Africa World Press
One Love: Essays on Pan-African Struggles Here, and There, Presented to Horace G. Campbell
Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1945, Horace G. Campbell descended from working people of African descent. At once beneficiary and heir to the interlocking struggles against slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism, all expressions of racial capitalism, Campbell went on to...
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A Medical School Like No Other
Out of hardship and historical chance, Dr. Yared conjures a vivid, unforgettable portrait of a medical school born on uneven ground. His storytelling is at once personal, and panoramic, a tribute to resilience, improvisation, and the triumph of learning under...
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The Nature of Political Power in Igboland
One of the most important facts about African political development is the relative absence oflarge states along Eurasian lines. For some reason, African communities placed a high value onautonomy and independence, and/or were particularly concerned about the potential forabuse by...
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The Determined Wound: Grassroots Voices from The Tigray War: A Dairy Account
In The Determined Wound, Abraha Weldu has transformed two year in Wuqro and Adigrat, during the terrible genocidal war against the Tigray people,into a powerful account that reads as much like a diary as it does like a work of social science.
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Architecture of Pluriversal Knowledges for Plural Worlds
This book grapples with complex contemporary politics of knowledge from a decolonial epistemic perspective and gestures towards constructions of pluriversal knowledges amenable to pluriversal worlds. It begins with the long story of how the global architecture of knowledge came to...
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Postcolonial Statehoods in the Global Order
In Post-Colonial Statehoods in the Global Order, the author explores the implications of turbulence in the global system interacting with endogenous value and attitudinal transformations in Africa. The consolidation or deconsolidation of African statehoods had created profound divergences in their...
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The African Diaspora Returns Home — Focus on Women
This study investigates the role of women and gender dynamics in six communities of freedom that constitute the Returned African Diaspora in West Africa after the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It argues that women played central and leadership roles in social...
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Saʿīd b. Jubayr: An African Scholar and Rebel in Early Islam
Saʿīd bin Jubayr is a legendary figure from the first century of Islam. He is renowned as a scholar of the Qurʾān who famously rebelled against the governor of Iraq, al-Hajjāj. His altercation with al-Hajjāj and his subsequent beheading earned...
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UBUNTU FOR WARRIORS By Colin Chasi (Paperback)
Colin Chasi’s riveting book overturns commonly held epistemological premises of the philosophy of ubuntu. Chasi goes further to uncover and position ubuntu as a resource for counterhegemonic struggles. It is a must read not only for all those interested in taking...
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Everything In Her Power, A Novel
Everything in Her Power has so much history and hope contained in four words. Afitting title for a singular novel that successfully exposes the root of crippling patriarchy whilst offering a multi-dimensional portrayal of what it means to experience womanhood. Dr....
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Grand Corruption: The Charge Against God and Man
This book, in a profound way, argues that Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh, in his poem “Complaint,” challenges one’s understanding of, and relationship toward, nature, humankind, and God. Its scholarship ranges across literature, literary criticism, history, politics,...
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Roots of Resilience: The History of the Arsi Oromo Movement in Building Educational Resistance (1950s to 1980s)
Drawing on meticulous research, oral testimony, and evocative narrative, the author brings to life the resilience and ingenuity of a generation that defied Ethiopia’s oppressive feudal order to claim education as a tool of liberation and justice. It is a...
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A NEW WORLD IS COMING: A Collection of Articles on International and Domestic Issues
Mr. Fritz Pointer delivers a brilliant, masterful, and thought-provoking exploration of global affairs in A New World Is Coming: A Collection of Articles on International and domestic Issues. With sharp insight, fearless analysis, and a compelling narrative style, this book...
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Making of Modern State & Society in Africa
The Making of Modern State & Society in Africa, the late Martin Kilson addressed the modernization process and political development in African societies. He explored the rise of emergent elites and of political parties, as well as the rise of...
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Perspectives on the Dynamics of African Literature by Omar Sougou
"Perspectives on the Dynamics of African Literature" by Omar Sougou is an exploration of the evolution of African literary expression, tracing its path from early male authors to the emergence of female voices. This investigation reveals the tapestry of Anglophone...
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The Nigerian Cocoa Economy At The Crossroads by Ezekiel Walker
Nigeria was once a powerhouse in cocoa production, reaching its peak as the world’s second-largest producer after Ghana in the early 1970s. However, this success masked a structural weakness: the decline in new and replanted cocoa trees across the southwestern...
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Beyond the Kumbla: Sylvia Wynter and New Conversations
Beyond the Kumbla: Sylvia Wynter and New Conversations attests to the fact that the literary field dedicated to the study of Caribbean women’s writing, inaugurated by Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (1990) flourishes and lives up to the excitement of its...
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African Images : Recent Studies and Text in Cinema #8 (Hardcover)
Publisher : Africa World Pr; illustrated edition (February 1, 2000)
Hardcover: 189 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0865438194
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African Drumming: The History and Continuity of African Drumming Traditions
African Drumming The History and Continuity of African Drumming Traditions has been inspired by the need to document and share African drumming traditions. Amegago draws from his life-long research in African drumming, music and dance, arts and cultures to compose...
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Fascist Italian Brutality in Ethiopia, 1935-1937: An Eyewitness Account
This is an eyewitness account of the war crimes of fascist Italy committed on Ethiopia from 1935-1937. The account is by Dr. Sáska László (1890 1978), a Hungarian physician who lived with his wife, Mojzsis Mária, in Ethiopia between 1933...
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