Africa world press
Africa world press
KOSSOYE: A Village Life In Ethiopia
This fascinating and relevant interdisciplinary book is the result of personal histories of service and research that have now spanned nearly five decades.
$24.95
AFRICA RISING: Multidisciplinary Discussions on Africana Studies and History
As aninterdisciplinary prism through which one can study the growing field of Africalogy, this scholarly and journalistic volume examines the expansive and compelling history of Africa, its many peoples and their global experiences. By offering articles that, in addition to...
$24.95
ONLY WEST INDIANS: CREOLE NATIONALISM IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
Contrary to popular belief, the ideology of empire in the nineteenth-century British resulted in a number of West Indian Creoles who took the language and values of Britain’s supposedly liberal empire and turned them upside down.
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RECITING IFA: DIFFERENCE, HETEROGENEITY, AND IDENTITY
This book generates a critical Ifa poetics and analysis that emphasizes Ifa as a philosophical heritage that privileges heterogeneity of discourses, texts, and worlds.
$34.95
TURNING SCIENCE INTO ACTION: BIODIVERSITY CONVERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA
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TURNING SCIENCE INTO ACTION: BIODIVERSITY CONVERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA
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. Today rich countries and corporations are taking seed and making it...
$39.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON UNGULANI BA KA KHOSA
Emerging Perspectives On Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa honors the celebrated Mozambican writer, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, who was awarded the 2007 José Craveirinha Prize for his Os Sobreviventes da Noite (Survivors of the Night).
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EARLY WEST AFRICAN WRITERS: AMOS TUTUOLA CYPRIAN EKWENSI & AYI KWEI ARMAH
This book focuses on the first works produced by three talented West Africans who felt an urge to express themselves in print. These
$29.95
TAKING THE PLACE OF FOOD: KHAT IN ETHIOPIA
Khat (catha edulis) is a psychoactive shrub whose tender leaves and twigs have been chewed in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula for their euphonizing effects for a millennium.
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OBAFEMI AWOLOWO AND THE MAKING OF REMO: THE LOCAL POLITICS OF A NIGERIAN NATIONALIST
“This admirable and richly textured book should be widely read not only by those inter-ested in Yoruba history and modern Nigeria but by all those who seek a mature under-standing of the intricate connections between local and national politics. Nolte...
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GENUINELY GHANAIAN: A HISTORY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH GHANA, 1961-2000
Genuinely Ghanaian is the fascinating history of the Methodist Church Ghana, from the time of its autonomy, 1961, to the year 2000. This book shows how missiological issues of contextualization and outreach have shaped the history
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SPEAKING FOR THE GENERATIONS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN SHORT STORIES
This anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names such as Benjamin Kwakye, Tijan Sallah, Zahra Ramij, Freddy Macha, Arja Salafranca, Odun Balogun, Tanure Ojaide
$21.95
J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
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J.K.: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
This is the first comprehensive study of the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the fourth president of the United Republic of Tanzania who took office in December 2005.
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IN MY LIFETIME: TOWARDS PRESIDENCY+B529 OF BARACK OBAMA
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, the recurring confession heard across Black America was, “I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.
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MAKING AND BREAKING STATES IN AFRICA: The Somali Experience
This book analyzes crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with ‘modernity’, the Somalis illustrate the extremes of modern African statehood.
$29.95
African Pentecostalism: v. I: Global Discourses, Migrations, Exchanges and Connections: The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays,Ogbu Kalu 1)
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa,...
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Christian Missions in Africa: v. II: Success, Ferment and Trauma, the Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu (Collected Essays,Ogbu Kalu 2)
The narratives and analyses in this volume will enable scholars of global Christianity to discern how the shifting center of gravity in Christianity is being played out in Africa.
$39.95
Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (September 28, 2010) Language : English Hardcover : 480 pages ISBN-10 : 1592217672 ISBN-13 : 978-1592217670
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa,...
$119.95
Migration, Development and Diplomacy: Perspectives From the Southern Mediterranean
In recent years, migration across the Mediterranean has become an issue of growing concern to the countries of the region and beyond. It has also become a rather divisive issue between the two shores of the Mediterranean
$24.95
Religions in Africa: Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics (Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu)
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Religions in Africa: Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics (Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu)
This volume collects together Kalu’s insightful essays on the intersection of religion and social issues in Africa. They constitute an engaging set of political and ethical analyses of the ?ow of events as Christianity penetrated Africa
$39.95
RACE AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION: THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FRAMING OF BLACKNESS ANDAFRICAN PERSONHOOD, 1800-1960
Europeans had militarily subjugated and occupied Africa in part because they were on a “civilizing mission” to rescue Africans from savagery and barbarism.
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SELF DETERMINATION AND NATIONAL UNITY: A CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA
Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterized by gross inequities among the component groups.
$29.95
SLAVERY, ISLAM AND DIASPORA
Slavery, Islam and Diaspora explores slavery in the context of the Muslim world through a study of the African Diaspora
$34.95
NEW SUDAN IN THE MAKING?: Essays on a Nation in Painful Search of Itself
“New Sudan” is a concept for radically reforming Sudan’s governance system by addressing the national identity crisis that has been responsible for the wars, the instability and the failure of the national building project that have afflicted the country since...
$39.95
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: VOICES FROM THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
In Their Own Words is a gripping and haunting encounter with voices once silenced by the tragic Atlantic Voyage—The Middle Passage—reaching out across time to be heard.
$16.95
JOURNEYS HOME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE
As a major origin of emigrants to the western hemisphere, the African continent has seen its share of both forced and volunteer emigration.
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RELIGON IN POLITICS: SECULARISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN MODERN NIGERIA
There has been a long tradition of interaction between the two powerful institutions of religion and politics. While the relationship between the two is complex and sometimes confusing
$29.95
POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF ONITSHA
Located on the eastern bank of the lower Niger, Onitsha is one of the leading commercial cities and road transport hubs in Nigeria. Its main market is reputed to be the biggest in West Africa.
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WHEN CITIZENS REVOLT: NIGERIAN ELITES, BIG OIL AND THE OGONI STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
On 10 November 1995, the Nigerian military regime, under General Sani Abacha, hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and minority rights activist, and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) after a judicially flawed trail....
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TRADITIONS OF ERITREA: Linking the Past To the Future
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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LABYRINTH AND PATH OF THUNDER PB
“There is nothing in Nigerian poetry and little in any poetry I know to surpass the haunting beauty, the mystic resonance and clarity of the final movements of the protagonist’s quest in “Distances”.
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