Africa
Africa
MAKING OF THE ERITREAN CONSTITUTION: The Dialectic Of Process And Substance
For the first time in their history, Eritreans were engaged, as a soveriegn people, in the making of the basic document by which they would be governed. Regarded by Eritreans as the culmination of their legitimate struggle
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EMANCIPADOS: SLAVE SOCIETIES IN BRAZIL AND CUBA
This book provides definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil and Cuba in particular and Latin America in general.
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WHO IS AFRAID OF THE HOLY GHOST? Pentecostalism and Globalization in African and Beyond
Pentecostal/charismatic movements represent one of the most popular, fastest growing religious movements within contemporary world Christianity.
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AFRICA IN THE WORLD THE WORLD IN AFRICA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ABIOLA IRELE
This is a collection of essays by some of the most prominent and influential writers, scholars and critics of the African arts and humanities.
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Liberation Lite: The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa
Liberation Lite takes as its principal focus the limited meaning that liberation has come to have in southern Africa—despite the heroic struggles there that had so recently overthrown white racist rule.
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Outcast: The Plight of African Refugees Part One: Pre Settlement
Once again Yilma Tafere Tasew brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees.
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EARLY EAST AFRICAN WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS: NGUGI WA THIONG'O OKOT P'BITEK DAVID MAILLU
Historical documentation becomes art when it is bold enough to transcend the linearity of time and place by an interacting subject. Bernth Lindfors is such a troubling and participating voice and narrator.
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EASTERN AFRICAN POPULAR SONGS Verbal Art in States of Transformation
Aaron Rosenberg's study constitutes a provocative reassessment of the relationship between African songs and the literatures of Eastern Africa. The focus of the book is a detailed analysis of language, form, and theme as they apply to a wide spectrum...
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KINANDE,KONZO-ENGLISH DICTIONARY With an English - Kinande Index
This Kinande/Konzo-English dictionary has the following features: -A Preface by Mgr Sikuli Paluku Melchisedech of the Nande diocese -A brief grammatical sketch of Kinande
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LAND STRUGGLES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
This volume is based on original field research on land struggles and civil society in Southern Africa, with chapters on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Zambia
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GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND MOTHERING IN AFRICA
This volume fills an important gap in our understanding of the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the phenomenon of mothering in African societies. Essays present the social construction of marriage, mothering, and widowhood
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LITERATURE, THE VISUAL ARTS AND GLOBALIZATION IN AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA
Two hundred years after the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (1808), and fifty years after the emergence of the first independent nation in Africa (Ghana, 1957), creative writers and scholars who gathered in Burlington, Vermont
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BEYOND TRADITION African Women and Cultural Spaces
Beyond Tradition: African Women and Cultural Spaces contains twenty-three chapters that mirror the diversities in the lives and experiences of African women both within and outside the continent, in the public sphere and in the home-front. Product details Publisher : Africa...
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MILLENIAL AFRICA: CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, DEMOCRACY
In two previous widely read volumes of essays prepared for Africa World Press (Socialist Ideology and the Struggle for Southern Africa and Recolonization and Resistance: Southern Africa in the 1990s) John S. Saul chronicled developments in Africa, and especially in...
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MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational
Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamics). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two perspectives – the postcolonial (with...
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EKUA: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A GIRL
A gripping coming-of-age story featuring an eight-year-old Ghanaian girl, Ekua, whose parents have gone to live in America. After living with an abusive guardian for several years, Ekua is sent to boarding school.
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CROSSING MEMORIES: Slavery and African Diaspora
This volume examines the history and the memory of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the period of the transatlantic slave trade until the present day.
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The African Christian Presence in the West: New Immigrant Congregations and Transnational Networks in North America and Europe
In the world today, migration makes up the greatest movement of people surpassing any other previous period in human history. In the last few decades, it has turned into a structural reality of contemporary society which according to some records...
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ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN WEST AFRICA 1990-2009
This unique volume explores the extent to which elections as a vehicle of democratization have enhanced economic performance and well-being of citizens of the sub-region.
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LEISURE IN URBAN AFRICA
In this fascinating study, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflect on the complex conceptions, creation, and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present
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CAMEL TRACKS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SAHELIAN LITERATURES
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (February 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 291 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437572
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437579
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Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa
The twenty essays in this volume explore the institution of debt bondage in Africa, in which individuals were held as collateral—usually by members of the same family—in lieu of debts that had been incurred.
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PARACHUTE DROP
Norbert Zongo was Burkina Faso's most respected journalist before his politically motivated murder in 1998. As an editor of the newspaper l'Indépendent, Zongo wrote under the pen name of Henri Segbo, frequently attacking governmental crime
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FLIGHT: IN SEARCH OF VISION
Flight: In Search of Vision chronicles the evolution of Black/Africana Studies and explores its potential for spearheading contemporary efforts to confront various intellectual and social challenges.
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SILENT THUNDER: Breaking Through Cultural, Racial, and Class Barriers In Motorsports
Every once in a while, a story comes along that enrages, enlightens and inspires all at once. Silent Thunder, the highly anticipated memoir of legendary autoracing veteran Lenny Miller is one such story
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INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Institutions and Development in Africa" is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa. It contains a refreshing, rigorous and informative analysis of underdevelopment in Africa
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YIBIR OF LAS BURGABO (THE): A Somali Novel
The Yibir of Las Burgabo is the story of a Yibir family in Somalia. (Yibirs are the most ostracized and despised group in Somalia.) In this novel, after an out-of-town trip on foot, Geeddi never returns home.
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES OF AFRICA
In Languages and Literatures of Africa, Alain Ricard presents African languages and literatures in a new perspective focusing on the dialogue between them
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