Cultural Literature
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,...
$20.75
BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES: COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (COMING SOON)
May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. This case is considered to be the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and one of the...
$24.95
INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Institutions and Development in Africa is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa. It contains a refreshing, rigorous and informative analysis of underdevelopment in Africa using the tools of public choice theory and...
$34.95
ARISE YE MIGHTY PEOPLE!: WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (April 1, 1994)
Language : English
Paperback : 273 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865433011
ISBN-13 : 978-0865433014
Item Weight : 12.9 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
$18.45
ARISE YE MIGHTY PEOPLE!: WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD (HB)
Arise Ye Mighty People!: Gender, Class and Race in Popular Struggles Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (March 1, 1994) Language : English Hardcover : 273 pages ISBN-10 : 0865433003 ISBN-13 : 978-0865433007 Item Weight : 12.8 ounces Dimensions : 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches...
$11.98
GLOBALIZATION AND URBANIZATION IN AFRICA
Scholars present new interpretations of African cities, from the pre-colonial to the modern, set in the context of national and international economy, politics and culture. While providing insights into the evolution of African cities, they also raise issues of vital...
$29.95
Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 1: Framework Papers (PB)
This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa’s...
$30.96
Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 1: Framework Papers (HB) (COMING SOON)
Africa And The World Trading System
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (June 1, 2005)
Language : English
Hardcover : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592211321
ISBN-13 : 978-1592211326
Item Weight : 1.5 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
$99.95
MODERNITY AN+B386D THE AFRICAN CINEMA: A Study in Colonialist Discourse, Post-Coloniality, and Modern African Identities
This book argues that the construction of modern African identity in all spheres of life, including the cinematic institution, is a product of the Euro-African contact that started in the fifteenth century. Traditional African institutions, which were overlaid with European...
$34.95
CANTATA FOR JIMMY
"There is quietness in this poetry that reflects deepness past its own use! Or it seems that way. Rashidah lines up the words to make statements of memory, exhilaration, passion, with a casual formality, as if she thought about that....
$12.95
ARROWS AND THE BOW (PB)
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Publisher : Red Sea Pr; UK ed. edition (December 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 63 pages
ISBN-10 : 156902197X
ISBN-13 : 978-1569021972
Item Weight : 3.46 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
$14.95
GENDER, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE: UNDERSTANDING SWAHILI CULTURAL REALITIES THROUGH SONGS
This book analyzes the intersection between gender and identity within popular performance of the Swahili people of Mombasa. Juxtaposing cultural norms with everyday practices, Ntarangwi explores how gender and identity are practiced, constructed, mobilized, and contested through popular musical expressions...
$8.25
MARVELS OF THE AFRICAN WORLD: CULTURAL PATRIMONY NEW WORLD CONNECTIONS, AND IDENTITIES (COMING SOON)
This book examines the cultural and spiritual connections between Africa and the New World where values continue to survive, thrive, and reverberate in the soul, politics, and creative expressions of Africa. Drawing from an underlying theme of shared heritage, belonging,...
$55.00
AFROBEAT: FELA AND THE IMAGINED CONTINENT (COMING SOON)
In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a "bard of the misrule" emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela...
$55.00
DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM (THE): DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES (COMING SOON)
There is hardly a debate that is more controversial than the African discourse on feminism. Anti-feminist positions are widespread in Africa. On the one hand, there are those who reject feminist ideas fundamentally. Most of their arguments do injustice to...
$29.95
LET'S LEARN TWI: MA YENSUA TWI
This guide to Twi, the language of the Akan people of Ghana, incorporates Akan culture into the instruction. While primarily of use to the lay person, it will, however, also be welcomed by the more academic linguist wishing to learn...
$34.95
LIKE WATER RUNNING OFF MY BACK
This collection of poetry is a window into the mind and soul of a young poet intent on searching for the "truth in everything." Molefi Asante, Jr. writes in the tradition of African American poets who have laid a foundation...
$12.95
AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH (PB)
African Women's Health
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 1st edition (February 1, 2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 253 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865438129
ISBN-13 : 978-0865438125
Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
$23.30
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
This book, published for and on the behalf of the United Nations, seeks to identify, in an international perspective, what has and has not worked in structural adjustment programs in Africa. It attempts to explain key weaknesses in these programs,...
$19.95
AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERANCE (PB)
African Perspectives on Governance
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (September 1, 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 086543719X
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437197
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 5.25 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches
$10.89