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Joelle Riley
African Lions (Pull Ahead Books)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0822567075
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Bessie House-Midamba, Felix K. Ekechi
African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)

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Description: An interdisciplinary study of market women from all parts of Africa shows how, from historical times to the present, African women have used the economic power they have derived from market activities and commercial enterprises to improve their social and political status in a man`s world. They used their wealth in pre-colonial times to obtain titles and even chieftainship. Because of their involvement in trade, many women acquired considerable property, especially real estate. The authors stress the positive aspect of women`s economic activities, but also point out the prevalent sexual division of labor in Africa as a limiting factor. They illustrate the concomitant struggle between men and women over certain market items traditionally associated with one or the other sex. They analyze the cultural, social, and economic barriers that restrict female involvement in some economic activities. Nevertheless, the overwhelming conclusion by all of the writers, who are Africans and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0313292140
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Iris Hahner, Maria Kecskesi, Lazlo Vajda
African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection

2007 y.
Publisher: Prestel
Description: Now available in a flexi edition, this beautiful volume presents nearly 250 of the finest African masks from the incomparable Barbier-Mueller collection, which is unique in its vast number of masterpieces and wide geographic scope. The book includes one hundred color plates accompanied by in-depth descriptions, as well as numerous black-and-white photographs of the masks as they are used in religious and secular ceremonies. An introductory text by renowned scholars describes how the masks are constructed, examines their significance in African culture, and offers insight into the universal practice of masquerading. A unique contribution to the literature on African art, this book is also a wonderful introduction to countless fascinating, age-old spiritual traditions still practiced today. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3791338072
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Stephen Belcher
African Myths of Origin (Penguin Classics)

2006 y.
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Description: A rich, unique anthology of retold fables from Africa Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From accounts of the inventive wiles of animal- creators and a community forced to flee a giant crocodile to the heroic story of the cripple Sunjata who rose to found an empire, all the narratives here concern origins. They offer a kaleidoscopic picture representative of the rich cultures and societies of the African continent: the ways of life, the peoples?from small hunting bands to great empires?and the states that have taken shape over many generations and environments. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0140449450
Book size: —; Page extent: 544.

 

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Anup Shah and Manoj Shah
African Odyssey: 365 Days

2007 y.
Publisher: Abrams Books
Description: Every year, spurred on by the dry season on the African plains in Kenya and Tanzania, close to two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles make the epic journey from their breeding grounds in the southern Serengeti to greener, wetter grass on the northern plains during what is known as the Great Migration. As the dry season turns to wet, they travel full circle back south. Year after year, governed by the seasons as they evolve from wet to dry and back again, this cycle repeats itself. Great travelers that they are, these migrants encounter dangerous predators and the kaleidoscope of wildlife on the African savannah along the way, from lions and leopards to elephants, dik-diks, and dung beetles. `African Odyssey: 365 Days` follows the movements of these massive herds as they migrate across the Serengeti, with each spread representing a day in the life of the herds. Dramatic scenes are played out on every page, chronicling life and death in one of the most… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-8109-9396-1, 978-0-8109-9396-9
Book size: —; Page extent: 744.

 

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Ogbu Kalu
African Pentacostalism: An Introduction

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0195340000
Book size: —; Page extent: 376.

 

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Ogbu Kalu
African Pentecostalism: An Introduction

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0195339991
Book size: —; Page extent: 376.

 

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Kempe Ronald Hope, Kempe R. Hope
African Political Economy: Contemporary Issues in Development

— y.
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ISBN: 1563249421
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Simha Arom
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm : Musical Structure and Methodology

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionAn original approach to the understanding of the complete and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm of African music. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521616018
Book size: —; Page extent: 696.

 

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Chris Weston
African Safari Photography

2006 y.
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Description: Chris Weston, one of the world’s most celebrated nature photographers, presents a practical and inspiring new guide on the dream trip of a lifetime: an African safari. Packed with 230 sensational color photos of the continent’s unsurpassed wildlife, it shows how to plan for a safari and what to take along. A Botswana to Zambia guide to the best parks and wildlife reserves provides invaluable information on when to travel and the best sites for viewing nesting birds, elephant herds, the black rhinoceros, big cats, and more. Plus, entire sections cover animal behavior patterns and photographic techniques for capturing great fleeting wildlife moments. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1861084420
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Peter Pickford, Beverly Pickford
African Safari: Into the Great Game Reserves

2009 y.
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Description: An African safari is arguably one of the most alluring and easily understood dreams of our time. Just the thought of an African safari evokes thoughts of adventure, a journey through nature`s greatest spectacle, a glimpse of the earth before man. is an exploration of all that the word `safari` encompasses, from journeys on horseback and dugout canoes, the quiet drifting of a balloon and the tension of waiting on foot to the smell of dung, soil and the rain. African Safari is an intimate odyssey through the great wilderness of Africa and an eye on its wild denizens, spiced with the echoes of a romantic history.African Safari is divided into eight chapters: South Africa (Kruger &, the Kgalagadi)Namibia (Etosha, Damaraland and Kaokaland)Botswana (Okavango, Chobe, and Linyanti)Zimbabwe (Mana Pools and the Zambezi) Zambia (North and South Luangwa)Tanzania (Ngorongoro and the Serengeti)Kenya (Masai Mara, Amboseli, and Tsavo) Rwanda &, Uganda (Parc des Volcans and Mgahinga) [detailed...]

ISBN: 0620375582
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Camille Lewis Brown
African Saints, African Stories: 40 Holy Men and Woman

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0867168056
Book size: —; Page extent: 152.

 

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K. Zauditu-Selassie
African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison

2009 y.
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Description: `Addresses a real need: a scholarly and ritually informed reading of spirituality in the work of a major African American author. No other work catalogues so thoroughly the grounding of Morrison`s work in African cosmogonies. Zauditu-Selassie`s many readings of Ba Kongo and Yoruba spiritual presence in Morrison`s work are incomparably detailed and generally convincing.`--Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison`s novels. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved, and Jazz. While others have studied the African spiritual ideas and values encoded in Morrison`s work, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0813033284
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa
African Statistical Yearbook 2006

2008 y.
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ISBN: 9210251628
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African Statistical Yearbook

2004 y.
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ISBN: 9210251512
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David K. Leonard
African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development

— y.
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Description: For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commitment. What accounts for these Kenyan successes? In this innovative study, David Leonard illustrates the way public policy is made and implemented in Kenya by focusing on four public officials who have had a great impact on rural development. He skillfully weaves his analyses of Kenya`s political,economic, and administrative systems into evocative biographical portraits of Charles Karanja, General Manager of the Kenya Tea Development Authority, Harris Mule, administrative head of Finance and Planning, Ishmael Muriithi, head… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0520070763
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Heike Owusu
African Symbols

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1402746229
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Harold Scheub
African Tales

2005 y.
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Description: The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world`s leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of African literature and culture. Realizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the inner ear in everyone, bringing an oral tradition to life in written form. [detailed...]

ISBN: 029920944X
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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John Gillow
African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent

2009 y.
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Description: This is an authoritative survey of textile arts—unique and collectible rugs, tapestries, garments, and more—from all parts of Africa. Five sections detail the textile history and traditions of west, north, east, central, and southern Africa, examining materials, dyes, decorations, patterns, and techniques. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0500288003
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African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective (Rochester Studies in African History) (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

2005 y.
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Description: African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. . The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1580461638
Book size: —; Page extent: 440.

 

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Thandika Mkandawire, Charles C. Soludo
African Voices on Structural Adjustment

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Description: African Voices on Structural Adjustment presents 14 in-depth studies on the history and future of structural adjustment in Africa. Each study appraises the performance of structural adjustment policies (SAPs) with respect to a particular sector or issue.Each evaluates the compatibility of SAPs with the requirements for long-term development in Africa. And, most importantly, each presents a truly African perspective. The contributors represent an outstanding collection of leading African economists and development experts. This volume is intended as a companion to Our Continent, Our Future. It will appeal to students, professors, academics, and researchers in development, economics, and African studies, professionals in donor organizations around the world, and economic policymakers in both the governmental and non-governmental sectors [detailed...]

ISBN: 0889368880
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African finance: Research and reform (A Sequoia seminar)

— y.
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ISBN: 1558152741
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Follmi
African wisdom 365 days

2007 y.
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ISBN: 978-0-500-54311-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 752.

 

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Lisa Gail Collins
African-American Artists, 1929-1945 : Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThis book focuses on the work of African American artists during the Depression and the war years (1929-1945), when government-sponsored programs such as the WPA led to a general resurgence in artistic production throughout the United States. The catalogue features the work of Robert Blackburn, Raymond Steth, Horace Woodroff, and Dox Trash, among others, with a smaller selection of paintings and watercolors by such notable artists as Horace Pippin, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Bill Traylor. Included are essays on the work in its cultural context and on printmaking techniques. Most of the works in this volume are recent acquisitions of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and have not been previously published. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300098774
Book size: —; Page extent: 92.

 

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John O. Perpener III
African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance And Beyond

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionAfrican-American Concert Dance significantly advances the study of pioneering black dancers by providing valuable biographical and historical information on a group of artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize black dance as a serious art form. John O. Perpener sets these seminal artists and their innovations in the contexts of African-American culture and American modern dance and explores their creative synthesis of material from European-American, African-American, Caribbean, and African sources. Perpener begins with Hemsley Winfield, a versatile performer and director whose company, the New Negro Art Theatre, launched the careers of Edna Guy, Randolph Sawyer, and Ollie Burgoyne, among many others. Also profiled are Charles Williams, who directed the Hampton Creative Dance Group at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and Asadata Dafora Horton, a native African who established himself as the preeminent purveyor of African dance and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0252072618
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Kilolo Kijakazi
African-American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership (STUDIES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP)

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ISBN: 0815329997
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Portia Maultsby
African-American Music: An Introduction

2004 y.
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ISBN: 0415941385
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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Charles W. Carey
African-American Political Leaders (To Z of African Americans)

2004 y.
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ISBN: 0816051380
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Nathan Aaseng
African-American Religious Leaders (A to Z of African Americans)

2003 y.
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ISBN: 0816048789
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Catherine M. Casserly
African-American Women and Poverty: Can Education Alone Change the Status Quo? (Children of Poverty)

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Description: African American Women and Poverty examines why educational investments by African American women, the group in American society that is most susceptible to being poor, have not reduced poverty as expected. The analysis in this study reveals that the ability of human capital investment to alleviate poverty for African American women differs depending on whether one estimates private or social returns. Tables. Charts. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0815330553
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Sandra Gittens
African-Caribbean Hairdressing: Hairdressing And Beauty Industry Authority/Thomson Learning Series

— y.
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Description: African-Caribbean Hairdressing, Second Edition is an updated essential guide covering all aspects of hairdressing techniques in this area. It is the only book written in the UK for students and professionals studying and working with this client group.African-Caribbean hair is more delicate than other types of hair and the techniques and proceedures require a specialist knowledge and expertise. This book takes the reader step-by-step through each skill area with the aid of illustrations and photographs. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1861528043
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