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BIOPIRACY OF BIODIVERSITY: GLOBAL EXCHANGE AS ENCLOSURE (COMING SOON)
Seeds have been exchanged among cultures for millennia, but suddenly the means of controlling seed trade and genetic transfers have been dramatically altered. This book offers the best means to understand how this issue affects you and every person, present...
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AFRICAN WOMEN IN REVOLUTION
This book is an ambitious, extensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War 11 Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola,...
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HELD TOGETHER BY PINS: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE IN AFRICA
Once again, Africa is veering towards a precipice. The much-vaunted African renaissance, a three-way equation of a flowering of liberal democracy, culture, and economic growth appears to be in tatters. Instead, sagging economic performance, backsliding on liberal democracy and other...
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END-TIME ARMY: CHARISMATIC MOVEMENTS IN MODERN NIGERIA
Book by Ojo, Matthews A.
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Publisher : Turnaround (January 1, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 314 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592213669
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213665
Item Weight : 1.09 pounds
Dimensions : 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
$30.39
IN-DEPENDENCE FROM BONDAGE: CLAUDE MCKAY AND MICHAEL MANLEY DEFYING THE IDEOLOGICAL CLASH AND POLICY GAPS IN AFRICAN DIASPORA RELATIONS
In-dependence from Bondage
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Publisher : Africa Research & Publications (January 5, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 204 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592214657
ISBN-13 : 978-1592214655
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.55 x 0.55 x 8.39 inches
$24.95
GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM
This ground-breaking volume provides scholars with a sustained exploration of human sexuality as an integral part of gender studies. The book s theoretical, interpretative, and analytical approaches document the state of present knowledge on homoeroticism in African literature and film....
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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...
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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...
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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
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
CHANGING CURRENTS: TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary works, authors, and...
$42.89
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