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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies. Topics covered range from sources of African oral...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CONTEMPORARY AFRICANA THEORY, THOUGHT AND ACTION: A GUIDE TO AFRICANA STUDIES
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Africa Research & Publications (August 1, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 1592213103 ISBN-13: 978-1592213108 Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches Product details Publisher : Gardners Books (July 31, 2005) Language : English Paperback : 384 pages ISBN-10 : 1592213103...
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NIGERIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL STABILITY AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
Given the size and population of Nigeria in the African continent, political stability and peaceful coexistence among its diverse nationalities are imperative for development and democratic consolidation that could serve as a model for the region and Africa. This volume,...
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LAND, LITERACY AND THE STATE IN SUDANIC AFRICA (COMING SOON)
Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa re-conceptualizes Sudanic Africa—“the land of the Blacks” to classical Arab geographers—to include the Ethiopian Highlands in the East. It notes the prevalence of states across this belt of the continent and argues...
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FANON'S WARNING: A CIVIL SOCIETY READER ON THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT
Is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) a genuine blueprint for Africa's recovery? The question arises not least because some things don't add up. NEPAD argues that if Africa's "enormous potential and human resources are properly harnessed and utilized,...
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AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RECONSIDERED: WESTERN NARRATIVES AND AFRICAN ALTERNATIVES
This book explores the conditions of production in agricultural biotechnology. Situating its discussion in theoretical debates on the role of science and technology in global capitalism, the book grounds abstract discussions in a case study of Africa. Adopting the premise...
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BANDITS ON THE BORDER: The Last Frontier In the Search For Somali Unity
Bandits on the Border: The Last Frontier in the Search for Somali Unity - By Nene Mburu. In the early 1990s, Somalia was in the spotlight for factionalism as Warlords, clans, and sub-clans doggedly wrenched their fiefdoms from the Polyglot...
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EFUNSETAN ANIWURA: IYALODE IBADAN AND TINUUBU, IYALODE EGBA: THE YORUBA HISTORICAL DRAMAS OF AKINWUMI ISOLA
Isola, Akinwumi, Smith, Pamela J. Olubunmi
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 0 edition (April 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 264 pages
ISBN-10 : 159221228X
ISBN-13 : 978-1592212286
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
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OIL LAMP: POEMS
Book by Ogaga Ifowodo
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Publisher : Africa World Press (June 1, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 82 pages
ISBN-10 : 159221360X
ISBN-13 : 978-1592213603
Item Weight : 3.32 ounces
Dimensions : 12.13 x 0.28 x 5.51 inches
$14.95
NIGERIAN HISTORY, POLITICS AND AFFAIRS: THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ADIELE AFIGBO
These essays attempt to focus the light of history on Nigeria, Nigerians and their contemporary condition and thus to help show the way forward. The root idea here is that fundamental to all historical works – that when the mind...
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I LAUGH SO I WON'T CRY: KENYA'S WOMEN TELL THE STORY OF THEIR LIVES
In I Laugh So I Won’t Cry, Kenya’s women tell their stories of love, struggle, happiness, and tragedy in their own words. I Laugh strikes a balance between intimate acquaintance and a comprehensive view. In-depth portraits allow readers to know...
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HIS MASTER'S VOICE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SINGLE-PARTY POLITICS IN GUINEA UNDER SEKOU TOURE (COMING SOON)
His Masters Voice: Mass Communication and Single Party Politics in Guinea under Sekou Toure Mohammed Saliu Camara This book refutes the simplistic pattern of condescending criticism versus a complaisant justification, which often transpires from the debate on post-colonial Africas general...
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