Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
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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GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 2
By using the case study of Guinea, the author explores systemically (1) the nature of the single-party regime and the role of first-generation post-colonial African leadership, (2) the central role of ideology in the twin-programs of statecraft and nation-building by...
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MANNA FROM THE MOTHERLAND
The close relationship between food and the spiritual dimensions of ones life is the focus of Manna from the Motherland. A central theme in the book is that the health and happiness we all deserve can easily be experienced when we...
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ORIGINS OF MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT: ITS DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
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ORIGINS OF MODERN AFRICAN THOUGHT: ITS DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
For the better part of two centuries, racial domination has been the central concern of African social thought. Other questions, among them national identity, the role of chieftaincy, representation, justice, and constitutional design, have often been defined in relation to...
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PROVOCATIONS OF AMNESTY: MEMORY, JUSTICE AND IMPUNITY
A key event in South Africas recent past was the granting of amnesty through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores issues such as: · Was amnesty in South Africa a political compromise?· What are the...
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WRITER AS MYTH MAKER: SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON WOLE SOYINKA
South Asian readers and scholars find Wole Soyinka and his work especially fascinating. The manner in which he deals with colonial and postcolonial experience, the metaphysical strain embedded in his commentaries on his Yoruba heritage, and the numerous comparisons he...
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LONG JOURNEY HOME (THE): A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976
"The Long Journey Home" recounts the history of the black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, from 1776-1976. This was a much-needed journey through the pages of history to rediscover a communitys pa
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SHAPING OUR STRUGGLES:B189 NIGERIAN WOMEN IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
This Volume dealing with various aspects of Ethiopia's varied social history, is devoted by and large to the northern central highlands, and covers the period from early medieval times to the region of Emperor Tewodros II
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ARABIC FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDICS
Arabic for English Speaking Medics is based on simple conversations that typically take place in familiar medic-patient situations. These provide the learner with the words and phrases most commonly used in medical settings as the hospital bedside and the admissions...
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
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NO EASY ROW FOR A RUSSIAN HOE: IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM IN NIGERIAN-SOVIET RELATION, 1960-1991
By exploring the dynamics of the relationship between Nigeria and the USSR from the time of Nigeria's independence in 1960 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this book presents a revisionist examination of the important yet often...
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Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval
In light of the turn to culture in analysing African politics, this book re-examines some of the ideas and practices of three of the most influential activists-practioners of nationalism in thought and deed in AfricaFrantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, and the...
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
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RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE CONFLICT: DEBATING THE AFRICAN CONDITION, MAZRUI AND HIS CRITICS, VOL. 1
Is Ali Mazrui a visionary or a vacuous intellectual? Is he reactionary, revolutionary or essentially a radical pragmatist? These questions were the focus of a special plenary session of the Conference of the African Association of Political Science that took...
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TOWN CRIER: SELECTED POEMS
Over the years, Tayo Olafioye has published a series of works and most importantly, collections of poetry that cover divergent subjects such as culture, family, international encounters, politics, and a gamut of the human condition. This is a selection of...
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from West Africa: Camara Laye’s The Dark Child, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood, and...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. I
Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century is widely regarded as Africas best novelist to date, and one of the worlds greatest. His narrative style and techniques have given rise to what has been characterized as the African...
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ROMANCING THE GUN: THE PRESS AS A PROMOTER OF MILITARY RULE
This books rare insight on media practice shakes conventional notions of the role and enabling environment of the modern press. "Romancing the Gun" rattles academic tradition by illustrating that Nigerias hard-hitting press has not only thrived better while military regimes...
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Strike a Woman, Strike a Rock: Fighting for Freedom in South Africa
In this trenchant and compelling book, Barbara Hutmacher MacLean reveals the lives of a cross section of South African women who courageously opposed apartheid in ways the world never knew: blacks who risked death and torture by opposing the governments...
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