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A STAIN ON OUR PAST: Slavery and Memory, Edited by Abdoulaye Gueye and Johann Michel $34.95

The issue of the memory of the slavery has gained unprecedented international visibility that perhaps only the Holocaust has achieved as human tragedy. This recognition has been politically contentious and conceals profound disparities between and...

EMERGENT THEMES AND METHODS IN AFRICAN STUDIES: Essays in Honor of Adiele E. Afigbo, Edited by Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock $39.95

Emergent Themes and Methods in African Studies honors one of Nigeria's pre-eminent historians, Adiele Afigbo, who has made numerous contributions to African history, Archeology, and African Studies over the course of the last forty years. The book...

GROWING UP IN A SHRINKING WORLD: How Politics, Culture and the Nuclear Age Defined the Biography of Ali A. Mazrui, Edited by D. Ndirangu Wachanga $39.95

In this volume, Ali A. Mazrui’s triangulated model is discussed, contested, redefined and challenged by some of the powerful and leading voices in African scholarship. The voices contained in Growing up in a Shrinking World touch on diverse...

WAR DESTROYS, PEACE NURTURES, Edited by Edna Adan Ismail, Richard Ford, and Hussein M. Adam $109.95

War Destroys: Peace Nurtures presents selected papers form the 8th Somali Studies International Association congress held in Hargeisa in July 2001. This volume focuses on finding tools, solutions, and policies that speak to the need for building...

GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP: Debating the African Condition, Ali Mazrui and His Critics, Vol. II, Edited by Alamin Mazrui and Willy Mutunga $34.95

Is Ali Mazrui a visionary or a “vacuous” intellectual? Is he reactionary, revolutionary or essentially a radical pragmatist? These questions were the focus of a special plenary session of the Conference of African Association of Political Science...

ROOTS OF BLACK MUSIC: The Vocal, Instrumental, and Dance Heritage of Africa and Black America, by Ashenafi Kebede $24.95

"A much-needed point of view, unusually broad coverage, and, in certain areas, extensive treatment of special interest. This is a text both scholarly and humane, both African and American." -David P. McAllester, Society of Ethnomusicology"Both its...

EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON DAMBUDZO MARECHERA, Edited by Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells $24.95

"A profound, even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer... Marechera was... in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry: My whole life has been an attempt to make myself the skeleton in my own...

GENESIS II: The Re-Creation of Black People, by Cardinal Monifa Imarogbe $21.95

These bible lesson essays speak directly and compellingly to the issue of theology and its relevancy to the transformation and empowerment of Black people. They address the philosophies of the gospel of salvation and the gospel of liberation and...