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EASTERN AFRICAN POPULAR SONGS Verbal Art in States of Transformation
Aaron Rosenberg s study constitutes a provocative reassessment of the relationship between African songs and the literatures of Eastern Africa. The focus of the book is a detailed analysis of language, form, and theme as they apply to a wide...
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INVISIBLE JIM CROW: CONTEMPORARY IDEOLOGICAL THREATS TO THE INTERNAL SECURITY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
Unlike previous epochs in the United States, African Americans are not constantly reminded of inequality by fire hoses, attack dogs, lynchings, state sanctioned mob violence and various forms of overt de facto and de jure racial structuring. Because of this,...
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Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story
In Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story, the reader is offered a vivid portrait of the President of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of the Sudan. The author unobtrusively facilitates the encounter, withdrawing to leave the reader in...
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945): The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
Duse Mohamed Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Egyptian father and a Sudanese Mother. He attended King s College of London. In 1885 at age of nineteen, he started a career as a stage actor that lasted for...
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MULATU ASTATKE: The Making Of Ethio Jazz
Mulatu was the first Ethiopian jazz music-maker to study abroad and thus be exposed to Western musical trends. When he returned to Addis Ababa he pursued his dream of drawing on the musical heritage of his homeland a heritage that...
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Christian Missions in Africa: v. II: Success, Ferment and Trauma, the Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays/Ogbu Kalu 2)
The narratives and analyses in this volume will enable scholars of global Christianity to discern how the shifting center of gravity in Christianity is being played out in Africa. Kalu in these essays do not simple record demographic shift, numerical...
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IN MY LIFETIME: TOWARDS PRESIDENCY+B529 OF BARACK OBAMA
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, the recurring confession heard across Black America was, I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Especially among the older generations of Southerners was...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NAWAL EL SAADAWI (COMING SOON)
This edited volume focuses on the writings of Nawal El Saadawi, generally acclaimed as the Arab world s leading feminist and iconoclast . Saadawi s concerns and advocacy for the struggles of women of the Arab world have progressively blossomed...
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EARLY ACHEBE
Early Achebe deals with the essays, stories, and groundbreaking novels Chinua Achebe published between 1951 and 1966 during the first phase of the writer s long and distinguished literary career. Lindfors, a longstanding and renowned scholar and critic of African...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON FEMI OSOFISAN
This anthology presents the most comprehensive and up to date critical works on the creative ingenuity of Femi Osofisan, one of the most prolific contemporary African writers. As shown in many of the essays in the volume, Osofisan s creative...
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I OWN MY DESTINY: Poems (written in the Tigrinya language)
I Own My Destiny
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Publisher : The Red Sea Press (February 3, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 78 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569022615
ISBN-13 : 978-1569022610
Item Weight : 2.4 ounces
$14.95
MY MOTHER WHO IS ME: LIFE STORIES FROM JAMAICAN WOMEN IN NEW YORK
Book by Bishop, Jacqueline
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Publisher : Africa World Press (June 9, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 232 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213448
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213443
Item Weight : 10.3 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.5 x 7.75 inches
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BLOOD LUXURY: POEMS
“In the Black Arts Tradition of Amiri and Abiodun, Askia and Larry Neal, Sis. Sonia and Jayne Cortez, Ewuare Osayande comes forth singing out of Philly's grim promise. Fiery and explicit, focused and unsparing, with echoes of Langston, David Walker,...
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AMINA: A NOVEL
Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social...
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MANNA FROM THE MOTHERLAND
from the Motherland. A central theme in the book is that the health and happiness we all deserve can easily be experienced when we choose a healthy diet, live with conscious intention, and cultivate spiritual qualities. Using some of the...
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GIFT OF INCENSE: A Story Of Love and revolution In Ethiopia
Book by Ashakih, Abubakar, Ashakih, Judith
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Publisher : Africa World Press (January 1, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 1569021813
ISBN-13 : 978-1569021811
Item Weight : 13.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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DECOLONIZING THE ACADEMY: AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES
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 ideas that serve the interests of colonizing powers. Operating at the macro level in terms of...
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BETWEEN FAITH AND HISTORY (COMING SOON)
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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BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE
The ever-engaging work of the controversial Afro-German activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes: biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is...
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AMILCAR CABRAL: REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP AND PEOPLE'S WAR
This book, first published in 1983 by Cambridge University Press and now issued for the first time in paperback with a new preface, tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissaus nationalist movement, became one of...
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