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  • - An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de litterature francophone contemporaine
    av Jacques Bourgeacq
    384,-

    There is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack of diffusion outside the country. Until recently, Madagascar suffered from political isolation resulting from its breakup with France in the 1970s and the eighteen years of Marxism that followed.Wit

  • - Conversations with African Writers
    av Don Burness
    230,-

    There is a tendency to regard African literature as a homogenous product. Certainly it is true that African writers have created a vibrant, modern literature. Nevertheless, they come from specific societies and reflect vastly differing worlds.Wanasema attempts to show some of the many faces of African literature.

  • av Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
    269,-

    Western Bahr al-Ghazal is perhaps one of the least known places in Africa. Yet this remote part of the Republic of Sudan can be regarded as a historical barometer, registering major developments in the history of the Nile valley. In the nineteenth century the region became one of the most active slave-exporting zones in Africa.

  • - Adolescent Drug Use, 1974-1985
    av Brian M. du Toit
    269,-

    Du Toit examines the results of two surveys which he made a decade apart among high school students of Black, Indian, White, and Colored backgrounds. The initial survey showed some acceptance of the use of these substances among a small proportion of high school students but a high degree of intolerance of such use by the majority.

  • - Life in a Post-Apartheid Township in Namibia
    av Wade C. Pendleton
    269,-

    Katutura, located in Namibia's major urban center and capital, Windhoek, was a township created by apartheid, and administered in the past by the most rigid machinery of the apartheid era. Namibia became a sovereign state in 1990, and Katutura reflects many of the changes that have taken place.

  • av Simeon O. Ilesanmi
    416,-

    In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions of the state that inhibit the possibility of forging an enduring civic amity among Nigeria's diverse groups.

  • - The St. Kizito Story
    av H. Leslie Steeves
    291,-

    On the night of Saturday, July 13, 1991, a mob of male students at the St. Kizito Mixed Secondary School in Meru, Kenya, attacked their female classmates in a dormitory. Nineteen schoolgirls were killed in the melee and more than 70 were raped or gang raped.The

  • - A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1945
    av Steven C. Rubert
    351,-

    A Most Promising Weed examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945.

  • av Jonathan Haynes
    355,-

    Nigerian video films-dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes-are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry.

  • av David Birmingham
    291,-

    Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots.

  • - The Human Condition in Africa
    av Tedros Kiros
    269,-

    Although development issues generally have been considered in a framework of economic theory and politics, in this volume Tedros Kiros looks to European ideas of moral philosophy to explain the underdevelopment of Africa and the persistent African food crisis.

  • - An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry
    av Don Burness
    230,-

    This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa's leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize.

  • - Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria
    av Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika
    351,-

    Even with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. Negotiating Power and Privilege is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa barring them from fulfillment.Philomina

  • - Literature, Language, and Identity
    av Alamin Mazrui
    258,-

    Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures.

  • - Contemporary Film in a Changing Society
    av Valerie K. Orlando
    351,-

    Since 1999 and the death of King Hassan II, Morocco has experienced a dramatic social transformation. This book focuses on Moroccan films produced and distributed from 1999 to the present. It introduces American readers to the richness in theme and scope of the cinematic production of Morocco.

  • - Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai
    av Besi Brillian Muhonja
    351,-

    In Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai, Wangari Maathai is presented as a scholar whose contributions to gender equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global governance, and indigenous African languages and knowledges paralleled her renowned environmental activism.

  • - Conservation, Community Development, and State-Making in Zimbabwe
    av William A. Munro
    417,-

    The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence.

  • av Isaac Vincent Joslin
    435 - 920,-

  • - Critical Readings
    av Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
    355,-

    The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature.

  • - Angola and Its Neighbors
    av David Birmingham
    291,-

    In this illuminating history, noted historian David Birmingham explains how Angola went from colony to independence, how in the 1990s the Cold War legacy turned to civil war, and how peace finally dawned in 2002.

  • - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
     
    930,-

    Africa Every Day is a multidisciplinary and accessible counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on war, poverty, corruption, and other challenges on the continent. Essays address creative and dynamic elements of daily life without romanticizing them, showing that African leisure and popular culture are the product of dynamism and adaptation.

  • - Stories of Cameroon
    av Makuchi
    246,-

    Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.

  • - Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
     
    384,-

    Africa Every Day is a multidisciplinary and accessible counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on war, poverty, corruption, and other challenges on the continent. Essays address creative and dynamic elements of daily life without romanticizing them, showing that African leisure and popular culture are the product of dynamism and adaptation.

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    329,-

    Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.

  • av Anthonia C. Kalu
    232,-

    In her startling collection of short stories, Broken Lives and Other Stories, Anthonia C. Kalu creates a series of memorable characters who struggle to hold displaced but dynamic communities together in a country that is at war with itself.Broken

  • - Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges
    av George Clement Bond
    373,-

    Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in which human beings construct, experience, and think about the "occult."

  • - Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe
    av J. M. Burns
    373,-

    Every European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from them, as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. Flickering Shadows is the first book to explore this little-known world of colonial cinema.J.

  • - Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
    av Mohamed Adhikari
    373,-

    The concept of Colouredness-being neither white nor black-has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation.Not

  • av Toyin Falola
    384,-

    This book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa's underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people.

  • - From Vulnerability to Possibility
     
    402,-

    The Children of Africa Confront AIDS depicts the reality of how African children deal with the AIDS epidemic, and how the discourse of their vulnerability affects acts of coping and courage.

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