Africa
Africa
SELF DETERMINATION AND NATIONAL UNITY: A CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA
Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterized by gross inequities among the component groups.
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SLAVERY, ISLAM AND DIASPORA
Slavery, Islam and Diaspora explores slavery in the context of the Muslim world through a study of the African Diaspora
$34.95
NEW SUDAN IN THE MAKING?: Essays on a Nation in Painful Search of Itself
“New Sudan” is a concept for radically reforming Sudan’s governance system by addressing the national identity crisis that has been responsible for the wars, the instability and the failure of the national building project that have afflicted the country since...
$39.95
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: VOICES FROM THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
In Their Own Words is a gripping and haunting encounter with voices once silenced by the tragic Atlantic Voyage—The Middle Passage—reaching out across time to be heard.
$16.95
JOURNEYS HOME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE
As a major origin of emigrants to the western hemisphere, the African continent has seen its share of both forced and volunteer emigration.
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RELIGON IN POLITICS: SECULARISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN MODERN NIGERIA
There has been a long tradition of interaction between the two powerful institutions of religion and politics. While the relationship between the two is complex and sometimes confusing
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POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF ONITSHA
Located on the eastern bank of the lower Niger, Onitsha is one of the leading commercial cities and road transport hubs in Nigeria. Its main market is reputed to be the biggest in West Africa.
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WHEN CITIZENS REVOLT: NIGERIAN ELITES, BIG OIL AND THE OGONI STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
On 10 November 1995, the Nigerian military regime, under General Sani Abacha, hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and minority rights activist, and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) after a judicially flawed trail....
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TRADITIONS OF ERITREA: Linking the Past To the Future
This book examines the framework of traditional social values, cultural patterns, customary practices, and the political and economic forces that influence the way of life and the development of women.
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LABYRINTH AND PATH OF THUNDER PB
“There is nothing in Nigerian poetry and little in any poetry I know to surpass the haunting beauty, the mystic resonance and clarity of the final movements of the protagonist’s quest in “Distances”.
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DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: the Self and The Other
This book is a contribution to Arab-Muslim-Western dialogue. The book underlines the hazardous consequences of the strategy of preemptive war on this dialogue.
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DEPTH AND DESTINY OF WORK: AN AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
This book seeks to develop a theology of work as a foundation and motivation for engaging with the discourse on globalization. The book approaches globalization as the spatial distribution of work.
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press; First edition (June 3,...
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SPIRIT AND THE WORD: A THEORY OF SPIRITUALITY IN AFRICANA LITERARY CRITICISM
Utilizing a method informed by the ideas and worldview of Ifa, an ancient African spiritual system, to unlock deeper levels of meaning in the writings of African peoples, literary scholar Georgene Bess Montgomery presents a powerful new way of reading...
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SAGA OF AFRICAN UNDERDEVELOMENT: A VIABLE APPROACH FOR AFRICA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Saga of African Underdevelopment examines in careful detail the economic conditions in Africa during the pre-colonial and colonial periods.
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CLIO IN A SACRED GARB: ESSAYS ON CHRISTIAN PRESENCE AND AFRICAN RESPONSES, 1900-2000
This book consists of essays on African church history: historiography, context (ecology and worldviews), the missionary enterprise and African responses that explain the massive growth of Christianity in contemporary Africa. Some essays have been published; others are unpublished, or rewritten...
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria
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EARLY SOYINKA
This book contains half a dozen essays on writings by Wole Soyinka composed prior to publication of his first books in 1963
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OF WAR AND WOMEN, OPPRESSION AND OPTIMISM: NEW ESSAYS ON THE AFRICAN NOVEL
A supplement to Palmer's earlier works on the African novel, An Introduction to the African Novel and The Growth of the African Novel. Here, Palmer undertakes a detailed critical assessment of key novels he feels are typical of the main...
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ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Reflections On The Literatures Of The Horn Of Africa
A horn is an instrument either for protection or destruction. The horn in the Horn of Africa has for so long turned inward, and on its people, thus victimizing those it was supposed to defend.
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KNOWLEDGE IS MORE THAN MERE WORDS,WEY DEHN SAY? DEHN SAY KAPU SEHNS NOR KAPU WORD: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO SIERRA LEONEAN LITERATURE
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis and assessment of a national literature that has been growing in recent years. It provides, particularly in the introduction, insightful information about the historical and cultural background
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RESISTANCE, INSURGENCE AND IDENTITY: THE ART OF MARI EVANS, NELSON STEVENS, AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.
Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement is an inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies
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IFA: THE YORUBA GOD OF DIVINATION IN NIGERIA AND THE UNITED STATES
In this book, the late Dr. Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason offers a combination of personal, historical and solicitous accounts on Ifa, the Yoruba divination deity. Using sites in Nigeria and the United States, he reveals various aspects of the religious...
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CADERNOS NEGROS BLACK NOTEBOOKS, VOL1: CONTEMPORARY AFRO-BRAZILIAN LITERARY MOVEMENT
This bilingual volume brings together the first comprehensive compilation of Afro-Brazilian literature produced by the Quilombhoje group over three decades of their existence as a cultural and political movement in Brazil.
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BLENDING COLORS FROM LIFE: TRENTON'S OWN WATERCOLORIST, TOM MALLOY
Oral history comes alive in this fascinating tale of Tom Malloy (1912-), former Artist Laureate of Trenton, New Jersey and the darling of myriad art-lovers. Conversations with this self-taught, African-American master painter of cityscapes guide the reader through his adventures...
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ON THE MORNING TIDE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY IN THE HISTORICAL EBB AND FLOW OF HUDSON RIVER SOCIETY
On the Morning Tide, like the author’s earlier book, Long Hammering, continues the challenge of creating a more accurate image of the African American in the history of New York.
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SEASON'S OF HARVEST: ESSAYS ON THE LITERATURES OF ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE, CAPE VERDE, GUINEA BISSAU, AND SAO TOME-PRINCIPE
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world.
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JIMMA ABBA JIFAR: An Oromo Monarcy in Ethiopia (with a postcript)
Established around 1830, the Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar was the largest and most powerful of the five monarchies formed by the Oromo in the Gibe region of southwestern Ethiopia.
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IN THE LAND OF SOLOMON AND SHEBA
This is the fascinating story of an American family and their adventures set in the Semien mountains, the 8,000 feet highlands of northern Ethiopia. Dr. John Summerskill, the author's spouse, had been president of San Francisco State University.
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GEOGRAPHY OF A SOUL: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON KAMUA BRAITHWAITE
This important new work on Kamau Brathwaite includes work on and inspired by the subject, recognizing the power and influence of his poetry and other creative work, historical research and cultural and literary criticism.
$34.95