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Africa world press
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO AND THE MAKING OF REMO: THE LOCAL POLITICS OF A NIGERIAN NATIONALIST
“This admirable and richly textured book should be widely read not only by those inter-ested in Yoruba history and modern Nigeria but by all those who seek a mature under-standing of the intricate connections between local and national politics. Nolte...
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RECITING IFA: DIFFERENCE, HETEROGENEITY, AND IDENTITY
This book generates a critical Ifa poetics and analysis that emphasizes Ifa as a philosophical heritage that privileges heterogeneity of discourses, texts, and worlds.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NAWAL EL SAADAWI
This edited volume focuses on the writings of Nawal El Saadawi, generally acclaimed as ‘the Arab world’s leading feminist and iconoclast’.
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A NATION BETRAYED: NIGERIA AND THE MINORITIES
The 1950s were traumatic years for the British. A mighty Empire was in its death-throes. But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations. Independence was within close reach. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 31,...
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BEYOND KHARTOUM: A HISTORY OF SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN SUDAN
Useful to both scholars and policymakers, Beyond Khartoum is a history of subnational government in Sudan from early times through 2010. Despite domination by its Northern Arabic-speaking elite, Sudan has a long and varied history of governmental Product details Publisher...
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REPURCUSSIONS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: THE INTERIOR OF THE BIGHT OF BIAFRA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
This volume looks at the historical context of slavery in the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the resulting diaspora of people that was formed in the Americas.
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Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story
In Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story, the reader is offered a vivid portrait of the President of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of the Sudan. The author unobtrusively facilitates the encounter, withdrawing to leave the reader in...
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Wounded Nation: How a Once Promising Eritrea Was Betrayed and Its Future Compromised
This volume takes up the life story of the author from where the first volume culminated. Through historical and political analyses the author lays bare the hidden (and not so hidden) elements that have contributed to Eritrea’s descent from a...
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ZUMA'S OWN GOAL: LOSING SOUTH AFRICA'S 'WAR ON POVERTY'
This collection of original essays provides an in-depth look at how South Africa’s government is tackling profound challenges - including economic policy, AIDS, social security, housing, basic services and education -
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DECISIONS IN THE SHADE: Political and Juridical Processes Among the Aromo-Borana
Due to the debate that has developed around the political significance of their Gada system of generational classes, the Oromo-Borana (a pastoral people living in Ethiopia and Kenya) have become a classic reference of comparative anthropology. In this study the...
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Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, and Songs
Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field and a foremost authority on Yoruba traditional literary forms in particular.
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INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Institutions and Development in Africa" is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa. It contains a refreshing, rigorous and informative analysis of underdevelopment in Africa
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LEISURE IN URBAN AFRICA
In this fascinating study, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflect on the complex conceptions, creation, and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present
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GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND MOTHERING IN AFRICA
This volume fills an important gap in our understanding of the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the phenomenon of mothering in African societies. Essays present the social construction of marriage, mothering, and widowhood
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LAND STRUGGLES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
This volume is based on original field research on land struggles and civil society in Southern Africa, with chapters on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Zambia
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EASTERN AFRICAN POPULAR SONGS Verbal Art in States of Transformation
Aaron Rosenberg's study constitutes a provocative reassessment of the relationship between African songs and the literatures of Eastern Africa. The focus of the book is a detailed analysis of language, form, and theme as they apply to a wide spectrum...
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AFRICA IN THE WORLD THE WORLD IN AFRICA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ABIOLA IRELE
This is a collection of essays by some of the most prominent and influential writers, scholars and critics of the African arts and humanities.
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AFRICA AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS: Conquest and Counter-Conquest
Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest is the second volume of the Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui that will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings.
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SURVIVAL AND MODERNIZATION: Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present A Philosophical Discourse
The book tackles the enigmatic question on Ethiopia's failure to modernize. The enigma springs from the absence in Ethiopia of the major deficiencies invoked to explain underdevelopment
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AMA ATA AIDOO
A Fitting Tribute to the artistry, proverbial strength and uncompromising voice of a committed writer and truth-teller, the collection of powerful and illuminating essays memorialize Ama Ata Aidoo's deep sense of history and consciousness
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JIFUNZE KISWAHILI CHETU VOL 2
This workbook is to provide you, the learner, with more exercises in hearing yourself, speaking, writing and reading the Swahili language. It is very important that you hear and pronounce the language correctly.
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AMERICAN CRUCIBLE Black Enslavement, White Capitalism and Imperial Globalization
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Publisher : Africa World Press; First edition (June 1, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 426 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592216714
ISBN-13 : 978-1592216710
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AIME CESAIRE'S AFRICAN THEATER Of Poets, Prophets and Politicians
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; First American Edition (July 14, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 378 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592217397
ISBN-13 : 978-1592217397
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AFRICAN WRITER'S AND THEIR READERS PB
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865438609
ISBN-13 : 978-0865438606
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AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY HB THE ANALYTIC APPROACH
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Publisher : Africa World Press; UK ed. edition (November 15, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 370 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213707
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213702
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AFRICAN DIASPORAS PB Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries #4
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Publisher : Africa Research & Publications (November 27, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592216498
ISBN-13 : 978-1592216499
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AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY PB AN AFRICAN STORY
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (August 16, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 524 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592215815
ISBN-13 : 978-1592215812
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AFRICA IN RUSSIA, RUSSIA IN AFRICA PB THREE CENTURIES OF ENCOUNTERS
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Publisher : Africa World Press; 1st edition (October 23, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 420 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213308
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213306
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AFRICA, BRAZIL AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TRANS ATLANTIC BLACK IDENTITIES PB
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (January 31, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 356 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592215270
ISBN-13 : 978-1592215270
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