Africa world press
Africa world press
AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND RELATED COMMENTARY
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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Contemporary African Literature New Approaches
Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches comprises essays that go beyond conventional literary studies to open new vistas for critical excursion. It deals not only with purely literary issues of canonization, language, aesthetics, and scholar-poet traditions that have barely been addressed directly...
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The African Civil Service Fifty Years after Independence With Case Studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria
This book provides an overview of the civil service in colonial and post-independence Africa. Using case studies from several countries, it examines the reasons for its growth and expansion; scrutinizes reform proposals, including “first and second generation” reforms and their...
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Book of Odu Ifa: A collection of Ifa Verses from the Oral tradition of Ikedu
Designated by UNESCO one of the world’s Intangible cultural heritage of humanity, Odu Ifa is a collection of Ifa verses capturing ancient African Wisdom of the Ifa Orisa Wisdom Tradition. It is broken down into 256 Chapters or Books filled...
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF ZAMBIA: FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Utilizing a post-nationalist revisionist interpretation of the political processes and political developments, both for the colonial and post-colonial periods, Professor Phiri posits that contrary to the view held by many scholars that liberalism was a lost cause in Central Africa,...
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Walking a Tightrope: Towards a History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe
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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SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF BORDERLANDS (THE): TWO NATIONS ONE COMMUNITY
he central pursuit of this book is to demonstrate using the Idiroko/Igolo community on the Nigeria/Benin border the link between language and identity. It raises and discusses issues of identity within a sociolinguistic framework, focusing on the ways in which...
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SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: CENTENNIEL REFLECTIONS
In this curriculum guide, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History continues its emphasis on Du Bois’ prophetic statement first enunciated at the Pan-African Conference of 1900 that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the...
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
It is commonly held that the Koran has more specific rules for organizing society than does the Bible: thus while Islamic activists see the Koran as a model from which they can derive concrete and all-encompassing instructions, Christians view the...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES: THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
This book is designed to explore the following challenges and imperatives for African countries in the 21st century: liberalization of commercial and industrial activities in a deliberate effort to make them the preserve of the private sector, generation of an...
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UNLAWFUL OCCUPATION: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND URBAN POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BRAZIL
The international and comparative aspects of the book are particularly noteworthy. Part one provides an international perspective on informal settlement intervention in Brazil and South Africa. It tracks the development of influential international positions on informal settlement intervention and argues...
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LIVERPOOL OF WEST AFRICA: THE DYNAMICS AND IMPACT OF MARITIME TRADE IN LAGOS 1900-1950
This book examines the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos within the cycles of boom and slump in the first half of the twentieth century which coincided with the heyday of British colonial rule.
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BREAKING BARRIERS, CREATING NEW HOPES: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
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BREAKING BARRIERS, CREATING NEW HOPES: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
Africa in the last two decades has witnessed complex, intricate, but dynamic political struggles aimed at evolving a new culture of politics and norms of political governance. This process, which is largely variegated and contradictory, has seen dominant orthodoxy under...
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BUILDING A NEW NATION: Collected Articles On the Eritrean Revolution (1983-2002) Vol. 2
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"...
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RECOVERING LETTERS, DISCOVERING NUMBERS: LITERARY AND STATISTICAL STUDIES
The essays in this collection are attempts to arrive at a few new truths about writers and their writings based on novel evidence that has been either found by chance or subjected to unusual forms of analysis.
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RECLAIMING ZIMBABWE: THE EXHAUSTION OF THE PATRIARCHAL MODEL OF LIBERATION
What really went wrong in Zimbabwe? The promise of liberation, human rights, democracy, development, and prosperity have been shattered by greed, state-sponsored violence, and tyranny.
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MODERNITY AN+B386D THE AFRICAN CINEMA: A Study in Colonialist Discourse, Post-Coloniality, and Modern African Identities
This book argues that the construction of modern African identity in all spheres of life, including the cinematic institution, is a product of the Euro-African contact that started in the fifteenth century. Traditional African institutions, which were overlaid with European...
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Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval
In light of the turn to culture in analysing African politics, this book re-examines some of the ideas and practices of three of the most influential activists-practioners of nationalism in thought and deed in AfricaFrantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, and the...
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
By exploring the dynamics of the relationship between Nigeria and the USSR from the time of Nigeria's independence in 1960 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book presents a revisionist examination of the important yet often...
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SHAPING OUR STRUGGLES:B189 NIGERIAN WOMEN IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
This Volume dealing with various aspects of Ethiopia's varied social history, is devoted by and large to the northern central highlands, and covers the period from early medieval times to the region of Emperor Tewodros II
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LONG JOURNEY HOME (THE): A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976
"The Long Journey Home" recounts the history of the black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, from 1776-1976. This was a much-needed journey through the pages of history to rediscover a communitys pa
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WRITER AS MYTH MAKER: SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON WOLE SOYINKA
South Asian readers and scholars find Wole Soyinka and his work especially fascinating. The manner in which he deals with colonial and postcolonial experience, the metaphysical strain embedded in his commentaries on his Yoruba heritage, and the numerous comparisons he...
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PROVOCATIONS OF AMNESTY: MEMORY, JUSTICE AND IMPUNITY
A key event in South Africas recent past was the granting of amnesty through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores issues such as: · Was amnesty in South Africa a political compromise?· What are the...
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ORIGINS OF MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT: ITS DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
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ORIGINS OF MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT: ITS DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
For the better part of two centuries, racial domination has been the central concern of African social thought. Other questions, among them national identity, the role of chieftaincy, representation, justice, and constitutional design, have often been defined in relation to...
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GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 2
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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DECOLONIZING THE ACADEMY: AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES
Decolonizing the Academy" asserts that the academy is perhaps the most colonized space. As we enter the twenty-first century, this has become even clearer now that the academy is one of the primary sites for the production and re-production of...
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MULTILINGUALISM A Nigerian Case Study
Multilingualism: A Nigerian Case Study puts a national and international searchlight on the Nigerian socio-linguistic scenario through a description and analysis of the language landscape in its various ramifications. It provides a readily accessible, stimulating and fairly comprehensive description of the...
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AFRICAN WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATON: DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Providing a detailed, scholarly connection among the institutionalization of lynching,capital punishment, the escalation of the imprisonment of Black youth, and theimprisonment of Black political activists, Loss of Empire presents an intellectual andpolitical challenge to Black public intellectuals and political leaders...
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PERIPHERAL PEOPLE: The Excluded Minorities Of Ethiopia
In southern Ethiopia, there are craftworkers and hunters who are vigorously excluded from mainstream society. As blacksmiths, potters, tanners, woodworkers, weavers, and hunters of wild animals, they fulfill important roles in society, yet many of them are considered by local...
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Ethiopia and Eritrea At War
The war that broke out between Eritrea and Ethiopia in May 1998 came like a bolt from the blue, as border skirmishes escalated into all out war. The two countries, which had been allies until that point, were pitched into...
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