Africa
Africa
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...
$55.00
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...
$48.00
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...
$55.00
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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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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The Villain's Dance
Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang. Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio...
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The Joyful Song of the Partridge
A roiling chronicle of motherhood and colonization from a writer who “alternates between a dramatic, high-octane style and a terse and humorous frankness” (Sheila Heti)Recipient of the 2021 Camões Prize, the most important award for literature in the Portuguese languageA...
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Hardcopy)
Edited and translated by Mercer Cook. Laymen and scholars alike will welcome the publication of this one-volume translation of the major sections of C. A. Diop's two books, Nations negres et culture and Anteriorite des civilizations negres, which have profoundly...
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The Finest Thief in the Kingdom: Libyan Tales from Sadeq Naihoum
The collection’s title, Min Qisas Alatfal, literally means Children’s Tales, however these stories are far from your average bedtime read. They are socio-political tales told from a satirical and critical perspective. Naihoum writes about his native Libya, bringing to life...
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The Gullah: People Blessed by God
The Gullah: People Blessed by God [paperback] Llaila Olela Afrika [Oct 31, 2014] …
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Noble Drew Ali Plenipotentiaries: And the Negro, Black, Coloured Addiction
Grand Sheik of M.S.T. of A. Toronto, Brother Kudjo Adwo El examines the history of the Moorish movement in the Americas and the many offshoot organizations resulting from those taking advantage of the "schism" that occurred shortly after the transition...
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Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture
As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Òrìsà. This book explores the emergence of Òrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the...
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Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...
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Yoruba Legends (paperback)
Large Print Edition. The charming, traditional folk tales and legends of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The Yoruba people inhabit a large area of West Africa, primarily in southern Nigeria, Benin and Togo. They are united by language and...
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Yoruba Idealism (Africa in the Global Space, 5)
Yoruba Idealism questions, debates, and redefines the assumed epistemology in Yoruba idealism. It is a work in two parts. The first is built around a study of divinity–philosopher Orunmila, the mentalist, the father of Yoruba idealism, and the cultivator of Ifa–Ife...
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The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present (paperback)
The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa, with significant populations in Nigeria, Benin and Togo, as well as a sizeable diasporic community around the world. By considering the art, religion, economics and political systems of...
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