Africa world press
Africa world press
EXILE & AFRICAN LITERATURE
Apartheid was one of the most oppressive, but by no means the only regime to drive African writers into what Eldred Jones calls "the disorienting but sometimes mentally productive state of exile.
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The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (The Sarah Collins Rudolph Story)
Once described by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the most tragic and vicious crimes ever perpetrated against humanity, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama, instantly killed Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise...
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YOUNG AFRICA: REALISING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA
In this extensively researched and thoughtful study, Dei raises fundamental questions about the state of education in contemporary Ghana that has relevance for many other countries in Africa and the global South. He interrogates not only the political and pedagogical...
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POSTMODERISM, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND AFRICAN STUDIES
When Kwame Appiah asked the question whether “post” in “postcolonial” was the “post” in “postmodern,” he challenged the theoretical tenets of both postmodernism and postcolonial studies and opened up a space for a dialogue, which unfortunately, only a handful of...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE AFRICAN PROSE NARRATIVE
This collection of essays aims at introducing students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics...
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED NORTH AND EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from North and East Africa: A Sister to Scheherazade by Assia Djebar, Fountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz, Woman at Point Zero
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THROUGH FIRE WITH WATER: TH ROOTS OF DIVISION AND POTENTIAL FOR RECONCILIATION IN AFRICA
This collection of essays presents fifteen case studies of African countries whose recent past has been shaped by conflict.
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Swahili Modernities: Culture, Politics and Identity on the East Coast of Africa
This book considers the themes of modernity, identity, and politics on the East African coast and islands. Currently, this area is undergoing rapid change as globalization makes its impact. Tourism, increased monetisation, emigration from and immigration to the area, and...
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TAKING ON THE SUPERPOWERS: Collected Articles On the Eritrean Revolution, Vol. 1
In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritreas besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermaththe summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front-page account in The Washington Post broke Ethiopias long-standing...
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SHATTERED ILLUSION, BROKEN PROMISE
When the government of Mengistu Hailemariam was overthrown and replaced by a new government headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 1991, Eritreans had hoped that there was finally a government in Ethiopia that had foresworn hegemonic ambitions towards Eritrea....
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Strike a Woman, Strike a Rock: Fighting for Freedom in South Africa
In this trenchant and compelling book, Barbara Hutmacher MacLean reveals the lives of a cross section of South African women who courageously opposed apartheid in ways the world never knew: blacks who risked death and torture by opposing the governments...
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ROMANCING THE GUN: THE PRESS AS A PROMOTER OF MILITARY RULE
This books rare insight on media practice shakes conventional notions of the role and enabling environment of the modern press. "Romancing the Gun" rattles academic tradition by illustrating that Nigerias hard-hitting press has not only thrived better while military regimes...
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from West Africa: Camara Laye’s The Dark Child, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood, and...
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ARABIC FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDICS
Arabic for English Speaking Medics is based on simple conversations that typically take place in familiar medic-patient situations. These provide the learner with the words and phrases most commonly used in medical settings as the hospital bedside and the admissions...
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BETWEEN FAITH AND HISTORY
The road to John Agyekum Kufuors presidency was tortuous and reflects Ghanas political history, which since Kwame Nkrumah led to independence in 1957 and had been dominated by military interventions and dictatorships. Groomed for this job by some of Ghanas...
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FIGURES IN A DANCE: THE THEATER OF W.B. YEATS AND WOLE SOYINKA
The correlation between the sensibility and the environment of an artist has been pivotal to critical debate for centuries and will continue to be so as long as the creative impulse and its expression remains an inexorable fact of life....
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GIFT OF INCENSE: A Story Of Love and revolution In Ethiopia
Gift of Incense chronicles a unique twentieth century story, the emigration to Ethiopia in the early 1960s of Judy Linder and of her marriage to African musician Abubaker Ashakih. What emerges from the pages of this book is not simply a...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH ERITREAN POLITCAL PRISONERS
In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought could have been...
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CHALLENGES OF A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION: Legal Development In Eritrea
The Challenges of a society in Transition: Legal development in Eritrea is an analytical account of the role and development of law in societies undergoing transition from one political order to another. It focuses on the legal transitions that Eritrea experienced,...
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN HENRICK CLARKE: PAN AFRICAN NATIONALISM IN THE AMERICAS
As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing, constructing, debating, and preserving the study of African World history. His unique style and analyses postured from...
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HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR: A NOVELIST'S CURES FOR AFRICA
This book examines Ayi Kwei Armah's five novels: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), The Healers (1973), and Osiris Rising (1995). Drawing on a thorough discussion of the five novels, the book probes the resistive moves in the works of the Ghanaian...
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THE CREATIVE CIRCLE: ARTIST, CRITIC, AND TRANSLATOR IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
Translation, in all of its dimensions, was the theme of the 2001 African Literature Association Conference held in Richmond, Virginia. Translation encompasses more than the movement of expression from one language to another and includes the translating of one culture...
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BEING BLACK BEING HUMAN
In this follow-up to his first volume, "On Black Culture," Femi Ojo-Ade continues his in-depth explication and exploration of black essence and experience, primarily through literature, as well as through socio-political events and personal actions and interactions. He discusses a...
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AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RECONSIDERED: WESTERN NARRATIVES AND AFRICAN ALTERNATIVES
This book explores the conditions of production in agricultural biotechnology. Situating its discussion in theoretical debates on the role of science and technology in global capitalism, the book grounds abstract discussions in a case study of Africa. Adopting the premise...
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FANON'S WARNING: A CIVIL SOCIETY READER ON THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT
Is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) a genuine blueprint for Africa's recovery? The question arises not least because some things don't add up. NEPAD argues that if Africa's "enormous potential and human resources are properly harnessed and utilized,...
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BANDITS ON THE BORDER: The Last Frontier In the Search For Somali Unity
In the early 1990s, Somalia was in the spotlight for factionalism as warlords, clans, and sub-clans doggedly wrenched their fiefdoms from the state through bloody civil wars. In contrast, thirty years earlier the Somali were pre-occupied with the struggle to...
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WOMEN IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND LIBERALIZTAION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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WOMEN IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND LIBERALIZTAION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The basic premise of this book is that one of the most effective ways to ensure increased and sustainable development in Africa is through the improvement of African womens skills and ensuring their access to tools such as credit, training,...
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EFUNSETAN ANIWURA: IYALODE IBADAN AND TINUUBU, IYALODE EGBA: THE YORUBA HISTORICAL DRAMAS OF AKINWUMI ISOLA
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smiths Efúnsetán Aníwúrà, Ìyálóde Ibadan and Olú Æmæ (Tinuúbu), Ìyálóde Ëgbá, is an annotated English translation of Akínwùmí Ìsölás trailblazing dramas of two powerful, nineteenth century Ìyálóde during the seventy-year protracted internecine Yorùbá wars. Besides important male historical figures, change agents included...
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