Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
The Chant of Savant
The chant of savant is a philosophical soliloquy that aims to awaken and chastise Africans to know and fight for their rights vis-a-vis humungous resources Africa is endowed with without benefiting from them. Mhango gawks at, and guesstimates on why...
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Challenge of Culture in Africa. From Restoration to Integration
This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA - Cameroon Cultural Review - under the title 'Idea of Culture'. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which...
$48.00
C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d'Ivoire
The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu's precepts and workings...
$50.00
Canadian Institutions And Children's Best Interests
From Momany's wealthy and agonizing expibasketism so much can be drawn to teach about, demote or promote, and to portray Canada as it has never been properly understood; not only by outsiders but also by Canadians themselves. This book makes...
$48.00
Cameroon's Predicaments
This book deals with a variety of socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing Cameroon and the rest of Africa, with particular reference to unemployment, corruption, poverty, criminality, violence, insecurity, and moral decadence. It presents a critical analysis of government policies...
$58.00
Cameroon's Contemporary Culture and Politics: Prospects and Problems
This book addresses Cameroon's culture, education and language policies since independence, scholarship on and vigorous debate about them, their bearings on different visions of national development, and their place in the political struggle between autocracy and democracy since 1990. A...
$55.00
The Cameroon-Nigeria Border Dispute. Management and Resolution, 1981-2011
At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of uti possedetis juris by inheriting the colonial administrative borders whose delineation in some parts was either imperfect or not demarcated or both. The two countries tried to correct these...
$58.00
Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development
This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context, identifying the internal factors that impinge on good governance...
$58.00
Cameroon Grassfields Civilization
This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication...
$55.00
The Cameroon Condition
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and...
$55.00
Cameroon Anthology of Poetry
In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a...
$47.00
Building Capacity: Using TEFL and African Languages as Development-oriented Literacy Tools (English and Afrikaans Edition)
Building Capacity promotes the vision that the teaching of African languages can best achieve its aim of boosting the economic and cultural development of the Africans if they are made to work in synergy with a revamping of the course...
$62.00
Bridging Mobilities. ICTs Appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and The Netherlands
This is a study on the creative appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong, home and away. With a focus on Cameroonian migrants from Pinyin and Mankon who are currently...
$87.00
Bourgeon Divin: Temoignages (French Edition)
Ce livre dévoile un matériel ethnographique innovant, notamment, des événements dans lesquels des individus font face au super naturel, tel la réaction à la mort d'un enfant dont l'opération chirurgicale était considérée comme la réponse aux prières à Dieu, la...
$54.00
Born Nude
Born Nude is philosophical poetry that explores myriad themes, from equality to humility and environmental consciousness. It is divided into chapters that pinpoint specific areas of interest. The author delves into human weaknesses and strengths based on nature and nurture. He...
$30.00
Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter
The volume draws from René Devisch's encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones' activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently...
$61.00
Blessing
Fatti Ashi died. Startling her family and community, she comes back to life just a few hours after dying. Blessing chronicles the life of this Fatti Ashi, a young village girl who from the moment she rejoins the land of...
$39.95
Bites of Insanity
In this collection of poems Nsah Mala casts a critical compassionate gaze at the predicaments in the lives of present day Cameroonians. The poet lambasts power abuse in Cameroon and Africa. He decries the lost glory of traditional values sacrificed...
$38.00
The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat
The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat is redolent with creativity, weaving folklore and faith into literary and historical memoir. It is a brilliant synthesis of collective historiography and personal autobiography. While dense with episodes of the author's...
$39.00
Beyond Zimbabwe's 5.0 Education Model: A Critical Examination
This book provides a thought-provoking and comprehensive examination of Zimbabwe's ground-breaking 5.0 Education Model. As Zimbabwe grapples with the ever-evolving landscape of education, this timely work explores the ambitious 5.0 Education Model that has captured the nation's attention. The authors...
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Between Worlds
Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance...
$27.00
Between Rhetoric and Reality. The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
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Between Rhetoric and Reality. The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment...
$61.00
Best "New" African Poets 2015 Anthology
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs..., on identity, Africanness (Blackness,...
$46.00
Being Available and Reachable. New Media and Cameroonian Transnational Sociality
The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people readily available and reachable. Most theoretical literature states that these tools of sociality cement...
$69.00
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonization of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of...
$70.00
From the Browder File Vol II: Survival Strategies for Africans in America: 13 Steps to Freedom
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From the Browder File Vol II: Survival Strategies for Africans in America: 13 Steps to Freedom
We Africans in America have been socially engineered to reject our past, and far too many of us live in a state of suspended animation.
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Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity
Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity surveys the country’s most accomplished architectural firms, whose work enhances cities and landscapes across Canada’s geographically varied expanse. Author Leslie Jen explores a number of significant projects in urban and rural environments―private residences, cultural...
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Raising Confident Black Kids
A Comprehensive Guide for Empowering Parents and Teachers of Black Children How to Raise Black Kids in a Racist World #1 New Release in Teacher Resources and Student Life Raising Confident Black Kids includes everything Black and multi-racial families need to...
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I Do Not Sleep: A Novel
A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esque novel first appeared and whose work has never before been available in EnglishSixteen-year-old Nadia had...
$19.95