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Narratives of Struggle The Philosophy and Politics of Development
Narratives of Struggle: The Philosophy and Politics of Development is made up of a series of critical and reflective essays aimed at facilitating the understanding and appreciation of the causative, sustaining and perpetuating factors responsible for the continuing underdevelopment of Africa....
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The Muse of Anomy Essays on Literature and the Humanities in Nigeria
The Muse of Anomy is a collection of essays compiled from forty years of addresses and lectures by the distinguished Nigerian writer and scholar Femi Osofisan, who also goes by the pen name Okinba Launko. Coming from one of the major...
$45.00
Nature of a Sistuh Black Women's Lived Experiences in Contemporary Culture
The twentieth century has been an era of perpetual growth and development for Black women in American society. Black women today are continuing to move from being predefined objects to becoming self-defining subjects. Books by cultural critics bell hooks, Patricia...
$25.95
The National War Museum, Umuahia
Conflicts and warfare are inevitable parts of every society and Nigeria has witnessed various forms of internal conflict including a Civil War which erupted in 1967 and lasted for thirty months. By the time the war ended in 1970, the...
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Nigeria in the Twentieth Century
Now available in a new paperback printing, this book edited by Toyin Falola focuses on the major issues of the history of Nigeria during the twentieth century, showing how the country was created and governed under different regimes. While recognizing...
$75.00
Nollywood Popular Culture and Narratives of Youth Struggles in Nigeria
In June 2013, Nigeria’s then–Minister of Youth Development, Alhaji Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, declared that, out of a total population of about 167 million, almost 50% were young people between the ages of 15 and 35. Thus, young people constitute almost 81...
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Not Yet Democracy West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism
In a way, this book is historically a sequence to Kenyan statesman Ojinga Odinga's Not Yet Uhuru. It echoes his admonition, a generation ago, that ominous indications in the policies, behavior, and attitudes suggested that freedom was not, as yet, achieved...
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Oral and Written Expressions of African Cultures
Oral and Written Expressions of African Cultures challenges the traditional view of exotic and atavistic Africa with a balanced examination of the continent's realities and challenges. It shows how oral and written expressions capture the complexity, concerns, dynamism, challenges and ingenuity...
$28.00
The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law
This book explores the birth of the African-American international tradition and, particularly, the roots of African Americans’ stake in international law. Richardson considers these origins as only formally arising about 1619, the date the first Africans were landed at Jamestown...
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Pan-Africanism in Ghana African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization
Pan-Africanism in Ghana is an interdisciplinary exploration of the various ways Pan-African politics have been expressed by politicians in the Republic of Ghana from the colonial era to the present. By focusing on transnational politics in the context of a single...
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Perspectives on Feminism from Africa
Perspectives on Feminism from Africa provides a platform for academic researchers working on different aspects of women and gender studies to capture diverse expressions of women's inexorable thirst for empowerment and their struggles to overcome stereotypes and discrimination whether early in...
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Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa
Perspectives on the Religious Landscape in Africa brings together a select number of thematic chapters originally presented at the thirteenth annual Africa Conference convened by Toyin Falola at the University of Texas at Austin, and coordinated by Lady Jane Acquah and...
$64.00
Pioneer, Patriot, and Nigerian Nationalist A Biography of the Reverend M. D. Opara, 1915-1965
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Pioneer, Patriot, and Nigerian Nationalist A Biography of the Reverend M. D. Opara, 1915-1965
Based on extensive archival, oral, and relevant secondary sources from Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this comprehensive biography tells the story of the Reverend M. D. Opara of eastern Nigeria—an indomitable missionary pioneer, patriot, and nationalist. Ekechi...
$55.00
The Philosophy of Nimi Wariboko Social Ethics, Economy, and Religion
This book is about the extraordinary ideas of Nimi Wariboko, a philosopher of global stature, focusing on the interrelated issues of religious thought, human values, and the economy. Wariboko’s scholarship has undoubtedly led to a deeper understanding of contemporary experiences...
$60.00
Poetic Imagination in Black Africa Essays on African Poetry
In this book, Tanure Ojaide explains the uniqueness of modern African poetry, which he sees as a product of African orature and the Western literary tradition. The volume fittingly begins with "African Literature and Cultural Identity," which establishes areas of...
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Playing for Life Performance in Africa in the Age of AIDS
Playing for Life is a survey of African performance that uses the focal lens of AIDS performances to examine performance more generally on the African continent. The aim of Playing for Life is threefold. First, the work provides an introduction to the study...
$48.00
Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa Essays in Honor of Don Ohadike
This book provides a forum for intellectual exchange around the connections between nationalism and power in Africa, with Africa viewed as a global presence. Various chapters explore aspects of the colonial order, the nature of change and of agencies within...
$55.00
Poetry, Performance, and Art Udje Dance Songs of the Urhobo People
Poetry, Performance, and Art is the first transcribed and translated collection and study of the udje poetry of Nigeria's Urhobo people. Udje is an integrative performance of song and dance by specially costumed performers at annual festivals. Udje dance songs were...
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Race, Sport and the American Dream Third Edition
Race, Sport and the American Dream (2007) won the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Best Book Award, announced at the Society's 2008 annual conference. Race, Sport and the American Dream reports the main findings of a long term research project...
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Rastafari Women Subordination in the Midst of Liberation Theology
The subordination of Jamaican Rastafarian women represents a microcosm of women's subordination worldwide. Rastafari Women: Subordination in the Midst of Liberation Theology focuses on the Rastafarians who emerged in 1930 in response to the exploitation and disenfranchisement of African people in Jamaica....
$22.95
Resisting State Iconoclasm Among the Loma of Guinea
Resisting State Iconoclasm Among the Loma of Guinea is an anthropological study of a West African people's ongoing commitment to a specific religious tradition that involves both secrecy and public ritual. Loma secret religious practice appears to have been relatively unaffected...
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Sangalan Oral Traditions History, Memories, and Social Differentiation
This book examines the relationship between Sangalanka's struggle over memories and the history of their identities and social relations. It is based on the politics of memory of different corporate groups (elites and subordinates, men and women), their shared philosophy...
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Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture
Yoruba artists have long employed the visual arts to criticize dictatorial and ineffectual governments. This book examines satires of power in Yoruba visual culture from the precolonial to the postcolonial periods of Nigerian history. Prior to the imposition of British...
$48.00
Scoundrels of Deferral Poems to Redeem Reflection
When new worlds are unfamiliar, when the terrain appears treacherous, when choices and their consequences are daunting, is it better to trust instinct and act or to sit down and think everything through? Scoundrels of Deferral is a collection of poems...
$65.00
The Third Bagre A Myth Revisited
The Third Bagre addresses the nature of myth and of long recitations in oral cultures, especially the significance of variation, the nature of thought processes in those cultures, and the general shape of ‘traditional’ society. The Bagre is a long recitation...
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Someone Had to Be Hated Julian LaRose Harris: A Biography
This book is a biography of Julian LaRose Harris (1874-1963), Southern journalist and publisher. From his father, Joel Chandler Harris, the noted Georgia journalist and folklorist, Harris gleaned the ideals of racial tolerance and sectional reconciliation following the Civil War....
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Toyin Falola The Man, The Mask, The Muse
This book is a bio-critical study that focuses on the intellectual contributions of Professor Toyin Falola to the fields of African history, African studies, and the African diaspora. It is divided into six broad areas: the ontology and epistemology of...
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The Tiv and Their Southern Neighbours, 1890-1990
This book examines the economic, political and socio-cultural relations of the Tiv people of Benue State with their southern neighbours. In pre-colonial times, the Tiv, needing additional farm lands, began displacing their southern neighbours and settling on their farms. In...
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Urban Challenges and Survival Strategies in Africa
The essays in this volume emanated from the 2015 Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin. The theme of the 15th conference was “Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights in Africa,” and constituted a robust attempt at intervening...
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The United States' Foreign Policy in Africa in the 21st Century Issues and Perspectives
Since the dawn of the 21st century, transnational terrorism has compelled increased American strategic engagement with Africa. Further, with the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, America’s first black president and one with an African heritage, there was greater African...
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