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Africa world press
Race and Identity in the Nile Valley: Ancient and Modern Perspectives
This volume pioneers the examination of issues of race and racism, ethnicity and identity in the major Nile Valley countries of Sudan and Egypt from ancient times to the present. Two major events have forced the issue. The study of...
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PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Inverted Nationalism and the Crisis of Identity in Somalia
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PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Inverted Nationalism and the Crisis of Identity in Somalia
This book represents an attempt to introduce the notion of contested national identity as a theoretical framework for understanding the crisis of the nation-state in Africa, and Somalia in particular. The contributors to the volume share the perspective that one...
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HISTORY OF THE CITY OF GONDAR
This brief history of Ancient Eritra captures its critical and familial history of the people of the region focusing on their origins, their various movements, their high cultures, and the infusion and intrusion of foreign powers and their cultures. It...
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POLITICS OF TRANSITION IN AFRICA
The Politics of Transition comes out of a new Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) series of multidisciplinary readers, organized as teaching texts around themes central to African studies and development. Each volume will have guides to further reading and glossaries of...
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Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Globalization and Civil Society on Media-Government Relations
Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970 tells the rich and sometimes heroic story of the press in Liberia, from 1830, when the first newspaper was established, to 1970, the nadir of government control of the media. Early newspapers were infused...
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POLITICS OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN AFRICA: FORCED CONSENSUS?
This book maps the policy process and political economy of policymaking in Africa. Its focus on trade and industrial policy makes it unique in the literature. Detailed case studies help the decisions can vary from country to country depending on...
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MASAMO YA KISASA: CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN SWAHILI
Masamo ya Kisasa is designed to enable students at the intermediate and advanced levels to read and understand authentic texts in Swahili. Appropriate for classroom or independent use, this book provides a transition to unassisted reading of journalistic, scholarly, and literary...
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GUNS AND GUERILLA GIRLS: WOMEN IN THE ZIMBABWEAN LIBERATION STRUGGLE
Guns and Guerilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle is about women guerilla fighters in the Zimbabwean National Liberation war (1965-1980). It provides an examination of the plethora of representations of women who joined the struggle for national independence and...
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GLOBALIZATION AND URBANIZATION IN AFRICA
Scholars present new interpretations of African cities, from the pre-colonial to the modern, set in the context of national and international economy, politics and culture. While providing insights into the evolution of African cities, they also raise issues of vital...
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EMBATTLED GODS: THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF IGBOLAND, 1841-1991
The Embattled Gods: The Christianization of Igboland 1841-1991 has three concerns: the first is to serve as a handbook on how to do church history in an African context. The story of the presence of the gospel in many African communities...
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BLOWING THE TRUMPET IN OPEN COURT: PROPHETIC JUDGEMENT AND LIBERATION
In this fascinating new book, Sanders calls for a radical stepping out of the empty trappings of postmodernity. He confronts the illusory state of the black world by challenging it to analyze and redefine itself in light of certain relevant...
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SISYPHUS AND ELDORADO: MAGICAL AND OTHER REALISMS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
This important new work on Kamau Brathwaite includes work on and inspired by the subject, recognizing the power and influence of his poetry and other creative work, historical research and cultural and literary criticism. Brathwaite is recognized as an institution...
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GENDER, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE: UNDERSTANDING SWAHILI CULTURAL REALITIES THROUGH SONGS
This book analyzes the intersection between gender and identity within popular performance of the Swahili people of Mombasa. Juxtaposing cultural norms with everyday practices, Ntarangwi explores how gender and identity are practiced, constructed, mobilized, and contested through popular musical expressions...
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WE SHALL NOT FAIL: VALUES IN THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF: SERETSE KHAMA, NELSON MANDELA AND JULIUS NYERERE
This book focuses on pertinent political and social issues in Botswana, South Africa, and Tanzania during the leadership of Seretse Khama, Nelson Mandela, and Julius Nyerere respectively. It is a critical analysis of the nature of good and effective national...
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A MULTIFACETED CHALLENGE
Using a variety of tools from various disciplines, Sustainable Development in Africa examines factors limiting sustainable development in Africa and recommends:
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MAKERS AND BREAKERS: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA
The “problem” of youth is presented as one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. In Africa youth are portrayed as perpetrators and victims in civil conflict, leaders and led in political and religious movements, innovators and dupes in...
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KWAME NKRUMAH'S LIBERATION THOUGHT: A PARADIGM FOR RELIGIOUS ADVOCACY IN CONTEMPORARY GHANA
This book is an attempt to recapture the liberation philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), first prime minister and first president of the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. The goals of this study are threefold: first,
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LEGITIMIZING HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA
Drawing on lessons from the human rights NGOs in Nigeria, this book argues that most NGOs in Africa will need to do almost all of the following if they are to overcome the popular legitimization crisis that they currently face...
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IMAGINING EVIL: WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS AND ACCUSATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
Here is a book on witchcraft written mostly by Africansscholars, but also human rights activists and religious practitioners. It discusses witchcraft beliefs and accusations in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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SAFEGUARDING THE HEALTH SECTOR IN TIMES OF MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY: POLICY LESSONS FOR LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and adjustment measures. Are these systems flexible and...
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WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR
This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war, also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of the River Niger, was for long absent in the...
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MINES OF HIS MIND: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKS OF TAYO OLAFIOYE
This book contains a rich deposit of ideas and the consequent social commentary that arise in the complete works of Tayo Olafioye in prose, verse and critical formats. By associating Olafioyes work with a mine, the editors
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TRANSPLANTED IMAGINARY: LITERATURES IN NEW CLIMES
This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space...
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REPATRIATION, INTEGRATION AND RESETTLEMENT: The Dilemmas Of Migration Among Eritrean Refugees In Eastern Sudan
Most official institutions involved with refugees perceive repatriation as the most durable solution to the global refugee problem.
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POLITICS OF WAR AND THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: NORTH-SOUTH ESSAYS BY ALI A. MAZRUI
Ali A. Mazrui is arguably the leading African theorist on the role of violence in human affairs. This collection of essays illustrates his range. The spectrum of violence is from military coups and terrorism to nuclear proliferation, from individual
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NO EASY VICTORIES: AFRICAN LIBERATION AND AMERICAN ACTIVISTS OVER A HALF-CENTURY, 1950-2000
Tell no lies; claim no easy victories.-Amilcar Cabral, 1965 African news making headlines in the U.S.A. today is dominated by disaster: wars, famine, HIV/AIDS. Americans who respond—from Hollywood stars to ordinary citizens—are learning that real solutions require more than charity....
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PAINTING FOR THE GODS: ART AND AESTHETICS OF YORUBA RELIGIOUS MURALS
This book focuses on indigenous painting traditions found on ancestral shrines of Yoruba divinities collectively known as orisa in southwestern Nigeria.
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POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN WRITERS FROM AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THE U.S.
Postcolonial literary criticism has specialized in intercultural comparisons of literatures produced both under and after colonialism, focusing most often on groupings determined by the colonizing power.
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POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN NIGERIA'S MIDDLE BELT: BORGU AND THE EMERGENCE OF A POLITICAL IDENTITY
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POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN NIGERIA'S MIDDLE BELT: BORGU AND THE EMERGENCE OF A POLITICAL IDENTITY
The European partition of Africa at the end of the nineteenth century produced enduring geo-political changes. Some ethnic groups were permanently separated into different political formations and Borgu constituted one of the affected areas.
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