Africa
Africa
J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
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J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
This is the first comprehensive study of the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the fourth president of the United Republic of Tanzania who took office in December 2005.
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IN MY LIFETIME: TOWARDS PRESIDENCY+B529 OF BARACK OBAMA
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, the recurring confession heard across Black America was, “I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.
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MAKING AND BREAKING STATES IN AFRICA: The Somali Experience
This book analyzes crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with ‘modernity’, the Somalis illustrate the extremes of modern African statehood.
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African Pentecostalism: v. I: Global Discourses, Migrations, Exchanges and Connections: The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays,Ogbu Kalu 1)
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa,...
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Christian Missions in Africa: v. II: Success, Ferment and Trauma, the Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays,Ogbu Kalu 2)
The narratives and analyses in this volume will enable scholars of global Christianity to discern how the shifting center of gravity in Christianity is being played out in Africa.
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Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (September 28, 2010) Language : English Hardcover : 480 pages ISBN-10 : 1592217672 ISBN-13 : 978-1592217670
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa,...
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Migration, Development and Diplomacy: Perspectives From the Southern Mediterranean
In recent years, migration across the Mediterranean has become an issue of growing concern to the countries of the region and beyond. It has also become a rather divisive issue between the two shores of the Mediterranean
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Religions in Africa: Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics (Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu)
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Religions in Africa: Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics (Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu)
This volume collects together Kalu’s insightful essays on the intersection of religion and social issues in Africa. They constitute an engaging set of political and ethical analyses of the ?ow of events as Christianity penetrated Africa
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RACE AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION: THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FRAMING OF BLACKNESS ANDAFRICAN PERSONHOOD, 1800-1960
Europeans had militarily subjugated and occupied Africa in part because they were on a “civilizing mission” to rescue Africans from savagery and barbarism.
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SELF DETERMINATION AND NATIONAL UNITY: A CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA
Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterized by gross inequities among the component groups.
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SLAVERY, ISLAM AND DIASPORA
Slavery, Islam and Diaspora explores slavery in the context of the Muslim world through a study of the African Diaspora
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NEW SUDAN IN THE MAKING?: Essays on a Nation in Painful Search of Itself
“New Sudan” is a concept for radically reforming Sudan’s governance system by addressing the national identity crisis that has been responsible for the wars, the instability and the failure of the national building project that have afflicted the country since...
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: VOICES FROM THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
In Their Own Words is a gripping and haunting encounter with voices once silenced by the tragic Atlantic Voyage—The Middle Passage—reaching out across time to be heard.
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JOURNEYS HOME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE
As a major origin of emigrants to the western hemisphere, the African continent has seen its share of both forced and volunteer emigration.
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RELIGON IN POLITICS: SECULARISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN MODERN NIGERIA
There has been a long tradition of interaction between the two powerful institutions of religion and politics. While the relationship between the two is complex and sometimes confusing
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POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF ONITSHA
Located on the eastern bank of the lower Niger, Onitsha is one of the leading commercial cities and road transport hubs in Nigeria. Its main market is reputed to be the biggest in West Africa.
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WHEN CITIZENS REVOLT: NIGERIAN ELITES, BIG OIL AND THE OGONI STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
On 10 November 1995, the Nigerian military regime, under General Sani Abacha, hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and minority rights activist, and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) after a judicially flawed trail....
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TRADITIONS OF ERITREA: Linking the Past To the Future
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.
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DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: the Self and The Other
This book is a contribution to Arab-Muslim-Western dialogue. The book underlines the hazardous consequences of the strategy of preemptive war on this dialogue.
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DEPTH AND DESTINY OF WORK: AN AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
This book seeks to develop a theology of work as a foundation and motivation for engaging with the discourse on globalization. The book approaches globalization as the spatial distribution of work.
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press; First edition (June 3,...
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SPIRIT AND THE WORD: A THEORY OF SPIRITUALITY IN AFRICANA LITERARY CRITICISM
Utilizing a method informed by the ideas and worldview of Ifa, an ancient African spiritual system, to unlock deeper levels of meaning in the writings of African peoples, literary scholar Georgene Bess Montgomery presents a powerful new way of reading...
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SAGA OF AFRICAN UNDERDEVELOMENT: A VIABLE APPROACH FOR AFRICA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Saga of African Underdevelopment examines in careful detail the economic conditions in Africa during the pre-colonial and colonial periods.
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CLIO IN A SACRED GARB: ESSAYS ON CHRISTIAN PRESENCE AND AFRICAN RESPONSES, 1900-2000
This book consists of essays on African church history: historiography, context (ecology and worldviews), the missionary enterprise and African responses that explain the massive growth of Christianity in contemporary Africa. Some essays have been published; others are unpublished, or rewritten...
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria
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EARLY SOYINKA
This book contains half a dozen essays on writings by Wole Soyinka composed prior to publication of his first books in 1963
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OF WAR AND WOMEN, OPPRESSION AND OPTIMISM: NEW ESSAYS ON THE AFRICAN NOVEL
A supplement to Palmer's earlier works on the African novel, An Introduction to the African Novel and The Growth of the African Novel. Here, Palmer undertakes a detailed critical assessment of key novels he feels are typical of the main...
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ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Reflections On The Literatures Of The Horn Of Africa
A horn is an instrument either for protection or destruction. The horn in the Horn of Africa has for so long turned inward, and on its people, thus victimizing those it was supposed to defend.
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KNOWLEDGE IS MORE THAN MERE WORDS,WEY DEHN SAY? DEHN SAY KAPU SEHNS NOR KAPU WORD: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO SIERRA LEONEAN LITERATURE
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis and assessment of a national literature that has been growing in recent years. It provides, particularly in the introduction, insightful information about the historical and cultural background
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RESISTANCE, INSURGENCE AND IDENTITY: THE ART OF MARI EVANS, NELSON STEVENS, AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.
Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement is an inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies
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