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FAMILY
A Jamaican girl joins her parents in London at age eleven and makes formidable adjustments and choices to overcome the limitations of her family life.
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TO THE BREAK OF DAWN: A FREESTYLE ON THE HIP HOP AESTHETIC
"To the Break of Dawn dissects the evolution of hip hop lyricism from its most primitive beginnings to its current manifestation as a global phenomenon. Author Jelani Cobb examines issues of race, geography, genre and bravado in this overview of...
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MOTHER OF US ALL: A HISTORY OF QUEEN NANNY LEADER OF THE WINDWARD MAROONS
The Mother of Us All" is an analysis of the history of Queen nanny, the great 18th century leader of the Windward of Eastern Jamaican Maroons
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BLACK SPIRITUALITY AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Contrary to some misguided perceptions about the religion of black folk, African-American Spirituality plays a vital role in the formation and practice of black freedom in American. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 1998) Language : English Paperback : 248...
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CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21
African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue...
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AFRICANS IN BRAZIL PB 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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ETHIOPIC, AN AFRICAN WRITING SYSTEM: Its History and Principles
This is groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge'ez), an African writing system designed as meaningful and graphic representation of a wide array of knowledge, including languages
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ALA ANNUALS, Vol. 1, Nwanyibu: Womanbeing & African Literature
These essays explore the condition of African women, focusing on what one-contributor describes as "the discourses of colonialism and sexism (as) sites where gender, sexuality, race and power constructions intersect." The essays are divided into four categories:The first section under...
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DAYBREAK IS NEAR
In Daybreak is Near...: Literature, Clans and the Nation-State in Somalia, Ali Jimale Ahmed examines the role literature has played in the modern Somalia society of the past half century. The writer examines Somalia literature, both written and oral, to trace...
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BEYOND SURVIVAL IN THE HORN: The Economic Challenges of Agriculture and Development in Post-Independent Eritrea
Beyond Survival emphasizes the crucial role of this sector in the overall social and economic growth and development of post-independence Eritrea.
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Publisher : Red Sea Pr (December 1, 1996)
Language : English
Hardcover : 286 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569020302
ISBN-13 : 978-1569020302
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LOADED VEHICLES: STUDIES IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
Among the most powerful forces driving contemporary literary movements in anglophone Africa have been the indigenous media that provided aspiring authors with opportunities to express themselves
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FLIGHT FROM THE DEVIL: SIX SLAVE NARRATIVES
During the early 19th century some African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system.
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ETHNIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN NIGERIA
The essays in this book bring together for the first time a discussion on the multicultural and ethnolinguistic groupings of Nigeria.
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WHEN REFUGEES GO HOME
Hubert Henry Harrison's When Africa Awakes is an important collection of essays and articles written by one of America's great, but seldom notes, intellectuals. The collection, originally published in 1920
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VOICES FROM THE BATTLEFRONT: ACHIEVING CULTURAL EQUITY
Voices From The Battlefront is a collective call to action, a declaration of war, a clarification of intent. The assumptions of multiculturalism--as currently practiced-- are laid bare under the scrutiny of some of the most committed cultural workers of today, making...
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AFRICANS IN BRAZIL: A PAN-AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
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. Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 1, 2005)...
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How the Hebrews Became Jews
About the Author Jose V. Malcioln was born in Panama of a Moroccan-Hebrew mother. He was taught in the New York school system for many years. He has also taught in Mexico, Spain, Amherst, Brooklyn, Boricua, and Malcolm-King Colleges. He...
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IMPERIALISM AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN NIGERIA, 1960-96
This is a radical departure from traditional analyses of the Nigerian State, which often unduly focus on ethnicity as the motivating force in Nigerian politics.
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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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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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BEYOND THE COLOR LINE HB PAN-AFRICANIST DISPUTATIONS
This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world.
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. This case is considered to be the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and one of the most important...
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