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MINES OF HIS MIND: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKS OF TAYO OLAFIOYE
This book contains a rich deposit of ideas and the consequent social commentary that arise in the complete works of Tayo Olafioye in prose, verse and critical formats. By associating Olafioyes work with a mine, the editors
$29.95
WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR
This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war, also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of the River Niger, was for long absent in the...
$29.95
AFRICAN JIHAD: Bin Laden's Quest For the Horn Of Africa.
The African Jihad is a fascinating examination of the efforts by international jihadists to bring about their grand vision of Islamist hegemony in the greater Horn of Africa region. These efforts began with the collaboration between Al Qaeda and the National...
$21.95
HIGHER EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA: PARADIGMS OF DEVELOPMENT, DECLINE AND DILEMMAS
Few regions of the world can boast of having the same level of potential and natural endowments as Africa. Yet, it is a tragic irony that the continent is incontestably the most unsuccessful in providing the human and capital resources...
$34.95
FROM MOGADISHU TO DIXON: The Somali Diaspora In A Global Context
For nearly two decades, and particularly since the civil war, Somali men, women, and sometimes even children without families fled the country in droves. Some sought refuge amongst established Somali communities in the Horn of Africa
$34.95
CONFIGURING THE AFRICAN WORLD: ESSAYS ON CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORIC LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Some of the essays in Configuring The African World were published in Nigeria a few years ago (On Black Culture, Obafemi Awolowo University Press).
$24.95
SAFEGUARDING THE HEALTH SECTOR IN TIMES OF MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY: POLICY LESSONS FOR LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and adjustment measures. Are these systems flexible and...
$29.95
WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
$24.95
WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
This book examines almost two hundred years of race and ethnic relations and white-on- black racism in Dubuque, Iowas oldest industrial city, in connection with political and economic developments at the local, state, and national levels.
$24.95
WOMEN TO WOMEN: YOUNG AMERICANS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Women to Women" represents a remarkable conversation among South African and American women about race, class and gender and the challenge of building an egalitarian nation out of the remnants of one of the most unequal societies in the worldapartheid-era...
$15.95
BEAUTY IN BLACK PERFORMANCE: PLAYS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
The four plays in this book bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatize the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (May 26,...
$24.95
ELOBI: POEMS
elobi/ the chant is born of a swallowed screamof speech dilutedin beads of tearsdried by masculine modestytrue speechretreated to the bordersof withdrawal elobi is the specifically cameroonian way of referring to the wet, swampy areas that
$12.95
BREAKING STONE SILENCE: GIVING VOICE TO AIDS PREVENTION IN AFRICA
Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (March 1, 2006) Language : English...
$24.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON BESSIE HEAD
This long-awaited anthology covers new thoughts and theories on the eminent and controversial writer, Bessie Head. Ever since her death in 1986, at the early age of forty-nine, Head has continued to capture our political, historical, and social imagination. This...
$24.95
LOKOTOWN AND OTHER STORIES
Cyprian Ekwensi is the outstanding chronicler of Nigerian city life. In this collection of his short stories, all the excitement and urgency as well as the seediness and disillusion that make up the world of the Hotel France, the Harlem,...
$14.95
PARLIAMENT OF IDIOTS: TRYST OF THE SINATORS
The new voices [of Africa], such as Tayo Olafioye, are a clear example of the break with the idyllic verses Africa was singing.
$14.95
TEMBA TUPU! (WALKING NAKED): AFRICANA WOMEN'S POETIC SELF-PORTRAIT
Temba Tupu! is a one-of-a-kind anthology brimming with a cross-section of poetic styles that represent the creative genius of Africana women from the beginning of written records.
$39.95
FROM A RED ZONE: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics and Culture
This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power, from scholarly works embedded in academic disciplines to “ethnic” museums and several race-based exclusionary political practices
$24.95
CHANGING CURRENTS: TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary. Product details Publisher...
$34.95
IMAGINING EVIL: WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS AND ACCUSATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
Here is a book on witchcraft written mostly by Africansscholars, but also human rights activists and religious practitioners. It discusses witchcraft beliefs and accusations in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
$29.95
LEGITIMIZING HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA
Drawing on lessons from the human rights NGOs in Nigeria, this book argues that most NGOs in Africa will need to do almost all of the following if they are to overcome the popular legitimization crisis that they currently face...
$29.95
BLOOD LUXURY: POEMS
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (November 15, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 110 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592214061
ISBN-13 : 978-1592214068
$16.95
IGBO ART AND CULTURE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by the anthropologist, Simon Ottenberg. Focus is on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria
$39.95
IGBO RELIGION, SOCIAL LIFE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
In this volume Emeritus Professor Simon Ottenberg presents a number of detailed essays on the religious life of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria and on the Limba of northern Sierra Leone, based on extensive anthropological field research
$39.95
LIVING IN BABYLON: POEMS AND PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING, "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?"
Esther Iverems new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditation that proves the adage that the personal is political, and the political is profoundly personal.
$14.95
LION-MAN AND OTHER STORIES
Lion-Man & Other Stories is a collection of short stories culled from the culture and folklore of the indigenous people of Bamunka. Bamunka is a small village with a population of approximately 76,500
$14.95
KWAME NKRUMAH'S LIBERATION THOUGHT: A PARADIGM FOR RELIGIOUS ADVOCACY IN CONTEMPORARY GHANA
This book is an attempt to recapture the liberation philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), first prime minister and first president of the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. The goals of this study are threefold: first,
$29.95
DIASPORA BLUES
Timeless and timely, there is verse and music in Diaspora Blues tuned by an acute intelligence. Ali Jimale Ahmeds pithy and elegant lines span the range from the classical Arabic jewels of an al-Maari, to the kind of ironies that grace the discursive...
$14.95
ZARA YACOB: Rationality of the Human Heart
Through a rare autobiographical act, Zara Yacob, who acquainted himself with the teachings of the Catholic Church introduced by Portuguese Jesuit missions in Sixteenth-century Ethiopia, becomes the first self-conscious founder of a philosophical tradition in Ethiopia. Indeed, it is a...
$19.95