Africa world press
Africa world press
BLOOD AND BONE: The Call Of Kinship In Somali Society
In Somali political culture, clan solidarity is represented by the evocative symbols of blood and bone - immutable natural endowments inherent in kinship traced through the father in the male line. This book explores the extraordinary persistence and resilience of...
$19.95
Time: Portrait of A Journey Home
The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home powerfully captures the complexities of what it has meant for an urban, educated intelligent and sensitive African American woman to come of age in the 1970s and 1980s.
$24.95
IMANI AND THE FLYING AFRICANS
This is the touching story of a young boy who "returns home" by car with his mother to Savannah, Georgia from Detroit. Imani is introduced, through story telling by his mother, to a part of his race and familial history...
$6.95
LULLABY FOR DADDY
A Lullaby for Daddy is the sleepy-time story of Rosie, an African American child. Rosie is a studio musician's daughter with a precocious aptitude for the keyboard and song.
$8.95
TOO MUCH SCHOOLING, TOO LITTLE EDUCATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CHOICE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
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TOO MUCH SCHOOLING, TOO LITTLE EDUCATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CHOICE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
Too Much Schooling with its educational focus, fits into the Afrocentric school of thought with its aim to develop subject-centered analysis and solutions for African children
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THE SWAHILI: IDION AND IDENTITY OF AN AFRICAN PEOPLE
Among the African peoples, the Swahili are unique in at least one respect, for it is about them more than any other people, that the question is perennially asked: who are the Swahili..
$19.95
RE-CREATING OURSELVES: AFRICAN WOMEN AND CRITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Recreating Ourselves is a selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics and social tranformation for at least three decades.
$21.95
GARVEY: AFRICA, EUROPE, THE AMERICAS
This selection of essays marked a breakthrough in studies of the Garvey movement and helped shape subsequent scholarly work. The essays were originally presented to the first international seminar of Garvey scholars held in 1973
$16.95
MAKING OF A RACIST STATE: BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
How did the Union of South Africa come to be dominated by a white minority? That is the obvious but haunting question addressed in this remarkable historical survey which documents and analyses the chain of events that led up to...
$24.95
WHEN REFUGEES GO HOME
Hubert Henry Harrison's When Africa Awakes is an important collection of essays and articles written by one of America's great, but seldom notes, intellectuals. The collection, originally published in 1920
$18.95
WOMEN PAY THE PRICE: STRUCTURAL ADJUSMENTS IN AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
The phenomenon of globalization has influenced the African social and cultural landscape in a variety of ways. Yet its effect on womens lives has not figured prominently in the scholarship on Africa.
$21.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON BUCHI EMECHETA
"When I first happened upon Buchi Emecheta's writing...I had no doubt about the importance of making her personal experience...[which were] shared by many Black women [and which she had] transmuted into autobiographical literature...known to the British society in which we...
$34.95
LONG DRUMS AND CANONS
This collection of essays addresses questions pertinent to the teaching of the relatively new discipline surrounding the teaching and researching of African literature
$16.95
WORLD OF NGUGI WA THIONG'O
Inspired by the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this collection of twelve essays, two interviews and poetry and photography, is a direct response to Ngugi's eloquent appeal to "move the center" and create a worldwide and truly democratic "pluralism of...
$16.95
ERITREA: A Tourist Guide
If you are looking for international mass tourism, Eritrea is not the place for you. But it you are looking to visit a new country in which people are happy to see you, willing to share their culture and lives,...
$9.95
THE LEGEND AFRICAN BAOBAB TREE
The Legend of the Bao-bab Tree is the story of a beautiful tree who complained to the Great Spirit of the Wild Plains about wanting to be the best and brightest and most handsome of all the African Trees.
$8.95
INVENTION OF SOMALIA (THE)
The Somalia civil war had caught many people by surprise. How was it possible that a nation that had so much in common-- or so it seemed --could suddenly "snap" and easily descend into such a fratacidal binge and mayhem?
$21.95
NGUGI WA THIONG'O: TEXTS & CONTEXTS
Kamiriithu has attracted considerable critical attention over the last twenty-five years. In this ground-breaking study of Kamiriithu, the author puts pressure on some of the assumptions driving earlier research. Moving from a savvy discussion of all extant Ngugi plays and...
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CARNIVAL OF THE OLD COAST
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 1995)
Language : English
Hardcover : 98 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865434808
ISBN-13 : 978-0865434806
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HAND ON THE NAVEL
In this, the second volume of his Sierra Leone Trilogy, Lemuel Johnson gives voice to a half-forgotten piece of history, for the most part buried in footnotes and archives: The Royal West African Frontier Force which fought for the allies...
$12.95