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AFRICAN MUSLIM NAMES
A name reflects and reinforces an identity both when it is given and when it is changed. African Muslim Names discusses the social and cultural significance of proper names. It explains how names are chosen for newborns in African societies and the...
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LAST CAMEL (THE): Stories About Somalia (AVAILABLE IN HB ONLY)
"The stories in The Last Camel deal with fiction, facticity, and the space between the two. never the swashbuckling Peace Corps volunteer, D'Haem's stories teem with compassion, impish curiousity, and downright humility.
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The African American Studies Reader Second Edition
This book is the most comprehensive anthology in the field. The intellectual, political, and social aspects of African American Studies continue to evolve, as do the ways in which the discipline will advance knowledge about African Americans for the future....
$60.00
Christianity and Social Change in Africa Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel
Christianity and Social Change in Africa is the most comprehensive look at the African encounter with Christianity in recent years. The book’s themes are drawn from the pioneering work of J.D.Y. Peel, building on his creative explanation of the African experience...
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Black Judaism Story of an American Movement
Throughout most black societies today, there are Jews who are not accepted by the worldwide community of Rabbinic Jews. They are known as Black Jews, and the movement they represent is known as Black Judaism. Originating in the post-Civil War...
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Africa, Empire and Globalization Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins
Previously published as a jacketed hardback, this book is now bound as a paperback. Africa, Empire and Globalization is a set of original essays in honor of the distinguished historian, Professor A. G. Hopkins, whose career of over fifty years covers...
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AFRICAN IMAGES: Recent Studies and Text In Cinema #7
The twenty-third annual conference of the African Literature Association was a celbration of African cinema, in recognition of of which it received the title, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, FESPACO Nights in Michigan. The selected papers from that conference that appear in this...
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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
African Perspectives on Governance brings together the view of a group of East and West African scholars on a range of issues relating to how African countries are being governed. In contrast to most other publications on governance, which tend to...
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AFRICANS IN BRAZIL HB A PAN-AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (November 1, 1992)
Language : English
Paperback : 218 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865432392
ISBN-13 : 978-0865432390
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AFRICAN IMAGES HB Recent Studies and Text In Cinema #8
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (February 1, 2000)
Language : English
Hardcover : 189 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865438196
ISBN-13 : 978-0865438194
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BEING OROMO IN KENYA
The Oromo are one of the most numerous peoples of Africa, but general recognition of their distinctive culture and identity is comparatively recent. Most of the Oromo live in Ethiopia Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (September 1, 1997) Language...
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AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY: On Becoming Ancestors
Dr. EphirimDonkor thoughtfully explores the spirituality of the Akan people in Ghana and their quest to achieve ancestorhood in heaven (Samanadzie) and eldership on earth (Wiadzie). Product details Publisher : Upa; Revised edition (March 16, 2011) Language : English Paperback : 200 pages...
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THE ART OF AFRICAN FASHION
This publication marks the presentation of the principal 1998 Prince Claus Award to the Art of African Fashion, researching the arts of African fashion design, textile design, hair design and body decoration
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Africana Studies A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora comes at an important time, as Africans on the continent and their descendants in the US and in the Caribbean and Latin America and all over the globe...
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Against the Predators’ Republic Political and Cultural Journalism, 2007-2013
A collection of the author’s journalistic writings between 2007-2013, this book provides both documentation of and reflection on the many faces of social inequality in Africa’s largest country, Nigeria. At the heart of the book’s reportage and analyses is the...
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Africa: Volume 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939
Along with Africa, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Volume 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939 adopts a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity...
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Africa: Volume 2: African Cultures and Societies Before 1885
Africa: Volume 2 is part of a series of books which adopts a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity...
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Esu Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers
This is the most extensive book on Esu, also known in different locations as Eleda, Exu, Cxu Eleggua, Cxu Elegbara, Legba, Elegba, Elegbera, or Odara. He is the “divine messenger,” central to the understanding of Yoruba religion and worldview, as...
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BANKING IN AFRICA HB
This book provides a review of the evolution of the post-independence banking system in Africa. There is a strong focus on the problems of restructuring of banking institutions and the management of the bad and non-performing assets of public sector...
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AFRICAN TEXTUALITIES HB TEXTS, PRE-TEXTS AND CONTEXTS OF AFRICAN LITERATURE
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (July 1, 1997)
Language : English
Hardcover : 232 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865436150
ISBN-13 : 978-0865436152
$79.95
AFRICAN PRESENCE IN AMERICAS (hb)
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Publisher : Africa World Press (January 1, 1995)
Language : English
Hardcover : 502 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865432325
ISBN-13 : 978-0865432321
$79.95
BLACK FILM AS A SIGNIFYING PRACTICE: CINEMA NARRATION AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AESTHETIC TRADITION
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BLACK FILM AS A SIGNIFYING PRACTICE: CINEMA NARRATION AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AESTHETIC TRADITION
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (September 15, 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 284 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437157
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437159
$79.96
AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN (THE)
Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognized. Concerned with Africans, who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to...
$84.95
AMILCAR CABRAL HB REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP AND PEOPLE'S WAR
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (March 31, 2003)
Language : English
Hardcover : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592210813
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210817
$84.95