Africa world press
Africa world press
CHARACTER IS BEAUTY: REDEFINING YORUBA CULTURE AND IDENTITY IWALEWA-HAUS, 1981-1986
Iwalewa-Hausa, under the directorship of Ulli Beier has actively participated in the revitalization and continuation of the different cultural and artistic lives of the Third World societies.
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TRANSATLANTIQUES: ATLANTIC CROSS-CURRENTS #9
Taken from a poem by Niyi Osundare, “Atlantic Cross Currents/Transatlantiques” was the theme of the 1993 meeting of the African Literature Association which was held in Guadeloupe.
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EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LANGUAGE: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE: TANZANIA AND BEYOND
This book seeks to enter the crucial debate on educational language choices in Africa which began with the arrival of missionaries and took varied forms over the years.
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Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing
This book examines the role gender plays in African Studies. It discusses the challenges and difficulties women scholars face in their efforts to produce and disseminate scholarly knowledge.
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AFRICA AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS: Conquest and Counter-Conquest
Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest is the second volume of the Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui that will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings.
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DEMILITARIZING THE MIND: AFRICAN AGENDAS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
This book highlights a central, but neglected component of Africa’s complicated and intractable wars: the militarization of governance. Political cultures of militarism stand in the way of enduring peace, democracy, and the development of civil society. Militarism comes in both...
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TONGUE MOTHER TONGUE #10
Tongue and Mother Tongue is takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature
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LIKE WATER RUNNING OFF MY BACK
This collection of poetry is a window into the mind and soul of a young poet intent on searching for the “truth in everything.” Molefi Asante, Jr. writes in the tradition of African American poets who have laid a foundation...
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WE INVENTED THE WHEEL
This is the second bilingual collection of the poetry of the contemporary Eritrean poet, Reesom Haile. It follows an earlier anthology, We Have our Voice, which was published in 2000.
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AFRICAN REFUGEES: Reflections on the African Refugee Problem
There are over 10 million refugees in the World, and over half of these are Africans. In the last few years the politics of war and famine in Africa have intensified the abudant growth of refugees in Africa. Political persecution,...
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WHEN PEACE COMES: Society and Development in Sudan
Sudan’s civil war is 18 years old—but it must come to an end sometime. What challenges will the Sudanese state and civil society face as they try to reconstruct a ravaged and divided country? How will a post-war Sudan respond...
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MAKING OF THE ERITREAN CONSTITUTION: The Dialectic Of Process And Substance
For the first time in their history, Eritreans were engaged, as a soveriegn people, in the making of the basic document by which they would be governed. Regarded by Eritreans as the culmination of their legitimate struggle
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EMANCIPADOS: SLAVE SOCIETIES IN BRAZIL AND CUBA
This book provides definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil and Cuba in particular and Latin America in general.
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WHO IS AFRAID OF THE HOLY GHOST? Pentecostalism and Globalization in African and Beyond
Pentecostal/charismatic movements represent one of the most popular, fastest growing religious movements within contemporary world Christianity.
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AFRICA IN THE WORLD THE WORLD IN AFRICA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ABIOLA IRELE
This is a collection of essays by some of the most prominent and influential writers, scholars and critics of the African arts and humanities.
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Liberation Lite: The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa
Liberation Lite takes as its principal focus the limited meaning that liberation has come to have in southern Africa—despite the heroic struggles there that had so recently overthrown white racist rule.
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Outcast: The Plight of African Refugees Part One: Pre Settlement
Once again Yilma Tafere Tasew brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees.
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EARLY EAST AFRICAN WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS: NGUGI WA THIONG'O OKOT P'BITEK DAVID MAILLU
Historical documentation becomes art when it is bold enough to transcend the linearity of time and place by an interacting subject. Bernth Lindfors is such a troubling and participating voice and narrator.
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EASTERN AFRICAN POPULAR SONGS Verbal Art in States of Transformation
Aaron Rosenberg's study constitutes a provocative reassessment of the relationship between African songs and the literatures of Eastern Africa. The focus of the book is a detailed analysis of language, form, and theme as they apply to a wide spectrum...
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KINANDE,KONZO-ENGLISH DICTIONARY With an English - Kinande Index
This Kinande/Konzo-English dictionary has the following features: -A Preface by Mgr Sikuli Paluku Melchisedech of the Nande diocese -A brief grammatical sketch of Kinande
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LAND STRUGGLES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
This volume is based on original field research on land struggles and civil society in Southern Africa, with chapters on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Zambia
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GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND MOTHERING IN AFRICA
This volume fills an important gap in our understanding of the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the phenomenon of mothering in African societies. Essays present the social construction of marriage, mothering, and widowhood
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LITERATURE, THE VISUAL ARTS AND GLOBALIZATION IN AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA
Two hundred years after the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (1808), and fifty years after the emergence of the first independent nation in Africa (Ghana, 1957), creative writers and scholars who gathered in Burlington, Vermont
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BEYOND TRADITION African Women and Cultural Spaces
Beyond Tradition: African Women and Cultural Spaces contains twenty-three chapters that mirror the diversities in the lives and experiences of African women both within and outside the continent, in the public sphere and in the home-front. Product details Publisher : Africa...
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MILLENIAL AFRICA: CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, DEMOCRACY
In two previous widely read volumes of essays prepared for Africa World Press (Socialist Ideology and the Struggle for Southern Africa and Recolonization and Resistance: Southern Africa in the 1990s) John S. Saul chronicled developments in Africa, and especially in...
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MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational
Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamics). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two perspectives – the postcolonial (with...
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EKUA: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A GIRL
A gripping coming-of-age story featuring an eight-year-old Ghanaian girl, Ekua, whose parents have gone to live in America. After living with an abusive guardian for several years, Ekua is sent to boarding school.
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CROSSING MEMORIES: Slavery and African Diaspora
This volume examines the history and the memory of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the period of the transatlantic slave trade until the present day.
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