Africa
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GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 2
By using the case study of Guinea, the author explores systemically (1) the nature of the single-party regime and the role of first-generation post-colonial African leadership, (2) the central role of ideology in the twin-programs of statecraft and nation-building by...
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MANNA FROM THE MOTHERLAND
The close relationship between food and the spiritual dimensions of ones life is the focus of Manna from the Motherland. A central theme in the book is that the health and happiness we all deserve can easily be experienced when we...
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ORIGINS OF MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT: ITS DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
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ORIGINS OF MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT: ITS DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
For the better part of two centuries, racial domination has been the central concern of African social thought. Other questions, among them national identity, the role of chieftaincy, representation, justice, and constitutional design, have often been defined in relation to...
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PROVOCATIONS OF AMNESTY: MEMORY, JUSTICE AND IMPUNITY
A key event in South Africas recent past was the granting of amnesty through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores issues such as: · Was amnesty in South Africa a political compromise?· What are the...
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WRITER AS MYTH MAKER: SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON WOLE SOYINKA
South Asian readers and scholars find Wole Soyinka and his work especially fascinating. The manner in which he deals with colonial and postcolonial experience, the metaphysical strain embedded in his commentaries on his Yoruba heritage, and the numerous comparisons he...
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LONG JOURNEY HOME (THE): A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976
"The Long Journey Home" recounts the history of the black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, from 1776-1976. This was a much-needed journey through the pages of history to rediscover a communitys pa
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SHAPING OUR STRUGGLES:B189 NIGERIAN WOMEN IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
This Volume dealing with various aspects of Ethiopia's varied social history, is devoted by and large to the northern central highlands, and covers the period from early medieval times to the region of Emperor Tewodros II
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ARABIC FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDICS
Arabic for English Speaking Medics is based on simple conversations that typically take place in familiar medic-patient situations. These provide the learner with the words and phrases most commonly used in medical settings as the hospital bedside and the admissions...
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
By exploring the dynamics of the relationship between Nigeria and the USSR from the time of Nigeria's independence in 1960 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book presents a revisionist examination of the important yet often...
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Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval
In light of the turn to culture in analysing African politics, this book re-examines some of the ideas and practices of three of the most influential activists-practioners of nationalism in thought and deed in AfricaFrantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, and the...
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
Is Ali Mazrui a visionary or a vacuous intellectual? Is he reactionary, revolutionary or essentially a radical pragmatist? These questions were the focus of a special plenary session of the Conference of the African Association of Political Science that took...
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TOWN CRIER: SELECTED POEMS
Over the years, Tayo Olafioye has published a series of works and most importantly, collections of poetry that cover divergent subjects such as culture, family, international encounters, politics, and a gamut of the human condition. This is a selection of...
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from West Africa: Camara Laye’s The Dark Child, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood, and...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. I
Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century is widely regarded as Africas best novelist to date, and one of the worlds greatest. His narrative style and techniques have given rise to what has been characterized as the African...
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ROMANCING THE GUN: THE PRESS AS A PROMOTER OF MILITARY RULE
This books rare insight on media practice shakes conventional notions of the role and enabling environment of the modern press. "Romancing the Gun" rattles academic tradition by illustrating that Nigerias hard-hitting press has not only thrived better while military regimes...
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Strike a Woman, Strike a Rock: Fighting for Freedom in South Africa
In this trenchant and compelling book, Barbara Hutmacher MacLean reveals the lives of a cross section of South African women who courageously opposed apartheid in ways the world never knew: blacks who risked death and torture by opposing the governments...
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Bond without Blood: A History of Ethiopian and Caribbean Relations, 1896-1991
Bond without Blood constructs the narrative of the Ethiopian-Caribbean ties with three interwoven themes in mind: pan-African nationalism, repatriation, and cultural cross-fertilization. Central in all this is the evocative role of Ethiopian symbolism, the precursor of modern racial nationalism, in the...
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Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 1: Framework Papers
This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa’s economic...
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ANGOLA UNDER THE PORTUGUESE: THE MYTH AND THE REALITY
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. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES PB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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AND THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY DRESSES PB
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES HB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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ANGOLA UNDER THE PORTUGUESE PB
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. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São...
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ANIMAL FABLES OTHER TALES HB
The stories in this collection form part of the rich body of oral tradition which survived in the New World. Although many of these tales are from Brazil, some have variants in islands of the Caribbean and in the southern...
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ARISE YE MIGHTY PEOPLE! WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD
Arise Ye Mighty People! is about the new world society emerging fromt he disarray of the old. This collection documents expressions of the new society from Nigeria's oil belt, North America's urban insurgents, the Middle East's intifada, the Caribbean's Rastafari, and...
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ARROWS AND THE BOW
The integrity, sensibility, courage, and delicate balance with which Ladu Jada Gubek draws the rich history and culture [of Africa] together is moving. He brings a refreshing new voice to African and African Diaspora literature and knowledge in this emergent...
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ASINAMALI UNDIVERSITY STRUGGLES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Asinamali is an edited collection of essays that includes work by Dennis Brutus, Shereen Essof, Jonathan Jansen, Mahmood Mamdani and Andrew Nash. It is a project of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Asinamali marks CAFA's first enquiry...
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AWAKENING THE NATURAL GENUIS OF BLACK CHILDREN SECON EDITION
Black Awakening in Capitalist America is a classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s.
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BECOMING AN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY PB MAKERERE: 1922-2000
For four decades, Makerere University, known as the Oxford of Africa, was the sole university-level institution in all of East Africa. A fabled Mecca for aspiring youth, it trained many of the regions first generation of intellectual and political leaders,...
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. This case is considered to be the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and one of the most important...
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