Africa world press
Africa world press
VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECETED SOUTHERN AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on six narratives from Southern Africa: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele, Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gormider, and Mother to...
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AFRICAN THEATRE: Soyinka
An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness ... lucid andrichly suggestive ... beautifully written' -- Professor Karin Barber, University of Birmingham An excellent and important book moving with great ease in very tricky terrain... I must confess that having...
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FROM A RED ZONE: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics and Culture
This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power, from scholarly works embedded in academic disciplines to “ethnic” museums and several race-based exclusionary political practices
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON BESSIE HEAD
This long-awaited anthology covers new thoughts and theories on the eminent and controversial writer, Bessie Head. Ever since her death in 1986, at the early age of forty-nine, Head has continued to capture our political, historical, and social imagination. This...
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BREAKING STONE SILENCE: GIVING VOICE TO AIDS PREVENTION IN AFRICA
Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (March 1, 2006) Language : English...
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BEAUTY IN BLACK PERFORMANCE: PLAYS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
The four plays in this book bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatize the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (May 26,...
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WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
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WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
This book examines almost two hundred years of race and ethnic relations and white-on- black racism in Dubuque, Iowas oldest industrial city, in connection with political and economic developments at the local, state, and national levels.
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CONFIGURING THE AFRICAN WORLD: ESSAYS ON CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORIC LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Some of the essays in Configuring The African World were published in Nigeria a few years ago (On Black Culture, Obafemi Awolowo University Press).
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GOLDEN APPLE: CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION
With The Golden Apple: Changing the Structure of Civilization, author Edgar Ridley offers readers an extended look at the need for mankind to abandon its historical dependence on destructive symbols and the shackles of symbolic thinking once and for all...
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FROM TYRANNY TO ANARCHY: The Somali Experience
What can be learned from the struggles in Somalia and Somaliland to help prevent the collapse of independent states and cultural groups when confronted by a series of today’s complex challenges, ranging from militarism, dictatorship
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SEASON'S OF HARVEST: ESSAYS ON THE LITERATURES OF ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE, CAPE VERDE, GUINEA BISSAU, AND SAO TOME-PRINCIPE
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world.
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ON THE MORNING TIDE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY IN THE HISTORICAL EBB AND FLOW OF HUDSON RIVER SOCIETY
On the Morning Tide, like the author’s earlier book, Long Hammering, continues the challenge of creating a more accurate image of the African American in the history of New York.
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IFA: THE YORUBA GOD OF DIVINATION IN NIGERIA AND THE UNITED STATES
In this book, the late Dr. Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason offers a combination of personal, historical and solicitous accounts on Ifa, the Yoruba divination deity. Using sites in Nigeria and the United States, he reveals various aspects of the religious...
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Migration, Development and Diplomacy: Perspectives From the Southern Mediterranean
In recent years, migration across the Mediterranean has become an issue of growing concern to the countries of the region and beyond. It has also become a rather divisive issue between the two shores of the Mediterranean
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ONLY WEST INDIANS: CREOLE NATIONALISM IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
Contrary to popular belief, the ideology of empire in the nineteenth-century British resulted in a number of West Indian Creoles who took the language and values of Britain’s supposedly liberal empire and turned them upside down.
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AFRICA RISING: Multidisciplinary Discussions on Africana Studies and History
As aninterdisciplinary prism through which one can study the growing field of Africalogy, this scholarly and journalistic volume examines the expansive and compelling history of Africa, its many peoples and their global experiences. By offering articles that, in addition to...
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KOSSOYE: A Village Life In Ethiopia
This fascinating and relevant interdisciplinary book is the result of personal histories of service and research that have now spanned nearly five decades.
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FREEDOM FIGHT: A NOVEL OF RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM
Pamela Olúbùnmi Smith's The Freedom Fight is an English translation of Adébáyò Fálétí’s Yorùbá novel, Omo Olókùn Esin Though written in 1958
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945): The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945): The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
Duse Mohamed Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Egyptian father and a Sudanese Mother. He attended King’s College of London. In 1885 at age of nineteen, he started a career as a stage actor that lasted for twenty-four...
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ETHIOPIAN DISCOURSE
Ethiopian Discourse is a text which makes heroic efforts to engage the Ethiopian reader with the problems, challenges and traditions of classical and modern Ethiopia.
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ABOVE THE ODDS: A Decade of Change for Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs
Too few books give an in-depth view of the challenges that African women face in running the enterprises which often provide the main source of support for their families. Ten years ago Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom, based...
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DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM (THE): DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES
In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures’ heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a classification model. Arndt distinguishes...
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AFRICA AND THE ACADEMY: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses On Africa
This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (August 1, 2002)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1592210147
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210145
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies.
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BORDERLINE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICAN FICTION
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (September 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 262 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213626
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213627
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POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STEEL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: LESSONS FROM SOUTH KOREA
This is a critical comparative analysis of the origin, nature, problems and prospects of steel development and industrialization in Nigeria and South Korea. It is well known that the Asian New Industrializing Countries (NICs)
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HIS MASTER'S VOICE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SINGLE-PARTY POLITICS IN GUINEA UNDER SEKOU TOURE
By using the case study of Guinea, the author explores systemically (1) the nature of the single-party regime and the role of first-generation post-colonial African leadership, (2) the central role of ideology in the twin-programs of statecraft and nation-building by...
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CAMEL TRACKS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SAHELIAN LITERATURES
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (February 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 291 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437572
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437579
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MILLENIAL AFRICA: CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, DEMOCRACY
In two previous widely read volumes of essays prepared for Africa World Press (Socialist Ideology and the Struggle for Southern Africa and Recolonization and Resistance: Southern Africa in the 1990s) John S. Saul chronicled developments in Africa, and especially in...
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