Africa world press
Africa world press
AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY
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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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
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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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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
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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).
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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...
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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...
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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."
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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?
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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.
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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.
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UGANDA SINCE INDEPENDENCE: A STORY OF UNFULFILLED HOPES
Early in the twentieth century, Winston Churchill called Uganda the 'pearl of Africa'. It became independent from British colonial rule in 1962 amid high hopes on all sides.
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ORATURE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY #18
African novelists, playwrights and poets, even when they are writing in one of the colonial languages, draw on their rich ethnic bases. These resources provide ideas, themes and linguistic delight.
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EDUCATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: ESSAYS AND SPEECHES BY NEVILLE ALEXANDER
The following essays and speeches have been selected from among numerous attempts to address the relationship between educational and the national liberation struggle. All of them were written or delivered in the period 1985-1989
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SPIRIT OF AFRICA: THE HEALING MINISTRY OF ARCHBISHOP EMMANUEL MILINGO OF ZAMBIA
Only after his appointment as RC Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, in 1969 did Emmanuel Milingo become aware of his healing powers.
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HOW FAST THE WIND?: SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1975-2000
How Fast the Wind? asks the question, what is the reality of the fast-moving, continuous change in southern Africa from 1975 to the year 2000? Clearly there has been political independence-- of Mozambique and Angola, of Zimbabwe, of Namibia. And now...
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WOMEN IN CITY OF THE DEAD
The 'City of the Dead' is a vast and ancient cemetery close to center of Cairo which has gradually become a permanent home for thousands of migrants from the countryside. For many of the women, though still living in poverty,...
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JAMES VAN DERZEE: THE PICTURE-TAKIN' MAN
Based on interviews with the late black photographer, James Van DerZee, whose oeuvre of aesthetic portraits and documents of Harlem life in the 1920's and 1930s "discovered" when he was 83 years old,
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VOICES OF BLACK NATION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
This collection of writings from the black movement press of the twenties and on through the thirties provides valuable insight into the major political and ideological currents among black groups of that time, as well as the means of persuasion...
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NEW DIMENSIONS IN AFR HIST
The London lectures of Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan were delivered for the Minority Ethnic Unit of the Greater London Council in 1986.
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CARIBBEAN STATE, HEALTH CARE AND WOMEN
This book makes a fascinating comparison of the health policies in Barbados and Grenada during the 1979-1983 period as they relate to working -class women. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (April 1, 1998) Language : English Hardcover : 272 pages ISBN-10...
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RASTA AND RESISTANCE
Rasta and Resistance is a study of the Rastafarian movement in all it's manifestations, from its evolution in the hills of Jamaica to its present manisfestations in the streets of Birmingham and Shashamane Settlement in Ethiopia. It traces the cultural,...
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Revival: An Anthology of the Best Black Canadian Writing
The success of George Elliott Clarke’s anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date...
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