African Studies: History, Politics and Culture
Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition: The Legacy of the Songhoy People
1st Edition
By Hassimi Oumarou Maiga
July 27, 2012
By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that documents the oral and literate traditions of ...
Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics: An African-Centered Paradigm for the Second Phase of the African Revolution
1st Edition
By Kwame Botwe-Asamoah
July 27, 2012
This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his theories and politics in today's Africa....
Africa and IMF Conditionality: The Unevenness of Compliance, 1983-2000
1st Edition
By Kwame Akonor
July 26, 2012
Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive IMF reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. Yet, questions of Ghana's compliance - to what extent did it comply, how did it manage compliance, what patterns of non-compliance existed, and why? - have not...
The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria
1st Edition
By Mary Adekson
July 26, 2012
This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through ...
African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance
1st Edition
By Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
July 11, 2012
Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and ...
Between the Lines: Africa in Western Spirituality, Philosophy, and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By A. Lassissi Odjo
July 05, 2012
Africa’s history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity in intellectual discourse. ...
Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics
1st Edition
By Maulana Karenga
June 28, 2012
This work is a critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt. It seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of inspiring and maintaining ethical philosophic ...
Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System: An Afrocentric Analysis
1st Edition
By Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana
June 28, 2012
Mobutu's political system, inaugurated in 1965 and lasting more than three decades, met all the characteristics of totalitarianism. This study shows that the failures and misdeeds of Mobutu's system were clear evidence that it lacked an African-centred vision and did not put the interests of the ...
Non-Traditional Occupations, Empowerment, and Women: A Case of Togolese Women
1st Edition
By Ayélé Léa Adubra
June 28, 2012
This study explores the relationship between the nature and context of non-traditional occupations and the empowerment status of women in society. Specifically, it examines the extent to which women in non-traditional occupations have been empowered by their skills, knowledge, and position within ...
Social Movements and Democracy in Africa: The Impact of Women's Struggles for Equal Rights in Botswana
1st Edition
By Agnes Ngoma Leslie
June 28, 2012
This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and the society by focusing on the following question: How do women's political and legal rights get extended and institutionalized in a patriarchal ...
African Cultural Values: Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1996
1st Edition
By Raphael Chijioke Njoku
June 21, 2012
Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these ...
Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future
1st Edition
By Ama Mazama
June 20, 2012
Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found ...