Africa world press
Africa world press
DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: the Self and The Other
This book is a contribution to Arab-Muslim-Western dialogue. The book underlines the hazardous consequences of the strategy of preemptive war on this dialogue.
$29.95
DEPTH AND DESTINY OF WORK: AN AFRICAN THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
This book seeks to develop a theology of work as a foundation and motivation for engaging with the discourse on globalization. The book approaches globalization as the spatial distribution of work.
$29.95
AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
$34.95
AFRICA AND TRANS-ATLANTIC MEMORIES: LITERARY AND AESTHETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIASPORA AND HISTORY
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press; First edition (June 3,...
$34.95
SPIRIT AND THE WORD: A THEORY OF SPIRITUALITY IN AFRICANA LITERARY CRITICISM
Utilizing a method informed by the ideas and worldview of Ifa, an ancient African spiritual system, to unlock deeper levels of meaning in the writings of African peoples, literary scholar Georgene Bess Montgomery presents a powerful new way of reading...
$29.95
SAGA OF AFRICAN UNDERDEVELOMENT: A VIABLE APPROACH FOR AFRICA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Saga of African Underdevelopment examines in careful detail the economic conditions in Africa during the pre-colonial and colonial periods.
$34.95
CLIO IN A SACRED GARB: ESSAYS ON CHRISTIAN PRESENCE AND AFRICAN RESPONSES, 1900-2000
This book consists of essays on African church history: historiography, context (ecology and worldviews), the missionary enterprise and African responses that explain the massive growth of Christianity in contemporary Africa. Some essays have been published; others are unpublished, or rewritten...
$29.95
NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
$34.95
NEW PARADIGM OF PENTECOSTAL POWER: A STUDY OF THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN NIGERIA
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria
$34.95
EARLY SOYINKA
This book contains half a dozen essays on writings by Wole Soyinka composed prior to publication of his first books in 1963
$29.95
OF WAR AND WOMEN, OPPRESSION AND OPTIMISM: NEW ESSAYS ON THE AFRICAN NOVEL
A supplement to Palmer's earlier works on the African novel, An Introduction to the African Novel and The Growth of the African Novel. Here, Palmer undertakes a detailed critical assessment of key novels he feels are typical of the main...
$29.95
ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Reflections On The Literatures Of The Horn Of Africa
A horn is an instrument either for protection or destruction. The horn in the Horn of Africa has for so long turned inward, and on its people, thus victimizing those it was supposed to defend.
$29.95
KNOWLEDGE IS MORE THAN MERE WORDS,WEY DEHN SAY? DEHN SAY KAPU SEHNS NOR KAPU WORD: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO SIERRA LEONEAN LITERATURE
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis and assessment of a national literature that has been growing in recent years. It provides, particularly in the introduction, insightful information about the historical and cultural background
$34.95
RESISTANCE, INSURGENCE AND IDENTITY: THE ART OF MARI EVANS, NELSON STEVENS, AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.
Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement is an inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies
$34.95
IFA: THE YORUBA GOD OF DIVINATION IN NIGERIA AND THE UNITED STATES
In this book, the late Dr. Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason offers a combination of personal, historical and solicitous accounts on Ifa, the Yoruba divination deity. Using sites in Nigeria and the United States, he reveals various aspects of the religious...
$24.95
ON THE MORNING TIDE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY IN THE HISTORICAL EBB AND FLOW OF HUDSON RIVER SOCIETY
On the Morning Tide, like the author’s earlier book, Long Hammering, continues the challenge of creating a more accurate image of the African American in the history of New York.
$24.95
SEASON'S OF HARVEST: ESSAYS ON THE LITERATURES OF ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE, CAPE VERDE, GUINEA BISSAU, AND SAO TOME-PRINCIPE
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world.
$24.95
JIMMA ABBA JIFAR: An Oromo Monarcy in Ethiopia (with a postcript)
Established around 1830, the Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar was the largest and most powerful of the five monarchies formed by the Oromo in the Gibe region of southwestern Ethiopia.
$21.95
IN THE LAND OF SOLOMON AND SHEBA
This is the fascinating story of an American family and their adventures set in the Semien mountains, the 8,000 feet highlands of northern Ethiopia. Dr. John Summerskill, the author's spouse, had been president of San Francisco State University.
$19.95
GEOGRAPHY OF A SOUL: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON KAMUA BRAITHWAITE
This important new work on Kamau Brathwaite includes work on and inspired by the subject, recognizing the power and influence of his poetry and other creative work, historical research and cultural and literary criticism.
$34.95
THREAD IN THE LOOM: ESSAYS ON AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Even in this age of globalism, Africa still hangs precariously on the margins as a zone of abysmal silence and disarticulation stripped of agency and talk-back capability.
$19.95
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN NIGERIA'S MIDDLE BELT: BORGU AND THE EMERGENCE OF A POLITICAL IDENTITY
$29.95
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN NIGERIA'S MIDDLE BELT: BORGU AND THE EMERGENCE OF A POLITICAL IDENTITY
The European partition of Africa at the end of the nineteenth century produced enduring geo-political changes. Some ethnic groups were permanently separated into different political formations and Borgu constituted one of the affected areas.
$29.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVE ON NURUDDIN FARAH
This is the first critical anthology on the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah is one of Africas most multilingual and multiliterate writers.
$34.95
PAN AFRICANISM AFRICAN NATIONALISM: Strenghtening the Unity Of Africa and Its Diaspora
A rich and textured monograph, which is destined to become the definitive work in the field. —Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
$34.95
MARVELS OF THE AFRICAN WORLD: CULTURAL PATRIMONY NEW WORLD CONNECTIONS, AND IDENTITIES
This book examines the cultural and spiritual connections between Africa and the New World where values continue to survive, thrive, and reverberate in the soul, politics, and creative expressions of Africa.
$39.95
PAGES FROM THE BOOK OF THE SUN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
This long-expected collection brings together some of the best poems by one of Africa’s most important poets.
$21.95
TWO WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES
Murray Last, the eminent editor of Journal of Modern African Studies, says about Two Weeks in the Trenches, “ I found it so moving that I couldn’t put it down....” He further notes that he found “The Heart,” one of the short...
$19.95
IN THE KINGDOM OF SONGS
In the Kingdom of Songs, a harvest of many years (1995-2000), Tanure Ojaide brings together related, but different poetic expeditions: “In the Kingdom of Songs, “ “Home Truths,” and “When It No Longer Matters
$19.95
VISIONS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: BLACK SCIENCE FICTION NOVELISTS WRITE THE FUTURE
In Visions of the Third Millenium, Sandra Grayson analyzes how writers of African descent use the codes of science fiction to explore race and gender, myth and language, slavery and freedom, alienation and difference.
$21.95
POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN WRITERS FROM AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THE U.S.
Postcolonial literary criticism has specialized in intercultural comparisons of literatures produced both under and after colonialism, focusing most often on groupings determined by the colonizing power.
$29.95