Africa
Africa
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
$38.50
Mandela: The Hero Who Led His Nation to Freedom
Nelson Mandela comes to life in this portrait of a diplomatic man whose commitment to freedom gained him both the Nobel Peace Prize and Time’s Man of the Year honor. The son of a Thembu chief in South Africa, Mandela began his...
$7.99
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches
This collection of speeches covers an array of topics from the contributions of Nile Valley civilizations to the future of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century.
$14.95
The Water Princess
Based on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African villageWith its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in...
$18.99
Under The Sky Of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin And Blackness
A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great....
$41.99
Toubab La! Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora
The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, the French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Jamaica), Europe (France and England) and Africa (Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana and Senegal). The...
$88.00
The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
$63.99
The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
$162.50
The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress
Recounts the A.N.C.'s efforts to end apartheid, and describes the experiences of its jailed leader, Nelson Mandela
$10.95
South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko...
$68.99
South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked hard at improving the lives of the black majority, yet close to half the population lives in poverty, jobs are scarce, and the country is more unequal than ever.For millions,...
$143.00
South Africa: Diary of Troubled Times
This volume is a fascinating collection of pieces by South African journalist Nomavenda Mathiane. Unlike much that is written about South Africa, these pieces are very personal observations and reflections based on day-to-day experiences. They range from descriptions of the...
$120.00
A History of the ANC: South Africa Belongs to Us
" . . . Meli combines the insights of an insider with sound scholarship." ―Patrick O'Meara"Meli's book is a welcome addition to the literature on South Africa." ―L. E. Meyer, Choice" . . . the book is written in a...
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels
$81.99
South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels
South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major authors...
$81.99
Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
$104.00
Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932 (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)
While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance...
$58.50
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2001Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People for 20012001 ALA Notable Book for Children2002-2003 Show Me Readers Award Master List2003 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Master ListNot Just for Children Anymore! 20012001 Notable Books...
$8.99
Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances
"Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering. With a mix of Nuyorican,...
$77.99
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent...
$42.99
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent...
$143.00
Religion and Resistance Politics in South Africa
This study focuses on Christianity and black nationalism in South Africa and looks at four individuals―Albert Lutuli, Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko, and Desmond Tutu―to see how each leader's Christian beliefs influenced the political strategy he pursued. Just as theology (Calvinism)...
$97.50
Redemption of Africa and Black Religion
This monograph explains the role of religion in the colonies of Africa and among the people of African descent in the United States.
$10.95
Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans...
$53.00
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
$53.00
Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa
The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South Africans traveled to London to lobby for a non-racialized constitution and franchise for all. Among their allies was Mahatma Gandhi,...
$104.00
Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.
$208.00
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization Workbook
This study guide was designed as a vehicle for an in depth analysis and evaluation of the concept explored in Nile valley contributions to civilization and is intended for use in classrooms, study groups and homes
$15.00
The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation
The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation addresses the question, how can we understand and relate responsibly to others who differ from us in our everyday concerns? The work looks at theories about difference in a variety of philosophical...
$117.00
A Literary Revolution
Original works, diverse perspectives, and multiple disciplines intersect in A Literary Revolution. This book features much-needed perspectives of people of African descent and delves into those perspectives through the use of literature, film, short stories, poetry, and philosophy. Through various academic...
$67.99
The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
“No nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force. The 1970s are a decade virtually lost...
$104.00