Africa
Africa
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. II
Chinua Achebes influence on contemporary African Literature is as much evident in his art of the novel, as his articulation of African poetics and aesthetics in his extra fictional pronouncements. He is as much the father of the modern African...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE AFRICAN PROSE NARRATIVE
This collection of essays aims at introducing students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics...
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LEGACIES OF JULIUS NYERERE: INFLUENCES ON DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSES AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA
Julius Kambarage Nyerere is widely recognized as one of the most important African figures of the twentieth century. From politics to economics to language policy and education, Nyerere has had an important influence on development discourse and practice in Africa and...
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NEW WOMEN'S WRITING IN AFRICAN LITERATURE #24
This book is about discoveries made in the course of carrying out research on African literatures in well-stocked archives in various parts of the world. Many of the essays collected here deal with early publications and manuscripts by now-famous writers...
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ETHICS AND THE INTERNET IN WEST AFRICA: TOWARD AN ETHICAL MODEL OF INTEGRATION
The whole world is currently undergoing a period of profound change brought about by the development of the worldwide information and communications network, the Internet, which affects every sphere of social life. This book focuses specifically on ethical questions related...
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COPING WITH TORTURE
Stark paintings - some in brilliant colors and others in subdued tones - convey the horror of torture in the ghost houses in Khartoum and the agony of enslavement and dispossession in the Nuba mountains and southern Sudan. Originally exhibited...
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POSTMODERISM, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND AFRICAN STUDIES
When Kwame Appiah asked the question whether “post” in “postcolonial” was the “post” in “postmodern,” he challenged the theoretical tenets of both postmodernism and postcolonial studies and opened up a space for a dialogue, which unfortunately, only a handful of...
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SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA
In this extensively researched and thoughtful study, Dei raises fundamental questions about the state of education in contemporary Ghana that has relevance for many other countries in Africa and the global South. He interrogates not only the political and pedagogical...
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Science and Technology in Africa
Innovations in the African context, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which has a large informal economy cannot be measured with the conventional metrics employed in developed economies. Hence, it is important to build capacity to develop appropriate system of innovation indicators for...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES: THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
This book is designed to explore the following challenges and imperatives for African countries in the 21st century: liberalization of commercial and industrial activities in a deliberate effort to make them the preserve of the private sector, generation of an...
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
It is commonly held that the Koran has more specific rules for organizing society than does the Bible: thus while Islamic activists see the Koran as a model from which they can derive concrete and all-encompassing instructions, Christians view the...
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SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: CENTENNIEL REFLECTIONS
In this curriculum guide, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History continues its emphasis on Du Bois’ prophetic statement first enunciated at the Pan-African Conference of 1900 that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the...
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF BORDERLANDS (THE): TWO NATIONS ONE COMMUNITY
he central pursuit of this book is to demonstrate using the Idiroko/Igolo community on the Nigeria/Benin border the link between language and identity. It raises and discusses issues of identity within a sociolinguistic framework, focusing on the ways in which...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS: LINGUISTICTYPOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES #5
For the thirty third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired, and used. This volume represents a selection...
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Walking a Tightrope: Towards a History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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YOUNG AFRICA: REALISING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM PB
This ground-breaking volume provides scholars with a sustained exploration of human sexuality as an integral part of gender studies. The books theoretical, interpretative, and analytical approaches document the state of present knowledge on homoeroticism in African literature and film. The...
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Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything in Life
Do you know who - and what - you are? Do you know who you're meant to be? Do you know how to find the answers to questions like these? Knowledge of Self is the result of a process of...
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Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, this harrowing true story of two young men from Ghana and their quest for asylum highlights not only the unjust political system of their homeland, but the chaos of the United States’ failing immigration...
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Africa, Empire and Globalization Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins
Previously published as a jacketed hardback, this book is now bound as a paperback. Africa, Empire and Globalization is a set of original essays in honor of the distinguished historian, Professor A. G. Hopkins, whose career of over fifty years covers...
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Africa: Volume 1 African History and Culture Before 1900 Second Edition
Africa: Volume 1, African History and Culture Before 1900, provides new perspectives on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity of African experiences...
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Africa: Volume 4: The End of Colonial Rule Nationalism and Decolonization
In this fourth volume of the Africa series, Falola presents various aspects of African history and culture from the period of World War II to the time when African countries became free of European rule. The book's primary aim is...
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Africa: Volume 5: Contemporary Africa
Contemporary Africa, edited by Toyin Falola captures the challenges, optimism and problems that face modern Africa, notably those of economic underdevelopment and political instability. African countries seek various answers, and they have recorded varying degrees of success as they attempt...
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The African American Studies Reader Second Edition
This book is the most comprehensive anthology in the field. The intellectual, political, and social aspects of African American Studies continue to evolve, as do the ways in which the discipline will advance knowledge about African Americans for the future....
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The African Civil Service Fifty Years after Independence With Case Studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria
This book provides an overview of the civil service in colonial and post-independence Africa. Using case studies from several countries, it examines the reasons for its growth and expansion; scrutinizes reform proposals, including “first and second generation” reforms and their...
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African Entrepreneurship in Jos, Central Nigeria, 1902-1985
This book recognizes the historic roles of African/Nigerian entrepreneurs in the economic development of Jos, in Nigeria’s central region, from the colonial period to 1985. It provides a comparative analysis of African/Nigerian enterprises (private and public) and foreign enterprises. The...
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African Unification Law, Problems, and Prospects
Ever since Edward Blyden, the Liberian of West Indian origin, began to conceptualize a West African state, African leaders, scholars and activists have envisaged cooperation, integration and also unification of the continent. The model form for them has been European...
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An African Music and Dance Curriculum Model Performing Arts in Education
This book discusses African music and dance curriculum development and implementation procedures, including the criteria for selecting the African music and dance curriculum content, a curriculum framework, as well as aesthetics and criticism of Ewe-African music and dance. An African...
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African-Centered Psychology Culture-Focusing for Multicultural Competence
African-Centered Psychology: Culture-Focusing for Multicultural Competence addresses various topics on the psychology of African people. Although most analyses focus on the African-U.S. diaspora, Azibo articulates principles that are applicable to most African populations. The book opens with an introduction to the...
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Africana Studies A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora comes at an important time, as Africans on the continent and their descendants in the US and in the Caribbean and Latin America and all over the globe...
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