Africa
Africa
MOTHER OF US ALL: A HISTORY OF QUEEN NANNY LEADER OF THE WINDWARD MAROONS
The Mother of Us All" is an analysis of the history of Queen nanny, the great 18th century leader of the Windward of Eastern Jamaican Maroons
$18.95
LET'S LEARN TWI: MA YENSUA TWI
Let's Learn Twi - Ma Yensua Twi is a text that has been successfully used to teach both intensive and non-intensive Twi. The trend in modern language pedagogy is to incorporate the culture of the target language into the instruction.
$24.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON TSITSI DANGAREMBGA
As a dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, essayist and public speaker, Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has claimed the attention of African Cultural Studies since the first publication of her novel Nervous Conditions
$29.95
WRITER AS ACTIVIST: SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON NGUGI WA THIONG'O
Ng?g? wa Thiong'o writes about a world that South Asian readers recognize as analogous to their own, and he expresses ideas with which they can readily identify. His treatment of the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism, his firm adherence to a...
$21.95
OROMO DEMOCRACY
This book reveals the many creative solutions an African society found for problems that people encounter when they try to establish a democratic system of governing their affairs.
$29.95
GENESIS II: THE RE-CREATION OF BLACK PEOPLE
These bible lesson essays speak directly and compellingly to the issue of theology and its relevancy to the transformation and empowerment of Black people
$21.95
OUR CONTINENT, OUR FUTURE: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON STRUCTURAL ADJUSMENTS
For decades now, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have implemented the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The results, however, have been less than sterling
$21.95
YORUBA WARLORDS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
This is a pioneer book on the Yoruba military generals of the 19th century covering their individual careers, military alliances and the consequences of their actions on the society. This book is divided into two parts
$24.95
PASSION TO LIBERATE: LA GUMA'S SOUTH AFRICA-"IMAGES OF DISTRICT SIX"
This is a literary biography of one of South Africas most eminent men of letters, Justin Alexander La Guma, who is better known as Alex La Guma and is one of the twentieth centurys most prolific, eloquent, and courageous writers.
$24.95
AFRICAN ENCLOSURES? The Social Dynamics Of Wetlands in Drylands
This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to market opportunities. This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to...
$33.43
SUNSTREAMS AND SHADOWS
Rodway’s poems explore a wide and fascinating range of subjects, which focus on the personal and the political and on issues of class, gender, and racism. “Her language reflects the commonplaces of domestic feeling struggling out of the commonplace,...
$12.95
IMAGES OF AFRICA: STEREOTYPES AND REALITIES
This book offers those rare and exceptional insights into the historical and cultural processes through which various perceptions of Africa were crystallized into negative images and stereotypes that became so pervasive and profound that Africa is still trying to shake...
$29.95
SEMBENE: IMAGINING ALTERNATIVES IN FILM AND FICTION
Senegalese writer Sembene Ousmane, who makes films under the name Ousmane Sembene, is one of the major figures of African literature in French and one of Africa’s foremost film directors.
$24.95
INVINCIBLE SUMMER (AN): FEMALE DIASPOREAN AUTHORS
The title of this book, An Invincible Summer, is taken from the essay “Return to Tipasa” by Albert Camus. At the age of forty, Camus returned to the rain-drenched Algiers, “the city of summer,
$21.95
DEATH OF A MYTH: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON NIGERIA
Known as the “Giant of Africa,” Nigeria is without doubt a country of immense natural and human resources. It has, however, managed to remain hardly more than a gnome. After decades of debilitating military dictatorship and the demise of another...
$24.95
RIGHT TO BE NUBA (THE): The Story Of A Sudanese People's Struggle For Survival
The Nuba people of central Sudan are struggling to survive in the face of military, political and cultural policies of the Sudan Government, which is attempting to wipe out their separate identity.
$21.95
WOMEN, TRADITION & DEVELOPMENT: A Case Study of Eritrea
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.
$24.95
CHARACTER IS BEAUTY: REDEFINING YORUBA CULTURE AND IDENTITY IWALEWA-HAUS, 1981-1986
Iwalewa-Hausa, under the directorship of Ulli Beier has actively participated in the revitalization and continuation of the different cultural and artistic lives of the Third World societies.
$29.95
TRANSATLANTIQUES: ATLANTIC CROSS-CURRENTS #9
Taken from a poem by Niyi Osundare, “Atlantic Cross Currents/Transatlantiques” was the theme of the 1993 meeting of the African Literature Association which was held in Guadeloupe.
$21.95
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LANGUAGE: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE: TANZANIA AND BEYOND
This book seeks to enter the crucial debate on educational language choices in Africa which began with the arrival of missionaries and took varied forms over the years.
$21.95
Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing
This book examines the role gender plays in African Studies. It discusses the challenges and difficulties women scholars face in their efforts to produce and disseminate scholarly knowledge.
$21.95
AFRICA AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS: Conquest and Counter-Conquest
Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest is the second volume of the Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui that will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings.
$34.95
DEMILITARIZING THE MIND: AFRICAN AGENDAS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
This book highlights a central, but neglected component of Africa’s complicated and intractable wars: the militarization of governance. Political cultures of militarism stand in the way of enduring peace, democracy, and the development of civil society. Militarism comes in both...
$21.95
TONGUE MOTHER TONGUE #10
Tongue and Mother Tongue is takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature
$21.95
LIKE WATER RUNNING OFF MY BACK
This collection of poetry is a window into the mind and soul of a young poet intent on searching for the “truth in everything.” Molefi Asante, Jr. writes in the tradition of African American poets who have laid a foundation...
$12.95
WE INVENTED THE WHEEL
This is the second bilingual collection of the poetry of the contemporary Eritrean poet, Reesom Haile. It follows an earlier anthology, We Have our Voice, which was published in 2000.
$21.95
AFRICAN REFUGEES: Reflections on the African Refugee Problem
There are over 10 million refugees in the World, and over half of these are Africans. In the last few years the politics of war and famine in Africa have intensified the abudant growth of refugees in Africa. Political persecution,...
$25.00
WHEN PEACE COMES: Society and Development in Sudan
Sudan’s civil war is 18 years old—but it must come to an end sometime. What challenges will the Sudanese state and civil society face as they try to reconstruct a ravaged and divided country? How will a post-war Sudan respond...
$24.95