Cultural Literature
Kenisha: The Roots and Development of the Evangelical Church of Eritrea, 1866-1935
Kenisha by K. J. Lundström and Ezra Gebremedhin is a welcome addition to the religious history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It builds on Gustav Arén s magisterial account of the origins and development of evangelical Protestantism in the same countries,...
$34.95
EMANCIPADOS: SLAVE SOCIETIES IN BRAZIL AND CUBA
This book provides definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil and Cuba in particular and Latin America in general. The author establishes the fact that the peculiar nature...
$29.95
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
Islamic Law and Politics In Northern Nigeria
Islamic Law and Politics in Northern Nigeria examines the case of Islamic law in Nigeria through a comparative lens by probing the meaning of justice in Islamic, Jewish, Continental European, and Anglo-American law and by contrasting Nigeria s experience with...
$23.96
ETHIOPIAN DISCOURSE
Ethiopian Discourse is a text which makes heroic efforts to engage the Ethiopian reader with the problems, challenges and traditions of classical and modern Ethiopia. For the past fifteen years, the author took on Ethiopian topics as they unfolded in...
$23.96
MUTILATING KHALID: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF FEMAL GENITAL CUTTING
In Mutilating Khalid, historian Charles G. Steffen examines one of the most remarkable cases of female genital mutilation ever to be prosecuted in a United States court. In 2006 a suburban Atlanta jury convicted Khalid Misri Adem, a thirty-one-year-old Ethiopian...
$29.95
BEYOND KHARTOUM: A HISTORY OF SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN SUDAN
Useful to both scholars and policymakers, Beyond Khartoum is a history of subnational government in Sudan from early times through 2010. Despite domination by its Northern Arabic-speaking elite, Sudan has a long and varied history of governmental organization at subnational...
$34.95
NEGRITUDE MOMENT: EXPLORATIONS IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
In this collection of essays, which span more than forty years of sustained scholarship, Irele explores the varied aspects of Negritude as a movement and as concept. He provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and...
$29.95
ACHEBE AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Cultural Nationalism has traditionally been take as being as plain as day in Achebe's earliest fictional narratives upon which the attention of readers has obsessively been focused. but Ode Ogede calls this powerful view into question. Ogede introduces readers first...
$22.21
Migration, Development and Diplomacy: Perspectives From the Southern Mediterranean
In recent years, migration across the Mediterranean has become an issue of growing concern to the countries of the region and beyond. It has also become a rather divisive issue between the two shores of the Mediterranean, as the interests...
$24.95
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...
$32.93
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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Product details
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...
$29.95
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...
$34.60
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