Africa
Africa
OBAMA PHENOMENON: ESSAYS AND POETRY BY BLACK CRITICS AND CREATIVE ARTISTS
Edited by internationally recognized scholar on black literatures and cultures, Femi Ojo-Ade, this volume brings together a mixture of young intellectuals and seasoned scholars from Africa and its Diaspora to address various themes of the Obama
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NEGRITUDE MOMENT: EXPLORATIONS IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
In this collection of essays, which span more than forty years of sustained scholarship, Irele explores the varied aspects of Negritude as a movement and as concept.
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FREEDOM FIGHT: A NOVEL OF RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM
Pamela Olúbùnmi Smith's The Freedom Fight is an English translation of Adébáyò Fálétí’s Yorùbá novel, Omo Olókùn Esin Though written in 1958
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Visions of Nationhood: Prelude to the Nigerian Civil War, 1960-1967
Visions of Nationhood is a refreshingly bold and informed study of why Nigeria’s three dominant sub-national groups—the Hausa-Fulani of the Northern Region, the Igbo of the Eastern Region, and the Yoruba of the Western Region
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REPURCUSSIONS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: THE INTERIOR OF THE BIGHT OF BIAFRA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
This volume looks at the historical context of slavery in the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the resulting diaspora of people that was formed in the Americas.
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SEEDS BEARING FRUIT: PAN-AFRICAN PEACE ACTION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
No matter how little one knows about Africa, we cannot help but hear of raging poverty and out-of-control wars. Defying popular misconceptions, however, Seeds Bearing Fruit
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BEYOND KHARTOUM: A HISTORY OF SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN SUDAN
Useful to both scholars and policymakers, Beyond Khartoum is a history of subnational government in Sudan from early times through 2010. Despite domination by its Northern Arabic-speaking elite, Sudan has a long and varied history of governmental Product details Publisher...
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A NATION BETRAYED: NIGERIA AND THE MINORITIES
The 1950s were traumatic years for the British. A mighty Empire was in its death-throes. But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations. Independence was within close reach. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 31,...
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FUTURE AFRICA: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT UNDER NEPAD
The AU Summit of January 2008 marked the 6th Anniversary of the adoption of NEPAD as a programme of the African Union (AU) (then Organisation of Africa Unity in 2001. The Summit also marked the 5th anniversary of the launch of the AU....
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NAWAL EL SAADAWI
This edited volume focuses on the writings of Nawal El Saadawi, generally acclaimed as ‘the Arab world’s leading feminist and iconoclast’.
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KOSSOYE: A Village Life In Ethiopia
This fascinating and relevant interdisciplinary book is the result of personal histories of service and research that have now spanned nearly five decades.
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AFRICA RISING: Multidisciplinary Discussions on Africana Studies and History
As aninterdisciplinary prism through which one can study the growing field of Africalogy, this scholarly and journalistic volume examines the expansive and compelling history of Africa, its many peoples and their global experiences. By offering articles that, in addition to...
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ONLY WEST INDIANS: CREOLE NATIONALISM IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
Contrary to popular belief, the ideology of empire in the nineteenth-century British resulted in a number of West Indian Creoles who took the language and values of Britain’s supposedly liberal empire and turned them upside down.
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RECITING IFA: DIFFERENCE, HETEROGENEITY, AND IDENTITY
This book generates a critical Ifa poetics and analysis that emphasizes Ifa as a philosophical heritage that privileges heterogeneity of discourses, texts, and worlds.
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TURNING SCIENCE INTO ACTION: BIODIVERSITY CONVERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA
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TURNING SCIENCE INTO ACTION: BIODIVERSITY CONVERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA
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. Today rich countries and corporations are taking seed and making it...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON UNGULANI BA KA KHOSA
Emerging Perspectives On Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa honors the celebrated Mozambican writer, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, who was awarded the 2007 José Craveirinha Prize for his Os Sobreviventes da Noite (Survivors of the Night).
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EARLY WEST AFRICAN WRITERS: AMOS TUTUOLA CYPRIAN EKWENSI & AYI KWEI ARMAH
This book focuses on the first works produced by three talented West Africans who felt an urge to express themselves in print. These
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TAKING THE PLACE OF FOOD: KHAT IN ETHIOPIA
Khat (catha edulis) is a psychoactive shrub whose tender leaves and twigs have been chewed in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula for their euphonizing effects for a millennium.
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OBAFEMI AWOLOWO AND THE MAKING OF REMO: THE LOCAL POLITICS OF A NIGERIAN NATIONALIST
“This admirable and richly textured book should be widely read not only by those inter-ested in Yoruba history and modern Nigeria but by all those who seek a mature under-standing of the intricate connections between local and national politics. Nolte...
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GENUINELY GHANAIAN: A HISTORY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH GHANA, 1961-2000
Genuinely Ghanaian is the fascinating history of the Methodist Church Ghana, from the time of its autonomy, 1961, to the year 2000. This book shows how missiological issues of contextualization and outreach have shaped the history
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SPEAKING FOR THE GENERATIONS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN SHORT STORIES
This anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names such as Benjamin Kwakye, Tijan Sallah, Zahra Ramij, Freddy Macha, Arja Salafranca, Odun Balogun, Tanure Ojaide
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J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
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J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
This is the first comprehensive study of the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the fourth president of the United Republic of Tanzania who took office in December 2005.
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IN MY LIFETIME: TOWARDS PRESIDENCY+B529 OF BARACK OBAMA
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, the recurring confession heard across Black America was, “I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.
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MAKING AND BREAKING STATES IN AFRICA: The Somali Experience
This book analyzes crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with ‘modernity’, the Somalis illustrate the extremes of modern African statehood.
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African Pentecostalism: v. I: Global Discourses, Migrations, Exchanges and Connections: The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays,Ogbu Kalu 1)
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa,...
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Christian Missions in Africa: v. II: Success, Ferment and Trauma, the Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays,Ogbu Kalu 2)
The narratives and analyses in this volume will enable scholars of global Christianity to discern how the shifting center of gravity in Christianity is being played out in Africa.
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Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (September 28, 2010) Language : English Hardcover : 480 pages ISBN-10 : 1592217672 ISBN-13 : 978-1592217670
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa,...
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Migration, Development and Diplomacy: Perspectives From the Southern Mediterranean
In recent years, migration across the Mediterranean has become an issue of growing concern to the countries of the region and beyond. It has also become a rather divisive issue between the two shores of the Mediterranean
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Religions in Africa: Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics (Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu)
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Religions in Africa: Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics (Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu)
This volume collects together Kalu’s insightful essays on the intersection of religion and social issues in Africa. They constitute an engaging set of political and ethical analyses of the ?ow of events as Christianity penetrated Africa
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RACE AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION: THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FRAMING OF BLACKNESS ANDAFRICAN PERSONHOOD, 1800-1960
Europeans had militarily subjugated and occupied Africa in part because they were on a “civilizing mission” to rescue Africans from savagery and barbarism.
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