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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
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
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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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 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
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
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,
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
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.
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
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This book seeks to enter the crucial debate on educational language choices in Africa which began with the arrival of missionaries and took varied forms over the years. In her book, Roy-Campbell examines the link between the languages of instruction in former colonies and the kind of knowledge produced in the schools. She explores issues such as who decides which language should be the medium of instruction in schools, the criteria for this decision, and the implications of this decision for knowledge production and reproduction
Tanzania is the primary focus of this discussion. It provides the illustration of a multilingual country, which nearly 30 years ago legislated the use of a local language as the language of instruction throughout primary school level. Yet, it continues to use a foreign language as the main language of post-primary school education. The importance of the Tanzania experience resides in its enormous efforts towards decolonizing the language of instruction. Insigh