Africa world press
Africa world press
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...
$42.00
Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
$43.00
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...
$43.00
Culture, Society, and Politics in Modern African Literature Texts and Contexts
A gap exists between African literary texts and their interpretation for many scholars and readers of African literature today. Unfamiliar with the cultures, societies, and politics of Africa, some readers bring a perspective to the work that is at odds...
$20.00
The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing
There has been speculation, but no definitive answer, as to why many of the world’s fastest middle and long distance runners are from Kenya. Most of the fastest runners in Kenya come from only a few of the 42 tribes,...
$25.00
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...
$45.00
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...
$42.00
Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines in Africa
This book is intended to contribute to discussions about the fundamental challenge of coloniality haunting humanities and social sciences in universities in Africa, while suggesting ways to de-link from and make a break with the epistemic injustices of embedded Eurocentrism...
$40.00
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...
$58.00
Dialogues of Negritude An Analysis of the Cultural Context of Black Writing
In this new offering, Popeau demonstrates that Negritude, a literary and philosophical movement inaugurated in the 1930s by a group of Blacks studying in Paris, is the manifestation of a dialogue between Blacks and Western culture and an internal dialogue...
$30.00
Diaspora and Imagined Nationality USA-Africa Dialogue and Cyberframing Nigerian Nationhood
When Africans dialogue with citizens of the United States of America, the continent in its parts through the perspectives of nationals engage each other in conversations. The conversations flow like streams in many directions yielding fruits of different sorts. It...
$30.00
Endangered Species Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest
Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest is an ethnographic study of a group of people living in a forested region in Madagascar. These people have been targeted for recent conservation and development initiatives intended to...
$33.00
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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$77.99
Etches on Fresh Waters
Etches on Fresh Waters is a creative liaison between two poets: Toyin Falola, a historian of international repute and quintessentially prolific writer, who has already published a collection of poetry, Scoundrels of Deferral, and Adérónké Adésànyà, an artist and art historian, who hitherto...
$90.00
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...
$49.00
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...
$45.00
BEIRUT: FRONTLINE STORY
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (June 1, 1983)
Language : English
Paperback : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865430004
ISBN-13 : 978-0865430006
$12.95
NEW DIMENSIONS IN AFR HIST
The London lectures of Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan were delivered for the Minority Ethnic Unit of the Greater London Council in 1986.
$21.95
VOICES OF BLACK NATION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
This collection of writings from the black movement press of the twenties and on through the thirties provides valuable insight into the major political and ideological currents among black groups of that time, as well as the means of persuasion...
$21.95
GARVEY HIS WORK & IMPACT
Twenty-one articles deal with the historical background to Garvey and Garveyism, women in the movement and the importance of gender, the influence of Garvey on Jamaican culture and the peoples of the Caribbean.No facet of Jamaican life escaped
$24.95
JAMES VAN DERZEE: THE PICTURE-TAKIN' MAN
Based on interviews with the late black photographer, James Van DerZee, whose oeuvre of aesthetic portraits and documents of Harlem life in the 1920's and 1930s "discovered" when he was 83 years old,
$21.95
INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDICAL HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA
For all who are interested in traditional medicine and the development of medical practices, this text by one of the world's leading Ethiopianists looks at the traditional and modern medicine as it evolved from 1800 to the present.
$19.95
BEYOND SAFARIS: A GUIDE TO BUILDING PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE TIES WITH AFRICA
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed edition (June 1, 1991)
Language : English
Hardcover : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 086543204X
ISBN-13 : 978-0865432048
$12.95
POPULAR LITERATURE IN AFRICA
What is the written word that captivates the masses of African people? What are the stories and essays that most Africans read? Scholars usually pay little attention to the popular literature of Africa
$16.95
POLITICS OF BLACK NATION: FROM HARLEM TO SOWETO
"History, politics and literature roll out like thread off the spindle of fine research, to be woven into a picture postcard of theblack experience by Dr. Kinfe Abraham's deft analytical hand."
$19.95
MALCOLM X :MAN AND HIS TIMES
The full impact of Malcolm X, his personality and his mission come urgently to life in this definitive anthology of his writings, speeches and manifestos along with writings about him by an international group of African and African-American scholars and...
$25.00