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A RHYME IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: Hip Hop and the Creation of a Political Philosophy,
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As historian, cultural critic, and politician, Usher offers a visionary study of Hip Hop Culture steeped in axiological clarity. At the juncture of Hip Hop's third decade and the twenty-first century's demand for practical leadership capable of deciphering puzzling trends in popular culture, Usher's approach resurrects traditional spirituality in order to guide lyricism back to its roots of linguistic function in aesthetic, communal, and political contexts of Black culture's oral tradition."
Christel N. Temple, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Author of "Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism"
"With clear-eyed focus and an insider's exhaustive knowledge of the culture, Carlton Usher picks up where Public Enemy left off. 'A Rhyme is a Terrible Thing to Waste' is essential reading for any discussion of contemporary black culture, black politics and the crossroads where the two meet."
William Jelani Cobb, author of "To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the
NEW VISIONS FOR BLACK MEN, by Na'im Akbar, Introduction
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Visions for Black Men became the lifeline that helped me go beyond the rhetoric of manhood and dared me to develop a manhood strategy. I can tell you that Visions was one of the many tools I needed to begin a journey of Manhood that has and I pray, won't ever end. For years it was my go to text when I spoke to boiys and men about self development, manhood and the strenght found in the relationships of real men.--From Foreword by Jeffrey Johnson, CEO of JIJ Comminucations-Cleveland, OhioOver the past decade, I have included Dr. Akbar's model of "males to boys, to men," in several workshops with young Black males and the teachers, parents and other adults that interact and care for them. The principles are timeless, but I am ecstatic that he is releasing New Visions to introduce the model and his insights to a new generation of Black males.--From Introduction by Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks, Sr., Morehouse College Psychology Professor, Obama Whitehouse Advisor on H.B.C.U.'s
HEAL THYSELF NATURAL LIVING COOKBOOK
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...The creator is always present and always supportive in our need to be well in Body, Mind and Soul. The Most High never fails to send us guides to aid us on our return to our natural birthright, to be well. One of such guides is Diane Ciccone. Through her divine love and work with holistic foods and juices by way of the "Heal Thyself Natural Living Cookbook" we are given the opportunity to Heal Thyself.~Queen Afua
WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN HISTORY CLASS, VOLUME ONE
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This new, two-volume edition of "What They Never Told You In History Class" is the first major revision in over fifteen years. It contains a wealth of new information that has never been included in any previous edition. It has now been divided into two volumes.
DANCE OF DEATH: NIGERIAN HISTORY AND CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S POETRY
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Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets whose life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This book represents a definitive re-reading of Okigbo's poetry and a foregrounding of its importance as prophecy and warning to Nigerians (nay, Africans!) and to the misrulers of Nigeria against continued national misdirection. Locating the poet squarely within communalistic traditional African poetics, in which aesthetics and social functionality are coordinate components of art, the author discusses Okigbo as a poet of destiny, whose identification with the people -- the "quadrangle" of his geometric characterology -- was total. The continuing cleavages and tension between the ethnic and the national have tended to foreclose the very possibility of ethnic-popular solidarity and nation-building in Nigeria. Okigbo's project included a sustained critical introspection, and his indignation, militancy, despair, and ultimate martyrdom do not constitute a pessimistic closure
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Reaching back to Africa for reconnection has always been important to African Americans. Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, resulting from retracing the roots of his family to a West African village in The Gambia named Juffure, is perhaps the best known example. Other notable African American leaders who had, long before Haley, journeyed back to Africa include Edward W. Blyden, Marcus Garvey, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Also worth mentioning among these heroes of the Back to Africa movement is William David Coleman who together with other African Americans from Ashland Kentucky migrated to Liberia and named their settlement Clay-Ashland. Their settlement was named after Henry Clay, a powerful Senator from Kentucky who advocated for a colony for free African Americans in Africa and their former Ashland home-place in America.
From Freedom to Freedomprojects a symbolic journeying back to Africa as a way to help bring healing to the deep-sea
GENDER AND IDENTITY IN THE WORKS OF OSONYE TESS ONWUEME
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Gender and Identity in the Works of Osonye Tess Onwueme is a seminal analysis of sixteen plays and one novel by Osonye Tess Onwueme. One of Africas most prolific and versatile women playwrights, Onwueme has recently extended her creative domain to prose-writing. This volume emerges as an invaluable contribution towards the controversial global discourse on gender, race relations, tradition vis-à-vis modernity, as well as multiculturalism. It demonstrates the interconnectivity of the African on the Continent and in the Diaspora, while at the same time it rewrites the feminine story in a refreshingly authentic way.
Onwuemes concern with femininity does not necessarily entail the usual process of transforming his/tory to her/story, rather, it involves a unique articulation of both inter and intra gender relations that actually calls into question hitherto/contemporary theories on femininity. Her obvious critique of these forms of associations constitutes an indictment on fe
GENDER, PERFORMANCE AND COMMUNICATION: African Ikeji Mask Festivals of Aro and Diaspora
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This book is about festival performance and how it works with the cultural nexus of a patriarchal culture. Such a culture is that of the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria and such a nexus is the mask-character or masquerade produced by clubs of privileged men. Organizers of mask performances usually operate in secret cults and their productions are usually shrouded in mystery, but this book has broken down walls of exclusion and incomprehension by unraveling the mystery of the mask performance to delineate its characteristics and engage its gender dimension. Drawing from extensive field work, library and archival research, the book deals with many subject areas, such as oral tradition, folk drama, women and gender, cultural studies and anthropology, but its umbrella base is the festival with a focus on masking practice. Through fourteen chapters, the author delineates background and origins of Ikeji mask performance in Arochukwu, its development and migration to other areas in p
GOATSKIN BAGS AND WISDOM: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature
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These twenty-eight essays offer a variety of critical perspectives on African literature from scholars, writers and experienced teachers of this subject. They reveal the diverse emotions and sensitivities with which Africans perceiving themselves as the target audience of African wirters, respond to contemporary African fiction. The essays are grouped under five categories.
The first group under the title, Theories and Aesthetics include such definitive essays as Charles Nnolim's "Trends in the Criticism of African Literature," Eaenwa-Ohaeto's "African Critics and the Socio-Cutural Responses to African Literature: Implication for Pragmatic Criticism," Athonia Akpabio Ekpa's "Beyond Gender Warfare and Western Ideologies: African Feminism for the 21st Century," and Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo's "Feminist Literary Studies at the Unversity of Lagos
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This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by the anthropologist, Simon Ottenberg. Focus is on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria and on Bafodea Limba of northern Sierra Leone. The essays discuss art objects and music in the context of their use in performance and ritual, and the symbolism of aesthetic forms and behavior. Stress in the writing is placed on obtaining Africans conceptions of their own arts blended with Western viewpoints. The writing is based on extensive research in Africa.
"This two-volume collection of essays is a significant milestone in the discourse of African Studies and an insightful summation of the career of a distinguished scholar of African anthropology and art history. The books testify to the originality of Ottenberg's insights and chronicle his transformation from a young anthropologist observer to a valued member of the Afikpo-Igbo society."
-Sylvester Okwunodu
ILLUMINATIONS ON CHINUA ACHEBE: The Art of Resistance
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This book of essays, co-edited by Mῖcere Gῖthae Mũgo and Herbert Ruffin II, is the latest critical volume of essays on the late Achebe, celebrating him as an iconic literature and orature genius. The essays also reflect upon ways in which Achebe’s writings and teachings, viewed as examples of “the art of resistance,” have impacted Africa, the so-called “Third World”/Global South, as well as the world at large more than fifty years since the publication of the much decorated Arrow of God. However, although Arrow of God is the highlight of celebration at the novel’s fiftieth anniversary since publication, there is a deliberate effort to “illuminate” it within the larger contexts of not just the whole body of Achebe’s writing and especially the trilogy; but his legacy in general. Equally significant is the fact that the contributors are not limited to specialists in orature, literature, literary criticism and creat
LABYRINTHS AND PATH OF THUNDER: Poetry
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There is nothing in Nigerian poetry and little in any poetry I know to surpass the haunting beauty, the mystic resonance and clarity of the final movements of the protagonist’s quest in “Distances”.
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The basic idea in this book is that Nigerian historians, indeed historians of Africa, have from the birth of the new African historiography seen and pursued historical studies and historical writing as part of the larger effort to create, consolidate and run modern and modernizing states in Africa. It is this larger process that Professor Adiele Afigbo refers to as statecraft.
Afigbo makes the point that strictly speaking this role is not a new one in Africa. It is a revival and continuation of a process and profession which has been part of the African way of life as seen in the older versions of history, which we refer to today as mythys and legends, and which were constructed to shore up the states of old Africa and to create wide enough political space for the citizens of each state and society.
The history of Africanization of knowledge cannot be written without placing Professor Afigbo at the center stage of the process.
Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
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NEVER AGAIN
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Written by Flora Nwapa after the Nigerian Civil War, Never Again looks at her society at the time of war and she concentrates on the importance of Biafran women in sustaining their fighting men and the society in general. She depicts the extreme demands war makes on people and the book is all about survival on a personal and national level. As a novelist critics have mainly acclaimed Ms. Nwapa for her forthrightness and honesty, whether it be dealing with the conflict between the sexes or the poisoning of social relationships in war-time." -Alison Perry, West Africa Magazine
ONE IS ENOUGH
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This is the powerful and compelling story of a woman's struggle to find an independent and fulfilling life on her own. After six years of happy, though childless, marriage, Amaka, at thirty, is shattered to discover that her husband plans to take another wife-- a woman who has already borne him two sons in secret. She makes a brave decision. Rather than stay in the comfort and security of her marital home, she will go to lagos and try to make a fresh start in life.In order to become a successful and wealthy businesswoman, Amaka finds she has to use methods as corrupt as the society in which she finds herself. Then she become involved with a catholic priest...Finally, Amaka has to decide whether she has the strength to continue alone, in the face of criticism from her family and respectability, or should she decide that 'one is enough'?