Africa
Africa
Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, and Songs
Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field and a foremost authority on Yoruba traditional literary forms in particular.
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WHISPERING OUT LOUD: Voices of Africana Edited by Michael T. Tillotson
This book contains a collection of articles written by Africana Studies scholars: Kaila Story, De Reef Jamison, Karanja Carrol, Dawn Elissa Fischer, Serie Mc Dougal, Justin Gammage, Marquita Gammage, and Michael Tillotson. Kaila Story examines the dire consequences of young...
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REBUILDING SOMALILAND: Issues And Possibilities
Somaliland is Africas best kept secret, according to South African academicIqbal Jhazbay. Somaliland has earned this description owing to its extraordinary achievements in the 12 years since its declaration of independence
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HIS MASTER'S VOICE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SINGLE-PARTY POLITICS IN GUINEA UNDER SEKOU TOURE
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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POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STEEL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: LESSONS FROM SOUTH KOREA
This is a critical comparative analysis of the origin, nature, problems and prospects of steel development and industrialization in Nigeria and South Korea. It is well known that the Asian New Industrializing Countries (NICs)
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LAND, LITERACY AND THE STATE IN SUDANIC AFRICA
Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa re-conceptualizes Sudanic Africa—“the land of the Blacks” to classical Arab geographers—to include the Ethiopian Highlands in the East.
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FROM OUR MOTHERS HEART
This collection of Bukusu folktales and proverbs provides a cultural heritage. The prologue includes a brief history and gender politics within the community. Earlier historical accounts draw heavily on oral narratives and legends
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RHYME IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: HIP HOP AND THE CREATION OF A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
As historian, cultural critic, and politician, Usher offers a visionary study of Hip Hop Culture steeped in axiological clarity.
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NIGERIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL STABILITY AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
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NIGERIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL STABILITY AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
Given the size and population of Nigeria in the African continent, political stability and peaceful coexistence among its diverse nationalities are imperative for development and democratic consolidation that could serve as a model for the region and Africa. This volume,...
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BORDERLINE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICAN FICTION
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (September 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 262 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213626
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213627
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARYSE CONDE: A WRITE OF HER OWN
Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own brings together for the first time a collection of essays in English about the novels of this contemporary Caribbean literary and cultural figure
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies.
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DECISIONS IN THE SHADE: Political and Juridical Processes Among the Aromo-Borana
Due to the debate that has developed around the political significance of their Gada system of generational classes, the Oromo-Borana (a pastoral people living in Ethiopia and Kenya) have become a classic reference of comparative anthropology. In this study the...
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RICEKEEPERS: A PLAY
Rice Keepers is a full-length play in eleven scenes, with ten characters, two of whom double up, and a dancer. Set in the Nimba, a village in a Guinee Coast country, the play centers around historical events of the past, particularly...
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF ZAMBIA: FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Utilizing a post-nationalist revisionist interpretation of the political processes and political developments, both for the colonial and post-colonial periods, Professor Phiri posits that contrary to the view held by many scholars that liberalism was a lost cause in Central Africa,...
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AFRICA AND THE ACADEMY: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses On Africa
This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (August 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1592210147
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210145
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HURLING WORDS AT CONSCIOUSNESS: POEMS
By turns soothingly tender or implacably harsh, Hurling Words at Consciousness is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities. It is thoughtful and richly rewarding. -Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mukoma wa Ngugi is a poet of extraordinary expressive gifts....
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PEOPLE OF THE CITY
When People of the City was first published in 1954, it was immediately acclaimed as the first major novel in English by a West African to be widely read throughout the English-speaking world
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I OWN MY DESTINY: Poems (written in the Tigrinya language)
When I first read the poems posted on Asmarino.com under the name of Kiros Yohannes, some years back, I was struck by the unique form (Style) and the serious and varied content. I was curious to know who he was. Judging by...
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BIOPIRACY OF BIODIVERSITY: GLOBAL EXCHANGE AS ENCLOSURE
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. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (March 26,...
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Changing Face of Race in America: The Role of Racial Politics in Shaping Modern America
If everyone is against racism now, why does awareness of race have such a deep, if hidden, hold on our consciousness, institutions, and politics? Why does racial thinking still have such a profound impact on the life chances of blacks...
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DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM (THE): DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES
In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures’ heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a classification model. Arndt distinguishes...
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BLACK, WHITE, CHROME
This book examines the United States’ relations with Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the late 1990s and offers a new interpretation of the US role in facilitating the settlement that brought peace and independence in Zimbabwe in 1980. By revealing...
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HISTORY OF TIGRINYA LITERATURE 2nd EDITION
In this richly researched and lucidly written collection of essays, The Freedom of the Writer and Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays, Ghirmai Negash provides solid analysis and information on some of the salient aspects of Eritrean
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MUTILATING KHALID: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF FEMAL GENITAL CUTTING
In Mutilating Khalid, historian Charles G. Steffen examines one of the most remarkable cases of “female genital mutilation” ever to be prosecuted in a United States court.
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ABOVE THE ODDS: A Decade of Change for Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs
Too few books give an in-depth view of the challenges that African women face in running the enterprises which often provide the main source of support for their families. Ten years ago Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom, based...
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ZUMA'S OWN GOAL: LOSING SOUTH AFRICA'S 'WAR ON POVERTY'
This collection of original essays provides an in-depth look at how South Africa’s government is tackling profound challenges - including economic policy, AIDS, social security, housing, basic services and education -
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ETHIOPIAN DISCOURSE
Ethiopian Discourse is a text which makes heroic efforts to engage the Ethiopian reader with the problems, challenges and traditions of classical and modern Ethiopia.
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