Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Africa: Volume 4: The End of Colonial Rule Nationalism and Decolonization
In this fourth volume of the Africa series, Falola presents various aspects of African history and culture from the period of World War II to the time when African countries became free of European rule. The book's primary aim is...
$45.00
Africa: Volume 5: Contemporary Africa
Contemporary Africa, edited by Toyin Falola captures the challenges, optimism and problems that face modern Africa, notably those of economic underdevelopment and political instability. African countries seek various answers, and they have recorded varying degrees of success as they attempt...
$50.00
The African American Studies Reader Second Edition
This book is the most comprehensive anthology in the field. The intellectual, political, and social aspects of African American Studies continue to evolve, as do the ways in which the discipline will advance knowledge about African Americans for the future....
$60.00
The African Civil Service Fifty Years after Independence With Case Studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria
This book provides an overview of the civil service in colonial and post-independence Africa. Using case studies from several countries, it examines the reasons for its growth and expansion; scrutinizes reform proposals, including “first and second generation” reforms and their...
$28.00
African Entrepreneurship in Jos, Central Nigeria, 1902-1985
This book recognizes the historic roles of African/Nigerian entrepreneurs in the economic development of Jos, in Nigeria’s central region, from the colonial period to 1985. It provides a comparative analysis of African/Nigerian enterprises (private and public) and foreign enterprises. The...
$35.00
African Unification Law, Problems, and Prospects
Ever since Edward Blyden, the Liberian of West Indian origin, began to conceptualize a West African state, African leaders, scholars and activists have envisaged cooperation, integration and also unification of the continent. The model form for them has been European...
$34.00
An African Music and Dance Curriculum Model Performing Arts in Education
This book discusses African music and dance curriculum development and implementation procedures, including the criteria for selecting the African music and dance curriculum content, a curriculum framework, as well as aesthetics and criticism of Ewe-African music and dance. An African...
$45.00
African-Centered Psychology Culture-Focusing for Multicultural Competence
African-Centered Psychology: Culture-Focusing for Multicultural Competence addresses various topics on the psychology of African people. Although most analyses focus on the African-U.S. diaspora, Azibo articulates principles that are applicable to most African populations. The book opens with an introduction to the...
$35.00
Africana Studies A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora comes at an important time, as Africans on the continent and their descendants in the US and in the Caribbean and Latin America and all over the globe...
$70.00
Against the Predators’ Republic Political and Cultural Journalism, 2007-2013
A collection of the author’s journalistic writings between 2007-2013, this book provides both documentation of and reflection on the many faces of social inequality in Africa’s largest country, Nigeria. At the heart of the book’s reportage and analyses is the...
$75.00
The Art of Livelihood Creating Expressive Agri-Culture in Rural Mali
To the casual observer, farming on the Mande Plateau in central Mali looks rather traditional, involving hand tools and crops that date back centuries. The same might be said for the region's famous antelope (ciwara) headdresses and dances, which have...
$30.00
Asante, Kingdom of Gold Essays in the History of an African Culture
Asante, Africa’s celebrated "kingdom of gold," offers to the scholar and interested reader alike the most richly documented of all of Africa’s historic societies. This history is embedded in and amplified by a vibrant oral tradition maintained by the Asante...
$150.00
Authority Stealing Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria
The post-Cold War world has produced a global consensus on the devastation caused by corruption in society. However, in spite of the growing awareness of the danger that corruption constitutes to democracy and development, and the growing number of anti-corruption...
$55.00
Between a Rock and a Hard Place African NGOs, Donors, and the State
Between a Rock and a Hard Place examines Africa's NGO boom of the late 1990s. In spite of the high expectations placed on African NGOs during this period, these organizations remain poorly understood. Today, Africa's NGO boom has been followed by...
$40.00
Black Judaism Story of an American Movement
Throughout most black societies today, there are Jews who are not accepted by the worldwide community of Rabbinic Jews. They are known as Black Jews, and the movement they represent is known as Black Judaism. Originating in the post-Civil War...
$65.00
Black Pearls of Wisdom Voicing the African-American Journey for Freedom, Empowerment, and the Future
$40.00
Black Pearls of Wisdom Voicing the African-American Journey for Freedom, Empowerment, and the Future
Today’s African Americans, along with the entire nation and much of the world, are facing societal challenges that are monumental. But are the problems insurmountable? Let us never forget a people and a nation that had to overcome slavery and...
$40.00
The Bukusu of Kenya Folktales, Culture and Social Identities
The Bukusu of Kenya: Folktales, Culture and Social Identities explores the social history in Bukusu folktales compiled in From Our Mothers’ Hearths: Bukusu Folktales and Proverbs. Folktales mirror life by reflecting what people do, what they think, and how they live, as...
$30.00
Carrying My Father's Torch A Memoir
This memoir chronicles the remarkable spiritual and educational journey of a poor village boy from Nigeria who, through sheer dint of hard work and unwavering Christian faith he learned from his father, struggled to realize his American dream. It serves...
$35.00
The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa Essays in Honor of Robin Law
Robin Law represents the best of the generation that emerged during one of the most eventful and exciting periods in African history and historiography. This book offers an assessment of his scholarship, most notably as an historian of Africa, through...
$55.00
Christianity and Social Change in Africa Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel
Christianity and Social Change in Africa is the most comprehensive look at the African encounter with Christianity in recent years. The book’s themes are drawn from the pioneering work of J.D.Y. Peel, building on his creative explanation of the African experience...
$65.00
Complicated Lives Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619–1865
Would the United States have developed differently if Virginia had not passed a law in 1670 proclaiming all subsequently arriving Africans as servants for life, or slaves? What if the state had not stripped all Free Blacks and Indians of...
$25.00
Conflict Resolution in Africa Language, Law, and Politeness in Ghanaian (Akan) Jurisprudence
Conflict Resolution in Africa: Language, Law, and Politeness in Ghanaian (Akan) Jurisprudence provides significant insights into culturally congruent African communicational mores for resolving conflicts. The author discusses the African concepts of power, politeness, and persuasion, how they index and are indexed...
$37.00
Contemporary African Literature New Approaches
Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches comprises essays that go beyond conventional literary studies to open new vistas for critical excursion. It deals not only with purely literary issues of canonization, language, aesthetics, and scholar-poet traditions that have barely been addressed directly...
$28.00
Contentious Politics in Africa Identity, Conflict, and Social Change
Since the decolonization of the African continent that began in earnest in the late 1950s, the trajectory of the continent’s socioeconomic change and development has seen its fair share of contentious politics. Such contentions range from benign forms of electoral...
$37.00
Contesting Islam in Africa Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010
$44.00
Contesting Islam in Africa Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010
Contesting Islam in Africa examines the experiences of “returnee” scholars, an emerging class of elites trained in Saudi and Egyptian theological universities, and their role in educational initiatives and the reconfiguration of Muslim identity in Ghana between 1920 and 2010. Based...
$44.00
Continuity and Change in a West African Society Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana
$40.00
Continuity and Change in a West African Society Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana
This book looks at the political economy of the Sisala of Northern Ghana, showing how the creation of their society was influenced from the very beginning by the world system — primarily through slave raiding. Mendonsa shows how their society...
$40.00
Converging Identities Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora
Converging Identities is a volume of sixteen essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity of the African Diaspora in global perspective, but focusing on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Given the historical factors that prompted Africans to...
$42.00
Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
$43.00
Creative Incursions Cultural Representations of Human Rights in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Considering the limitations of liberal democratic states and transnational organizations in safeguarding human rights in contemporary Africa and the black diaspora, this edited volume repositions the rights-based conversation by exploring representations of it across different cultural forms. The essays in...
$43.00
Culture, Society, and Politics in Modern African Literature Texts and Contexts
A gap exists between African literary texts and their interpretation for many scholars and readers of African literature today. Unfamiliar with the cultures, societies, and politics of Africa, some readers bring a perspective to the work that is at odds...
$20.00
The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing
There has been speculation, but no definitive answer, as to why many of the world’s fastest middle and long distance runners are from Kenya. Most of the fastest runners in Kenya come from only a few of the 42 tribes,...
$25.00