Africa
Africa
The Akroma File
Faced with debts at home and threatened by poverty, Akroma a brilliant and well-educated Ghanaian, using unorthodox means, successfully gets into Cameroon. He is bent on making a fortune. Drawing on his tremendous presence of mind and, capitalising on the...
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Ako-Aya: A Cameroorian Pioneer in Daring Journalism and Social Commentary
Patrick Tataw Obenson, alias Ako-Aya, the rabid critic, social crusader and witty journalist, all rolled up in one, was indeed a popular and widely admired pioneer in daring journalism and social commentary in Cameroon. Little wonder that when he died,...
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Africa's Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon
Africa's Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result...
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Africa's Dependency Syndrome: Can Africa Still Turn Things around for the Better?
There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency. Africa needs...
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Africa's Best and Worst Presidents: How Neocolonialism and Imperialism Maintained Venal Rules in Africa
Africa's Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains. It chastises and challenges Africans, academics in the main, to revisit and write a true history of Africa. Written by Africans themselves, such rewritten histories...
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African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?
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African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be...
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'African Potentials' for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Image of 'Deficiency' and Tyranny of 'Fortress'
This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of 'deficiency', this book...
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African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness
This book is the result of a research project, called African Potentials, that we have been conducting for 10 years. This project was aimed at overturning negative stereotypes the world has imposed on Africa, such as poverty, hunger and conflict,...
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African Politics of Survival Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World
This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is "mobilizing resources from their (possibly unequal) relationship with the external environment", a dynamic that constitutes a possible African potential;...
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African Land Rights Systems
This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is...
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The African Conundrum: Rethinking the Trajectories of Historical, Cultural, Philosophical and Developmental Experiences of Africa
The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardization, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is...
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African Belief and Knowledge Systems. A Critical Perspective
The debate on the existence of African philosophy has taken central stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. This book notes that the debate on the existence of African philosophy is...
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Africa Through Structuration Theory: Outline of the FS (Fear and Self-scrutiny) Methodology of Ubuntu
Despite all the talk about African Renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and...
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Africa Through Structuration Theory - ntu
Despite all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and...
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Africa Reunite or Perish
Africa Reunite or Perish is a daring and timely book that explores the essence and nefariousness of neocolonialism in a purportedly independent Africa. The book shows how Africa spends billions of dollars in pseudo threats among African countries due to...
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Africa: Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st Century
Africa's dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversity-from conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others....
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Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalisms in the 21st Century
This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars...
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The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite: Choice or Betrayal
The United Nations-organized plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office...
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Santeria: African Magic in Latin America
In 1973, the first hardcover edition of Santeria: African Magic in Latin America by cultural anthropologist Migene Gonzalez-Wippler was first published by Julian Press. It became an immediate best seller and is still considered by many experts one of the...
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station the Helped Bring Peace to the Congo; A Memoir
One of Africa's largest radio stations operating in one of the continent's most politically unstable countries sets the stage for a touching and thought-provoking story that illustrates how peace is a process, and how the spectrum between war and peace...
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The Black Man's North and East Africa
Few of Dr. Ben's books are written with co-authors. The Black Man's North and East Africa is an exception. Written with one of his early colleagues, George E. Simmonds, this work attacks the racist manipulation of African and Black history...
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100 African religions before slavery & colonization (PAPERBACK)
This book list 100 African religions before slavery & colonization. These are the African systems that kept Africans at peace for over 100,000 years.
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Root That Binds
Root That Binds is an effort to re-examine the state of affairs among the Ngwa people of Nigeria; and in a larger way to explore the modern maladies - political, social and economic - of the nation of Nigeria
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BOKO HARAM. ISLAMIC PROTEST AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Boko Haram, Islamic Protest, and National Security highlights one of the most serious problems of the contemporary world order - ideologically and religious motivated violence. Terrorist movements like Boko Haram represent a challenge to an understanding of contemporary Islam, distorted economic...
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Nelson Mandela
The Compact Guide The gripping story of iconic statesmen and activist Nelson Mandela, now told in this succinct, condensed book that’s perfect for a wide audience. Nelson Mandela is perhaps the most iconic statesman and activist in history, and this is the...
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s...
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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History
In this expansive collection of history, meet ten real-life kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa thousands of years ago and changed the world. Black history begins thousands of years ago with the many cultures and people...
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AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND RELATED COMMENTARY
This volume surveys the existing research into Africentric Psychology. It presents a cogent discourse on selected issues fundamental to this re-emerging discipline. This ground-breaking collection of studies is expected to heighten public recognition of the intrinsic worth and positive human...
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Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain (Hardcopy)
Paperback : 316 pages
Brawtley Caribbean Series
ISBN: 9781647540586
This book documents the role of Blacks in the social, economic, and cultural development of Britain from the seventeenth through the twentieth century.
$79.95
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa (coming soon- July 9, 2024)
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to AfricaA Penguin ClassicIn 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in...
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