African Studies: History, Politics and Culture
Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Paradoxes of Exile
1st Edition
Edited
By Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi
April 10, 2012
This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa ...
The African Origins of Rhetoric
1st Edition
By Cecil Blake
June 04, 2010
Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor" -- the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. Blake offers a thorough examination of ...
A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics: Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria
1st Edition
By Victor Oguejiofor Okafor
April 29, 2009
This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and ...
The Human Cost of African Migrations
1st Edition
Edited
By Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi
March 06, 2009
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...