Africa world press
Africa world press
WE INVENTED THE WHEEL
This is the second bilingual collection of the poetry of the contemporary Eritrean poet, Reesom Haile. It follows an earlier anthology, We Have our Voice, which was published in 2000.
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TONGUE MOTHER TONGUE #10
Tongue and Mother Tongue is takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature
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DEMILITARIZING THE MIND: AFRICAN AGENDAS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
This book highlights a central, but neglected component of Africa’s complicated and intractable wars: the militarization of governance. Political cultures of militarism stand in the way of enduring peace, democracy, and the development of civil society. Militarism comes in both...
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Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing
This book examines the role gender plays in African Studies. It discusses the challenges and difficulties women scholars face in their efforts to produce and disseminate scholarly knowledge.
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EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LANGUAGE: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE: TANZANIA AND BEYOND
This book seeks to enter the crucial debate on educational language choices in Africa which began with the arrival of missionaries and took varied forms over the years.
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TRANSATLANTIQUES: ATLANTIC CROSS-CURRENTS #9
Taken from a poem by Niyi Osundare, “Atlantic Cross Currents/Transatlantiques” was the theme of the 1993 meeting of the African Literature Association which was held in Guadeloupe.
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RIGHT TO BE NUBA (THE): The Story Of A Sudanese People's Struggle For Survival
The Nuba people of central Sudan are struggling to survive in the face of military, political and cultural policies of the Sudan Government, which is attempting to wipe out their separate identity.
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INVINCIBLE SUMMER (AN): FEMALE DIASPOREAN AUTHORS
The title of this book, An Invincible Summer, is taken from the essay “Return to Tipasa” by Albert Camus. At the age of forty, Camus returned to the rain-drenched Algiers, “the city of summer,
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OUR CONTINENT, OUR FUTURE: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON STRUCTURAL ADJUSMENTS
For decades now, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have implemented the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The results, however, have been less than sterling
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GENESIS II: THE RE-CREATION OF BLACK PEOPLE
These bible lesson essays speak directly and compellingly to the issue of theology and its relevancy to the transformation and empowerment of Black people
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WRITER AS ACTIVIST: SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON NGUGI WA THIONG'O
Ng?g? wa Thiong'o writes about a world that South Asian readers recognize as analogous to their own, and he expresses ideas with which they can readily identify. His treatment of the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism, his firm adherence to a...
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POLITICS OF PATRONAGE IN AFRICA: PARASTATALS, PRIVATIZATION & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
as a review of what has happened to state assets in Africa, it would be hard to beat ...' Jeffrey Herbst, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University -
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THOUSAND FLOWERS: SOCIAL STRUGGLES AGAINST STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
This timely work is of seminal importance both for those interested in African problems in our time and those concerned with the destructive impact of the globalizing process all over the world.
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YORUBA GURUS: INDIGENOUS PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICA
Toyin Falola, one of the most prominent interpreters of Yoruba History, has written an outstanding and brilliant pioneer book that reveals valuable knowledge on African local historians. This is one of the most impressive books on the Yoruba in recent...
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NEW WORLD HEGEMONY IN THE MALAY WORLD
To the surprise of many, the much vaunted authoritarian "Asian Value" model of development took a nose dive in 1998 wrecking the so-called "economic miracle" from East to Southeast Asia, sending stock exchanges and currencies into disarray, sinking the new...
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GUNS AND GANDHI IN AFRICA: PAN AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE, ARMED STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION
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GUNS AND GANDHI IN AFRICA: PAN AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE, ARMED STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION
Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people.
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ETHIOPIAN STATE: Crossroads
This work traces the evolution of the modern Ethiopian State and its consolidation under the last three successive regimes. Leenco Lata critically assesses the Transitional Period of the post-Dergue era between the July 1991 Conference
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HARDENED IMAGES: THE WESTERN MEDIA AND THE MARGINALIZATION OF AFRICA
Africa, the most central of the major regions of the world, is at present languishing on the margins of the global political and economic system.
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AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH
This critical collection engages many of the health problems of greatest concern to most African women today: death during pregnancy and the need for assistance in childbirth; the spread of the AIDS epidemic; mental illness and domestic violence, which appears...
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SACRED SPACES AND PUBLIC QUARRELS: AFRICAN CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES
How do African conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, an in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change?
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PARADOX OF AFRICA'S POVERTY (THE): The Role of Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Practices and Local Institutions; The Case of Ethiopia
This study challenges the prevailing pessimistic view concerning Africa's future performance. It argues that the current situation can be reversed by attacking the root causes of poverty provided these have been properly understood.
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MAI WEINI: A Village in Highland Eritrea
Eritrean society and traditional culture had been off limits for social anthropological research for three decades due to the prolonged liberation war, which came to an end in may 1991.
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OUR LADY OF CLASS STRUGGLE: THE CULT OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN HAITI
This discussion of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti is the fruit of one of the most extensive ethnographical studies on religion yet conducted in the Caribbean. Rey reveals the differences between the Marian devotion of the Haitian...
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BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT (THE): AND OTHER ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
In an intellectual climate dominated by formalistic theoretical concerns, biographical criticism may seem an unfashionable mode of academic discourse, but it is sorely needed when writers and readers hail from different countries.
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SAINTS AND SOMALIS: Popular In A Clan Based Society
This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa.
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URBAN OBSESSIONS, URBAN FEARS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KENYAN NOVEL
Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the "first generation" of...
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BEYOND SURVIVAL: AFRICAN LITERATURE AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW LIFE
Even in the best of times, the artist is constantly reaching beyond the present; the severity of Africa's present situation of crisis must urge our artists even farther into their version of a new life. Product details Publisher : Africa World...
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LANGUAGE OF AFRICAN LITERATURE PB
Most African writers are at least bilingual, speaking an African language and writing in an acquired one.How adequately do poets, novelists, playwrights and short story writers use their adopted languages of English and French?
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DANCE OF DEATH: NIGERIAN HISTORY AND CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S POETRY
Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets whose life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This book represents a definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay,...
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