AND OTHER POEMS
Okafor's lyricism is highly reminiscent of such nature poets as William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and W.B.Yeats. W.B. Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree" shows his nostalgia for his Irish countryside
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POLITICS OF WAR AND THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: NORTH-SOUTH ESSAYS BY ALI A. MAZRUI
Ali A. Mazrui is arguably the leading African theorist on the role of violence in human affairs. This collection of essays illustrates his range. The spectrum of violence is from military coups and terrorism to nuclear proliferation, from individual
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REPATRIATION, INTEGRATION AND RESETTLEMENT: The Dilemmas Of Migration Among Eritrean Refugees In Eastern Sudan
Most official institutions involved with refugees perceive repatriation as the most durable solution to the global refugee problem.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AKINWUMI ISOLA
This book provides debates and representations of society to be found in the works of Akínwùmi Ìsòlá, one of the leading contemporary writers in African-language. His numerous creative works have received national and international attention, and many of them have...
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TRANSPLANTED IMAGINARY: LITERATURES IN NEW CLIMES
This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space...
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GOLDEN APPLE: CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION
With The Golden Apple: Changing the Structure of Civilization, author Edgar Ridley offers readers an extended look at the need for mankind to abandon its historical dependence on destructive symbols and the shackles of symbolic thinking once and for all...
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MINES OF HIS MIND: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKS OF TAYO OLAFIOYE
This book contains a rich deposit of ideas and the consequent social commentary that arise in the complete works of Tayo Olafioye in prose, verse and critical formats. By associating Olafioyes work with a mine, the editors
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WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR
This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war, also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of the River Niger, was for long absent in the...
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AFRICAN JIHAD: Bin Laden's Quest For the Horn Of Africa.
The African Jihad is a fascinating examination of the efforts by international jihadists to bring about their grand vision of Islamist hegemony in the greater Horn of Africa region. These efforts began with the collaboration between Al Qaeda and the National...
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA: PARADIGMS OF DEVELOPMENT, DECLINE AND DILEMMAS
Few regions of the world can boast of having the same level of potential and natural endowments as Africa. Yet, it is a tragic irony that the continent is incontestably the most unsuccessful in providing the human and capital resources...
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FROM MOGADISHU TO DIXON: The Somali Diaspora In A Global Context
For nearly two decades, and particularly since the civil war, Somali men, women, and sometimes even children without families fled the country in droves. Some sought refuge amongst established Somali communities in the Horn of Africa
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CONFIGURING THE AFRICAN WORLD: ESSAYS ON CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORIC LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Some of the essays in Configuring The African World were published in Nigeria a few years ago (On Black Culture, Obafemi Awolowo University Press).
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SAFEGUARDING THE HEALTH SECTOR IN TIMES OF MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY: POLICY LESSONS FOR LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and adjustment measures. Are these systems flexible and...
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WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
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WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
This book examines almost two hundred years of race and ethnic relations and white-on- black racism in Dubuque, Iowas oldest industrial city, in connection with political and economic developments at the local, state, and national levels.
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WOMEN TO WOMEN: YOUNG AMERICANS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Women to Women" represents a remarkable conversation among South African and American women about race, class and gender and the challenge of building an egalitarian nation out of the remnants of one of the most unequal societies in the worldapartheid-era...
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BEAUTY IN BLACK PERFORMANCE: PLAYS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
The four plays in this book bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatize the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (May 26,...
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