Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECTED NORTH AND EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from North and East Africa: A Sister to Scheherazade by Assia Djebar, Fountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz, Woman at Point Zero
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BUILDING A NEW NATION: Collected Articles On the Eritrean Revolution (1983-2002) Vol. 2
In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritreas besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermaththe summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front page account in "The Washington Post"...
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AFRICAN THEATRE: Southern Africa
Articles and interviews on theatre in Southern Africa include the familiar territory of South Africa and Zimbabwe but also countries which have received little previous attention, such as Angola and Namibia. The articles range from evaluations of single plays to...
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BREAKING BARRIERS, CREATING NEW HOPES: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
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BREAKING BARRIERS, CREATING NEW HOPES: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
Africa in the last two decades has witnessed complex, intricate, but dynamic political struggles aimed at evolving a new culture of politics and norms of political governance. This process, which is largely variegated and contradictory, has seen dominant orthodoxy under...
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LIVERPOOL OF WEST AFRICA: THE DYNAMICS AND IMPACT OF MARITIME TRADE IN LAGOS 1900-1950
This book examines the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos within the cycles of boom and slump in the first half of the twentieth century which coincided with the heyday of British colonial rule.
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UNLAWFUL OCCUPATION: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND URBAN POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BRAZIL
The international and comparative aspects of the book are particularly noteworthy. Part one provides an international perspective on informal settlement intervention in Brazil and South Africa. It tracks the development of influential international positions on informal settlement intervention and argues...
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Restless City And Christmas Gold
In this collection of fifteen stories, Cyprian Ekwensi brings together glimpses of city life, love, and death. In addition, he captures the tragic, commercial, and spiritual aspects of Christmas in two West African cities. This collection ranges in time from...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. II
Chinua Achebes influence on contemporary African Literature is as much evident in his art of the novel, as his articulation of African poetics and aesthetics in his extra fictional pronouncements. He is as much the father of the modern African...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE AFRICAN PROSE NARRATIVE
This collection of essays aims at introducing students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics...
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LEGACIES OF JULIUS NYERERE: INFLUENCES ON DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSES AND PRACTICE IN AFRICA
Julius Kambarage Nyerere is widely recognized as one of the most important African figures of the twentieth century. From politics to economics to language policy and education, Nyerere has had an important influence on development discourse and practice in Africa and...
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NEW WOMEN'S WRITING IN AFRICAN LITERATURE #24
This book is about discoveries made in the course of carrying out research on African literatures in well-stocked archives in various parts of the world. Many of the essays collected here deal with early publications and manuscripts by now-famous writers...
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ETHICS AND THE INTERNET IN WEST AFRICA: TOWARD AN ETHICAL MODEL OF INTEGRATION
The whole world is currently undergoing a period of profound change brought about by the development of the worldwide information and communications network, the Internet, which affects every sphere of social life. This book focuses specifically on ethical questions related...
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COPING WITH TORTURE
Stark paintings - some in brilliant colors and others in subdued tones - convey the horror of torture in the ghost houses in Khartoum and the agony of enslavement and dispossession in the Nuba mountains and southern Sudan. Originally exhibited...
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POSTMODERISM, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND AFRICAN STUDIES
When Kwame Appiah asked the question whether “post” in “postcolonial” was the “post” in “postmodern,” he challenged the theoretical tenets of both postmodernism and postcolonial studies and opened up a space for a dialogue, which unfortunately, only a handful of...
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SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA
In this extensively researched and thoughtful study, Dei raises fundamental questions about the state of education in contemporary Ghana that has relevance for many other countries in Africa and the global South. He interrogates not only the political and pedagogical...
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Science and Technology in Africa
Innovations in the African context, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which has a large informal economy cannot be measured with the conventional metrics employed in developed economies. Hence, it is important to build capacity to develop appropriate system of innovation indicators for...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES: THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
This book is designed to explore the following challenges and imperatives for African countries in the 21st century: liberalization of commercial and industrial activities in a deliberate effort to make them the preserve of the private sector, generation of an...
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
It is commonly held that the Koran has more specific rules for organizing society than does the Bible: thus while Islamic activists see the Koran as a model from which they can derive concrete and all-encompassing instructions, Christians view the...
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SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: CENTENNIEL REFLECTIONS
In this curriculum guide, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History continues its emphasis on Du Bois’ prophetic statement first enunciated at the Pan-African Conference of 1900 that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the...
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF BORDERLANDS (THE): TWO NATIONS ONE COMMUNITY
he central pursuit of this book is to demonstrate using the Idiroko/Igolo community on the Nigeria/Benin border the link between language and identity. It raises and discusses issues of identity within a sociolinguistic framework, focusing on the ways in which...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS: LINGUISTICTYPOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES #5
For the thirty third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired, and used. This volume represents a selection...
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Walking a Tightrope: Towards a History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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YOUNG AFRICA: REALISING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM PB
This ground-breaking volume provides scholars with a sustained exploration of human sexuality as an integral part of gender studies. The books theoretical, interpretative, and analytical approaches document the state of present knowledge on homoeroticism in African literature and film. The...
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Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything in Life
Do you know who - and what - you are? Do you know who you're meant to be? Do you know how to find the answers to questions like these? Knowledge of Self is the result of a process of...
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Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, this harrowing true story of two young men from Ghana and their quest for asylum highlights not only the unjust political system of their homeland, but the chaos of the United States’ failing immigration...
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Africa, Empire and Globalization Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins
Previously published as a jacketed hardback, this book is now bound as a paperback. Africa, Empire and Globalization is a set of original essays in honor of the distinguished historian, Professor A. G. Hopkins, whose career of over fifty years covers...
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Africa: Volume 1 African History and Culture Before 1900 Second Edition
Africa: Volume 1, African History and Culture Before 1900, provides new perspectives on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity of African experiences...
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Africa: Volume 2: African Cultures and Societies Before 1885
Africa: Volume 2 is part of a series of books which adopts a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity...
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Africa: Volume 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939
Along with Africa, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Volume 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939 adopts a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity...
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