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Pursuing Alexander Pushkin is the story of a scholar/poet whose life and work was shaped significantly by the Russian writer, Alexander Pushkin. Robert Coles' memoir begins with his student years at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where he discovered Pushkin during the Black Arts Movement in the early 1970s. Coles describes how Pushkin's African race pride and literary achievements influenced his own work and gave him much-needed inspiration to keep writing. Thereafter, Coles details how Pushkin, despite his Russian background, shares an existential consciousness with African American people. Eventually this led Coles to travel to Russia, numerous times, to trace this connection further. In other words, Pushkin's experience of otherness and racial difference in Russian high society led him to better understand the suffering of Russian people, mostly serfs, and other oppressed groups. Pushkin's universalism, his internationally recognized genius, grew from having both an African and Russian heritage. 'In a captivating journey of self-discovery, Coles bridges African American and Russian heritage through the life and works of his literary hero, Alexander Pushkin. With profound dedication, Coles delves into Pushkin's legacy, uncovering shared struggles and universal connections across continents and time.'- Tammy Letherer, author of The Buddha at My Table.

This long-awaited, ground-breaking work is a book unlike any other. Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto is a monumental and authoritative study of the phenomenon of apartheid and its prevalence in the world. It proposes the establishment of an interdisciplinary new field of study from the global south known as apartheid studies (AS). The Manifesto is truly a landmark. It is the founding document and constitutive invitation to the first-of-its-kind, formal study of apartheid. We are shown, with amazing depth and clarity, that apartheid takes forms that are very different to what we have been told or what we ordinarily assume. For the first time, apartheid is systematically defined, and its full range of meanings, tendencies, and applications examined. How does oppression persist? The answer is found in the exposition, construct, theoretical framework, and paradigm of apartheid. In Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto, Nyasha Mboti has developed the world''s first general theory of apartheid - an o

A classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s.

From the 1950''s onwards the British empire has declined steadily in size. The countries that have left the empire have suddenly found themselves facing the task of affixing their own identitarian narratives. After all, a newly independent country needs a sense of national identity - doesn''t it? Taking this well - known assumption of postcolonial studies as its start The Writing of the Nation assesses how the Congo has told the story of itself since gaining independence.

The relationship between African women and Feminism is one fraught with controversy. Inherent in this connection is the question of whether assumptions made by Western feminists about women''s place in society are cross-cultural or relevant to Africa''s situation. This book tackles the misrepresentation of African women by both black and white American feminists and thereby explores the implications of the dominance of Western scholarship in the production of knowledge about Africa.

Translated and with an introduction by Anne Adams. In this collection rich in humour and irony, Ayim takes the divergent strands of life from the sublime to the ridiculous and transforms them into a deeply expressive meditation on the dangerous stereotypes and messages hidden in the everyday use of language and human behaviour.

The moving story of a group of Nigerian women which follows their lives from their schooldays together through the trials and tribulations of their adult lives. Through their stories we see some of the universal problems faced by women everywhere: the struggle for financial independence and a rewarding career, the difficulties of relationships, and the dilemmas of bringing up a family, often without a partner. Set against the background of a developing Nigeria, this novel shows Nwapa at her finest.

A novel depicting Biafran women and their importance in sustaining the society.