Africa
Africa
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.
$21.95
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
$29.95
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...
$29.95
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.
$21.95
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
$34.95
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
$24.95
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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WHITE NILE BLACK BLOOD
This pioneering volume introduces and defines a new realm of scholarly investigation. Over the course of half-century of independence the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has been torn by extended periods of warfare, during which the Southern Sudan, roughly defined by the...
$21.53
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
African Perspectives on Governance brings together the view of a group of East and West African scholars on a range of issues relating to how African countries are being governed. In contrast to most other publications on governance, which tend to...
$69.95
AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH
This critical collection engages many of the health problems of greatest concern to most African women today: death during pregnancy and the need for assistance in childbirth; the spread of the AIDS epidemic; mental illness and domestic violence, which appears...
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HARDENED IMAGES: THE WESTERN MEDIA AND THE MARGINALIZATION OF AFRICA
Africa, the most central of the major regions of the world, is at present languishing on the margins of the global political and economic system.
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MONARCHS, MISSIONARIES & AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS: AFRICAN THEATRE AND THE UNMAKING OF COLONIAL MARGINALITY.
An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness ... lucid andrichly suggestive ... beautifully written' -- Professor Karin Barber, University of Birmingham An excellent and important book moving with great ease in very tricky terrain... I must confess that having...
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THROUGH A BLACK VEIL: READINGS IN FRENCH CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Through a Black Veil is an investigation of the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean, through close reading of a representative sample of poems.
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WE HAVE OUR VOICE (Bilingual, English and Tigrinya) (available in hardcover only)
Reesom Haile's spare poetic line carries the weight of incisive image, narrative clarity, irony plus a droll humor that speaks even after you finished reading."
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AFRICAN IMAGES: Recent Studies and Text In Cinema #7
The twenty-third annual conference of the African Literature Association was a celbration of African cinema, in recognition of of which it received the title, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, FESPACO Nights in Michigan. The selected papers from that conference that appear in this...
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ETHIOPIAN STATE: Crossroads
This work traces the evolution of the modern Ethiopian State and its consolidation under the last three successive regimes. Leenco Lata critically assesses the Transitional Period of the post-Dergue era between the July 1991 Conference
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GUNS AND GANDHI IN AFRICA: PAN AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE, ARMED STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION
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GUNS AND GANDHI IN AFRICA: PAN AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE, ARMED STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION
Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people.
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GOATSKIN BAGS AND WISDOM: AFRICAN RESPONSES TO AFRICAN LITERATURE
These twenty-eight essays offer a variety of critical perspectives on African literature from scholars, writers and experienced teachers of this subject. They reveal the diverse emotions and sensitivities with which Africans perceiving themselves as the target audience of African wirters,...
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NEW WORLD HEGEMONY IN THE MALAY WORLD
To the surprise of many, the much vaunted authoritarian "Asian Value" model of development took a nose dive in 1998 wrecking the so-called "economic miracle" from East to Southeast Asia, sending stock exchanges and currencies into disarray, sinking the new...
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YORUBA GURUS: INDIGENOUS PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICA
Toyin Falola, one of the most prominent interpreters of Yoruba History, has written an outstanding and brilliant pioneer book that reveals valuable knowledge on African local historians. This is one of the most impressive books on the Yoruba in recent...
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THOUSAND FLOWERS: SOCIAL STRUGGLES AGAINST STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
This timely work is of seminal importance both for those interested in African problems in our time and those concerned with the destructive impact of the globalizing process all over the world.
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POLITICS OF PATRONAGE IN AFRICA: PARASTATALS, PRIVATIZATION & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
as a review of what has happened to state assets in Africa, it would be hard to beat ...' Jeffrey Herbst, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University -
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WHO FIGHTS...WHO CARES?
Africa faces huge political and humanitarian challenges. Sixteen countries are stricken by war or serious instability; the shadow of genocide looms over central Africa; while natural and man-made disasters threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans. International structures...
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COUNSELING IN AN ERITREAN CONTEXT
This book is primarily designed for use as a basic textbook for introductory guidance and counseling courses, teacher training and other areas of human service education.
$19.95
SEYCHELLES SINCE 1770: HISTORY OF A SLAVE AND POST-SLAVERY SOCIETY
Scarr disposes of many myths of Seychelles being, for instance, a peculiarly harmonious colonial society with all questions of social and political distinction based on colour being erased by miscegenation.
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EXILE & AFRICAN LITERATURE
Apartheid was one of the most oppressive, but by no means the only regime to drive African writers into what Eldred Jones calls "the disorienting but sometimes mentally productive state of exile.
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AFRICAN BELIEFS IN THE NEW WORLD: POPULAR LITERARY TRADITIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN
Like a kaleidoscope, the Caribbean world displays the vibrant colors of its diversity. Ethnic groups from four continents brought their customs and beliefs to this New World.
$14.97