Cultural Literature
Things Fall Apart
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThings Fall Apart is the...
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THE AFRICAN TRILOGY: THINGS FALL APART/NO LONGER AT EASE/ARROW OF GOD (COMING SOON)
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINQUISTICS: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO AFRICAN LINGUISTICS
The first of a new series devoted to the study of African linguistics, this study presents papers on a wide range of disciplines pertinent to the field that will be of interest to students and researchers. This first volume includes...
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Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa
The twenty essays in this volume explore the institution of debt bondage in Africa, in which individuals were held as collateralusually by members of the same familyin lieu of debts that had been incurred. The reliance on personal relationship to...
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CHINUA ACHEBE: TEACHER OF LIGHT
Chinua Achebe is one of the worlds leading novelists, a writer who, according to Nadine Gordimer, "makes you laugh and then catches your breath in horror." Growing up in the cultural crossroads of colonial Nigeria, he lived and mediated in...
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EMBATTLED GODS: THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF IGBOLAND, 1841-1991 (PB) (COMING SOON)
This book explores the story of the presence of the gospel in many African communities, which the author asserts, starts from the peoples cultural backgrounds and contours through the patterns of the insertion of the gospel to the challenges of...
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HIGHTOWER: IBHAYU POETRY
This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war, also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of the River Niger, was for long absent in the...
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WATER GODDESS IN IGBO COSMOLOGY: OGBUIDE OF OGUTA LAKE
This evocative study of a water Goddess among the Igbo of Lake Oguta in southeastern Nigeria, thoroughly explores the rituals, beliefs and social organization associated with rituals of women's power. A form of Mammy Wata found through coastal Western Africa...
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POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF ONITSHA
Located on the eastern bank of the lower Niger, Onitsha is one of the leading commercial cities and road transport hubs in Nigeria. Its main market is reputed to be the biggest in West Africa. Founded well before the twentieth...
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Visions of Nationhood: Prelude to the Nigerian Civil War, 1960-1967
Visions of Nationhood is a refreshingly bold and informed study of why Nigeria s three dominant sub-national groups the Hausa-Fulani of the Northern Region, the Igbo of the Eastern Region, and the Yoruba of the Western Region were collectively unable...
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EMBATTLED GODS HB
Embattled Gods: Chrisitianization of Igboland, 1841-1991
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (June 1, 2003)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1592211151
ISBN-13 : 978-1592211159
Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the pastIn the wake of...
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#1960now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests (Social Justice Book, Civil Rights Photography B
The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, #1960Now sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Black...
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for...
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Black Water Rising (PB)
Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist) “A near-perfect balance of trenchant social...
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Homegoing
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be...
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it...
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American Spy
“American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.”—Entertainment Weekly“There has never been anything like it.”—Marlon James, GQ“So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it’s extremely tough to put down.”—NPRNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS...
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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEEFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.“Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening.” -Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling...
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Libertie (Available March 30,2021)
Named One of the Most-Anticipated Books of 2021 by:O, The Oprah Magazine, The Millions, Refinery29, Garden & Gun, Publishers Lunch, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, BookPage, Harper's Bazaar, Ms. Magazine, and more“Pure brilliance. So much will be written about Libertie—how it blends history and magic into a new kind of telling, how...
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