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Africa world press
TEMBA TUPU! (WALKING NAKED): AFRICANA WOMEN'S POETIC SELF-PORTRAIT
Temba Tupu! is a one-of-a-kind anthology brimming with a cross-section of poetic styles that represent the creative genius of Africana women from the beginning of written records.
$39.95
FROM A RED ZONE: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics and Culture
This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power, from scholarly works embedded in academic disciplines to “ethnic” museums and several race-based exclusionary political practices
$24.95
CHANGING CURRENTS: TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary. Product details Publisher...
$34.95
IMAGINING EVIL: WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS AND ACCUSATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
Here is a book on witchcraft written mostly by Africansscholars, but also human rights activists and religious practitioners. It discusses witchcraft beliefs and accusations in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
$29.95
LEGITIMIZING HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA
Drawing on lessons from the human rights NGOs in Nigeria, this book argues that most NGOs in Africa will need to do almost all of the following if they are to overcome the popular legitimization crisis that they currently face...
$29.95
BLOOD LUXURY: POEMS
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (November 15, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 110 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592214061
ISBN-13 : 978-1592214068
$16.95
IGBO ART AND CULTURE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by the anthropologist, Simon Ottenberg. Focus is on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria
$39.95
IGBO RELIGION, SOCIAL LIFE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
In this volume Emeritus Professor Simon Ottenberg presents a number of detailed essays on the religious life of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria and on the Limba of northern Sierra Leone, based on extensive anthropological field research
$39.95
LIVING IN BABYLON: POEMS AND PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING, "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?"
Esther Iverems new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditation that proves the adage that the personal is political, and the political is profoundly personal.
$14.95
LION-MAN AND OTHER STORIES
Lion-Man & Other Stories is a collection of short stories culled from the culture and folklore of the indigenous people of Bamunka. Bamunka is a small village with a population of approximately 76,500
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KWAME NKRUMAH'S LIBERATION THOUGHT: A PARADIGM FOR RELIGIOUS ADVOCACY IN CONTEMPORARY GHANA
This book is an attempt to recapture the liberation philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), first prime minister and first president of the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. The goals of this study are threefold: first,
$29.95
DIASPORA BLUES
Timeless and timely, there is verse and music in Diaspora Blues tuned by an acute intelligence. Ali Jimale Ahmeds pithy and elegant lines span the range from the classical Arabic jewels of an al-Maari, to the kind of ironies that grace the discursive...
$14.95
ZARA YACOB: Rationality of the Human Heart
Through a rare autobiographical act, Zara Yacob, who acquainted himself with the teachings of the Catholic Church introduced by Portuguese Jesuit missions in Sixteenth-century Ethiopia, becomes the first self-conscious founder of a philosophical tradition in Ethiopia. Indeed, it is a...
$19.95
AFRICAN THEATRE: Soyinka
An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness ... lucid andrichly suggestive ... beautifully written' -- Professor Karin Barber, University of Birmingham An excellent and important book moving with great ease in very tricky terrain... I must confess that having...
$24.95
ECOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
This collection brings together the key essays on the economic and social history of West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
$34.95
MAKERS AND BREAKERS: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA
The “problem” of youth is presented as one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. In Africa youth are portrayed as perpetrators and victims in civil conflict, leaders and led in political and religious movements, innovators and dupes in...
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OBA'S STORY: RASTAFARI, PURIFICATION AND POWER
Obas Story tells of the life, religious development and work for justice of a Rastafarian on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean.
$19.95
OIL LAMP: POEMS
Oil is my curse, oil is our doom.Where are my children? Where is my husband?Ashes and bones, ashes and bones. So sings a 90-year-old widow whose husband fell off an oilrig and drowned.
$14.95
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A MULTIFACETED CHALLENGE
Using a variety of tools from various disciplines, Sustainable Development in Africa examines factors limiting sustainable development in Africa and recommends:
$29.95
VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECETED SOUTHERN AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on six narratives from Southern Africa: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele, Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gormider, and Mother to...
$24.95
WE SHALL NOT FAIL: VALUES IN THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF: SERETSE KHAMA, NELSON MANDELA AND JULIUS NYERERE
This book focuses on pertinent political and social issues in Botswana, South Africa, and Tanzania during the leadership of Seretse Khama, Nelson Mandela, and Julius Nyerere respectively. It is a critical analysis of the nature of good and effective national...
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EFUNSETAN ANIWURA: IYALODE IBADAN AND TINUUBU, IYALODE EGBA: THE YORUBA HISTORICAL DRAMAS OF AKINWUMI ISOLA
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smiths Efúnsetán Aníwúrà, Ìyálóde Ibadan and Olú Æmæ (Tinuúbu), Ìyálóde Ëgbá, is an annotated English translation of Akínwùmí Ìsölás trailblazing dramas of two powerful, nineteenth century Ìyálóde during the seventy-year protracted internecine Yorùbá wars. Besides important male historical figures, change agents included...
$24.95
MADIBA
Unencumbered by traditional conventions, Ogaga Ifowodo’s poetry exudes freedom and freshness. The rhythmic lines carry the poet’s political awareness and human sensitivity. This new voice enlivens contemporary African poetry with a fascinating jolt of the imagination.” —Tanure Ojaide, The University...
$14.95
TRADITIONS AND POLITICS: INDIGENOUS POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN AFRICA
Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa is based on selected original papers presented at the International Conference on Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, held at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2001 under the auspices of the...
$34.95
WOMEN IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND LIBERALIZTAION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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WOMEN IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND LIBERALIZTAION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The basic premise of this book is that one of the most effective ways to ensure increased and sustainable development in Africa is through the improvement of African womens skills and ensuring their access to tools such as credit, training,...
$24.95
BANDITS ON THE BORDER: The Last Frontier In the Search For Somali Unity
In the early 1990s, Somalia was in the spotlight for factionalism as warlords, clans, and sub-clans doggedly wrenched their fiefdoms from the state through bloody civil wars. In contrast, thirty years earlier the Somali were pre-occupied with the struggle to...
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FANON'S WARNING: A CIVIL SOCIETY READER ON THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT
Is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) a genuine blueprint for Africa's recovery? The question arises not least because some things don't add up. NEPAD argues that if Africa's "enormous potential and human resources are properly harnessed and utilized,...
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AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RECONSIDERED: WESTERN NARRATIVES AND AFRICAN ALTERNATIVES
This book explores the conditions of production in agricultural biotechnology. Situating its discussion in theoretical debates on the role of science and technology in global capitalism, the book grounds abstract discussions in a case study of Africa. Adopting the premise...
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BEING BLACK BEING HUMAN
In this follow-up to his first volume, "On Black Culture," Femi Ojo-Ade continues his in-depth explication and exploration of black essence and experience, primarily through literature, as well as through socio-political events and personal actions and interactions. He discusses a...
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