Africa world press
Africa world press
RHYME IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: HIP HOP AND THE CREATION OF A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
As historian, cultural critic, and politician, Usher offers a visionary study of Hip Hop Culture steeped in axiological clarity.
$29.95
FROM OUR MOTHERS HEART
This collection of Bukusu folktales and proverbs provides a cultural heritage. The prologue includes a brief history and gender politics within the community. Earlier historical accounts draw heavily on oral narratives and legends
$29.95
LAND, LITERACY AND THE STATE IN SUDANIC AFRICA
Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa re-conceptualizes Sudanic Africa—“the land of the Blacks” to classical Arab geographers—to include the Ethiopian Highlands in the East.
$29.95
REBUILDING SOMALILAND: Issues And Possibilities
Somaliland is Africas best kept secret, according to South African academicIqbal Jhazbay. Somaliland has earned this description owing to its extraordinary achievements in the 12 years since its declaration of independence
$29.95
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES OF AFRICA
In Languages and Literatures of Africa, Alain Ricard presents African languages and literatures in a new perspective focusing on the dialogue between them
$29.95
FLIGHT: IN SEARCH OF VISION
Flight: In Search of Vision chronicles the evolution of Black/Africana Studies and explores its potential for spearheading contemporary efforts to confront various intellectual and social challenges.
$29.95
CROSSING MEMORIES: Slavery and African Diaspora
This volume examines the history and the memory of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the period of the transatlantic slave trade until the present day.
$29.95
MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational
Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamics). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two perspectives – the postcolonial (with...
$29.95
LITERATURE, THE VISUAL ARTS AND GLOBALIZATION IN AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA
Two hundred years after the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (1808), and fifty years after the emergence of the first independent nation in Africa (Ghana, 1957), creative writers and scholars who gathered in Burlington, Vermont
$29.95
Outcast: The Plight of African Refugees Part One: Pre Settlement
Once again Yilma Tafere Tasew brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees.
$29.95
WHO IS AFRAID OF THE HOLY GHOST? Pentecostalism and Globalization in African and Beyond
Pentecostal/charismatic movements represent one of the most popular, fastest growing religious movements within contemporary world Christianity.
$29.95
EMANCIPADOS: SLAVE SOCIETIES IN BRAZIL AND CUBA
This book provides definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil and Cuba in particular and Latin America in general.
$29.95
MAKING OF THE ERITREAN CONSTITUTION: The Dialectic Of Process And Substance
For the first time in their history, Eritreans were engaged, as a soveriegn people, in the making of the basic document by which they would be governed. Regarded by Eritreans as the culmination of their legitimate struggle
$29.95
CHARACTER IS BEAUTY: REDEFINING YORUBA CULTURE AND IDENTITY IWALEWA-HAUS, 1981-1986
Iwalewa-Hausa, under the directorship of Ulli Beier has actively participated in the revitalization and continuation of the different cultural and artistic lives of the Third World societies.
$29.95
IMAGES OF AFRICA: STEREOTYPES AND REALITIES
This book offers those rare and exceptional insights into the historical and cultural processes through which various perceptions of Africa were crystallized into negative images and stereotypes that became so pervasive and profound that Africa is still trying to shake...
$29.95
OROMO DEMOCRACY
This book reveals the many creative solutions an African society found for problems that people encounter when they try to establish a democratic system of governing their affairs.
$29.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON TSITSI DANGAREMBGA
As a dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, essayist and public speaker, Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has claimed the attention of African Cultural Studies since the first publication of her novel Nervous Conditions
$29.95
SEYCHELLES SINCE 1770: HISTORY OF A SLAVE AND POST-SLAVERY SOCIETY
Scarr disposes of many myths of Seychelles being, for instance, a peculiarly harmonious colonial society with all questions of social and political distinction based on colour being erased by miscegenation.
$29.95
FUTURE THAT WORKS (THE): SELECTED WRITINGS OF A.M. BABU
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu was a writer, revolutionary and politician. He led the 1964 Zanzibar revolution and was a cabinet minister in Tanzania until 1972 when he was imprisoned by Nyerere.
$29.95
THROUGH A BLACK VEIL: READINGS IN FRENCH CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Through a Black Veil is an investigation of the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean, through close reading of a representative sample of poems.
$29.95
MONARCHS, MISSIONARIES & AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS: AFRICAN THEATRE AND THE UNMAKING OF COLONIAL MARGINALITY.
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...
$29.95
THE BLACK INSIDER
A profound even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and Bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry, 'My whole life...
$29.95
FIRE FROM THE ASHES: A Chronicle of the Revolution in Tigray, Ethiopia, 1975-1991
Fire from the Ashes tells the extraordinary story of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) revolution, from its beginning in February 1975 by a handful of students, its expansion into the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
$29.95
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana
This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana.
$29.95
Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho
This book has, from its first publication, been an essential reference tool for research of any aspect of society, history and culture in this part of Africa.
$29.95
UNEVEN ZIMBABWE
"Patrick Bond's Uneven Zimbabwe strikes me as timely, thoroughly researched and stimulating. Anyone interested in the role of Finance capital in processes of development/underdevelopment should read it"
$29.95
AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY PB TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (January 1, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 268 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592215157
ISBN-13 : 978-1592215157
$29.95
AFRO-MEXICANS PB DISCOURSE OF RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
This book is about a little known branch of the African Diaspora—Afro-Mexicans. It discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism, and the race-based socio-economic hierarchy known as sistema de castas which provided a basis...
$29.95
AFROCENTRIC PARADIGM (THE) HB
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 2004)
Language : English
Hardcover : 293 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592210163
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210169
$29.95