Cultural Literature
AIME CESAIRE'S AFRICAN THEATER: Of Poets, Prophets and Politicians
In his inimitable, insightful and incisive style, Femi Ojo-Ade has produced an in-depth, challenging, critical reading of Aimé Césaire s theatre that promises to be an indispensable companion to the study of African and Caribbean drama. Victor Aire Professor of...
$33.80
FUTURE AFRICA: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT UNDER NEPAD
2009 marked the 8th anniversary of the adoption of NEPAD as a socio-economic programme of the African Union, whose priority is poverty eradication and regional integration, and as envisioned in the Constitutive Act of the African Union. Amongst many strategies,...
$29.95
AFRICA AND THE ACADEMY: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses On Africa (COMING SOON)
This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies. Racial bias, intolerance, parochialism, and male chauvinism have manifested themselves in various ways and this text aims...
$24.95
NO ROOM FOR COWARDICE: DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
The title of this first full-length study of the work of the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, and dramatist Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) was taken from "The Journal," in which Marechera declaims the following: "A genuine writer must always be prepared to fight...
$24.95
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LANGUAGE: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE: TANZANIA AND BEYOND
Empowerment Through Language: The African Experience-Tanzania and Beyond
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (July 1, 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 223 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437653
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437654
Item Weight : 11.3 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
$22.96
AFRICA TALKS BACK: Interviews with Anglophone African Authors (COMING SOON)
The twenty-eight interviews collected in this edited volume were conducted between 1969 and 1986 in various parts of Africa, Europe and the United States. In this volume, leading writers from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Malawi and South Africa speak...
$17.97
Aid & Development in Southern Africa: Evaluating a Participatory Learning Process (COMING SOON) (PB)
Aid & Development in Southern Africa: Evaluating a Participatory Learning Process Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (June 1, 1987) Language : English Paperback : 148 pages ISBN-10 : 0865430470 ISBN-13 : 978-0865430471 Item Weight : 6.4 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches...
$12.39
21st CENTURY AFRICA: Towards A New Vision Of Self-Sustainable Development (HB) (COMING SOON)
Twenty-First Century Africa: Towards a New Vision of Self-Sustainable Development
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (January 1, 1992)
Language : English
Hardcover : 330 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865433291
ISBN-13 : 978-0865433298
Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
$50.00
Minorities, Women, and the State in North Africa
This book, which is a collection of articles from prominent scholars, aims to unravel the problems and injustices suffered by minorities and women in North Africa. It focuses on the strategies adopted in each country to integrate their populations and...
$34.95
On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness
On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness is a collective intervention into the discursive formation of black studies at the outset of the twenty-first century, the essays in this volume forward a specific confrontation with the existing epistemological violence of the...
$34.95
LIFTING THE VEIL OVER EUROCENTRISM: The Du Boisian Hermeneutic of Double Consciousness
Lifting the Veil over Eurocentrism: The Du Boisian Hermeneutic of Double Consciousness, informed by W. E. B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk, Darkwater and Dusk of Dawn) is a Du Boisian critical analysis of Eurocentrism and its global...
$24.95
How Sweet the Sound (HB)
An incredibly moving picture book biography of the man behind the hymn “Amazing Grace” and the living legacy of the song by New York Times bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison.One stormy night at sea, a wayward man...
$17.99
Harlem Grown (HB)
“Hartland’s joyful folk-art illustrations bop from the gray-toned jazzy vibrancy of a bustling city neighborhood to the colorful harvest of a lush urban farm.” —The New York Times“An inspiring picture book for youngsters with meaningful ties to the environment, sustainability,...
$17.99
Beautiful Blackbird (HB )
Black is beautiful, uh-huh!Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch...
$19.99
Let it Shine (HB)
With a kaleidoscope of color and cut paper, Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee and two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan celebrates three favorite spirituals: "This Little Light of Mine," "Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's...
$19.99
Love Will See You Through (HB) (COMING SOON)
Growing up as the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Farris Watkins witnessed firsthand the principles and values that “Uncle M.L.” practiced and lived by throughout his fight for equality. Drawing from experiences and episodes both personal and well-known,...
$50.00
Boy in the Black Suit
Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom died—although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit for his gig at the local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck Bucket, and...
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Boy in the Black Suit (PB)
Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom died—although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit for his gig at the local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck Bucket, and...
$11.99
Lift Your Light a Little Higher (HB)
Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s Stephen Bishop. I’ll be your guide, so come with me, by the light of my lantern, into the deepest biggest cave in all of the United States. Down here, beneath the...
$17.99
I Am Loved (HB)
Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen of National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish.There is nothing more important to a child than to feel loved, and this gorgeous gathering of poems...
$17.99