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DISINTEGRATION: THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative...
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Dr. King's Refrigerator (PB)
A sly, witty, and insightful collection of short stories from National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson. Product details Publisher : Scribner (November 5, 2011) Language : English Paperback : 144 pages ISBN-10 : 0743264541 ISBN-13 : 978-0743264549 Item Weight : 5.6 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.5...
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DEATH OF A MYTH: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON NIGERIA
Known as the "Giant of Africa," Nigeria is without doubt a country of immense natural and human resources. It has, however, managed to remain hardly more than a gnome. After decades of debilitating military dictatorship and the demise of another...
$25.42
DEATH OF DIGNITY: ANGOLA'S CIVIL WAR
'Tells the miserable story of a revolution destroyed, analysing the moves of the mighty and speaking up for the millions who have suffered as a result.' Guardian 'Few journalists know Angola better than Victoria Brittain. This is an excellent and...
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DEBT-COLLECTOR (THE): AND OTHER STORIES
The Debt-Collector and Other Stories deals with African reality from traditional to modern times. The ten stories are snapshots of human experience told from different perspectives and covering the vast stretch of society. They range from the origin of witchcraft,...
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DEMILITARIZING THE MIND: AFRICAN AGENDAS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
This book highlights a central, but neglected component of Africas complicated and intractable wars: the militarization of governance. Political cultures of militarism stand in the way of enduring peace, democracy, and the development of civil society. Militarism comes in both...
$22.23
DEPTH AND DESTINY OF WORK: AN AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
This book seeks to develop a theology of work as a foundation and motivation for engaging with the discourse on globalization. The book approaches globalization as the spatial distribution of work. Globalization is in a sense work spread out on...
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Devil in a Blue Dress (PB)
The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery...
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DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: the Self and The Other
This book is a contribution to Arab-Muslim-Western dialogue. The book underlines the hazardous consequences of the strategy of preemptive war on this dialogue. According to the author, Samuel Huntington s Clash of Civilizations has provoked a needless tension among peoples...
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DIPLOMACY AND DIPLOMATS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ASANTE
A study of indigenous diplomatic patterns in Asante, providing an analysis of the personnel, procedures and institutions behind Asante's international relations with its English, Dutch, Danish and Arabic speaking neighbours. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 1997) Language...
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DAMBUDZO MARECHERA: A SOURCE BOOK ON HIS LIFE AND WORK
Years after his death, Dambudzo Marechera is still one of the most exciting and subversive writers Africa has produced. A cult hero for young Zimbabweans and a thorn in the flesh of officialdom, Marechera continues to inspire and disturb. In...
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DANCE OF DEATH: NIGERIAN HISTORY AND CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S POETRY
Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets whose life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This book represents a definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians...
$21.95
CONTESTING SACRED SPACE: A PILGRIMAGE STUDY OF THE MWALI CULT OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
This is a study of pilgrimage to the Njelele shrine, a major sacred centre of the Mwali cult, the Southern Africa's cult of the High God. This study is mainly about the importance of sacred centres as central places, in...
$29.95
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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CONVERSE KISWAHILI
Converse Kiswahili Ongea (English and Swahili Edition)
Product details
Language : English, Swahili
Paperback : 250 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865432295
ISBN-13 : 978-0865432291
Item Weight : 9.3 ounces
Dimensions : 4.5 x 0.75 x 7.5 inches
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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 in Cairo in 2000,...
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Copper Sun (HB)
Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village, it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an...
$19.99
Copper Sun (PB)
Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village, it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an...
$11.99
Creative Wizards
Creative Wizards, a companion to Proper Ladies: Selected African-American/Women of Color in the Fine & Lively Arts, gives a terse account of the artistic contributions to humanity by men of color from a global perspective. Emphasis has been fixed on...
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CROSSING MEMORIES: Slavery and African Diaspora (COMING SOON)
This volume examines the history and the memory of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the period of the transatlantic slave trade until the present day. Using diverse approaches and a myriad of sources, the contributors investigate how slavery...
$19.70