Africa world press
Africa world press
CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21
African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue...
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THE LONG STRUGGLE OF ERITREA FOR INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE
History in the area known as the 'Horn of Africa' is at a turning point—not because of any massive act of charity by the western world to combat that area's horrific burden of drought and famine, but because of the...
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BLACK SPIRITUALITY AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Contrary to some misguided perceptions about the religion of black folk, African-American Spirituality plays a vital role in the formation and practice of black freedom in American. Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 1998) Language : English Paperback : 248...
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URBAN OBSESSIONS, URBAN FEARS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KENYAN NOVEL
Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the "first generation" of...
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SAINTS AND SOMALIS: Popular In A Clan Based Society
This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa.
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BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT (THE): AND OTHER ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
In an intellectual climate dominated by formalistic theoretical concerns, biographical criticism may seem an unfashionable mode of academic discourse, but it is sorely needed when writers and readers hail from different countries.
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OUR LADY OF CLASS STRUGGLE: THE CULT OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN HAITI
This discussion of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti is the fruit of one of the most extensive ethnographical studies on religion yet conducted in the Caribbean. Rey reveals the differences between the Marian devotion of the Haitian...
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ECCENTRIC GRACES: Eritrea and Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveller
Prologue: This is a travel narrative about Eritrea, a tiny sun-drenched country along the Red Sea, and Ethiopia, its giant southern neighbor and former colonial overlord.
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Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana
This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AMA ATA AIDOO
A Fitting Tribute to the artistry, proverbial strength and uncompromising voice of a committed writer and truth-teller, the collection of powerful and illuminating essays memorialize Ama Ata Aidoo's deep sense of history and consciousness
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WIT & WISDOM OF AFRICA: PROVERBS FROM AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
No great deeds, works of art or books of history reveal so much about a culture as the folklore and collective wisdom of its proverbs.
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MAI WEINI: A Village in Highland Eritrea
Eritrean society and traditional culture had been off limits for social anthropological research for three decades due to the prolonged liberation war, which came to an end in may 1991.
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FIRE FROM THE ASHES: A Chronicle of the Revolution in Tigray, Ethiopia, 1975-1991
Fire from the Ashes tells the extraordinary story of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) revolution, from its beginning in February 1975 by a handful of students, its expansion into the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
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CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
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CEMETERY OF MIND: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY THE CELEBRATED ZIMBABWEAN NOVELIST DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
A profound even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry, "My whole life...
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THE BLACK INSIDER
A profound even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and Bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry, 'My whole life...
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PARADOX OF AFRICA'S POVERTY (THE): The Role of Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Practices and Local Institutions; The Case of Ethiopia
This study challenges the prevailing pessimistic view concerning Africa's future performance. It argues that the current situation can be reversed by attacking the root causes of poverty provided these have been properly understood.
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SURVIVAL AND MODERNIZATION: Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present A Philosophical Discourse
The book tackles the enigmatic question on Ethiopia's failure to modernize. The enigma springs from the absence in Ethiopia of the major deficiencies invoked to explain underdevelopment
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GOLDEN CAGE:REGENARATION IN LUSOPHONE AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
A solid examination of Lusophone African works from a critical, cultural-theoretical vantage point. The interviews with authors open windows of light while analysis is convincingly rooted through African eyes, particularly Yoruba eyes."-Donald Burness, Franklin Pierce College
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SACRED SPACES AND PUBLIC QUARRELS: AFRICAN CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES
How do African conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, an in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change?
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WHITE NILE BLACK BLOOD
This pioneering volume introduces and defines a new realm of scholarly investigation. Over the course of half-century of independence the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has been torn by extended periods of warfare, during which the Southern Sudan, roughly defined by the...
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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
African Perspectives on Governance brings together the view of a group of East and West African scholars on a range of issues relating to how African countries are being governed. In contrast to most other publications on governance, which tend to...
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AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH
This critical collection engages many of the health problems of greatest concern to most African women today: death during pregnancy and the need for assistance in childbirth; the spread of the AIDS epidemic; mental illness and domestic violence, which appears...
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HARDENED IMAGES: THE WESTERN MEDIA AND THE MARGINALIZATION OF AFRICA
Africa, the most central of the major regions of the world, is at present languishing on the margins of the global political and economic system.
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MONARCHS, MISSIONARIES & AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS: AFRICAN THEATRE AND THE UNMAKING OF COLONIAL MARGINALITY.
An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness ... lucid andrichly suggestive ... beautifully written' -- Professor Karin Barber, University of Birmingham An excellent and important book moving with great ease in very tricky terrain... I must confess that having...
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THROUGH A BLACK VEIL: READINGS IN FRENCH CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Through a Black Veil is an investigation of the diverse poetic manifestations of a sensibility that may be designated as French Caribbean, through close reading of a representative sample of poems.
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WE HAVE OUR VOICE (Bilingual, English and Tigrinya) (available in hardcover only)
Reesom Haile's spare poetic line carries the weight of incisive image, narrative clarity, irony plus a droll humor that speaks even after you finished reading."
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AFRICAN IMAGES: Recent Studies and Text In Cinema #7
The twenty-third annual conference of the African Literature Association was a celbration of African cinema, in recognition of of which it received the title, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, FESPACO Nights in Michigan. The selected papers from that conference that appear in this...
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ETHIOPIAN STATE: Crossroads
This work traces the evolution of the modern Ethiopian State and its consolidation under the last three successive regimes. Leenco Lata critically assesses the Transitional Period of the post-Dergue era between the July 1991 Conference
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GUNS AND GANDHI IN AFRICA: PAN AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE, ARMED STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION
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GUNS AND GANDHI IN AFRICA: PAN AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE, ARMED STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION
Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people.
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