Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Some Developmental Changes Facing Africa
This book brings to the fore some critical and fundamental issues plaguing the continent of Africa. It is a symbolic microcosm of challenging issues that Africa has and must address. Can Africa reverse the dark odds and can it move...
$76.00
Critical Perspectives on Cameroon Writing
This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea...
$76.00
The Cowrie Necklace. A Collection of Poems
The Cowrie Necklace is a graphic account of the struggle for meaning in life. The poems are a carefully woven sizzling and cracking attempt to mirror society. The poet runs a long and wide gamut of poetic themes which include...
$41.98
Covid-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective
The advent of Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) pandemic has caused much distress, despondence, fear and pandemonium across all nations of the world. In Zimbabwe, the emergence of the virus sent a chilling message of insecurity and need for conscientiousness...
$79.00
Covid-19 and the Dialectics of Global Pandemics in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of the Global Economy I
The prevalence of global pandemics has been timeless and universal. In 1918, the Spanish Flue grounded Spain and her neighbours. In 1997, 2014 and 2020, the Ebola virus wreaked havoc in West Africa in the same manner that polio had...
$83.00
Corruption in Africa
The underlying assumption of this work is that of all the epidemics afflicting Nigerian, and nay African people, ignorance is the most prevalent and deadliest. The book is split in two sections: The first is an inquiry into the nature...
$48.50
Conviviality in Bellvill. an Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa
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Conviviality in Bellvill. an Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa
This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local...
$41.98
Contemporary Innovation Trends in the Zimbabwean Education System
Innovation is rapidly becoming a driving force in every global sector, and education is no exception. This book offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of innovation trends within Zimbabwe's education system, exploring its impact on students, teachers, and the wider...
$50.00
Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa: African-Japanese Anthropological Approach
Africa has fostered a rich culture of gender and sexuality from which non-African societies can learn. Most African traditional sexual customs differ greatly from Western colonial thought, which prioritizes an individualism that respects the individual's free will and way of...
$70.00
Conflictualités Contemporaines: Sécurité Globale Et Maintien De La Paix : Penser La Puissance Africaine Au 21e Siècle
Comment penser la puissance africaine et les enjeux de la transition hégémonique globale au 21e siècle ? Telle est la question thématique centrale de cet ouvrage qui se veut un cahier de recherche doctrinale en polémologie et en irénologie endogènes,...
$70.00
Community Stewardship
Ours is a world that is constituted and reinvented through the personal and shared stories we tell. In the spirit and understanding that each and every one of us, however big or small, has a story to tell, I am...
$38.00
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories
The Clash of the Titans and Other Short Stories is a sundry, marvellous collection of short stories that reflect and capture diverse life experiences. Mabeza and Mawere offer with great dexterousness a snapshot, richness, and practical potentialities of childhood to...
$33.00
Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese scholars in conversation
Anthropological reflections on citizenship focus on themes such as politics, ethnicity and state management. Present day scholarship on citizenship tends to problematize, unsettle and contest often taken-for- granted conventional connotations and associations of citizenship with imagined culturally bounded political communities...
$79.00
Challenge of Culture in Africa. From Restoration to Integration
This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA - Cameroon Cultural Review - under the title 'Idea of Culture'. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which...
$48.00
C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d'Ivoire
The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu's precepts and workings...
$50.00
Cameroon's Predicaments
This book deals with a variety of socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing Cameroon and the rest of Africa, with particular reference to unemployment, corruption, poverty, criminality, violence, insecurity, and moral decadence. It presents a critical analysis of government policies...
$58.00
Cameroon's Contemporary Culture and Politics: Prospects and Problems
This book addresses Cameroon's culture, education and language policies since independence, scholarship on and vigorous debate about them, their bearings on different visions of national development, and their place in the political struggle between autocracy and democracy since 1990. A...
$55.00
The Cameroon-Nigeria Border Dispute. Management and Resolution, 1981-2011
At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of uti possedetis juris by inheriting the colonial administrative borders whose delineation in some parts was either imperfect or not demarcated or both. The two countries tried to correct these...
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Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development
This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context, identifying the internal factors that impinge on good governance...
$58.00
Cameroon Grassfields Civilization
This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication...
$55.00
The Cameroon Condition
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and...
$55.00
Cameroon Anthology of Poetry
In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a...
$47.00
Building Capacity: Using TEFL and African Languages as Development-oriented Literacy Tools (English and Afrikaans Edition)
Building Capacity promotes the vision that the teaching of African languages can best achieve its aim of boosting the economic and cultural development of the Africans if they are made to work in synergy with a revamping of the course...
$62.00
Bourgeon Divin: Temoignages (French Edition)
Ce livre dévoile un matériel ethnographique innovant, notamment, des événements dans lesquels des individus font face au super naturel, tel la réaction à la mort d'un enfant dont l'opération chirurgicale était considérée comme la réponse aux prières à Dieu, la...
$54.00
Born Nude
Born Nude is philosophical poetry that explores myriad themes, from equality to humility and environmental consciousness. It is divided into chapters that pinpoint specific areas of interest. The author delves into human weaknesses and strengths based on nature and nurture. He...
$30.00
Beyond Zimbabwe's 5.0 Education Model: A Critical Examination
This book provides a thought-provoking and comprehensive examination of Zimbabwe's ground-breaking 5.0 Education Model. As Zimbabwe grapples with the ever-evolving landscape of education, this timely work explores the ambitious 5.0 Education Model that has captured the nation's attention. The authors...
$50.00
Between Worlds
Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance...
$27.00
Between Rhetoric and Reality. The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
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Between Rhetoric and Reality. The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment...
$61.00
Being Available and Reachable. New Media and Cameroonian Transnational Sociality
The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people readily available and reachable. Most theoretical literature states that these tools of sociality cement...
$69.00
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonization of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of...
$70.00