Africa world press
Africa world press
HIGHLIFE FOR CALIBAN by LEMUEL JOHNSON
"This 'high life' in the poetry of Johnson's Sierra Leone Triology sets us up for the worlds of Caliban and Tarzan, of St. Augustine and Ophelia; Jane and Shylock; and of His Excellency, the politicians.
$15.95
$12.95
MISSING MILLIONS: WHY AND HOW AFRICA IS UNDERDEVELOPED
"A mine of wealth of current and historical data on Africa. Neatly marshalled and intelligently analyzed it gives a rare panorama of the African World."
$21.95
ROOTS OF BLACK MUSIC: The Vocal, Insrumental and Dance Heritage of Africa and Black America
A much-needed point of view, unusually broad coverage, and, in certain areas, extensive treatment of special interest. This is a text both scholarly and humane, both African and American." -David P. McAllester, Society of Ethnomusicology
$49.95
FLOWERS FOR MOMMY
Flowers for Mommy is the delightful story of a little girl named Aliya (A-lee-yah) who decides to pick flowers in her backyard as a surprise for her Mommy.
$8.95
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN
All major religions of the world as well as some indigenous outgrowths of these faiths are found in the Caribbean. In this book, Dr. Bisnauth covers the history of a wide range of religions, from the vanished beliefs of the...
$21.95
LEGACY OF BITTERNESS
legacy of Bitterness: Ethiopia and Fascist Italy 1935-91 is an important study of the relationship between Ethiopia and Fascist Italy during the 1930s.
$24.95
OSUN SEEGESI: The Elegant Diety of Weath, Power and Femininity
What does our sophisticated, technically advanced society have to learn from a venerable African goddess? That is the question Dr. Diedre Badejo set out to answer a decade ago, armed only with a tape recorder, a working knowledge of Yoruba...
$21.95
MAKING OF MODERN ETHIOPIA (THE): 1896-1974
It has become a cliche in African studies to say that Ethiopia is unique in Africa. By elaborating on four new concepts, geber system, tabot Christianity, Aksumite paradigm and Ge'ez civilization, Teshale Tibebu presents an original interpretation.
$16.95
ETHNIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN NIGERIA
The essays in this book bring together for the first time a discussion on the multicultural and ethnolinguistic groupings of Nigeria.
$18.95
AFRICAN ORIGINS OF MODERN JUDAISM: FROM HEBREWS TO JEWS (PAPERBACK)
"This book deals with an aspect of human history and experience often suppressed or misrepresented. It raises the question: Who are the Jews and what is their proper place in history? Mr. Malcioln presents to his readers a much more...
$44.99
THE ETHIOPIAN BORDERLANDS: Essays In Regional History From Ancient Times To the End Of the 18th Century
Historically, studies of Ethiopia, like those of other countries, tend to concentrate on events at or near the center of political power, and devote far too little attention to other areas.
$24.95
FLIGHT FROM THE DEVIL: SIX SLAVE NARRATIVES
During the early 19th century some African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system.
$18.95
RACE AND REPARATIONS: A BLACK PERSPECTIVE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Interpreting the skein of evidence trailing from the racism inherent in white civilization, the author of this book rescues Black nationalism from junk-jive hallucinations and grounds it in the political-economic realities of racist America.
$29.95
REINVENTING CHRISTIANITY: AFRICAN THEOLOGY TODAY
In Reinventing Christianity, the first comprehensive survey of Christian theology in Africa to appear in English, John Parratt provides a critical yet sympathetic examination of the new ways of doing theology
$14.95
THE FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR: PINKNEY BENTON STEWART PINCHBACK
Son of an aristocratic white plantation owner and a mulatto slave, P. B. S. Pinchback, the frist black governor of Louisiana, was a natural swashbuckler, whose free-wheeling gambling and love life entangled him in several gunfights, six formal duels, and...
$12.95
RENTIER STATE IN AFRICA (GABON)
This is a detailed study of the political and economic condition of the Republic of Gabon, focusing on the years of the oil boom (1975-1985).
$21.95
GLOBALIZATION AND AUTOCENTRICITY IN AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT
African economies are the most dependent and the most marginalized within the global system. The prevailing policies that are designed to overcome the African crisis and to reverse marginalization by integrating African economies more closely
$21.95
JAPAN AND AFRICA: BIG BUSINESS AND DIPLOMACY
By the early 1990s Japan had replaced the U. S. as the world's largest donor of Official Development Assistance (ODA), and it is also major subscriber to World Bank Loans.
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MUSE OF MODERNITY (THE HEART AND THE MIND IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT)
Culture plays a central role in the well-being of any society. This is especially true in post-colonial Africa, where rich traditional cultures collide with complex modern realities.
$19.95
PEOPLE ON THE EDGE IN THE HORN
What impact do displaced people and refugees have on the place where they eke out their living from resources under pressure? Is land degradation due to natural factors or to the people on the edge
$21.95
Blacks Before America
Product details
Publisher : Xlibris (April 14, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 184 pages
ISBN-10 : 1413400116
ISBN-13 : 978-1413400113
$29.95
AFRICAN PRESENCE IN BLACK AMERICA
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Press; Edition Unstated (July 1, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 409 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592210775
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210770
$99.95
DANCE OF THE RAIN GODS
Come and play in the rain with the comfort of this book. Listen for these fanciful A'free'can-American "gods" as they dance the celebration of a cleansing summer shower. CATEGORIES: Poetry, Africa
$8.95