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Urbanization and African Cultures
Urbanization and African Cultures affirms the centrality of African cities in the modernization of African cultures, showing how many have become firmly established in their settings, and reflecting the impact of globalization. Cities are presented as centers of culture and power...
$48.00
The Vile Trade Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
Having a global perspective on such a contentious subject such as the one this book attempts to deal with can be a most daunting task. The papers selected for this publication are as diverse as the backgrounds of the authors...
$50.00
War and Peace in Africa
War and Peace in Africa provides the reader with important background information on the driving forces behind the continent’s civil wars and conflicts. The book strives to put the myriad of normative and theoretical issues that result in conflicts and wars...
$65.00
Voices of African Women Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania
Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women’s rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women’s human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a...
$45.00
West Africa An Introduction to Its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation
This introductory book covers West Africa's history, social organization, and contemporary setting. It analyzes the many present-day problems facing West Africans such as the lack of development, dependency on economic relations with wealthy countries, poor governance, interference by the military...
$50.00
Weaving through Islam in Senegal
Weaving through Islam in Senegal explores how artists practice their craft work in the contexts of Sufism and daily life in central Senegal. Drawing from 17 months of ethnographic study, this volume is a close look at everyday practices of religious...
$25.00
Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa
This book is a collection of significant analytical and critical writings on how the structures of power have exerted systematic governance over women. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa also addresses how the rhetorical devices of tradition and modernity have played important...
$45.00
The Women's War of 1929 A History of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Eastern Nigeria
This book offers a narrative and analysis of a central event in the colonial history of Nigeria – the Women’s War of 1929, also called the Aba Women’s Riots by colonial officials. The Women’s War of 1929 addresses the historical debates related...
$90.00
Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery
$45.00
Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery
The consumption of indigenous beer is a widespread and long-standing feature of many African societies, a practice of both historical and contemporary significance. Among the rural, Xhosa-speaking people of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, maize beer became increasingly important in...
$45.00
The Words Unspoken The Hidden Power of Language
While the "King’s English" has typically been the language of power, popular culture has given way to new forms of power within language. In modern times, designers, liquor labels, department stores, and jewelers are prospering from the exposure they...
$17.00
The Yoruba Frontier A Regional History of Community Formation, Experience, and Changes in West Africa
Local frontier zones were widespread in pre-colonial Africa, owing to readily available land and a low-density, scattered population. One of these frontier zones is the northern Yoruba region. The dynamic historical experiences of the Yoruba frontier communities from the past...
$35.00
The Yoruba in Transition History, Values, and Modernity
With the introduction of globalization and domestic change pulsing through Nigeria, its citizens find themselves in a social, political, and economic transition period. After decades of military rule and political instability, Nigeria has reintroduced itself as a democratic state in...
$55.00
The Yoruba in Brazil, Brazilians in Yorubaland Cultural Encounter, Resilience, and Hybridity in the Atlantic World
The Yoruba in Brazil, Brazilians in Yorubaland focuses on multivalent manifestations of the Yoruba Atlantic. Unique in its examination of an African ethnic group that was implicated in the transatlantic slave trade and that subsequently made the diaspora home (or through...
$47.00
THE BLACK FRIEND: ON BEING A BETTER WHITE PERSON
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Publisher : Candlewick (December 1, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1536217018
ISBN-13 : 9781536217018
$17.99
The Akan, Other Africans and the Sirius Star System: Egyptian and Sumerian Gods in African culture
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$12.95
The Akan, Other Africans and the Sirius Star System: Egyptian and Sumerian Gods in African culture
The Akan are an African indigenous group found primarily in the southern parts of Ghana, as well as in Cote d'Ivoire and in Togo. This book explores certain aspects of Akan language, culture and tradition that point to association with...
$15.00
$12.95
Dreaming Consciously: Extraordinary Journeys During Sleep Time
Why do we dream? Humans must have pondered this since the dawn of civilization. Dreaming consciously has been practiced among ancient civilizations and it continues to be practiced today in modern times. It has been a way for us humans...
$11.85
Dreaming Consciously: Extraordinary Journeys During Sleep Time
Who are the Guardians that monitor and guide all sentient beings and civilizations in this galaxy? Why was planet Earth selected as a special zone of experience for souls that had incarnated elsewhere in our galaxy? What is the Earth...
$14.00
$12.00
Out of Body into Life: Journeys into Spirit Worlds and How to Get There on Your Own
At some point in our lives, we may ask ourselves the questions who am I? Why am I here? Out of Body and into Life is a detailed account of some of the answers to these questions, that led Kwame...
$15.25
$13.00
Antiracist Baby Board Book
06/16/2020A #1 New York Times Bestseller!Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!Featured on Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more!From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an...
$8.99
Glow
05/04/2021|A joyfully poetic board book that delivers an ode to the beautiful light of African American boys.I shine night toosmooth brownglow skinThis simple, playful, and elegant board book stars a young boy who joyfully celebrates his dark skin with a...
$8.99
Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race
03/16/2021Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported...
$8.99
10 Ideas to Overcome Racism
08/03/2021 One small action a day can make a difference . . . in a big way! In 10 Ideas to Overcome Racism, we explore how to counteract racism and prejudice in our everyday lives. Are you ready to overcome racism...
$12.99
An ABC of Equality
09/01/2020 A is for Accessibility, B is for Belief, C is for Class. All people have the right to be treated fairly, no matter who they are, what they look like or where they come from. This bestselling book An ABC of Equality introduces...
$16.99
MONDAY'S NOT COMING
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Publisher : Katherine Tegen Books; Reprint edition (April 23, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062422685
ISBN-13 : 9780062422682
$17.99
ALL BOYS AREN'T BLUE: A MEMOIR-MANIFESTO
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR); Illustrated edition (April 28, 2020)
Type : Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0374312710
ISBN-13 : 9780374312718
$17.99
$13.99
ON THE COME UP
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Publisher : Balzer + Bray; 1st Edition (February 5, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062498568
ISBN-13 : 9780062498564
$18.99
AKATA WARRIOR (PB)
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Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers; 1st Ed edition (October 3, 2017)
Language : English
Hardcover : 496 pages
ISBN-10 : 067078561X
ISBN-13 : 9780670785612
$11.99
GROWN
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Publisher : Katherine Tegen Books (July 27, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062840363
ISBN-13 : 9780062840363
$17.99
LOVE IS A REVOLUTION
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Publisher : Bloomsbury YA (February 2, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 1547600608
ISBN-13 : 9781547600601
$18.99
AMERICAN STREET
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Publisher : Thorndike Striving Reader; Large type / Large print edition (September 9, 2020)
Language : English
Library Binding : 439 pages
ISBN-10 : 1432879111
ISBN-13 : 9781432879112
$10.99