Africa world press
Africa world press
Shadows of History: Nationalism, Violence, and State Crisis in Ethiopia
From the introduction of Ethiopia’s multinational federalism and the developmental stateeconomic growth initiatives to the Oromo youth-led uprising and the subsequent collapse of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) rule, the rise of the ProsperityParty (PP) and the Tigray War of 2020–2022,...
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CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM PB
This ground-breaking volume provides scholars with a sustained exploration of human sexuality as an integral part of gender studies. The books theoretical, interpretative, and analytical approaches document the state of present knowledge on homoeroticism in African literature and film. The...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS: LINGUISTICTYPOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES #5
For the thirty third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired, and used. This volume represents a selection...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. II
Chinua Achebes influence on contemporary African Literature is as much evident in his art of the novel, as his articulation of African poetics and aesthetics in his extra fictional pronouncements. He is as much the father of the modern African...
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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE IN AFRICA: CAMEROON UNDER PAUL BIYA
This book is written by an outstanding group of scholars, all of whom have a genuine and longstanding interest in peace and social justice in Cameroon. It makes a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Cameroon, the...
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BECOMING AN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY PB MAKERERE: 1922-2000
For four decades, Makerere University, known as the Oxford of Africa, was the sole university-level institution in all of East Africa. A fabled Mecca for aspiring youth, it trained many of the regions first generation of intellectual and political leaders,...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. I
Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century is widely regarded as Africas best novelist to date, and one of the worlds greatest. His narrative style and techniques have given rise to what has been characterized as the African...
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
Is Ali Mazrui a visionary or a vacuous intellectual? Is he reactionary, revolutionary or essentially a radical pragmatist? These questions were the focus of a special plenary session of the Conference of the African Association of Political Science that took...
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POWER, POLITICS, AND THE AFRICAN CONDITION
Power, Politics, and the African Condition" is the third volume of The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, which will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali. A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings. The third volume is centered on issues of...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS: KINYIRA NJIRA! STEP FIRMLY ON THE PATHWAY!
Kiny?ra Nj?ra! Presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Boston University, March 2-5, 2000. The book’s thematic title—a traditional G?k?y? blessing—echoes the lead essay by Prof. Ng?g? wa Thiong’o, urging African linguistics to move...
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NORTH-SOUTH LINKAGES AND CONNECTIONS IN CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERATURES
This volume collects some of the best presentations offered at the African Literature Association’s 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference venue, Fez, Morocco, was an apt setting for the conference’s theme: “Continental North-South and Diaspora Linkages and Connections,”...
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MUSIC, WRITING AND CULTURAL UNITY IN THE CARIBBEAN
Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean brings together performers, writers, critics, and musicologists from the Dutch-, English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, as well as Britain and the United States. The collection explores the history of the circulation of music...
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THE PEOPLE'S POET: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NIYI OSUNDARE
This book explores the emergence of the award-winning Niyi Osundare, a modern Nigerian poet. It examines how Osundare started in Ikere-Ekiti as a farmer-born, peasant-bred oral singer to becoming one of the worlds most celebrated African poets. Osundare has won...
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TRADITIONS AND POLITICS: INDIGENOUS POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN AFRICA
Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa is based on selected original papers presented at the International Conference on Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, held at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2001 under the auspices of the...
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ECOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
This collection brings together the key essays on the economic and social history of West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
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CHANGING CURRENTS: TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary. Product details Publisher...
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FROM MOGADISHU TO DIXON: The Somali Diaspora In A Global Context
For nearly two decades, and particularly since the civil war, Somali men, women, and sometimes even children without families fled the country in droves. Some sought refuge amongst established Somali communities in the Horn of Africa
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA: PARADIGMS OF DEVELOPMENT, DECLINE AND DILEMMAS
Few regions of the world can boast of having the same level of potential and natural endowments as Africa. Yet, it is a tragic irony that the continent is incontestably the most unsuccessful in providing the human and capital resources...
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PAN AFRICANISM AFRICAN NATIONALISM: Strenghtening the Unity Of Africa and Its Diaspora
A rich and textured monograph, which is destined to become the definitive work in the field. —Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVE ON NURUDDIN FARAH
This is the first critical anthology on the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah is one of Africas most multilingual and multiliterate writers.
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GEOGRAPHY OF A SOUL: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON KAMUA BRAITHWAITE
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.
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RESISTANCE, INSURGENCE AND IDENTITY: THE ART OF MARI EVANS, NELSON STEVENS, AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.
Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement is an inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies
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KNOWLEDGE IS MORE THAN MERE WORDS,WEY DEHN SAY? DEHN SAY KAPU SEHNS NOR KAPU WORD: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO SIERRA LEONEAN LITERATURE
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis and assessment of a national literature that has been growing in recent years. It provides, particularly in the introduction, insightful information about the historical and cultural background
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria
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SAGA OF AFRICAN UNDERDEVELOMENT: A VIABLE APPROACH FOR AFRICA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Saga of African Underdevelopment examines in careful detail the economic conditions in Africa during the pre-colonial and colonial periods.
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press; First edition (June 3,...
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SLAVERY, ISLAM AND DIASPORA
Slavery, Islam and Diaspora explores slavery in the context of the Muslim world through a study of the African Diaspora
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J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
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J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
This is the first comprehensive study of the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the fourth president of the United Republic of Tanzania who took office in December 2005.
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