Africa
Africa
LONG JOURNEY HOME (THE): A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976
"The Long Journey Home" recounts the history of the black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, from 1776-1976. This was a much-needed journey through the pages of history to rediscover a communitys pa
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SHAPING OUR STRUGGLES:B189 NIGERIAN WOMEN IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
This Volume dealing with various aspects of Ethiopia's varied social history, is devoted by and large to the northern central highlands, and covers the period from early medieval times to the region of Emperor Tewodros II
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ARABIC FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDICS
Arabic for English Speaking Medics is based on simple conversations that typically take place in familiar medic-patient situations. These provide the learner with the words and phrases most commonly used in medical settings as the hospital bedside and the admissions...
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
By exploring the dynamics of the relationship between Nigeria and the USSR from the time of Nigeria's independence in 1960 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book presents a revisionist examination of the important yet often...
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Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval
In light of the turn to culture in analysing African politics, this book re-examines some of the ideas and practices of three of the most influential activists-practioners of nationalism in thought and deed in AfricaFrantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, and the...
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
Is Ali Mazrui a visionary or a vacuous intellectual? Is he reactionary, revolutionary or essentially a radical pragmatist? These questions were the focus of a special plenary session of the Conference of the African Association of Political Science that took...
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TOWN CRIER: SELECTED POEMS
Over the years, Tayo Olafioye has published a series of works and most importantly, collections of poetry that cover divergent subjects such as culture, family, international encounters, politics, and a gamut of the human condition. This is a selection of...
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from West Africa: Camara Laye’s The Dark Child, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood, and...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. I
Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century is widely regarded as Africas best novelist to date, and one of the worlds greatest. His narrative style and techniques have given rise to what has been characterized as the African...
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ROMANCING THE GUN: THE PRESS AS A PROMOTER OF MILITARY RULE
This books rare insight on media practice shakes conventional notions of the role and enabling environment of the modern press. "Romancing the Gun" rattles academic tradition by illustrating that Nigerias hard-hitting press has not only thrived better while military regimes...
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Strike a Woman, Strike a Rock: Fighting for Freedom in South Africa
In this trenchant and compelling book, Barbara Hutmacher MacLean reveals the lives of a cross section of South African women who courageously opposed apartheid in ways the world never knew: blacks who risked death and torture by opposing the governments...
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Bond without Blood: A History of Ethiopian and Caribbean Relations, 1896-1991
Bond without Blood constructs the narrative of the Ethiopian-Caribbean ties with three interwoven themes in mind: pan-African nationalism, repatriation, and cultural cross-fertilization. Central in all this is the evocative role of Ethiopian symbolism, the precursor of modern racial nationalism, in the...
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Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 1: Framework Papers
This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa’s economic...
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ANGOLA UNDER THE PORTUGUESE: THE MYTH AND THE REALITY
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES PB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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AND THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY DRESSES PB
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES HB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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ANGOLA UNDER THE PORTUGUESE PB
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São...
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ANIMAL FABLES OTHER TALES HB
The stories in this collection form part of the rich body of oral tradition which survived in the New World. Although many of these tales are from Brazil, some have variants in islands of the Caribbean and in the southern...
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ARISE YE MIGHTY PEOPLE! WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD
Arise Ye Mighty People! is about the new world society emerging fromt he disarray of the old. This collection documents expressions of the new society from Nigeria's oil belt, North America's urban insurgents, the Middle East's intifada, the Caribbean's Rastafari, and...
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ARROWS AND THE BOW
The integrity, sensibility, courage, and delicate balance with which Ladu Jada Gubek draws the rich history and culture [of Africa] together is moving. He brings a refreshing new voice to African and African Diaspora literature and knowledge in this emergent...
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ASINAMALI UNDIVERSITY STRUGGLES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Asinamali is an edited collection of essays that includes work by Dennis Brutus, Shereen Essof, Jonathan Jansen, Mahmood Mamdani and Andrew Nash. It is a project of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Asinamali marks CAFA's first enquiry...
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AWAKENING THE NATURAL GENUIS OF BLACK CHILDREN SECON EDITION
Black Awakening in Capitalist America is a classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s.
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BECOMING AN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY PB MAKERERE: 1922-2000
For four decades, Makerere University, known as the Oxford of Africa, was the sole university-level institution in all of East Africa. A fabled Mecca for aspiring youth, it trained many of the regions first generation of intellectual and political leaders,...
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. This case is considered to be the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and one of the most important...
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BEYOND THE COLOR LINE HB PAN-AFRICANIST DISPUTATIONS
This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world.
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BLACK WOMEN WHITE MEN THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF FEMALE SLAVES IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES
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BLACK WOMEN WHITE MEN THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF FEMALE SLAVES IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES
Using archival material and other existing sources, this book graphically documents the sexual exploitation of female slaves in holding pens on the West Coast of Africa, on slave ships during the Trans-Atlantic crossing, and on plantations in the Danish West...
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BLACK PRISON MOVEMENTS
The Network of Black Organizers (NOBO) has gathered the first comtemporary collection of Black Prison Movement voices, covering topics ranging from women in prison, the pro and con of parole, behavior modification and human experimentation in prison, Puerto Rican and...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARIAMA BA
Like good literature, Bâ's writings constitute social texts that renew themselves with each younger generation, each different society, and each new awareness because they are constantly interrogated, subverted, and primed with new meanings. Like the proverbial phoenix, therefore, Mariama Bâ...
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UNIQUELY AFRICAN?: AFRICAN CHRISTIAN IDENTITY FROM CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
This volume is concerned with the problematic nature of African Christian identity. By adopting various cultural, historical, national, and educational perspectives, its contributors explore issues surrounding the nature of being “Christian” and at the same time fully “African.” They analyse...
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