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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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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CONTESTED TERRAIN: Essays On Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist, Discourse, and Political Engaged Scholarship
Since 1991, there has been renewed debate in Ethiopia concerning the implication of the country s past for the present polity. The long-standing debate was given an added impetus by Eritrea s independence from Ethiopia and the threat of disintegration...
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IFA: THE YORUBA GOD OF DIVINATION IN NIGERIA AND THE UNITED STATES
In this book, the late Dr. Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason offers a combination of personal, historical and solicitous accounts on Ifa, the Yoruba divination deity. Using sites in Nigeria and the United States, he reveals various aspects of the religious...
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AFRICA AND THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
There is a general consensus that Africa entered the 21st century plagued by multifaceted crises of underdevelopment. This is evidenced by abject poverty, the inadequacy of basic human needs, environmental degradation and violent civil conflicts. George Klay Kieh Jr argues...
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NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
In Nigeria, a country of more than 130 million inhabitants, religion - in its varied forms - has taken over urban landscapes, political discourse, radio and television broadcasting, economic and educational practices and policies as well as social interaction. Pentecostalism...
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CLIO IN A SACRED GARB: ESSAYS ON CHRISTIAN PRESENCE AND AFRICAN RESPONSES, 1900-2000 (COMING SOON)
Clio in a Sacred Garb
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Publisher : Africa Research & Publications (July 24, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592216315
ISBN-13 : 978-1592216314
Item Weight : 1.11 pounds
Dimensions : 5.51 x 0.91 x 8.39 inches
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DEPTH AND DESTINY OF WORK: AN AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
This book seeks to develop a theology of work as a foundation and motivation for engaging with the discourse on globalization. The book approaches globalization as the spatial distribution of work. Globalization is in a sense work spread out on...
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AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. These tragic events of slavery have profoundly influenced the literary...
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DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: the Self and The Other
This book is a contribution to Arab-Muslim-Western dialogue. The book underlines the hazardous consequences of the strategy of preemptive war on this dialogue. According to the author, Samuel Huntington s Clash of Civilizations has provoked a needless tension among peoples...
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HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND IMPACT
HIV/AIDS in Africa: Challenges & Impact
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Publisher : Africa World Press; 1st edition (April 4, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 212 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592216250
ISBN-13 : 978-1592216253
Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.47 x 0.55 x 8.35 inches
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OLD WRONGS, NEW RIGHTS: STUDENT VIEWS OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
Old Wrongs, New Rights is a series of candid close-ups of South Africa s invigorating but unfinished journey from apartheid to democracy. The reporters are students from the Americas, steeped in idealism but quick to spot backsliding. Their vantage point...
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