Africa world press
Africa world press
BEIRUT: FRONTLINE STORY
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (June 1, 1983)
Language : English
Paperback : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865430004
ISBN-13 : 978-0865430006
$12.95
ANIMAL FABLES OTHER TALES HB
The stories in this collection form part of the rich body of oral tradition which survived in the New World. Although many of these tales are from Brazil, some have variants in islands of the Caribbean and in the southern...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES PB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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BLACK PRIEST WHITE CHURCH
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 1989)
Language : English
Paperback : 270 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865431094
ISBN-13 : 978-0865431096
$12.95
AGRARIAN REFORM IN ETHIOPIA
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Publisher : Red Sea Pr; 0 edition (November 1, 1985)
Language : English
Hardcover : 106 pages
ISBN-10 : 0932415067
ISBN-13 : 978-0932415066
$12.95
Restless City And Christmas Gold
In this collection of fifteen stories, Cyprian Ekwensi brings together glimpses of city life, love, and death. In addition, he captures the tragic, commercial, and spiritual aspects of Christmas in two West African cities. This collection ranges in time from...
$14.95
Reconnecting Memories: Dreams No Longer Deferred
Deeply rooted in the tradition of African American artistic expression, these lyrical poems are provocative and revelatory. They remind us that black poetry is not only a legitimate literary genre but that it is life as we have experienced it...
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ARROWS AND THE BOW
“The integrity, sensibility, courage, and delicate balance with which Ladu Jada Gubek draws the rich history and culture [of Africa] together is moving.
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BLACK PRISON MOVEMENTS
The Network of Black Organizers (NOBO) has gathered the first comtemporary collection of Black Prison Movement voices, covering topics ranging from women in prison, the pro and con of parole, behavior modification and human experimentation in prison, Puerto Rican and...
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BLACK MAN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ITS WORLD HB
The third book in a 3-volume set, The Need for a Black Bible is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins.
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MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES
Masksong for our Times is a collection of poetry composed mainly in the masquerade idiom, which is characterized by song and chants, satirical comments and divinatory prophecies. As a central figure of the African traditional world, the masquerade speaks with the...
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AFRICAN AFFIRMATIONS: SONGS FOR PATRIOTS
At a time when human existence is threatened by the absurdity of power and greed, Toure advances a poetry that celebrates and castigates, that kisses, curses and sings, reminding us as Blake, Whitman, Bly, Cardenal and Mackey that our soul...
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MADIBA
Unencumbered by traditional conventions, Ogaga Ifowodo’s poetry exudes freedom and freshness. The rhythmic lines carry the poet’s political awareness and human sensitivity. This new voice enlivens contemporary African poetry with a fascinating jolt of the imagination.” —Tanure Ojaide, The University...
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OIL LAMP: POEMS
Oil is my curse, oil is our doom.Where are my children? Where is my husband?Ashes and bones, ashes and bones. So sings a 90-year-old widow whose husband fell off an oilrig and drowned.
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DIASPORA BLUES
Timeless and timely, there is verse and music in Diaspora Blues tuned by an acute intelligence. Ali Jimale Ahmeds pithy and elegant lines span the range from the classical Arabic jewels of an al-Maari, to the kind of ironies that grace the discursive...
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LION-MAN AND OTHER STORIES
Lion-Man & Other Stories is a collection of short stories culled from the culture and folklore of the indigenous people of Bamunka. Bamunka is a small village with a population of approximately 76,500
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LIVING IN BABYLON: POEMS AND PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING, "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?"
Esther Iverems new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditation that proves the adage that the personal is political, and the political is profoundly personal.
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PARLIAMENT OF IDIOTS: TRYST OF THE SINATORS
The new voices [of Africa], such as Tayo Olafioye, are a clear example of the break with the idyllic verses Africa was singing.
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