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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE AFRIKAN HOLOCAUST: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
Africa World Press
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"Professor Clarke's analysis provides us with a perspective that lets us understand that slavery and genocide were institutionalized and systematized into a global system of domination, destruction and death which not only control land, labor and resources, but colonialized information." Dr. Leonard Jeffries"Dr. Clarke has examined the colossal dehumanizing of a people with minute detail, step by step and his chronicles reveals that the African Holocaust was the greatest single crime in the world committed against a people. Nothing else can match this massive genocide and destruction." Dr. Edward Scobie"The Middle Passage, our Holocaust! It is our holocaust because this is a holocaust that started 500 years ago and it is not over. We do not start our count at six million, we start at sixty million, and we have just begun to count. Now I don't mean to negate the German and the European holocaust. Whether the number was six or sixty million, e
DAUGHTER BY SPIRIT
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Christian Erickson is the perfect man: sincere, handsome, intelligent, and passionate. Maiya Hightower has searched for a man like him throughout her entire life. Unfortunately, when she finally finds Christian he is already taken. Maiya reluctantly settles for a close friendship with Christian and the two of them become inseparable. In the midst of turmoil in her personal life, Maiya gives birth to a beautiful daughter, Angelina, but fears that Angelina will make the same mistakes in her life that she did. Thus, she leads Angelina to believe that a man she has never shared one single act of intimacy with is her biological father. She wants Angelina to grow up with high expectations so she places Christian, who is no longer a part of her life, onto a well-deserved pedestal and convinces Angelina that he is the role model that any young man that comes into her life must follow.
Angelina becomes immersed in Christian's world through his words: books, magazine articles, and personal lett
DOCUMENTS OF WEST INDIAN HISTORY
Africa World Press
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Dr. Eric Williams was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1961 until his death in 1981. He built his reputation as a historian as Professor of Political and Social Science at Howard University, before turning to active politic, founding the People's National Movement and leading Trinidad and Tobago to independence in 1962
ETHIOPIAN SOVEREIGNTY: AFRICAN NATIONHOOD
Africa World Press
FETHA NAGUST
Africa World Press
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Ethiopian ancient law; governing the royalty, nobility, and clergy of Ethiopia for centuries
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This book, produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists, includes essays focusing on six accomplished artists -- Elisabeth T. Atnafu from Ethiopia (painter, installation artist), Xenobia Bailey from the U.S. (fiber and mixed media artist), Renee Cox from Jamaica (photographer), Angele E. Essamba from Cameroon (photographer), Houria Niata from Algeria (painter, installation artist), and Etiye Dimma Poulsen from Ethiopia (sculptor). All are of African descent who live and work in the West.The first six essays contributed by Salah Hassan, Dorothy Desir-Davis, Bob Meyers, Diane Butler, and Florence Alexis, provide thoughtful as well as insightful readings of the artists' works in relation to their life stories, aesthetics, and socio-cultural background. They investigate intellectual projects and foreground the rick visual vocabularies created by these artists in their search for the most effective means of expressing the
A TALE OF THREE WOMEN:
Kamagezi
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Set in Sierra Leone, West Africa, A Tale of Three Women is epic in scope , covering a span of about sixty years and touching upon the most important developments in that country’s recent history from about 1918 to the 1970s. It encompasses events such as the worldwide influenza epidemic, the Second World War, the preparation for independence, the achievement of independence, and the post-independence malaise. But all these serve only as a background against which Eustace Palmer deftly weaves the experiences of three very different women who were originally friends at a traditional sewing school, but whose fortunes take widely different turns through their different characters and the choices they and others make. In the process the novel becomes a penetrating study of the condition of women—women whose husbands are chosen for them; women who lack opportunity for advancement in a male-dominated world; women who are exploited, abused, and betrayed by men; women who are a
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"Too few books give an in-depth view of the challenges that African women face in running the enterprises which often provide the main source of support for their families. Ten years ago Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom, based on the lives of 74 women entrepreneurs in Uganda, helped to fill this gap. In her new book, Dr. Margaret Snyder revisits many of these women and, with her co-author Sarah Kitakule, gives a unique account of how they have coped over the past decade – with trade liberalization and economic and environmental change; with drought and disease; and with tragedies and triumphs in their households and enterprises. Covering women who belong to both the informal and formal sector, farmers and traders as well as owners of small businesses, and live both in rural and urban areas, the book gives a real feel for how, through thick and through thin, women have been and remain the economic backbone of their communities and count
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This book is a welcome and noteworthy addition to the field of mothering, motherhood, and gender studies. Methodically and with precision, each chapter provides an introduction, discussion on research, analysis of the findings, exploration of the participants’ narratives, and conclusion. The accessible studies strike a solid balance on the interpersonal and multidimensional models of academic mothers and the most insightful components are the voices of the interviewees, especially as they highlight the diverse roles of academic mothers in the selected countries. As the authors’ poignantly posit, these women “express concerns about their family, social and labour routines, and their roles as mother, academic professional and a woman.” Each chapter also has a diverse range of interviewees and the authors skilfully weave the respondents’ compelling stories into the framework of their analysis. The authors note that “the women speak of
ACHEBE'S WOMEN: Imagism and Power
Kamagezi
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Women character portraiture in Achebe’s novels has been seen from the widely explicit inferiority that marks her being. She is schooled from infancy to be docile and be satisfied with being voice-less even in matters that affect her or her children directly. The overall picture of women is one of weakness and self-effacement. This image stuck especially from the background of Achebe’s objective to present real heroes in the culture that is not what Josef Konrad depicted in Heart of Darkness. The story of Things Fall Apart is of Okonkwo and a society of men where women were relegated to the background of domesticity and motherhood and where if they offered any opposition however feeble, they were beaten to submission and silence. True but that did not reflect the whole story.
There are indeed some historical and cultural imperatives in Achebe’s representation of women in his fiction. These are varied according to the historical setting of his novels. Th
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This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies. Racial bias, intolerance, parochialism, and male chauvinism have manifested themselves in various ways and this text aims to address the important issues surrounding this phenomenon.
Five contributors, including the editor, posit alternative modes of explanation, some of which are explored further in the critique of several world history textbooks and their misconceptions and false assumptions, as well as a review of the Europocentric-Afrocentric debate of the 1990s. Other major topics addressed here are the historical writings on the Atlantic slave trade, reformist feminist evangelism, and the various forces involved in the development of Africanist theories and models.
This important work is a major contribution to methodology, and it reaffirms the need for a periodic review of scholars and scholarship in the academy, e
AFRICA IN AN ERA OF CRISIS
Kamagezi
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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.
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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: Women's Art, Women's Lives
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In Africa, women's passion to create is evident during times of peace as well as war, under favorable circumstances as well as the most difficult and dangerous imaginable. Their media of expression can be naturally derived or imported. It can vary from monumental stone sculpture to intricate beadwork, or from painting with mud to oil and acrylic. The passion to decorate is evident in daily life from the designs applied to the smallest clay bowls, to the sturdy mud walls of their compounds where women give birth or see life pass away. These decorations are frequently symbolic and the motifs can please as well as reinforce shared community values. Across the African continent, from Timbuktu, Mali to Harare, Zimbabwe or Asmara, Eritrea, whether women weave, sew, sketch, paint, create fabric applique or stone sculptures, their art work often incorporates the duality of myth and reality as they express their hopes, fears, humor, and frustrations.