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TRADITIONS OF ERITREA: Linking the Past To the Future
This book examines the framework of traditional social values, cultural patterns, customary practices, and the political and economic forces that influence the way of life and the development of women.
$29.95
LABYRINTH AND PATH OF THUNDER PB
“There is nothing in Nigerian poetry and little in any poetry I know to surpass the haunting beauty, the mystic resonance and clarity of the final movements of the protagonist’s quest in “Distances”.
$14.95
DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: the Self and The Other
This book is a contribution to Arab-Muslim-Western dialogue. The book underlines the hazardous consequences of the strategy of preemptive war on this dialogue.
$29.95
DEPTH AND DESTINY OF WORK: AN AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
This book seeks to develop a theology of work as a foundation and motivation for engaging with the discourse on globalization. The book approaches globalization as the spatial distribution of work.
$29.95
AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
$34.95
AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press; First edition (June 3,...
$34.95
SPIRIT AND THE WORD: A THEORY OF SPIRITUALITY IN AFRICANA LITERARY CRITICISM
Utilizing a method informed by the ideas and worldview of Ifa, an ancient African spiritual system, to unlock deeper levels of meaning in the writings of African peoples, literary scholar Georgene Bess Montgomery presents a powerful new way of reading...
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SAGA OF AFRICAN UNDERDEVELOMENT: A VIABLE APPROACH FOR AFRICA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Saga of African Underdevelopment examines in careful detail the economic conditions in Africa during the pre-colonial and colonial periods.
$34.95
CLIO IN A SACRED GARB: ESSAYS ON CHRISTIAN PRESENCE AND AFRICAN RESPONSES, 1900-2000
This book consists of essays on African church history: historiography, context (ecology and worldviews), the missionary enterprise and African responses that explain the massive growth of Christianity in contemporary Africa. Some essays have been published; others are unpublished, or rewritten...
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
$34.95
NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria
$34.95
EARLY SOYINKA
This book contains half a dozen essays on writings by Wole Soyinka composed prior to publication of his first books in 1963
$29.95
OF WAR AND WOMEN, OPPRESSION AND OPTIMISM: NEW ESSAYS ON THE AFRICAN NOVEL
A supplement to Palmer's earlier works on the African novel, An Introduction to the African Novel and The Growth of the African Novel. Here, Palmer undertakes a detailed critical assessment of key novels he feels are typical of the main...
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ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Reflections On The Literatures Of The Horn Of Africa
A horn is an instrument either for protection or destruction. The horn in the Horn of Africa has for so long turned inward, and on its people, thus victimizing those it was supposed to defend.
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KNOWLEDGE IS MORE THAN MERE WORDS,WEY DEHN SAY? DEHN SAY KAPU SEHNS NOR KAPU WORD: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO SIERRA LEONEAN LITERATURE
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis and assessment of a national literature that has been growing in recent years. It provides, particularly in the introduction, insightful information about the historical and cultural background
$34.95
RESISTANCE, INSURGENCE AND IDENTITY: THE ART OF MARI EVANS, NELSON STEVENS, AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.
Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement is an inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies
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IFA: THE YORUBA GOD OF DIVINATION IN NIGERIA AND THE UNITED STATES
In this book, the late Dr. Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason offers a combination of personal, historical and solicitous accounts on Ifa, the Yoruba divination deity. Using sites in Nigeria and the United States, he reveals various aspects of the religious...
$24.95
SEEDS OF NEW HOPE: PAN-AFRICAN PEACE STUDIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Seeds of New Hope: Pan African Peace Studies for the Twenty-first Century brings together leading academics and activists from four continents, presenting on issues relating to war and peace in Africa. With a focus on areas of positive change and...
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CADERNOS NEGROS BLACK NOTEBOOKS, VOL1: CONTEMPORARY AFRO-BRAZILIAN LITERARY MOVEMENT
This bilingual volume brings together the first comprehensive compilation of Afro-Brazilian literature produced by the Quilombhoje group over three decades of their existence as a cultural and political movement in Brazil.
$34.95
OLAUDAH EQUIANO AND THE IGBO WORLD: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND ATLANTIC DIASPORA CONNECTIONS
Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.
$34.95
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE AND THE POWER OF AFRICANA HISTORY: AFRICALOGICAL QUEST FOR DECOLONIZATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto...
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SHADES OF BELONGING: AFRICAN PENTECOSTALS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IRELAND
This book is the first study of the religious life of African immigrants in Ireland. Based on original research the book makes a significant contribution to our knowledge about Africans in Europe more generally. For over a century Ireland was...
$29.95
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Africa is a paradox that continues to baffle development scholars. With its largest stock of natural resources in the world, immense unused arable land and water, and a young population, it should have a record of significant economic growth and...
$39.95
THE RISE OF ELECTIVE DICTATORSHIP AND THE EROSION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL: PEACE, DECELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA
Unable to cope with the changing international political climate of the late 1980s/early 1990s following the end of the Cold-War, dictatorial regimes in Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire, and various other African countries including the Apartheid regime in South Africa...
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THEORIZING AFRICAN ORAL POETIC PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS: UDJE DANCE SONGS OF THE URHOBO PEOPLE
$21.95
THEORIZING AFRICAN ORAL POETIC PERFORMANCE AND AESTHETICS: UDJE DANCE SONGS OF THE URHOBO PEOPLE
Starting with the premise that literature and the arts are cultural productions, Tanure Ojaide finds using Western literary theory to judge African literary works, whether oral or written, not only missing the major aims of such creative works but also...
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BLENDING COLORS FROM LIFE: TRENTON'S OWN WATERCOLORIST, TOM MALLOY
Oral history comes alive in this fascinating tale of Tom Malloy (1912-), former Artist Laureate of Trenton, New Jersey and the darling of myriad art-lovers. Conversations with this self-taught, African-American master painter of cityscapes guide the reader through his adventures...
$24.95
