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CLASS, LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION: Class Struggle and Sociolinguistics in an African Situation
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Class, Language and Education is a discussion about complex social forces that shape society and are responsible for the divisiveness and antagonism in a class system. The author's analysis supports Basil Bernstein's (1972) observation that "One of the effects of the class system is to limit access to elaborated codes." According to Newsum, mainstream educationalists and linguists associate abstract thinking and the linguistic self-sufficiency of the message to users of "elaborated codes (i.e., the educated and well-to-do class), and cognitive poverty to users of "restricted codes (i.e., the underclasses and the downtrodden).
"A great advancement in social-linguistics and the philosophy of language. Newsum provides us with a remarkable demonstration of the fact that language is a social phenomenon, as he effectively analyzes the relationship between power and language. The dominant class creates, uses, and controls language to maintain their position of dominance, their
CONVERSE KISWAHILI ONGEA: A Kiswahili Phrase Book
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For those traveling to Africa and wanting to converse with a Kiswahili-speaking person, this is an important phrase book to keep around.
ALA ANNUALS, Vol. 10, Tongue and Mother Tongue
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ongue and Mother Tongue is takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature. This collection is the culmination of the fierce, decades-old debates on the question of African literature and its criticism. The fourteen essays, which range from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, have been organized in to five thematic categories whose sequence should be experienced as a continuous dialogue rather than a collection of discrete statements:Five essays engage the more theoretical aspects of the language question and examine whether or not African writers should write in African languages. The ideological implications of each side of this debate are also explored in these essays.A compelling essay examines the nature of criticism by examining the state of the literary discourse of the past decade and the immediacy of its implicit concern for the fate of mother-tongue literary discourse.An essay exp
ARABIC FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDICS
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Arabic for English Speaking Medics is based on simple conversations that typically take place in familiar medic-patient situations. These provide the learner with the words and phrases most commonly used in medical settings as the hospital bedside and the admissions desk. As a reference tool, it may also be helpful in improving communication between English-speaking and Arabic-speaking medics.
In addition, this book portrays situations outside the hospital setting. It contains conversations about local cultural and religious practices and customs that are aimed at creating an understanding relationship between medic and the community within the Arabic speaking environment of the workplace.
The learner is not required to learn a new script. This textbook presents the Arabic language in the English alphabet. Grammatical rules are kept to a minimum. A glossary of medical and non-medical terms is provided.
Expatriate medics need quick access to the language of those with whom they work,
BLACKS IN HISPANIC LITERATURE
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars and creative writers from Africa and the Americas. Called one of two significant critical works on Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late 1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of Carter G. Woodson and Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations were shaped by the Black aesthetic.
This edition includes an new Introduction, which traces the development of Afro-Hispanic creative writing and literarycriticism since its first publication in 1977. The field has been enriched by the publication of three important journals, organization of seminars and conferences, and application of new critical methodologies. This edition also includes a bibliographic essay that describes the creative production of Afro-Hispanic writers, particularly women, Latinos, and Ecuatoguineans who have emerged in the last three decades. The updated bibliography describes
The Pan- Africanists
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This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world. Inspired by the "Pan-Africanists" portfolio, a series of oil paintings by artist Barrington Watson, the authors present the reader with succinct biographies of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela.Not all of them necessarily belonged formally to a Pan-Africanist organization or ever used the term in descriptions of themselves. But the life of each one of them manifests the core values of Pan-Africanism. Together, their lives represent a powerful embodiment of the history of this social movement.
This is both an art book and an important reference work for young readers t
The Legend Of The African Bao-Bab Tree
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The Legend of the Bao-bab Tree is the story of a beautiful tree who complained to the Great Spirit of the Wild Plains about wanting to be the best and brightest and most handsome of all the African Trees. The Great Spirit became tired of the complaints, and reached down from the sky, yanked the tree out of the ground and placed it back in the earth upside down! All the animals were alarmed, and so was the huge tree. For after that, the magnificent tree only grew leaves once a year. The other months, the roots seemed to bend and grow towards the sky.
THE BOOK OF AFRICAN NAMES
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The growing usage of African names in the United States makes this book appealing for those who want to understand the meaning, proper usage and significance of African names. Asante provides the historical rationale and the proper translations and usage of African names from the four corners of the continent.
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Abiola means "Born into Honor."Abiola is a very intelligent boy whose parents have taught him many great things about his African ancestry in the areas of inventions, pioneers, science and technology. Abiola begins to realize that very little, if any, of the information about his ancestors is being used in public school curriculum. Abiola discusses the situation with his parents who show him how to research in different areas. Abiola then shares this information with hi friends and teachers, and they all become excited, especially Abiola because he is anxious to learn more about his ancestors' contribution to the world.
Swinging on a Rainbow
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This is a fun story about a little girl named Patrice who just happens to love rainbows. She loves rainbows so much that one day she imagines herself swinging on one. "What a terrific idea," she says. She takes her kitty and goes outside to tell her friends about her wonderful idea. She is so excited about her idea and hopes her friends are too. Some of them are all for it, and some are a little afraid. "Because that's not why rainbows are made," they told her. Just as she's about to convince them, storm clouds come out and it starts to rain...All of her friends begin running home, "leaving Patrice in the rain all alone." Patrice walks home, crying and feeling rejected. Upon entering her backyard, the rain stops and the sun pops out. Patrice can hardly believe her eyes for over her swing is the world's prettiest rainbow. "How could this be--But A Rainbow! A Rainbow! A Rainbow for me." She runs and jumps into her swing and begins SWINGING ON A RAINBOW.
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Sebgugugu is a poor man. He lives in a hut with his wife Unanana and their two children. All they own is one cow, and Sebgugugu wants much, much more. So he begs Imana, the Lord of Rwanda, to help his family.Imana provides the family with an abundance of delicious food, but it is not enough for Sebgugugu. His foolish quest for more than he has leads to one disaster after another, until finally Imana's patience wears out. Greedy Sebgugugu has gone too farVerna Aardema's humorous and lyrical retelling of this African folk tale will make Sebgugugu the Glutton a favorite for reading out loud. Children will enjoy the sound effects of a bird singing, "guli-gu, guli-gu, kalli-kah, kali-kah"; honey bubbling out of a rock, "gu-bu-du"; and a flying arrow, "t'ch!"Artist Nancy Clouse complements the text with lively cut-paper collages that vividly portray the Arican landscape and bring the story to life.
SHAKA THE GREAT: KIng of the Zulus
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G. K. Osei now walks with the ancestors. He was a proud native of Africa who spent much of his life retelling the history of African people/ A diligent self-trained historian, he was acutely familiar with all manner of books and documents about ancient and modern Africa.Not content with discovering the African past, not satisfied with writing and retelling history, he became a publisher. For years, he kept in print his own books and later began republishing many of the rare texts on Africa.He was a pioneer and warrior who lives on through his work and his contributions to retelling ourstory.
KINDEZI: The Kongo Art of Babysitting, by K.Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and A.M. Lukondo-Wamba, with an Introduction
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o the people of the Western world, babysitting is usually merely a means to make some extra money, chatter with friends on the phone, and raid their host's refrigerators. However, to the people of Africa, particularly the Bantu, babysitting is an art. Both K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau and A.M. Lukondo-Wamba present the importance and consequences of this African tradition in Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting.Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide an extensive amount of services for both the society at large and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community. Kindezi serves to provide an early education for African youth, therapy and a feeling of purpose for the aged, and liberation and independence for African women. In addition, Kindezi develops the moral and intellectual character of the young, thus ensuring a strong foundation for each new generation. It is no wonder the authors address, in depth, the problem of encroaching Wester
Introduction to African Civilizations
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At the time of its publications Jackson's work constituted a new approach to African history, from prehistoric to modern times, focusing on the contributions of African civilization to the cultural evolution of early Europe. "The picture we get today of Africa in past ages from the history taught in our schools is that Africans were savages and that, although Europeans invaded their lands and made slaves of them, they were in a way conferring a great favor on them, since they brought to them the blessings of Christian civilization," writes John G. Jackson. With brilliantly objective scholarship, Jackson obliterates that picture and presents one infinitely more rich. This book challenges all the standard approaches to African history, from the dawn of prehistory to the resurgent Africa of today. It will challenge the parochial historian, devastate the theoretical pretensions of white supremacists, and expand intellectual horizons. It is a fascinating book to be read and reread by the la
HEBREWISMS OF WEST AFRICA
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In this massive work, Joseph J. Williams documents the Hebraic practices, customs, and beliefs, which he found among the people of Jamaica and the Ashanti of West Africa. He initially examines the close relationship between the Jamaican and the Ashanti cultures and the folk beliefs. He then studies the language and culture of the Ashanti (of whom many Jamaicans have descended) by comparing them to well known and established Hebraic traditions. William’s findings suggest stunning similarities. And, he challenges the reader by concluding that Hebraic traditions must have swept across “negro Africa” and left its influence “among the various tribes.”
While Williams presents a strong case, his evidence, including hundreds of quoted sources, also builds a strong case for the reverse—that an indigenous, continent-wide belief system among African people stands at the very root of Hebrew culture and Western religion. First published in 1931 and long out-of-p
PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS FOR OUR LITTLE ANGELS
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Dear God:
At the beginning of the day whenthe birds begin to sing, let Yourgrace shower my awakeningdream; and as I begin my day,stay with me from the start to finish.May Your love never leave me.
Thank You.
Nathaniel Talking
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Nathaniel B. Free is a spunky, spirited nine-year-old poet who raps and rhymes about his world, from what it's like to be nine, to his education, to his family life.Great for home and classroom reading. Will fit into National Curriculum Primary Science - mixing substances, cooking and refrigeration.
"Nathaniel's business is figuring out the world and his place in it. He is the child we see everywhere, except that we rarely see him in literature. The Black child thinking. Along with his playfulness, curiosity and enthusiasm, he possesses a fine intellect like that of so many of the children I meet on my visits to schools and libraries. Nathaniels and their sisters, studying the many faces life presents, synthesizing information and questioning contradictions."
Jan spivey Gilchrist's enthralling black and white pencil illustrations capture all the dynamism of young Nathaniel's keen intellect. The illustration is reproduced in two color duotone process .
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My Little African King
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Journey through the grasslands of Africa amid lions and elephants, stroll through the bustling markets of Timbuctu, and enter the great Mali empire and the reign of Mansa Musa as a mother lovingly tells her young son of his magnificent and royal ancestry.
This beautifully illustrated picture book brings alive the majesty of Africa with vivid color and rich detail. Bold imagery and affirming text combine to create this heartwarming testimony of a mother's love.
...no matter how old or how tall you may grow or how far from home you may roam, in your precious eyes i'll always see My Little African King.
MOMMY SAYS!
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"Mommy Says! is a day-in-the-life of two siblings who are finding it hard being themselves. However, through the recollection of their mother's words, they discover that most challenges are solvable.
In these pages, richly illustrated and dynamically written, with the infusion of Ashanti Adinkra symbols, their lives are changed forever.
Come and experience their truths and their triumphs and witness how they overcome their obstacles when they listen to what Mommy Says."
KOFI AND THE BUTTERFLIES
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After Kofi stops a bigger boy from capturing a rare butterfly for his collection, he is taken on a special visit to the kingdom of the butterflies
In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury by Outstanding Authors and Artists
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Forty nine distinguished writers, artists and photographers contributed to this important anthology. A wonderful tribute to the enduring spirit of the black family and community, this is a book the entire family can enjoy reading together. Contributors include Newbery, Caldecott, Pulitzer, Coretta Scott King and other award-winning writers and visual artists --Gwendolyn Brooks, Ashley Bryan, Virginia Hamilton, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Leo and Diane Dillon, Floyd Cooper, Nikki Grimes, Tom Feelings, Haki Madhubuti, Javaka Steptoe, Walter Dean Myers and a host of others.
Flowers for Mommy
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Flowers for Mommy is the delightful story of a little girl named Aliya (A-lee-yah) who decides to pick flowers in her backyard as a surprise for her Mommy. Aliya's search for flowers helps her discover all of the wonderful animals that exist right in her backyard.
Explore Black History with Wee Pals,
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BREAKING STONE SILENCE: Giving Voice to Aids Prevention in Africa,
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Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health.
Written to be accessible to both students and lay readers concerned about AIDS in Africa from a world citizens perspective, readers will feel challenged to place the global AIDS crisis in the context of the learning needs, hopes, privileges and responsibilities of those living in the western world. This is also a book for health practitioners and scholars grappling with the complexity of an unprecedented epidemic and feeling the urgency for insight into effective prevention interventions.
In as much as this book reveals truths about the despair of African life, the main message is about the spiritual resiliency and cultural notability of the Shona and Ndebele people. "Stone Silence" explores the dynamic tension in the black and white Zimbabwe community between those wit
Courtney's Birthday Party
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Seven, Seven, SevenWill be just like heaven...
Courtney is very excited. Her seventh birthday is only a few days away and her mother has planned a special party. All of Courtney's classmates will be invited.Courtney and Diana are best friends. They ride the same school bus; they sit in the same row in class; they love the same snacks. And on Saturday they will be the same age - seven. It has never mattered to them that one is white and one is black. But when Courtney's mom sends the invitations to class, Diana is not included. Both Courtney and Diana are devastated.
BLACK FIRE: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing,
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While many texts are readily available chronicling the Black Power Movement, the same cannot be said for its "aesthetic and spiritual sister," the Black Arts Movement. Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is a rare exception that documents and captures the social and cultural turmoil of the period.
Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, co-editors and contributors to this volume, saw Black Fire as a manifesto to bring about change in Black thought and action, generated from a Black aesthetic. Often considered the seminal work from the Black Arts Movement, Black Fire is a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document, presenting 178 selections of poetry, essays, short stories and plays from cultural critics, literary artists and political leaders. Many of the contributors became prominent, nationally and internationally. Others receded into the cultural landscape, even before Black Fire's first publication in 1968. Included in this groundbrea
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Carving Wood, Making History: The Fakeye Family, Modernity and Yorùbá Woodcarving is the most comprehensive work on the Yorùbá woodcarving tradition best represented by the works of the Fakeye family of Ìlá-Òràngún, northeast Yorùbáland. The research combines an enormous amount of ethnographic data with images to trace the major phases in the history of woodcarving since the nineteenth century. The study highlights the history and contributions of the most successful family of carvers, considers the issues of tradition, modernity, and continuity as well as the import and impact of colonial and postcolonial experiences in the repertoire of Yorùbá carvers. The book presents rich biographical data on individual Yorùbá artists, and utilizes this to foreground areas of confluences and disjuncture between the oeuvres of the artists of the past and those of the new era. The ana
CLASSICAL THEORIES IN AFRICAN RELIGION
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Currently, there is no book on the theories and methods in African religious systems. This book fills that lacuna. The development of theories is discussed extensively and it includes some biographical information about the theorists themselves, concentrating on their intellectual history and influences, their particular contribution to the development of theories, and their reactions to the theories of other scholars in the discipline. The discussion on each scholar’s work is detailed and the main work is examined and compared to other scholars’ works. This comparative approach to theories is maintained throughout the book to meet the two objectives: (1) To give readers a general overview of the history of the discipline and, (2) to present a full study of the development of the various theories used in the academic study of religion. Theories are not simply referred to, but their evolution, development, and application to African religion are explained. Both theory and me
VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA IN SELECTED AFRICAN LITERATURE
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Violence and Trauma in African Literature focuses on representations of violence in African literature. The study starts with violence that emerged in the context of post-independence Africa plagued by the rule of tyranny after many African states failed to create viable institutions to spearhead national integration and sustainable socio-economic development. In this section, the author explores various aesthetic features—neo-baroque style, intertextuality, and narrative techniques—used by Sony Labou Tansi in La vie et Demie, Henri Lopes in The Laughing Cry, and Ahmadou Kourouma in Waiting for the Wild beasts to Vote to expose and deride despotic violence in the African postcolony. The study then turns to the ways in which protagonists resist two other forms of violence: racist violence in Alex Laguma’s works. A Walk in the Night, In the Fog of the season’s End, and Time of the Butcherbird and gendered violence
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Debates regarding Africa’s development remain controversial and unresolved. As part of contributing to the debate, the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute has been convening colloquia, symposia and conferences on related matters. One of those endeavours focused on re-awakening and shaping Africa’s future in a globalised world and this book is an outcome of that symposium. This edited volume examines the role of democratic governance, peace and security, the African political economy, regional integration, trade, land and human rights for Africa’s development as well as unpacks coloniality. The book – another in the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute book series – is an important addition in the broader field of African political economy of development. The book is of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners and policy makers who desire an in-depth understanding of Africa’s development conundrum as well as possible solutions.
AFRICA THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN ARTISTS
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Africa Through the Eyes of Women Artists generates energy, history, contemporary ideas, and the natural elements of expression that converge in a centrifugal purpose. The lens of women artists and their unique frames of reference provide a beautifully treated and authentic collage of the African experience."Betty LaDuke's Africa Through the Eyes of Women Artists, unusual portraits of twelve artists from Africa and the Diaspora, makes a significant contribution to women's studies, African diaspora studies, and art history and cultural history. This collection of essays, which result from sensitive interviews conducted by LaDuke with women of African descent throughout the diaspora, provides extraordinary insight into the nature of creative expression among a group of women too long ignored by scholars. LaDuke's pioneering and courageous effort to make visible in this way such a diverse group of talented women deserves our applause." -Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College"Afric
AFRICA IN AN ERA OF CRISIS
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The comprehensive character of the African has finally acquired international public recognition. Yet in Africa itself a mood of conservatism and withdrawal characterises intellectual life. A critical perspective is essential for challenging this.
Africa is in an Era of Crisis does not claim to provide the definitive answers to Africa's problems. That is not its aim. It's purpose is to state the argument for rethinking critical issues in Africa and through this argument press home the necessity for critical debate.
It is our contention that such an intellectual revolution is one of the requirements for meaningful change in Africa today
TWENTY YEARS TO NOWHERE: Property Rights, Land Management and Conservation in Ethiopia
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The point of departure of this work is the problem of introducing soil conservation and innovations in afforestation on a sustainable basis in rural Ethiopia. This book attempts to answer why a major conservation program introduced and implemented in Ethiopia during the twenty years of the Derg regime failed to induce the changes in land use and management practices that it sought to bring about, and why it was not sustained by indigenous farmers.
The search for an explanation of the failure of the program-induced adoption of soil conservation and innovations in afforestation focuses on four areas: the existence or absence of indigenous conservation-oriented land use and management, the manner in which the program was implemented, the balance sheet of its benefits and short-comings, and the property rights conditions under which the program was promoted. The contribution of this last factor is systematically examined and weighed, separately as well as in conjunction with other factors
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The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola covers all the major themes in the modern history of Nigeria: education, law, political development, economy, gender, ethnicity, language, cultures, and art. The contributors work with original manuscripts and fresh interpretations to present, in a single volume, the most original and comprehensive knowledge about Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
The book is offered as the first tribute to celebrate and honor the immense contribution of Professor Toyin Falola to the study of Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. A distinguished Africanist and a leading historian of Nigeria, Falola has established an enduring academic legacy. No modern historian of Africa has received more praise than him. Regarded as the most prolific and brilliant historian of Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century, his vast reputation and matchless record ensure that he will also be one of the most dominant historians of
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Khat (catha edulis) is a psychoactive shrub whose tender leaves and twigs have been chewed in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula for their euphonizing effects for a millennium. A stimulant grown in small gardens for consumption on cultural and religious occasions around the turn of the last century, khat has now become the preferred and most sought-after cash crop, the most visible and pervasive social habit, and an important income-generating occupation for millions of Ethiopians. Within Ethiopia, khat chewing has become a ubiquitous habit, cutting across class, religious, ethnic, and gender affiliations. In addition to satisfying the domestic demand, Ethiopian producers supply fresh leaves to chewers in Djibouti, the Republic of Somaliland, and some Middle Eastern countries. More recently, refugees from the Horn of Africa further spread the custom of chewing to their host nations, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and various Western European countries, openin
LAND STRUGGLES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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This volume is based on original field research on land struggles and civil society in Southern Africa, with chapters on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Zambia. Most chapters are written by NGO and grassroots activists.
In the context of global restructuring and specific nation-building projects, rural and agrarian relations in these countries continue to generate specific forms of inequalities and marginalisation.
However, these processes of social exclusion have not gone unchallenged by rural communities, and land struggles exist throughout the region.
Many commonalities mark the contemporary agrarian question in the Southern Africa region, including market-driven processes, land concentration and food insecurity. But national particularities also exist, in part because of different colonial pasts and present development paths.
The book captures the specificity of land struggles taking place within specific countries, including confli
BEYOND SURVIVAL: The Economic Challenges of Agriculture and Development in Post-Independence Eritrea
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In this important book on the present situation and prospects of agriculture in post-independence Eritrea, Dr. Tesfa G. Gebremedhin emphasizes the crucial role of this sector in the overall social and economic growth and development of the country. This is a timely book that address issues of economic recovery, widespread poverty, deep-rooted underdevelopment, women's rights, and progressive environmental degradation in the newly independent African nation. A comprehensive review of the chracteristics of the technical and institutional constraints and economic potentials of agriculture for development is presented in detail. Appropriate strategy and practical policy options for achieving and maintaining sustainable agriclture and rural development are thoroughly discussed. The book also provides rigorous economic analysis and valuable insights into development dynamics of an agrarian society which are relevant to any developing country. In addition, in-depth examination is made of the
AGRIBUSINESS IN AFRICA: A Study of the Impact of Big Business on Africa's Food and Agricultural Production
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This book provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the role of big business in Africa's agriculture. It exposes the past and present activities of foreign companies in the diversion of much of Africa's food potential to the cash crop demands of Europe. Most aspects of company activity are illustrated with examples and there is a detailed description of trade and investment in coffee, sugar and the newer luxury crops such as flowers and vegetables. The attitudes of the governments of Tanzania and Kenya towards agribusiness investment are contrasted and the book ends with a look at perhaps the most ominous of recent developments--Africa's increasing dependence on transnational supplied, large scale food production schemes."Scrupulously researched yet easy to read, Agribusiness in Africa is surely a book that food/hunger scholars and activists will keep on top of their desks, not on a shelf. It should also open the eyes of the general public to the reasons why Africa
AFRICAN ENCLOSURES? The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands
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This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to market opportunities. These changes are driven largely by local farmers' initiatives, and are often associated with an increase in market-based access to land that is evident under both customary and private land tenure
"NO MORE TEARS..." Struggles for Land in Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Three years after South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections, the difficult process of social and economic transformation continues. About one-half of South Africa's approximately 43 million people-and two-thirds of its African population-still live in deep poverty. At least seven million live in shacks. Land hunger is widespread. Land dispossession caused by colonial-and apartheid-forced removals and alienation of land and water rights lie at the heart of the repressive regime which the national liberation movement struggled against.In South Africa, land and agrarian reform policy is presently being developed as a top down exercise increasingly informed by a neo-liberal macroeconomic policy orientation. In the book, this elite driven transition is contrasted with a proposed popular program of radical transformation. The specific role of the World Bank is criticized, and the results of a uniquely participatory research and policy development project recently undertaken in Mpu
AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND RELATED COMMENTARY
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This volume surveys the existing research into Africentric Psychology. It presents a cogent discourse on selected issues fundamental to this re-emerging discipline. This ground-breaking collection of studies is expected to heighten public recognition of the intrinsic worth and positive human potential of an Africentric approach to psychology. Professionals, whether engaged primarily in theory, research, or practice, will welcome the freshness and depth of vision this anthology affords into the history and teaching of psychology, into the methodology of culture-specific research, into the peculiar predicament of the African American, into the effects of oppression and the very nature of human personality. Students of psychology, at every level, will find in this book valuable and proactive alternatives to the prevailing Eurocentric analyses. It will not only broaden their knowledge base but will begin to reverse the awful effects of miseducation. Besides Daudi Ajani ya Azibo, the contri
CARNIVAL OF THE OLD COAST
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The concern in Johnson's Sierra Leone Trilogy has been to return to, and re-frame, the years from the 1500s to the 1960s, and to do so by deploying con/texts in the Sierra Leone Krio heritage-- with its remarkably elastic history of scatteration and re-grouping; its canon of anguish that is as much a tale from Shakespeare as it is a bolero for Quasimodo. In brief, Carnival of the Old Caost, Hand on the Navel, and Highlife for Caliban all negotiate, traffic and trade as necessary, into a quite complex cultural genealogy. It is a genealogy that is as much Yoruba as it is Afro-Portuguese; as much Liverpool and Hull as Nova Scotia and Jamaican Maroon. The product, too, of the coast of the Carolinas and of the Gullah islands, this carnival of a Krio identity is here answerable to its ancestry in Afro-Christian shout as it is to the call of the Afro-Islamic Aku Krio mosques of Fourah Bay, in the Eastend of Freetown. The result is "pedigree, with weight" --Hagar
CALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME
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A young African American (Otis Hampton) falls into periodic spasms and chants a text nobody understands. His troubled family seeks help. The text, recorded by a psychiatrist and deciphered by linguists, is found to be a corrupted family chant from the Yoruba of Nigeria. The doctor advises a trip to that ethnic region. The spiritual voices that have been summoning Otis finally bring him, after some alarming experiences in the journey from America through the Nigerian hinterland, to the very spot where his ancestor was enslaved over a century before. The recorded chant helps to locate the mans surviving kin nearby. Otis is persuaded to remain in the village for nearly two years, during which, despite the resurgence of old antagonisms towards his family, he learns the language and culture of the place and joins in completing the rites his ancestor was performing when he was captured by slavers. Armed with a recovered identity and a chastened wisdom in African culture, Otis finally return
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This book brings together a collection of works that critically exam the significance and place of Professor Toyin Falola’s scholarship within and beyond African historiography as well as engage emerging ideas, forgotten/ignored histories, and research issues in African history and African Diaspora studies. The volume draws on multidisciplinary perspectives to dialogue such issues as research frontiers Falola’s scholarship has opened for the field of African history, how to consolidate/articulate or even disarticulate those frontiers, the work strategies that influence his scholarly output, and the path he has charted for African historians. In many ways, Falola’s scholarship cannot be captured under any one specific title, for as his scholarship shows, he is, indeed, Beyond the Boundaries, engaging both conventional and nonconventional issues.
Professor Falola has distinguished himself as one of Africa’s most important intellectuals in cont
ART, PARODY, AND POLITICS: DELE JEGEDE'S CREATIVE ACTIVISM, NIGERIA, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL SPACE
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This pioneer book focuses on the work of dele jegede, one of the leading Nigerian artists in the last three decades, to reflect on the connections between images and the nation state, the linkages between art and humanity, and the understanding of society through means different from oral and written texts. Various chapters written by prominent art historians, based on the analysis of jegede’s cartoons, drawings, and paintings, reflect extensively on how he has defined and imagined a postcolonial state, in its nakedness and hope, but gesturing towards change and a utopian moment. The book draws on the individual experiences of scholars and professional artists in Nigeria and the Diaspora to paint a complex, multi-dimensional portrait of jegede, one that puts in context his work as a scholar, painter, curator, critic, cartoonist, and administrator. In dreaming of the ideal, jegede’s creative cadence detours from the sheer pursuit of beauty and celebrates a conscious engageme
ALMAJIRI: New African Poetry
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This collection of poems explores the voices of Almajiri, the street beggar-poet, among the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba in Nigeria. It addresses contemporary local and global issues and expresses the challenges within Nigeria’s socio-economic world, its resources, and culture. Urgent economic and development issues other Africans in the Diaspora face are also explored. As a book of performance poetry, Almajiri includes many refrains in Hausa and Yoruba languages. It emphasizes the simplicity of language in creativity and takes strength from the Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba oral traditions. By engaging African readers, listeners, and watchers who are familiar with images, proverbs, and metaphors from common cultures, Almajiri hopes to teach Hausa and Yoruba in songs and in performance to young and adult Africans in the Diaspora.
AHMADU FULANI: An African Poetry
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Ahmadu Fulani: An African Poetry" is a poetry volume in English, Yoruba and Hausa, celebrating the memory of the poets father and speaking to the lessons the poet learned from his father as a child. The volume addresses issues of national and international significance, human and environmental rights, and speaks against injustice no matter who the oppressed or the oppressors are or where they come from.
"Ahmadu Fulani" is a book of performance poetry, exploring oral performance traditions of Ilorin and Sokoto cultures, from Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani traditions of Nigeria and West Africa. From memorial contours, to social inquiry, to praise and mobilization poems, readers would need to perform the poems in order to realize their full meanings and literary aesthetics. A person can perform this poetry alone at home, or with others in the classroom or at the market square. Even the poems that do not have refrains can be read with performance flavor.
As in his first volume, "Almajiri
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Africanity Redefined: Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Volume I is the first of three volumes of Ali A. Mazrui's most important essays. The eventual three-volume work will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Professor Mazrui's writings during his four decades as a scholar and public intellectual. This first volume redefines the meaning of Africanity across geographical spaces, time, and cultures. The resulting definition is dynamic. It forces us to reject neo-imperialist paradigms and ontologies of what it means to be African. By encouraging us to think about Africanity as an idea rather than as point of origin, the ideas contained in these essays force us to reposition ourselves in the debate of our place in global cultures and civilizations, and they prepare us to take a more active role in social and political affairs.
Ali A. Mazrui is the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at SUNY-Binghamton. He also se
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"Like its companion volume Palavers of African Literature, African Writers and their Readers is a magnificent and monumental tribute to Bernth Lindfors, the scholar who transformed African literary studies in North America. But his second volume is more than a tribute to a distinguished scholar-- it is a high powered exercise in critical scholarship, which in its choice of issues and methodologies, takes up many of the questions that Lindfors put at the forefront of scholarship on Africa and its literary traditions. As in the first volume, the essays collected in this antholoy bear testimony to Lindfors' influence on two generations of scholars of African literature and his imprint on the literary history of the continent. In their treatment of subjects ranging from autobiography and performance, the construction of heroes in Yoruba literature, African language literatures, post-Apartheid culture to cinema, the essays in this collection represent the coming of age of African
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: The Analytic Approach
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African Philosophy: The Analytic Approach sets out to demonstrate that the analytic approach to philosophy, which is prominent in the world today, can both be applied to and derived from Africas indigenous cultural heritage. The author achieves this via critiques of the viewpoints of several leading scholars who maintain, for various reasons, that there is insignificant evidence of substantive philosophical thought in the indigenous African cultural context.
The text also uses the very same analytic approach, embraced and espoused by most of these critics to deny Africa a place in the philosophical universe, to demonstrate that there is indisputable evidence of original and valuable philosophical enterprise in Africas indigenous conceptual systems that is of direct relevance to such canonical core disciplines of philosophy as epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.
"Here is a rich assortment of methodological and substantive ruminations (to borrow one of the authors favorite wor
AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY, Vol. 18, Orature in African Literature
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African novelists, playwrights and poets, even when they are writing in one of the colonial languages, draw on their rich ethnic bases. These resources provide ideas, themes and linguistic delight. The myriad languages of the continent, although used today mainly for workday communication, have through the centuries been vehicles for the oral artistic verbal compositions and transmission now formalized as orature
AFRICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Adu Boahen Reader
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Adu Boahen is one of the most influential scholars of Ghana. His dedication to the teaching of African history is indisputable, and his career has been wide-ranging and successful. This compilation of Boahen's essays is a celebration of his scholarship and a testament to the career of a great man.
This edited volume captures the importance of Boahen’s work and the lasting contributions that he has made to African history. Offering the reader a unique chance to read various essays that have previously gone unpublished, it covers various ideas pertaining to different facets of African affairs. The volume also reflects the thinking of Africa's postcolonial scholars and provides the new and future generation with ideas to understand their continent and themselves as well.
"After Kwame Nkrumah, one is hard pressed to look further than Adu Boahen when seeking an individual whose influence is all-pervading in the lives of Ghanaians
AFRICA AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS: Conquest and Counter-Conquest, The Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui, Volume II, Series Editor: Toyin Falola
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Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counter-Conquest is the second volume of the Collected Essays of Ali A. Mazrui that will provide readers with a broad spectrum of Ali A. Mazrui’s scholarly writings. This second volume considers the interaction of Africa with other civilizations from historical, sociological, philosophical and political perspectives, with a special emphasis on the inextricability of conquest and counter-conquest. The essays reproduced herein provide a refreshing approach to such seminal themes as “culture,” “civilization,” “universalism,” and “modernization” as they address the complex interactions between Africa and other civilizations throughout history?including economic, political, religious, ideological and artistic interactions. Mazrui’s essays are very timely and will contribute to our understanding of current world events: particularly relevant are his reflections on the place of Africa
SECTORAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS IN AFRICA
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All innovation systems have elements, components, parts with linkages, interconnections and interactions with boundaries at spatial, sectoral, or disciplinary levels. The elements are related to innovation creation, absorption, transfer and adaptation being either strong or weak with boundaries that range spatially from local to city, community, region, national and global levels. Innovation systems at national or sectoral level are influenced by conceptual frame and ideas, policy setting, context and environment, institutions, networks, actors, knowledge and incentives. The way the politics of system building plays out heavily influences the outputs, outcomes and impacts at various levels selected to locate the innovation system dynamics. Franco Malerba considers sectoral systems to be based on knowledge and technologies, actors, networks, and institutions.
The complexity and dynamics of innovation at the sectoral level in the African context are not researched fully yet. This
THE AMERICAN AFRICAN: Essays on the Life and Scholarship of Ali A. Mazrui
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Ali Mazrui once defined an American African as one who is usually first or second generation immigrant from Africa to the Americas, who may be a citizen or permanent resident of countries in the Western hemisphere, whose mother tongue is still an African language, who has immediate blood relatives in Africa, who is likely to be still attached to the food culture of his/her African ancestry and who is still likely to bear African family name, although this is by no means universal, especially among Lusophone Africans, Liberians and Sierra Leoneans. Mazrui’s own definition makes Ali Mazrui the classic example of an American African person, and hence this book, The American African, in which Mazrui’s peers explore his life and scholarship spanning over more than half a century.
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The essays assembled in this book present a highly-deserved tribute to the outstanding scholarship of Ali A. Mazrui. During his forty years of
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STATE-MAKING IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
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The book is about the politics of developmental state-making in post-apartheid South Africa. Specifically, the focus is on tracing and providing well considered political and ideological explanations for some of the most salient obstacles confronting the South African transition. The central argument is that until the intellectual and ideological template underpinning the transition is fundamentally overhauled, South Africa is unlikely to fulfill Mandela’s promises of ending poverty, employment creation and equality for all. What is more, the politics and policy framework that springs from this template is essentially counter developmental and only serves to reproduce the power relations and structural arrangements they are meant to overcome.“This research work opens up an opportunity for further scrutiny of South Africa’s development challenges from the dawn of democracy into the future. Scholars, policy makers and students must seriously explore this book and make c
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This book is based on a comprehensive survey that was conducted in the City of Tshwane, South Africa to identify key predictors of efficiency in the management of solid waste produced by 1, 034 commercial businesses operating in the city. Efficiency in the management of solid waste was measured based on a structural time-based model. Data analyses were performed by fitting a binary logistic regression model and multilevel analysis. The study showed that 17% of the businesses selected for the study were inefficient with regards to the management of solid waste. The study identified four predictors of efficiency in the management of solid waste. These four predictor variables were lack of adherence to waste management regulations, wrong perception on the value and importance of proper management of waste, failure to provide customers with enough trash cans, and the operation of businesses by non-owners, in a decreasing order of importance. Results obtained from multilevel analysis showed
ON BUILDING A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: The North American Campaign for Southern African Liberation Revisited
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On Building a Social Movement focuses, as its sub-title suggests, on the North American campaign for southern African liberation. It does so by first evoking both the region-wide battle for liberation from racial oppression that emerged in southern Africa between 1960 and 1994 and the world-wide mobilization of support for that regional struggle which emerged alongside it. It then examines in some detail the building of movements in both Canada and the United States designed to contribute to this notable global effort. These movements sought to publicize the positive goals and concrete undertakings of the liberation struggles on the ground in southern Africa while also focusing public attention on the policies of the governments and the corporations in North America that pulled the two countries focused on in this book to the wrong - the racist and exploitative - side of this African contestation. “Solidarity is the soul of the workers’ movement. This is a book ab
LEARNER'S GUIDE TO POSTGRADUATE LEVEL RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSES
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The book presents practical examples and lessons to learners on commonly used quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analyses for postgraduate level research. All relevant steps have been simplified and supplemented with numerical examples. Results of data analyses have been interpreted clearly. The book covers topics such as conducting literature review and scientific writing, study designs, how to write-up postgraduate level research proposals and dissertations, how to calculate sample sizes and power for quantitative studies, how to summarize raw and grouped data sets using quantitative and graphical methods, one and two-sample tests on means and proportions, the Pearson chi-square test of association (cross-tab analyses), simple and multiple linear regression and correlation analysis, binary and multinomial logistic regression analysis, and qualitative methods of data collection and analyses. The book demonstrates how quality research matters and is very ideal
Latin American Modernisms and Technology
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This collection of essays documents the creative involvement of Latin American artists and intellectuals with modern technologies (mechanical, electronic, digital, and imaginary) from the nineteenth-century to the present. Acknowledging the extensiveness of the histories of both modern technologies and modernism, the essays cover a diversity of media, technologies, and conceptual aspects of techno-culture that Latin American artists and intellectuals have engaged with to depict individual and collective visions of sociocultural progress. These visualizations always had the potential to affect the development of visual culture regionally and internationally. To study these works in relation to the existing histories of art and media arts can lead scholars to rethink notions of artistic innovation and to generate new chronologies and theories for these histories.
The contributors to this volume examine works of literature, art, and design from a variety of perspectives includi