Africa world press
Africa world press
GOATSKIN BAGS AND WISDOM: AFRICAN RESPONSES TO AFRICAN LITERATURE
These twenty-eight essays offer a variety of critical perspectives on African literature from scholars, writers and experienced teachers of this subject. They reveal the diverse emotions and sensitivities with which Africans perceiving themselves as the target audience of African wirters,...
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NEW WORLD HEGEMONY IN THE MALAY WORLD
To the surprise of many, the much vaunted authoritarian "Asian Value" model of development took a nose dive in 1998 wrecking the so-called "economic miracle" from East to Southeast Asia, sending stock exchanges and currencies into disarray, sinking the new...
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YORUBA GURUS: INDIGENOUS PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICA
Toyin Falola, one of the most prominent interpreters of Yoruba History, has written an outstanding and brilliant pioneer book that reveals valuable knowledge on African local historians. This is one of the most impressive books on the Yoruba in recent...
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THOUSAND FLOWERS: SOCIAL STRUGGLES AGAINST STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
This timely work is of seminal importance both for those interested in African problems in our time and those concerned with the destructive impact of the globalizing process all over the world.
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POLITICS OF PATRONAGE IN AFRICA: PARASTATALS, PRIVATIZATION & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
as a review of what has happened to state assets in Africa, it would be hard to beat ...' Jeffrey Herbst, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University -
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FUTURE THAT WORKS (THE): SELECTED WRITINGS OF A.M. BABU
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu was a writer, revolutionary and politician. He led the 1964 Zanzibar revolution and was a cabinet minister in Tanzania until 1972 when he was imprisoned by Nyerere.
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WHO FIGHTS...WHO CARES?
Africa faces huge political and humanitarian challenges. Sixteen countries are stricken by war or serious instability; the shadow of genocide looms over central Africa; while natural and man-made disasters threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans. International structures...
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COUNSELING IN AN ERITREAN CONTEXT
This book is primarily designed for use as a basic textbook for introductory guidance and counseling courses, teacher training and other areas of human service education.
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SEYCHELLES SINCE 1770: HISTORY OF A SLAVE AND POST-SLAVERY SOCIETY
Scarr disposes of many myths of Seychelles being, for instance, a peculiarly harmonious colonial society with all questions of social and political distinction based on colour being erased by miscegenation.
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EXILE & AFRICAN LITERATURE
Apartheid was one of the most oppressive, but by no means the only regime to drive African writers into what Eldred Jones calls "the disorienting but sometimes mentally productive state of exile.
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AFRICAN BELIEFS IN THE NEW WORLD: POPULAR LITERARY TRADITIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN
Like a kaleidoscope, the Caribbean world displays the vibrant colors of its diversity. Ethnic groups from four continents brought their customs and beliefs to this New World.
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MOTHER OF US ALL: A HISTORY OF QUEEN NANNY LEADER OF THE WINDWARD MAROONS
The Mother of Us All" is an analysis of the history of Queen nanny, the great 18th century leader of the Windward of Eastern Jamaican Maroons
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LET'S LEARN TWI: MA YENSUA TWI
Let's Learn Twi - Ma Yensua Twi is a text that has been successfully used to teach both intensive and non-intensive Twi. The trend in modern language pedagogy is to incorporate the culture of the target language into the instruction.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON TSITSI DANGAREMBGA
As a dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, essayist and public speaker, Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has claimed the attention of African Cultural Studies since the first publication of her novel Nervous Conditions
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WRITER AS ACTIVIST: SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON NGUGI WA THIONG'O
Ng?g? wa Thiong'o writes about a world that South Asian readers recognize as analogous to their own, and he expresses ideas with which they can readily identify. His treatment of the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism, his firm adherence to a...
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OROMO DEMOCRACY
This book reveals the many creative solutions an African society found for problems that people encounter when they try to establish a democratic system of governing their affairs.
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GENESIS II: THE RE-CREATION OF BLACK PEOPLE
These bible lesson essays speak directly and compellingly to the issue of theology and its relevancy to the transformation and empowerment of Black people
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OUR CONTINENT, OUR FUTURE: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON STRUCTURAL ADJUSMENTS
For decades now, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have implemented the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The results, however, have been less than sterling
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YORUBA WARLORDS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
This is a pioneer book on the Yoruba military generals of the 19th century covering their individual careers, military alliances and the consequences of their actions on the society. This book is divided into two parts
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PASSION TO LIBERATE: LA GUMA'S SOUTH AFRICA-"IMAGES OF DISTRICT SIX"
This is a literary biography of one of South Africas most eminent men of letters, Justin Alexander La Guma, who is better known as Alex La Guma and is one of the twentieth centurys most prolific, eloquent, and courageous writers.
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AFRICAN ENCLOSURES? The Social Dynamics Of Wetlands in Drylands
This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to market opportunities. This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to...
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SUNSTREAMS AND SHADOWS
Rodway’s poems explore a wide and fascinating range of subjects, which focus on the personal and the political and on issues of class, gender, and racism. “Her language reflects the commonplaces of domestic feeling struggling out of the commonplace,...
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IMAGES OF AFRICA: STEREOTYPES AND REALITIES
This book offers those rare and exceptional insights into the historical and cultural processes through which various perceptions of Africa were crystallized into negative images and stereotypes that became so pervasive and profound that Africa is still trying to shake...
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SEMBENE: IMAGINING ALTERNATIVES IN FILM AND FICTION
Senegalese writer Sembene Ousmane, who makes films under the name Ousmane Sembene, is one of the major figures of African literature in French and one of Africa’s foremost film directors.
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INVINCIBLE SUMMER (AN): FEMALE DIASPOREAN AUTHORS
The title of this book, An Invincible Summer, is taken from the essay “Return to Tipasa” by Albert Camus. At the age of forty, Camus returned to the rain-drenched Algiers, “the city of summer,
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DEATH OF A MYTH: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON NIGERIA
Known as the “Giant of Africa,” Nigeria is without doubt a country of immense natural and human resources. It has, however, managed to remain hardly more than a gnome. After decades of debilitating military dictatorship and the demise of another...
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RIGHT TO BE NUBA (THE): The Story Of A Sudanese People's Struggle For Survival
The Nuba people of central Sudan are struggling to survive in the face of military, political and cultural policies of the Sudan Government, which is attempting to wipe out their separate identity.
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WOMEN, TRADITION & DEVELOPMENT: A Case Study of Eritrea
This book examines the framework of traditional social values, cultural patterns, customary practices, and the political and economic forces that influence the way of life and the development of women.
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