Africa
Africa
A Basket of Flaming Ashes
Ashuntantang is an extraordinary weaver of words who showcases vivid pictures that compete with 3D simulation. Her greatest asset is her use of the beautiful traditional Cameroonian anchor that evokes folk tales with its moonlight romance and glory. You feel,...
$29.00
The Barn. Three Plays by Kwo Victor Elame Musinga
As a veteran playwright and actor, Kwo Victor Elame Musinga is more than just a pioneer in popular theatre. His simple but profound messages demonstrate a depth of understanding and insight into human nature and the nature of society. The...
$37.00
Aspects of Real Estate Theory and Practice in Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Text
The subject of real estate is increasingly becoming important, especially in the countries of the developing world. States and governments realise that real estate is a corner stone of socio-economic development. Real estate development contributes immensely to the gross physical...
$79.00
Aspects Ecocritiques de L Imaginaire Africain (French Edition)
It is important to question some recurrent commonplaces about the (post)colonial order and the preservation of the environment if one wants to reconcile ecocriticism and postcolonial theories. For instance, were pre-colonial societies devoid of ecological awareness? Is the environmental commitment...
$55.00
Asinamanzi: Fluid Realities -Exploring South Africa's Water Crisis and Social Dynamics
The book opens up a new pathway for a contemporary ethnographic exploration of the politics of water in an unequal society, specifically focusing on the challenges faced in Khayelitsha, South Africa. South Africa is confronted with a quadruple threat of...
$50.00
Art and Museum in Africa: A decolonial perspective
This book is a collection of essays on the history of museums and art in Africa. The publication addresses the decolonization of African museums before analyzing forms and encounter, a major aspect in the African artistic creation. The issue of...
$42.00
Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes: Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Pasts
Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continent's past are not rooted on the continent's value system and philosophy. This creates knowledge that does not make sense especially to...
$69.00
Aporia: Lament of an Ambazonian Revolutionary
Aporia is a long prose poem that makes a case for the Ambazonian Revolution. It is my conviction that the task of the genuine intellectual is to speak up when no one dares to speak. When we draw a blank...
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Anxiety in Mosaic
into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-political, economic and environmental consequences; the repercussions of worsted governance, feminist, ecological, emigrational and imperialist concerns, presented from...
$41.00
The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century
In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed...
$90.00
The Akroma File
Faced with debts at home and threatened by poverty, Akroma a brilliant and well-educated Ghanaian, using unorthodox means, successfully gets into Cameroon. He is bent on making a fortune. Drawing on his tremendous presence of mind and, capitalising on the...
$41.00
Ako-Aya: A Cameroorian Pioneer in Daring Journalism and Social Commentary
Patrick Tataw Obenson, alias Ako-Aya, the rabid critic, social crusader and witty journalist, all rolled up in one, was indeed a popular and widely admired pioneer in daring journalism and social commentary in Cameroon. Little wonder that when he died,...
$58.00
Africa's Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon
Africa's Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result...
$55.00
Africa's Dependency Syndrome: Can Africa Still Turn Things around for the Better?
There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency. Africa needs...
$45.00
Africa's Best and Worst Presidents: How Neocolonialism and Imperialism Maintained Venal Rules in Africa
Africa's Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains. It chastises and challenges Africans, academics in the main, to revisit and write a true history of Africa. Written by Africans themselves, such rewritten histories...
$62.00
African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?
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African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be...
$54.00
'African Potentials' for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Image of 'Deficiency' and Tyranny of 'Fortress'
This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of 'deficiency', this book...
$83.00
African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness
This book is the result of a research project, called African Potentials, that we have been conducting for 10 years. This project was aimed at overturning negative stereotypes the world has imposed on Africa, such as poverty, hunger and conflict,...
$106.00
African Politics of Survival Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World
This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is "mobilizing resources from their (possibly unequal) relationship with the external environment", a dynamic that constitutes a possible African potential;...
$62.00
African Land Rights Systems
This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is...
$48.00
The African Conundrum: Rethinking the Trajectories of Historical, Cultural, Philosophical and Developmental Experiences of Africa
The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardization, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is...
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African Belief and Knowledge Systems. A Critical Perspective
The debate on the existence of African philosophy has taken central stage in academic circles, and academics and researchers have tussled with various aspects of this subject. This book notes that the debate on the existence of African philosophy is...
$55.00
Africa Through Structuration Theory: Outline of the FS (Fear and Self-scrutiny) Methodology of Ubuntu
Despite all the talk about African Renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and...
$55.00
Africa Through Structuration Theory - ntu
Despite all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and...
$48.00
Africa Reunite or Perish
Africa Reunite or Perish is a daring and timely book that explores the essence and nefariousness of neocolonialism in a purportedly independent Africa. The book shows how Africa spends billions of dollars in pseudo threats among African countries due to...
$81.00
Africa: Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st Century
Africa's dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversity-from conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others....
$76.00
Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalisms in the 21st Century
This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars...
$59.00
The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite: Choice or Betrayal
The United Nations-organized plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office...
$55.00
Santeria: African Magic in Latin America
In 1973, the first hardcover edition of Santeria: African Magic in Latin America by cultural anthropologist Migene Gonzalez-Wippler was first published by Julian Press. It became an immediate best seller and is still considered by many experts one of the...
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station the Helped Bring Peace to the Congo; A Memoir
One of Africa's largest radio stations operating in one of the continent's most politically unstable countries sets the stage for a touching and thought-provoking story that illustrates how peace is a process, and how the spectrum between war and peace...
$16.95