Africa world press
Africa world press
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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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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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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THE CREATIVE CIRCLE: ARTIST, CRITIC, AND TRANSLATOR IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
Translation, in all of its dimensions, was the theme of the 2001 African Literature Association Conference held in Richmond, Virginia. Translation encompasses more than the movement of expression from one language to another and includes the translating of one culture...
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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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FEDERALISM IN AFRICA VOL. II: THE IMPERATIVE OF DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
This book is the first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development. It interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism. Drawing on the experiences of other organic federal societies...
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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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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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HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR: A NOVELIST'S CURES FOR AFRICA
This book examines Ayi Kwei Armah's five novels: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), The Healers (1973), and Osiris Rising (1995). Drawing on a thorough discussion of the five novels, the book probes the resistive moves in the works of the Ghanaian...
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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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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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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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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN HENRICK CLARKE: PAN AFRICAN NATIONALISM IN THE AMERICAS
As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing, constructing, debating, and preserving the study of African World history. His unique style and analyses postured from...
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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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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 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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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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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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THREE-FIFTHS THEOLOGY: CHALLENGING RACISM IN AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
Three-Fifths Theology is a unique book by two authors from different intellectual perspectives who both share an important perspective with one goal in mind. Written by an African American and a European American, this book enters the conversation about racism in American Christianity....
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Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture
With a population of about thirty million, the Yoruba people constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are internationally acclaimed for their high art, complex system of government, religion, and philosophy. This multi-authored book written...
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CHALLENGES OF A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION: Legal Development In Eritrea
The Challenges of a society in Transition: Legal development in Eritrea is an analytical account of the role and development of law in societies undergoing transition from one political order to another. It focuses on the legal transitions that Eritrea experienced,...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH ERITREAN POLITCAL PRISONERS
In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought could have been...
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GIFT OF INCENSE: A Story Of Love and revolution In Ethiopia
Gift of Incense chronicles a unique twentieth century story, the emigration to Ethiopia in the early 1960s of Judy Linder and of her marriage to African musician Abubaker Ashakih. What emerges from the pages of this book is not simply a...
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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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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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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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UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Ethiopia and Eritrea At War
The war that broke out between Eritrea and Ethiopia in May 1998 came like a bolt from the blue, as border skirmishes escalated into all out war. The two countries, which had been allies until that point, were pitched into...
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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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FIGURES IN A DANCE: THE THEATER OF W.B. YEATS AND WOLE SOYINKA
The correlation between the sensibility and the environment of an artist has been pivotal to critical debate for centuries and will continue to be so as long as the creative impulse and its expression remains an inexorable fact of life....
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