Cultural Literature
MAKING AND BREAKING STATES IN AFRICA: The Somali Experience
This book analyzes crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with modernity , the Somalis illustrate the extremes of modern African statehood. In contemporary Somalia which, for twenty years has not been...
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GENUINELY GHANAIAN: A HISTORY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH GHANA, 1961-2000
Genuinely Ghanaian is the fascinating history of the Methodist Church Ghana, from the time of its autonomy, 1961, to the year 2000. This book shows how missiological issues of contextualization and outreach have shaped the history of the Methodist Church...
$29.95
AFRICA RISING: Multidisciplinary Discussions on Africana Studies and History
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Publisher : Africa World Press (January 1, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 194 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592217176
ISBN-13 : 978-1592217175
Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.51 x 0.51 x 8.39 inches
$27.35
KOSSOYE: A Village Life In Ethiopia
This fascinating and relevant interdisciplinary book is the result of personal histories of service and research that have now spanned nearly five decades. More specifically, it explores life in an Ethiopian village over the course of five generations. The first...
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A NATION BETRAYED: NIGERIA AND THE MINORITIES
The 1950s were traumatic years for the British. A mighty Empire was in its death-throes. But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations. Independence was within close reach. And in Nigeria, it was accepted that it...
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AFRICAN SYSTEMS OF SLAVERY
African Systems of Slavery continues a discussion opened by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff in 1977 with their seminal collection Slavery in Africa. The present volume contains new offerings by original contributors as well as valuable studies by newcomers who...
$30.64
AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY: On Becoming Ancestors (PB)
Dr. EphirimDonkor thoughtfully explores the spirituality of the Akan people in Ghana and their quest to achieve ancestorhood in heaven (Samanadzie) and eldership on earth (Wiadzie). This revised edition reflects years of additional research, with newer and deeper insights on...
$42.99
NEW SUDAN IN THE MAKING?: Essays on a Nation in Painful Search of Itself
New Sudan is a concept for radically reforming Sudan s governance system by addressing the national identity crisis that has been responsible for the wars, the instability and the failure of the national building project that have afflicted the country...
$40.65
JOURNEYS HOME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE
As a major origin of emigrants to the western hemisphere, the African continent has seen its share of both forced and volunteer emigration. During the second immigration phase of the African diaspora, most Africans viewed the West as a place...
$21.95
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: VOICES FROM THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
In Their Own Words is a gripping and haunting encounter with voices once silenced by the tragic Atlantic Voyage The Middle Passage reaching out across time to be heard. The book originated from a student project in the author s...
$16.95
LAND, FOOD, FREEDOM: STRUGGLES FOR THE GENDERED COMMONS IN KENYA 1870-2008
In 1922 Muthoni Nyanjiru used the curse of nakedness to damn Europeans who enslaved African girls to pick coffee. In the 1950s thousands of Kenyan women never surrendered in the Mau Mau war to expel the British. In 1992 old...
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AMERICAN CRUCIBLE: Black Enslavement, White Capitalism and Imperial Globalization
This work centers on philosophy of history and political economy. Globalization is writ large. Civilizational historicism is a worldview which affirms the reality of social laws. It is an explanatory model which highlights political economy. The eradication of white supremacy...
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FRENCH OIL INDUSTRY: AND THE CORPS DES MINES IN AFRICA
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Publisher : Africa Research & Publications (April 2, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 276 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592216676
ISBN-13 : 978-1592216673
Item Weight : 13.5 ounces
Dimensions : 5.43 x 0.71 x 8.39 inches
$29.17
MAN CALLED DENG MAJOK (THE): A Biography Of Power , Polygyny, and Change
Deng Majok succeeded his father Kwol Arob, as Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka of Abyei in 1943 and reigned until his death in 1969. He is widely recognized as one of the most prominent tribal leaders who contributed effectively...
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JOHN HENRIK CLARKE AND THE POWER OF AFRICANA HISTORY: AFRICALOGICAL QUEST FOR DECOLONIZATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto...
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AFRO-MEXICANS: DISCOURSE OF RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Githoria, Chege
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Publisher : Africa Research & Publications (November 27, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 276 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592216471
ISBN-13 : 978-1592216475
Item Weight : 13.3 ounces
Dimensions : 5.47 x 0.71 x 8.31 inches
$31.94
AFRICAN DIASPORAS: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries #4
The field of African literary and cultural studies is undergoing significant transformations in tandem with changes in related academic disciplines and throughout the world at large. The theme of this volume at once encourages further exploration of issues that have...
$29.27
ON THE MARGINS: RACE, HENDER, AND EMPIRE
On the Margins: Race, Gender, and Empire focuses on the role which minority writers adopt, particularly in English. The book examines how the minority, at times, the invisible, presence is related, classified and designated within majority culture. Dathorne illustrates how...
$24.95
CADERNOS NEGROS BLACK NOTEBOOKS, VOL2: CONTEMPORARY AFRO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE/LITERATURA AFRO-BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA (COMING SOON)
Emergent Themes and Methods in African Studies honors one of Nigeria's pre-eminent historians, Adiele Afigbo, who has made numerous contributions to African history, Archeology, and African Studies over the course of the last forty years. The book reflects on Afigbo's...
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AFRICAN WOMEN AND REPRESENTATION: FROM PERFORMANCE TO POLITICS
Constituting a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary analysis of sub-Saharan African women's plays and their context of origin, the title also examines how major Francophone and Anglophone women playwrights reflect on the conditions of female representation in African culture, society and politics. Product...
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