Africa
Africa
BORDERLINE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICAN FICTION
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (September 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 262 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213626
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213627
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARYSE CONDE: A WRITE OF HER OWN
Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own brings together for the first time a collection of essays in English about the novels of this contemporary Caribbean literary and cultural figure
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies.
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DECISIONS IN THE SHADE: Political and Juridical Processes Among the Aromo-Borana
Due to the debate that has developed around the political significance of their Gada system of generational classes, the Oromo-Borana (a pastoral people living in Ethiopia and Kenya) have become a classic reference of comparative anthropology. In this study the...
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RICEKEEPERS: A PLAY
Rice Keepers is a full-length play in eleven scenes, with ten characters, two of whom double up, and a dancer. Set in the Nimba, a village in a Guinee Coast country, the play centers around historical events of the past, particularly...
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF ZAMBIA: FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Utilizing a post-nationalist revisionist interpretation of the political processes and political developments, both for the colonial and post-colonial periods, Professor Phiri posits that contrary to the view held by many scholars that liberalism was a lost cause in Central Africa,...
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AFRICA AND THE ACADEMY: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses On Africa
This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (August 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1592210147
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210145
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HURLING WORDS AT CONSCIOUSNESS: POEMS
By turns soothingly tender or implacably harsh, Hurling Words at Consciousness is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities. It is thoughtful and richly rewarding. -Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mukoma wa Ngugi is a poet of extraordinary expressive gifts....
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PEOPLE OF THE CITY
When People of the City was first published in 1954, it was immediately acclaimed as the first major novel in English by a West African to be widely read throughout the English-speaking world
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I OWN MY DESTINY: Poems (written in the Tigrinya language)
When I first read the poems posted on Asmarino.com under the name of Kiros Yohannes, some years back, I was struck by the unique form (Style) and the serious and varied content. I was curious to know who he was. Judging by...
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BIOPIRACY OF BIODIVERSITY: GLOBAL EXCHANGE AS ENCLOSURE
Because seeds are a gift to each one of us, they are a gift to all. Ancient cultures increased this wealth by sharing cultivated seed, by giving it away. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (March 26,...
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Changing Face of Race in America: The Role of Racial Politics in Shaping Modern America
If everyone is against racism now, why does awareness of race have such a deep, if hidden, hold on our consciousness, institutions, and politics? Why does racial thinking still have such a profound impact on the life chances of blacks...
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DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM (THE): DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES
In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures’ heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a classification model. Arndt distinguishes...
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BLACK, WHITE, CHROME
This book examines the United States’ relations with Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the late 1990s and offers a new interpretation of the US role in facilitating the settlement that brought peace and independence in Zimbabwe in 1980. By revealing...
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HISTORY OF TIGRINYA LITERATURE 2nd EDITION
In this richly researched and lucidly written collection of essays, The Freedom of the Writer and Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays, Ghirmai Negash provides solid analysis and information on some of the salient aspects of Eritrean
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MUTILATING KHALID: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF FEMAL GENITAL CUTTING
In Mutilating Khalid, historian Charles G. Steffen examines one of the most remarkable cases of “female genital mutilation” ever to be prosecuted in a United States court.
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ABOVE THE ODDS: A Decade of Change for Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs
Too few books give an in-depth view of the challenges that African women face in running the enterprises which often provide the main source of support for their families. Ten years ago Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom, based...
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ZUMA'S OWN GOAL: LOSING SOUTH AFRICA'S 'WAR ON POVERTY'
This collection of original essays provides an in-depth look at how South Africa’s government is tackling profound challenges - including economic policy, AIDS, social security, housing, basic services and education -
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ETHIOPIAN DISCOURSE
Ethiopian Discourse is a text which makes heroic efforts to engage the Ethiopian reader with the problems, challenges and traditions of classical and modern Ethiopia.
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YORUBA FICTION, ORATURE,A ND CULTURE
Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field and a foremost authority on Yoruba traditional literary forms in particular. T
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FRONTIERS OF GLOBALIZATION: KINSHIP AND FAMILY STRUCTURES IN AFRICA
There is no question that globalization has a significant impact on Africa. Yet, the nature of this impact is not homogeneous, and not only because globalization is a complex process, but also because of African diversity
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PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
Philosophical Essays seeks to present the idea of democracy systematically beginning with the ancient philosophers and ending with the modern philosopher, John Rawls.
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REMINISCENCES OF MY LIFE
This book is an exemplary narrative about the inner workings of Emperor Haile Sellassie’s government. It contains an account of some of the personalities who held high government offices and the state of ecumenical relations
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Wounded Nation: How a Once Promising Eritrea Was Betrayed and Its Future Compromised
This volume takes up the life story of the author from where the first volume culminated. Through historical and political analyses the author lays bare the hidden (and not so hidden) elements that have contributed to Eritrea’s descent from a...
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945): The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945): The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
Duse Mohamed Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Egyptian father and a Sudanese Mother. He attended King’s College of London. In 1885 at age of nineteen, he started a career as a stage actor that lasted for twenty-four...
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Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story
In Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story, the reader is offered a vivid portrait of the President of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of the Sudan. The author unobtrusively facilitates the encounter, withdrawing to leave the reader in...
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TALE OF THREE WOMEN: A NOVEL
Set in Sierra Leone, West Africa, A Tale of Three Women is epic in scope , covering a span of about sixty years and touching upon the most important developments in that country’s recent history from about 1918 to the...
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Islamic Law and Politics In Northern Nigeria
Islamic Law and Politics in Northern Nigeria examines the case of Islamic law in Nigeria through a comparative lens by probing the meaning of justice in Islamic, Jewish, Continental European, and Anglo-American law
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