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Africa world press
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARIAMA BA
Like good literature, Bâ's writings constitute social texts that renew themselves with each younger generation, each different society, and each new awareness because they are constantly interrogated, subverted, and primed with new meanings. Like the proverbial phoenix, therefore, Mariama Bâ...
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UNIQUELY AFRICAN?: AFRICAN CHRISTIAN IDENTITY FROM CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
This volume is concerned with the problematic nature of African Christian identity. By adopting various cultural, historical, national, and educational perspectives, its contributors explore issues surrounding the nature of being “Christian” and at the same time fully “African.” They analyse...
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SHATTERED ILLUSION, BROKEN PROMISE
When the government of Mengistu Hailemariam was overthrown and replaced by a new government headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 1991, Eritreans had hoped that there was finally a government in Ethiopia that had foresworn hegemonic ambitions towards Eritrea....
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TAKING ON THE SUPERPOWERS: Collected Articles On the Eritrean Revolution, Vol. 1
In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritreas besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermaththe summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front-page account in The Washington Post broke Ethiopias long-standing...
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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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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE IN AFRICA: CAMEROON UNDER PAUL BIYA
This book is written by an outstanding group of scholars, all of whom have a genuine and longstanding interest in peace and social justice in Cameroon. It makes a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Cameroon, the...
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CANTATA FOR JIMMY
“There is quietness in this poetry that reflects deepness past its own use! Or it seems that way. Rashidah lines up the words to make statements of memory, exhilaration, passion, with a casual formality, as if she thought about that....
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MODERNITY AN+B386D THE AFRICAN CINEMA: A Study in Colonialist Discourse, Post-Coloniality, and Modern African Identities
This book argues that the construction of modern African identity in all spheres of life, including the cinematic institution, is a product of the Euro-African contact that started in the fifteenth century. Traditional African institutions, which were overlaid with European...
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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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RECLAIMING ZIMBABWE: THE EXHAUSTION OF THE PATRIARCHAL MODEL OF LIBERATION
What really went wrong in Zimbabwe? The promise of liberation, human rights, democracy, development, and prosperity have been shattered by greed, state-sponsored violence, and tyranny.
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RECOVERING LETTERS, DISCOVERING NUMBERS: LITERARY AND STATISTICAL STUDIES
The essays in this collection are attempts to arrive at a few new truths about writers and their writings based on novel evidence that has been either found by chance or subjected to unusual forms of analysis.
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Swahili Modernities: Culture, Politics and Identity on the East Coast of Africa
This book considers the themes of modernity, identity, and politics on the East African coast and islands. Currently, this area is undergoing rapid change as globalization makes its impact. Tourism, increased monetisation, emigration from and immigration to the area, and...
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THROUGH FIRE WITH WATER: TH ROOTS OF DIVISION AND POTENTIAL FOR RECONCILIATION IN AFRICA
This collection of essays presents fifteen case studies of African countries whose recent past has been shaped by conflict.
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED NORTH AND EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from North and East Africa: A Sister to Scheherazade by Assia Djebar, Fountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz, Woman at Point Zero
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BUILDING A NEW NATION: Collected Articles On the Eritrean Revolution (1983-2002) Vol. 2
In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritreas besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermaththe summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front page account in "The Washington Post"...
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AFRICAN THEATRE: Southern Africa
Articles and interviews on theatre in Southern Africa include the familiar territory of South Africa and Zimbabwe but also countries which have received little previous attention, such as Angola and Namibia. The articles range from evaluations of single plays to...
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BREAKING BARRIERS, CREATING NEW HOPES: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
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BREAKING BARRIERS, CREATING NEW HOPES: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
Africa in the last two decades has witnessed complex, intricate, but dynamic political struggles aimed at evolving a new culture of politics and norms of political governance. This process, which is largely variegated and contradictory, has seen dominant orthodoxy under...
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LIVERPOOL OF WEST AFRICA: THE DYNAMICS AND IMPACT OF MARITIME TRADE IN LAGOS 1900-1950
This book examines the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos within the cycles of boom and slump in the first half of the twentieth century which coincided with the heyday of British colonial rule.
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UNLAWFUL OCCUPATION: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND URBAN POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BRAZIL
The international and comparative aspects of the book are particularly noteworthy. Part one provides an international perspective on informal settlement intervention in Brazil and South Africa. It tracks the development of influential international positions on informal settlement intervention and argues...
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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...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. II
Chinua Achebes influence on contemporary African Literature is as much evident in his art of the novel, as his articulation of African poetics and aesthetics in his extra fictional pronouncements. He is as much the father of the modern African...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE AFRICAN PROSE NARRATIVE
This collection of essays aims at introducing students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics...
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LEGACIES OF JULIUS NYERERE: INFLUENCES ON DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSES AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA
Julius Kambarage Nyerere is widely recognized as one of the most important African figures of the twentieth century. From politics to economics to language policy and education, Nyerere has had an important influence on development discourse and practice in Africa and...
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NEW WOMEN'S WRITING IN AFRICAN LITERATURE #24
This book is about discoveries made in the course of carrying out research on African literatures in well-stocked archives in various parts of the world. Many of the essays collected here deal with early publications and manuscripts by now-famous writers...
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ETHICS AND THE INTERNET IN WEST AFRICA: TOWARD AN ETHICAL MODEL OF INTEGRATION
The whole world is currently undergoing a period of profound change brought about by the development of the worldwide information and communications network, the Internet, which affects every sphere of social life. This book focuses specifically on ethical questions related...
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COPING WITH TORTURE
Stark paintings - some in brilliant colors and others in subdued tones - convey the horror of torture in the ghost houses in Khartoum and the agony of enslavement and dispossession in the Nuba mountains and southern Sudan. Originally exhibited...
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POSTMODERISM, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND AFRICAN STUDIES
When Kwame Appiah asked the question whether “post” in “postcolonial” was the “post” in “postmodern,” he challenged the theoretical tenets of both postmodernism and postcolonial studies and opened up a space for a dialogue, which unfortunately, only a handful of...
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SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA
In this extensively researched and thoughtful study, Dei raises fundamental questions about the state of education in contemporary Ghana that has relevance for many other countries in Africa and the global South. He interrogates not only the political and pedagogical...
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Science and Technology in Africa
Innovations in the African context, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which has a large informal economy cannot be measured with the conventional metrics employed in developed economies. Hence, it is important to build capacity to develop appropriate system of innovation indicators for...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES: THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
This book is designed to explore the following challenges and imperatives for African countries in the 21st century: liberalization of commercial and industrial activities in a deliberate effort to make them the preserve of the private sector, generation of an...
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