Cultural Literature
CONTESTED MEMORY: THE ICONS OF THE OCCIDENTAL TRADITION
W.E.B. Du Bois anticipated Serequeberhan in the Souls of Black Folk because Serequeberhan is arguably a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight. With philosophically astute arguments, Serequeberhan removes the veil. He steps beyond Kant...
$21.95
AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA
In The Aftermath of Slavery Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria the contributors present an in-depth survey of the impact of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Lower Niger Basin of Nigeria. The book...
$24.95
AFRICA IN RUSSIA, RUSSIA IN AFRICA: THREE CENTURIES OF ENCOUNTERS (COMING SOON)
Once in a while in African studies there comes a book that is truly informative and a compelling read. This is one such book. It is an invaluable volume on a little explored subject, the long history of relations between...
$55.00
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IN ETHIOPIA
Since the creation of the Ethiopian empire in the 1880s, political, economic, social and military power has been dominated by the elites of two minority groups. The vast majority of the peoples in Ethiopia have been subjected to the political...
$34.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON BESSIE HEAD (COMING SOON)
Emerging Perspectives on Bessie Head
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Publisher : Africa World Press (June 1, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 238 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592210732
ISBN-13 : 978-1592210732
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
$84.95
BREAKING STONE SILENCE: GIVING VOICE TO AIDS PREVENTION IN AFRICA
Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health. Written to be accessible to both students and lay readers concerned...
$24.95
ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BOTSWANA IN THE1980S: A MODEL FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
This book presents a retrospective analysis of Botswana, a country in Africa that somehow succeeded in escaping the tragedies that are so endemic in sub-Saharan African countries. Many factors, obviously, have contributed to the rapid growth rates that Botswana experienced...
$21.95
ASINAMALI: UNDIVERSITY STRUGGLES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Publisher : Africa World Press (April 14, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 200 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592214363
ISBN-13 : 978-1592214365
Item Weight : 11.7 ounces
$19.95
CONTESTING SACRED SPACE: A PILGRIMAGE STUDY OF THE MWALI CULT OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
This is a study of pilgrimage to the Njelele shrine, a major sacred centre of the Mwali cult, the Southern Africa's cult of the High God. This study is mainly about the importance of sacred centres as central places, in...
$29.95
IMAGINING EVIL: WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS AND ACCUSATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
Imagining Evil: Witchcraft Beliefs and Accusations in Contemporary Africa (Religion in Contemporary Africa Series) Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 2006) Language : English Paperback : 298 pages ISBN-10 : 1592214851 ISBN-13 : 978-1592214853 Item Weight : 1.11 pounds Dimensions : 5.47 x 0.87...
$33.96
MYTH, HISTORY AND SOCIETY: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ADIELE AFIGBO
The basic idea in this book is that Nigerian historians, indeed historians of Africa, have from the birth of the new African historiography seen and pursued historical studies and historical writing as part of the larger effort to create, consolidate...
$39.95
KWAME NKRUMAH'S LIBERATION THOUGHT: A PARADIGM FOR RELIGIOUS ADVOCACY IN CONTEMPORARY GHANA
Kwame Nkrumah's Liberation Thought: A Paradigm for Religious Advocacy in Contemporary Ghana
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Publisher : Africa World Press (November 15, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 159221312X
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213122
Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
$29.95
IGBO RELIGION, SOCIAL LIFE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
In this volume Emeritus Professor Simon Ottenberg presents a number of detailed essays on the religious life of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria and on the Limba of northern Sierra Leone, based on extensive anthropological field research over many...
$39.95
IGBO ART AND CULTURE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by the anthropologist, Simon Ottenberg. Focus is on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria and on Bafodea Limba of...
$39.95
CHALLENGING HEGEMONY: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE QUEST FOR A NEW HUMANISM IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements, and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa is a collection of essays by leading social movement activists and scholars that analyzes the emergence of new political struggles in post apartheid South Africa....
$88.65
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: THE ANALYTIC APPROACH (PB)
African Philosophy: The Analytic Approach sets out to demonstrate that the analytic approach to philosophy, which is prominent in the world today, can both be applied to and derived from Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage. The author achieves this via critiques...
$34.58
BORDERLINE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICAN FICTION
In Borderline Movements in African Fiction, Losambe uses African fiction to test the validity and relevance of critical assumptions made by postcolonial African metatheorists--nativists, assimilationists and syncretists-- as they try to define African subjectivity and derive an immanent African epistemological...
$24.95
ANATOMY OF AN AFRICAN TRAGEDY: Political, Economic and Foreign Policy Crisis in Post-Independence Eritrea
This timely and unique book is an analytical study of post-liberation Eritrea. The work offers an extraordinary account of the events and developments that have taken place in the country’s politics, economy and foreign relations and of the things that...
$29.95
IGBO HISTORY AND SOCIETY: THE ESSAYS OF ADIELE AFIGBO
Igbo History and Society: The Essays of Adiele Afigbo provides stimulating and original accounts of the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria from the ancient times to the present. It incorporates all the leading issues and findings on this major group. The...
$31.96
ECOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
This collection brings together the key essays on the economic and social history of West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. Lovejoy’s...
$35.18