Africa world press
Africa world press
Between a Rock and a Hard Place African NGOs, Donors, and the State
Between a Rock and a Hard Place examines Africa's NGO boom of the late 1990s. In spite of the high expectations placed on African NGOs during this period, these organizations remain poorly understood. Today, Africa's NGO boom has been followed by...
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Democracy in Africa Political Changes and Challenges
Democracy is an enigma in contemporary Africa. Although elements of democracy existed in African politics in the pre-colonial times, the European penetration and subsequent colonization provided the gateway for the prevalence of Western form of democracy with the practice of...
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Converging Identities Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora
Converging Identities is a volume of sixteen essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity of the African Diaspora in global perspective, but focusing on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Given the historical factors that prompted Africans to...
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Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
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Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Considering the limitations of liberal democratic states and transnational organizations in safeguarding human rights in contemporary Africa and the black diaspora, this edited volume repositions the rights-based conversation by exploring representations of it across different cultural forms. The essays in...
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Contesting Islam in Africa Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010
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Contesting Islam in Africa Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010
Contesting Islam in Africa examines the experiences of “returnee” scholars, an emerging class of elites trained in Saudi and Egyptian theological universities, and their role in educational initiatives and the reconfiguration of Muslim identity in Ghana between 1920 and 2010. Based...
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Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Afrika
Through text and illustrations, describes more than twenty African symbol systems and alphabets used on the continent and in the Diaspora.
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Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-13 : 9780977282760
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AFRICAN ORIGINS OF MODERN JUDAISM: FROM HEBREWS TO JEWS (PAPERBACK)
"This book deals with an aspect of human history and experience often suppressed or misrepresented. It raises the question: Who are the Jews and what is their proper place in history? Mr. Malcioln presents to his readers a much more...
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The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse
This book represents the first attempt to holistically document and analyze the causes of deadly conflict in Liberia from its founding to the present. It reconstructs and examines the root, operational, and catalytic causes of eighteen internal deadly conflicts that...
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The Dark Webs Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa
This book is an intellectual history of colonialism in Africa. The book focuses on ideas espoused by historians and creative writers on various aspects of colonial rule; the sources of the ideas; the vision of a post-colonial society that they...
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An African Music and Dance Curriculum Model Performing Arts in Education
This book discusses African music and dance curriculum development and implementation procedures, including the criteria for selecting the African music and dance curriculum content, a curriculum framework, as well as aesthetics and criticism of Ewe-African music and dance. An African...
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Africa: Volume 4: The End of Colonial Rule Nationalism and Decolonization
In this fourth volume of the Africa series, Falola presents various aspects of African history and culture from the period of World War II to the time when African countries became free of European rule. The book's primary aim is...
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ALL-WHITE WORLD OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (August 1, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 171 pages
ISBN-10 : 086543476X
ISBN-13 : 978-0865434769
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Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the Diaspora
This book explores the global conditions and networks of hegemonic and hierarchical power relations that shaped the history of class, ethnicity, gender, and race, and also determined the nature of African diasporic linkages within imperial and national boundaries. The book emphasizes the roots and...
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AGRIBUSINESS IN AFRICA HB A study of the impact of big business on Africa's food and agricultural production.
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (March 1, 1984)
Language : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865430039
ISBN-13 : 978-0865430037
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AFRICAN RENAISSANCE (THE): History, Significance and Strategy
Written by one of Africas leading intellectuals, this book is a tour de force in its bold imaginative and provocative analysis of the historical roots of the contemporary crisis in Africa and the potential for an African renaissance today.
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ROOTS OF BLACK MUSIC: The Vocal, Insrumental and Dance Heritage of Africa and Black America
A much-needed point of view, unusually broad coverage, and, in certain areas, extensive treatment of special interest. This is a text both scholarly and humane, both African and American." -David P. McAllester, Society of Ethnomusicology
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BLACK AWAKENING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 1st Edition (June 1, 1990)
Language : English
Paperback : 305 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865431574
ISBN-13 : 978-0865431577
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Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Imperialism
Kwame Nkrumah NEO-COLONIALISM THE LAST STAGE OF IMPERIALISM This is the book which, when first published in 1965, caused such an uproar in the US State Department that a sharp note of protest was sent to Kwame Nkrumah and the...
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Africa: Volume 5: Contemporary Africa
Contemporary Africa, edited by Toyin Falola captures the challenges, optimism and problems that face modern Africa, notably those of economic underdevelopment and political instability. African countries seek various answers, and they have recorded varying degrees of success as they attempt...
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Epistle to Afrophobic South Africa
When many African countries ganged up against the white apartheid regime, nobody thought Black South Africans, in a jiffy, would barbarously unleash Afrophobia against their own Blacks brethren they derogatorily call makwerekwere or foreigners. This poesy chides South Africans and Africans who...
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The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa Essays in Honor of Robin Law
Robin Law represents the best of the generation that emerged during one of the most eventful and exciting periods in African history and historiography. This book offers an assessment of his scholarship, most notably as an historian of Africa, through...
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Authority Stealing Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria
The post-Cold War world has produced a global consensus on the devastation caused by corruption in society. However, in spite of the growing awareness of the danger that corruption constitutes to democracy and development, and the growing number of anti-corruption...
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Democradura Essays on Nigeria's Limited Democracy
Democradura: Essays On Nigeria’s Limited Democracy is a collection of articles penned by Professor Femi Mimiko, mni, over a 30-year period. The broad theme is Nigeria's tortuous attempts at building democracy and laying the basis for nation-building and inclusive development, undertaken...
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AFRICANS AT THE CROSSROADS, Notes for an African world Revolution (Hardcover)
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the late outstanding African-American historian, has brought the range of his years of scholarly work together in this single and comprehensive volume. The topics he covers are as varied and interesting as his experience in the...
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AFRICAN DANCE HB AN ARTISTIC, HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; illustrated edition (September 1, 1996)
Language : English
Hardcover : 254 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865431965
ISBN-13 : 978-0865431966
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AFRICAN CIVILIZATION REV PB
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (September 1, 1998)
Language : English
Hardcover : 356 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865436967
ISBN-13 : 978-0865436961
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CALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME
A young African American (Otis Hampton) falls into periodic spasms and chants a text nobody understands. His troubled family seeks help. The text, recorded by a psychiatrist and deciphered by linguists, is found to be a corrupted family chant from...
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