I OWN MY DESTINY: Poems (written in the Tigrinya language)
When I first read the poems posted on Asmarino.com under the name of Kiros Yohannes, some years back, I was struck by the unique form (Style) and the serious and varied content.  I was curious to know who he was.  Judging by...
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BIOPIRACY OF BIODIVERSITY: GLOBAL EXCHANGE AS ENCLOSURE
Because seeds are a gift to each one of us, they are a gift to all. Ancient cultures increased this wealth by sharing cultivated seed, by giving it away.  Product details Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (March 26,...
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Changing Face of Race in America: The Role of Racial Politics in Shaping Modern America
If everyone is against racism now, why does awareness of race have such a deep, if hidden, hold on our consciousness, institutions, and politics? Why does racial thinking still have such a profound impact on the life chances of blacks...
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DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM (THE): DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES
In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures’ heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a classification model. Arndt distinguishes...
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BLACK, WHITE, CHROME
This book examines the United States’ relations with Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the late 1990s and offers a new interpretation of the US role in facilitating the settlement that brought peace and independence in Zimbabwe in 1980. By revealing...
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HISTORY OF TIGRINYA LITERATURE 2nd EDITION
In this richly researched and lucidly written collection of essays, ‘The Freedom of the Writer’ and Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays, Ghirmai Negash provides solid analysis and information on some of the salient aspects of Eritrean
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MUTILATING KHALID: THE SYMBOLIC POLITICS OF FEMAL GENITAL CUTTING
In Mutilating Khalid, historian Charles G. Steffen examines one of the most remarkable cases of “female genital mutilation” ever to be prosecuted in a United States court.
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ABOVE THE ODDS: A Decade of Change for Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs
Too few books give an in-depth view of the challenges that African women face in running the enterprises which often provide the main source of support for their families. Ten years ago Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom, based...
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ZUMA'S OWN GOAL: LOSING SOUTH AFRICA'S 'WAR ON POVERTY'
This collection of original essays provides an in-depth look at how South Africa’s government is tackling profound challenges - including economic policy, AIDS, social security, housing, basic services and education -
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ETHIOPIAN DISCOURSE
Ethiopian Discourse is a text which makes heroic efforts to engage the Ethiopian reader with the problems, challenges and traditions of classical and modern Ethiopia. 
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YORUBA FICTION, ORATURE,A ND CULTURE
Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field and a foremost authority on Yoruba traditional literary forms in particular. T
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FRONTIERS OF GLOBALIZATION: KINSHIP AND FAMILY STRUCTURES IN AFRICA
There is no question that globalization has a significant impact on Africa. Yet, the nature of this impact is not homogeneous, and not only because globalization is a complex process, but also because of African diversity
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PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
Philosophical Essays seeks to present the idea of democracy systematically beginning with the ancient philosophers and ending with the modern philosopher, John Rawls.
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REMINISCENCES OF MY LIFE
This book is an exemplary narrative about the inner workings of Emperor Haile Sellassie’s government. It contains an account of some of the personalities who held high government offices and the state of ecumenical relations 
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Wounded Nation: How a Once Promising Eritrea Was Betrayed and Its Future Compromised
This volume takes up the life story of the author from where the first volume culminated. Through historical and political analyses the author lays bare the hidden (and not so hidden) elements that have contributed to Eritrea’s descent from a...
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Duse Mohamed Ali (1866-1945): The Autobiography of a Pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian Activist
Duse Mohamed Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Egyptian father and a Sudanese Mother. He attended King’s College of London. In 1885 at age of nineteen, he started a career as a stage actor that lasted for twenty-four...
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Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story
In Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story, the reader is offered a vivid portrait of the President of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of the Sudan. The author unobtrusively facilitates the encounter, withdrawing to leave the reader in...
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TALE OF THREE WOMEN: A NOVEL
Set in Sierra Leone, West Africa, A Tale of Three Women is epic in scope , covering a span of about sixty years and touching upon the most important developments in that country’s recent history from about 1918 to the...
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Islamic Law and Politics In Northern Nigeria
Islamic Law and Politics in Northern Nigeria examines the case of Islamic law in Nigeria through a comparative lens by probing the meaning of justice in Islamic, Jewish, Continental European, and Anglo-American law 
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OBAMA PHENOMENON: ESSAYS AND POETRY BY BLACK CRITICS AND CREATIVE ARTISTS
Edited by internationally recognized scholar on black literatures and cultures, Femi Ojo-Ade, this volume brings together a mixture of young intellectuals and seasoned scholars from Africa and its Diaspora to address various themes of the Obama
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NEGRITUDE MOMENT: EXPLORATIONS IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
In this collection of essays, which span more than forty years of sustained scholarship, Irele explores the varied aspects of Negritude as a movement and as concept.
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FREEDOM FIGHT: A NOVEL OF RESISTANCE AND FREEDOM
Pamela Olúbùnmi Smith's The Freedom Fight is an English translation of Adébáyò Fálétí’s Yorùbá novel, Omo Olókùn Esin Though written in 1958 
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Visions of Nationhood: Prelude to the Nigerian Civil War, 1960-1967
Visions of Nationhood is a refreshingly bold and informed study of why Nigeria’s three dominant sub-national groups—the Hausa-Fulani of the Northern Region, the Igbo of the Eastern Region, and the Yoruba of the Western Region
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REPURCUSSIONS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: THE INTERIOR OF THE BIGHT OF BIAFRA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
This volume looks at the historical context of slavery in the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the resulting diaspora of people that was formed in the Americas. 
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SEEDS BEARING FRUIT: PAN-AFRICAN PEACE ACTION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
No matter how little one knows about Africa, we cannot help but hear of raging poverty and out-of-control wars. Defying popular misconceptions, however, Seeds Bearing Fruit
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BEYOND KHARTOUM: A HISTORY OF SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN SUDAN
Useful to both scholars and policymakers, Beyond Khartoum is a history of subnational government in Sudan from early times through 2010. Despite domination by its Northern Arabic-speaking elite, Sudan has a long and varied history of governmental Product details Publisher...
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A NATION BETRAYED: NIGERIA AND THE MINORITIES
The 1950s were traumatic years for the British.  A mighty Empire was in its death-throes.  But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations.  Independence was within close reach.   Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (October 31,...
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FUTURE AFRICA: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT UNDER NEPAD
The AU Summit of January 2008 marked the 6th Anniversary of the adoption of NEPAD as a programme of the African Union (AU) (then Organisation of Africa Unity in 2001.  The Summit also marked the 5th anniversary of the launch of the AU....
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NAWAL EL SAADAWI
This edited volume focuses on the writings of Nawal El Saadawi, generally acclaimed as ‘the Arab world’s leading feminist and iconoclast’.
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