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HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR: A NOVELIST'S CURES FOR AFRICA
This book examines Ayi Kwei Armah's five novels: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), The Healers (1973), and Osiris Rising (1995). Drawing on a thorough discussion of the five novels, the book probes the resistive moves in the works of the Ghanaian...
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MASAMO YA KISASA: CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN SWAHILI
Masamo ya Kisasa is designed to enable students at the intermediate and advanced levels to read and understand authentic texts in Swahili. Appropriate for classroom or independent use, this book provides a transition to unassisted reading of journalistic, scholarly, and literary...
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MUSIC, WRITING AND CULTURAL UNITY IN THE CARIBBEAN
Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean brings together performers, writers, critics, and musicologists from the Dutch-, English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, as well as Britain and the United States. The collection explores the history of the circulation of music...
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NORTH-SOUTH LINKAGES AND CONNECTIONS IN CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERATURES
This volume collects some of the best presentations offered at the African Literature Association’s 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference venue, Fez, Morocco, was an apt setting for the conference’s theme: “Continental North-South and Diaspora Linkages and Connections,”...
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN HENRICK CLARKE: PAN AFRICAN NATIONALISM IN THE AMERICAS
As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing, constructing, debating, and preserving the study of African World history. His unique style and analyses postured from...
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POLITICS OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN AFRICA: FORCED CONSENSUS?
This book maps the policy process and political economy of policymaking in Africa. Its focus on trade and industrial policy makes it unique in the literature. Detailed case studies help the decisions can vary from country to country depending on...
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Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Globalization and Civil Society on Media-Government Relations
Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970 tells the rich and sometimes heroic story of the press in Liberia, from 1830, when the first newspaper was established, to 1970, the nadir of government control of the media. Early newspapers were infused...
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POLITICS OF TRANSITION IN AFRICA
The Politics of Transition comes out of a new Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) series of multidisciplinary readers, organized as teaching texts around themes central to African studies and development. Each volume will have guides to further reading and glossaries of...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS: KINYIRA NJIRA! STEP FIRMLY ON THE PATHWAY!
Kiny?ra Nj?ra! Presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Boston University, March 2-5, 2000. The book’s thematic title—a traditional G?k?y? blessing—echoes the lead essay by Prof. Ng?g? wa Thiong’o, urging African linguistics to move...
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POWER, POLITICS, AND THE AFRICAN CONDITION
Power, Politics, and the African Condition" is the third volume of The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, which will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali. A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings. The third volume is centered on issues of...
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THREE-FIFTHS THEOLOGY: CHALLENGING RACISM IN AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
Three-Fifths Theology is a unique book by two authors from different intellectual perspectives who both share an important perspective with one goal in mind. Written by an African American and a European American, this book enters the conversation about racism in American Christianity....
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Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture
With a population of about thirty million, the Yoruba people constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are internationally acclaimed for their high art, complex system of government, religion, and philosophy. This multi-authored book written...
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CHALLENGES OF A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION: Legal Development In Eritrea
The Challenges of a society in Transition: Legal development in Eritrea is an analytical account of the role and development of law in societies undergoing transition from one political order to another. It focuses on the legal transitions that Eritrea experienced,...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH ERITREAN POLITCAL PRISONERS
In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought could have been...
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GIFT OF INCENSE: A Story Of Love and revolution In Ethiopia
Gift of Incense chronicles a unique twentieth century story, the emigration to Ethiopia in the early 1960s of Judy Linder and of her marriage to African musician Abubaker Ashakih. What emerges from the pages of this book is not simply a...
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HISTORY OF THE CITY OF GONDAR
This brief history of Ancient Eritra captures its critical and familial history of the people of the region focusing on their origins, their various movements, their high cultures, and the infusion and intrusion of foreign powers and their cultures. It...
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PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Inverted Nationalism and the Crisis of Identity in Somalia
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PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Inverted Nationalism and the Crisis of Identity in Somalia
This book represents an attempt to introduce the notion of contested national identity as a theoretical framework for understanding the crisis of the nation-state in Africa, and Somalia in particular. The contributors to the volume share the perspective that one...
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Race and Identity in the Nile Valley: Ancient and Modern Perspectives
This volume pioneers the examination of issues of race and racism, ethnicity and identity in the major Nile Valley countries of Sudan and Egypt from ancient times to the present. Two major events have forced the issue. The study of...
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Ethiopia and Eritrea At War
The war that broke out between Eritrea and Ethiopia in May 1998 came like a bolt from the blue, as border skirmishes escalated into all out war. The two countries, which had been allies until that point, were pitched into...
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AFRICAN AFFIRMATIONS: SONGS FOR PATRIOTS
At a time when human existence is threatened by the absurdity of power and greed, Toure advances a poetry that celebrates and castigates, that kisses, curses and sings, reminding us as Blake, Whitman, Bly, Cardenal and Mackey that our soul...
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FIGURES IN A DANCE: THE THEATER OF W.B. YEATS AND WOLE SOYINKA
The correlation between the sensibility and the environment of an artist has been pivotal to critical debate for centuries and will continue to be so as long as the creative impulse and its expression remains an inexorable fact of life....
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AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN (THE)
Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognized. Concerned with Africans, who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to...
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FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE
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FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE
From the founding legends of Abyssinias royal house to the hidden hush harbors of black captives in the Americas southland, Mumia Abu-Jamal presents a moving portrayal of black faith over the span of 500 years. In this book, his first...
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FOUNDATIONS OF NIGERIA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF TOYIN FALOLA, VOL. 2
The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola Vol. 2 captures within the borders of a single volume a wide range of themes that underline the foundations of modern Nigeria, notably nationalism, constitutional development, politics and government, economy, culture,...
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PERIPHERAL PEOPLE: The Excluded Minorities Of Ethiopia
In southern Ethiopia, there are craftworkers and hunters who are vigorously excluded from mainstream society. As blacksmiths, potters, tanners, woodworkers, weavers, and hunters of wild animals, they fulfill important roles in society, yet many of them are considered by local...
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BETWEEN FAITH AND HISTORY
The road to John Agyekum Kufuors presidency was tortuous and reflects Ghanas political history, which since Kwame Nkrumah led to independence in 1957 and had been dominated by military interventions and dictatorships. Groomed for this job by some of Ghanas...
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MASKSONG FOR OUR TIMES
Masksong for our Times is a collection of poetry composed mainly in the masquerade idiom, which is characterized by song and chants, satirical comments and divinatory prophecies. As a central figure of the African traditional world, the masquerade speaks with the...
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AFRICAN WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATON: DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Providing a detailed, scholarly connection among the institutionalization of lynching,capital punishment, the escalation of the imprisonment of Black youth, and theimprisonment of Black political activists, Loss of Empire presents an intellectual andpolitical challenge to Black public intellectuals and political leaders...
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MULTILINGUALISM A Nigerian Case Study
Multilingualism: A Nigerian Case Study puts a national and international searchlight on the Nigerian socio-linguistic scenario through a description and analysis of the language landscape in its various ramifications. It provides a readily accessible, stimulating and fairly comprehensive description of the...
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DECOLONIZING THE ACADEMY: AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES
Decolonizing the Academy" asserts that the academy is perhaps the most colonized space. As we enter the twenty-first century, this has become even clearer now that the academy is one of the primary sites for the production and re-production of...
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