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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 him admiration in multiple factions of Islam. These aspects of his life in combination with his African descent and supposed prowess in chess, create an intricate character who lived in a time for which contemporary historical sources are largely absent.
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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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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