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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FREEDOM FIGHT: A NOVEL OF RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM+C267
First published in 1958 to coincide with Nigeria's independence, The Freedom Fight is the only notable example of the Yorb n revolutionary novel and the longest novel in the Yorb literary corpus to date. Set in 19th century traditional Yorb land, it...
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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...
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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...
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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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IN MY LIFETIME: TOWARDS PRESIDENCY+B529 OF BARACK OBAMA
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, the recurring confession heard across Black America was, I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Especially among the older generations of Southerners was...
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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...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON UNGULANI BA KA KHOSA
Emerging Perspectives On Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa honors the celebrated Mozambican writer, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, who was awarded the 2007 José Craveirinha Prize for his Os Sobreviventes da Noite (Survivors of the Night). Recipient of the Grand Prize for...
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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
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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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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,...
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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...
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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