Africa world press
Africa world press
POSTMODERISM, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND AFRICAN STUDIES
When Kwame Appiah asked the question whether “post” in “postcolonial” was the “post” in “postmodern,” he challenged the theoretical tenets of both postmodernism and postcolonial studies and opened up a space for a dialogue, which unfortunately, only a handful of...
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SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA
In this extensively researched and thoughtful study, Dei raises fundamental questions about the state of education in contemporary Ghana that has relevance for many other countries in Africa and the global South. He interrogates not only the political and pedagogical...
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Science and Technology in Africa
Innovations in the African context, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which has a large informal economy cannot be measured with the conventional metrics employed in developed economies. Hence, it is important to build capacity to develop appropriate system of innovation indicators for...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES: THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
This book is designed to explore the following challenges and imperatives for African countries in the 21st century: liberalization of commercial and industrial activities in a deliberate effort to make them the preserve of the private sector, generation of an...
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
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SCRIPTURAL POLITICS: THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN AS POLITICAL MODELS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
It is commonly held that the Koran has more specific rules for organizing society than does the Bible: thus while Islamic activists see the Koran as a model from which they can derive concrete and all-encompassing instructions, Christians view the...
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SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: CENTENNIEL REFLECTIONS
In this curriculum guide, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History continues its emphasis on Du Bois’ prophetic statement first enunciated at the Pan-African Conference of 1900 that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the...
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF BORDERLANDS (THE): TWO NATIONS ONE COMMUNITY
he central pursuit of this book is to demonstrate using the Idiroko/Igolo community on the Nigeria/Benin border the link between language and identity. It raises and discusses issues of identity within a sociolinguistic framework, focusing on the ways in which...
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TRENDS IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS: LINGUISTICTYPOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES #5
For the thirty third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired, and used. This volume represents a selection...
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Walking a Tightrope: Towards a History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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YOUNG AFRICA: REALISING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
This book examines the history of the Coloured or mixed race community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalized in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The...
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CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM PB
This ground-breaking volume provides scholars with a sustained exploration of human sexuality as an integral part of gender studies. The books theoretical, interpretative, and analytical approaches document the state of present knowledge on homoeroticism in African literature and film. The...
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