Africa
Africa
Continuity and Change in a West African Society Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana
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Continuity and Change in a West African Society Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana
This book looks at the political economy of the Sisala of Northern Ghana, showing how the creation of their society was influenced from the very beginning by the world system — primarily through slave raiding. Mendonsa shows how their society...
$40.00
Converging Identities Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora
Converging Identities is a volume of sixteen essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity of the African Diaspora in global perspective, but focusing on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Given the historical factors that prompted Africans to...
$42.00
Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
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Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Considering the limitations of liberal democratic states and transnational organizations in safeguarding human rights in contemporary Africa and the black diaspora, this edited volume repositions the rights-based conversation by exploring representations of it across different cultural forms. The essays in...
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Culture, Society, and Politics in Modern African Literature Texts and Contexts
A gap exists between African literary texts and their interpretation for many scholars and readers of African literature today. Unfamiliar with the cultures, societies, and politics of Africa, some readers bring a perspective to the work that is at odds...
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The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing
There has been speculation, but no definitive answer, as to why many of the world’s fastest middle and long distance runners are from Kenya. Most of the fastest runners in Kenya come from only a few of the 42 tribes,...
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The Dark Webs Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa
This book is an intellectual history of colonialism in Africa. The book focuses on ideas espoused by historians and creative writers on various aspects of colonial rule; the sources of the ideas; the vision of a post-colonial society that they...
$45.00
Democracy in Africa Political Changes and Challenges
Democracy is an enigma in contemporary Africa. Although elements of democracy existed in African politics in the pre-colonial times, the European penetration and subsequent colonization provided the gateway for the prevalence of Western form of democracy with the practice of...
$42.00
Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines in Africa
This book is intended to contribute to discussions about the fundamental challenge of coloniality haunting humanities and social sciences in universities in Africa, while suggesting ways to de-link from and make a break with the epistemic injustices of embedded Eurocentrism...
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Democradura Essays on Nigeria's Limited Democracy
Democradura: Essays On Nigeria’s Limited Democracy is a collection of articles penned by Professor Femi Mimiko, mni, over a 30-year period. The broad theme is Nigeria's tortuous attempts at building democracy and laying the basis for nation-building and inclusive development, undertaken...
$58.00
Dialogues of Negritude An Analysis of the Cultural Context of Black Writing
In this new offering, Popeau demonstrates that Negritude, a literary and philosophical movement inaugurated in the 1930s by a group of Blacks studying in Paris, is the manifestation of a dialogue between Blacks and Western culture and an internal dialogue...
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Diaspora and Imagined Nationality USA-Africa Dialogue and Cyberframing Nigerian Nationhood
When Africans dialogue with citizens of the United States of America, the continent in its parts through the perspectives of nationals engage each other in conversations. The conversations flow like streams in many directions yielding fruits of different sorts. It...
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Endangered Species Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest
Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest is an ethnographic study of a group of people living in a forested region in Madagascar. These people have been targeted for recent conservation and development initiatives intended to...
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Esu Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers
This is the most extensive book on Esu, also known in different locations as Eleda, Exu, Cxu Eleggua, Cxu Elegbara, Legba, Elegba, Elegbera, or Odara. He is the “divine messenger,” central to the understanding of Yoruba religion and worldview, as...
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Etches on Fresh Waters
Etches on Fresh Waters is a creative liaison between two poets: Toyin Falola, a historian of international repute and quintessentially prolific writer, who has already published a collection of poetry, Scoundrels of Deferral, and Adérónké Adésànyà, an artist and art historian, who hitherto...
$90.00
Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the Diaspora
This book explores the global conditions and networks of hegemonic and hierarchical power relations that shaped the history of class, ethnicity, gender, and race, and also determined the nature of African diasporic linkages within imperial and national boundaries. The book emphasizes the roots and...
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The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse
This book represents the first attempt to holistically document and analyze the causes of deadly conflict in Liberia from its founding to the present. It reconstructs and examines the root, operational, and catalytic causes of eighteen internal deadly conflicts that...
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Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 186
This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the...
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The People Remember
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her debut picture book—a tour de force that uses the principles of Kwanzaa to talk about the history of African Americans. This lyrical, powerful tribute is sumptuously illustrated by New Yorker artist and rising...
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Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History
Drawn by South African political cartoonists the Trantraal brothers and Ashley Marais, Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle for land, housing, water, education, and safety in Cape Town...
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Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda
The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Deogratias.He is an ordinary teenager, in love with...
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Mandela and the General
In this thrilling graphic novel, Nelson Mandela’s fight against racism is about to spiral into an all-out race war. Unless he can win over his archenemy, the white supremacist General Viljoen, the democratic struggle for equality and justice in South Africa...
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Being: A Memoir of Truths, Lies, & Intentional Mishappens
"Shakia is a FORCE. Her voice is so needed in our world right now."—Dr. John Bucher, Telling A Better Story"Honest. Captivating. Reassuring." Once I started reading, I could not stop. Shakia's testament of resilience not only left me encouraged, but inspired."—Ryen...
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Living, Loving, Letting Go . . . Poems on Life by Rahman Johnson
Living, Loving, Letting Go is a collection of poetry, compiled the through the prism of life's three major movements. This collection is an intimate look at moments in the life of Journalist and Thought-Leader Rahman Johnson. His poems solicit introspection, self-reflection...
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The Dowry of the Virgin: A Book of Poems
"Onyeali's first collection of thirty poems titled The Dowry of the Virgin revolves around social, religious and political themes. Under these themes are various subthemes such as disillusionment, friendship and love, socio-political and economic exploitation and hope for a better tomorrow" Dr....
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African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a...
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Afrosurf
Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations.AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami...
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial...
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists, a fictional meditation on power and greed—at once a literary hoot, a whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption.In...
$28.00
When We Ruled : The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilizations
Product details
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Paperback : 716 pages
ISBN : 9781580730457
$39.95
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