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ON THE MORNING TIDE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY IN THE HISTORICAL EBB AND FLOW OF HUDSON RIVER SOCIETY
On the Morning Tide, like the author’s earlier book, Long Hammering, continues the challenge of creating a more accurate image of the African American in the history of New York.
$24.95
SEASON'S OF HARVEST: ESSAYS ON THE LITERATURES OF ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE, CAPE VERDE, GUINEA BISSAU, AND SAO TOME-PRINCIPE
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world.
$24.95
JIMMA ABBA JIFAR: An Oromo Monarcy in Ethiopia (with a postcript)
Established around 1830, the Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar was the largest and most powerful of the five monarchies formed by the Oromo in the Gibe region of southwestern Ethiopia.
$21.95
IN THE LAND OF SOLOMON AND SHEBA
This is the fascinating story of an American family and their adventures set in the Semien mountains, the 8,000 feet highlands of northern Ethiopia. Dr. John Summerskill, the author's spouse, had been president of San Francisco State University.
$19.95
GEOGRAPHY OF A SOUL: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON KAMUA BRAITHWAITE
This important new work on Kamau Brathwaite includes work on and inspired by the subject, recognizing the power and influence of his poetry and other creative work, historical research and cultural and literary criticism.
$34.95
THREAD IN THE LOOM: ESSAYS ON AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Even in this age of globalism, Africa still hangs precariously on the margins as a zone of abysmal silence and disarticulation stripped of agency and talk-back capability.
$19.95
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN NIGERIA'S MIDDLE BELT: BORGU AND THE EMERGENCE OF A POLITICAL IDENTITY
$29.95
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN NIGERIA'S MIDDLE BELT: BORGU AND THE EMERGENCE OF A POLITICAL IDENTITY
The European partition of Africa at the end of the nineteenth century produced enduring geo-political changes. Some ethnic groups were permanently separated into different political formations and Borgu constituted one of the affected areas.
$29.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVE ON NURUDDIN FARAH
This is the first critical anthology on the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah is one of Africas most multilingual and multiliterate writers.
$34.95
PAN AFRICANISM AFRICAN NATIONALISM: Strenghtening the Unity Of Africa and Its Diaspora
A rich and textured monograph, which is destined to become the definitive work in the field. —Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
$34.95
MARVELS OF THE AFRICAN WORLD: CULTURAL PATRIMONY NEW WORLD CONNECTIONS, AND IDENTITIES
This book examines the cultural and spiritual connections between Africa and the New World where values continue to survive, thrive, and reverberate in the soul, politics, and creative expressions of Africa.
$39.95
PAGES FROM THE BOOK OF THE SUN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
This long-expected collection brings together some of the best poems by one of Africa’s most important poets.
$21.95
TWO WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES
Murray Last, the eminent editor of Journal of Modern African Studies, says about Two Weeks in the Trenches, “ I found it so moving that I couldn’t put it down....” He further notes that he found “The Heart,” one of the short...
$19.95
IN THE KINGDOM OF SONGS
In the Kingdom of Songs, a harvest of many years (1995-2000), Tanure Ojaide brings together related, but different poetic expeditions: “In the Kingdom of Songs, “ “Home Truths,” and “When It No Longer Matters
$19.95
VISIONS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: BLACK SCIENCE FICTION NOVELISTS WRITE THE FUTURE
In Visions of the Third Millenium, Sandra Grayson analyzes how writers of African descent use the codes of science fiction to explore race and gender, myth and language, slavery and freedom, alienation and difference.
$21.95
POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN WRITERS FROM AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THE U.S.
Postcolonial literary criticism has specialized in intercultural comparisons of literatures produced both under and after colonialism, focusing most often on groupings determined by the colonizing power.
$29.95
FEDERALISM IN AFRICA VOL. I: FRAMING THE NATIONAL QUESTION
This book is the first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development. It interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism.
$39.95
MIDDLE PASSAGE (THE): 105 DAYS
In The Middle Passage: 105 Days, Estella Conwill Majozo returns after her award-winning autobiography, Come Out the Wilderness, to delve into the awesome voyage of her captured ancestors
$14.95
FROM TYRANNY TO ANARCHY: The Somali Experience
What can be learned from the struggles in Somalia and Somaliland to help prevent the collapse of independent states and cultural groups when confronted by a series of today’s complex challenges, ranging from militarism, dictatorship
$24.95
CLOTHES OF NAKEDNESS
Into a poor, if jovial, world of a group of friends descends the intriguing and dapper Mystique Mysterious bearing attractive offers of a better life. Embracing him is to fall prey to his diabolical machinations; however, those that dare challenge...
$21.95
PAINTING FOR THE GODS: ART AND AESTHETICS OF YORUBA RELIGIOUS MURALS
This book focuses on indigenous painting traditions found on ancestral shrines of Yoruba divinities collectively known as orisa in southwestern Nigeria.
$29.95
NO EASY VICTORIES: AFRICAN LIBERATION AND AMERICAN ACTIVISTS OVER A HALF-CENTURY, 1950-2000
Tell no lies; claim no easy victories.-Amilcar Cabral, 1965 African news making headlines in the U.S.A. today is dominated by disaster: wars, famine, HIV/AIDS. Americans who respond—from Hollywood stars to ordinary citizens—are learning that real solutions require more than charity....
$29.95
IT GROWS IN WINTER: AND OTHER POEMS
Okafor's lyricism is highly reminiscent of such nature poets as William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and W.B.Yeats. W.B. Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree" shows his nostalgia for his Irish countryside
$14.95
POLITICS OF WAR AND THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: NORTH-SOUTH ESSAYS BY ALI A. MAZRUI
Ali A. Mazrui is arguably the leading African theorist on the role of violence in human affairs. This collection of essays illustrates his range. The spectrum of violence is from military coups and terrorism to nuclear proliferation, from individual
$29.95
REPATRIATION, INTEGRATION AND RESETTLEMENT: The Dilemmas Of Migration Among Eritrean Refugees In Eastern Sudan
Most official institutions involved with refugees perceive repatriation as the most durable solution to the global refugee problem.
$29.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AKINWUMI ISOLA
This book provides debates and representations of society to be found in the works of Akínwùmi Ìsòlá, one of the leading contemporary writers in African-language. His numerous creative works have received national and international attention, and many of them have...
$39.95
TRANSPLANTED IMAGINARY: LITERATURES IN NEW CLIMES
This volume includes essays on postcolonial literature, cross-cultural studies and multi-cultural scenarios as reflected in literature. It emphasizes, interestingly, the extent to which new literatures in English have altered/modified the canon of English literary studies thus allowing a larger space...
$29.95
GOLDEN APPLE: CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION
With The Golden Apple: Changing the Structure of Civilization, author Edgar Ridley offers readers an extended look at the need for mankind to abandon its historical dependence on destructive symbols and the shackles of symbolic thinking once and for all...
$24.95