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In FROM DAVID WALKER TO BARACK OBAMA, Dr. Emma S. Etuk contends that well-known Ethiopianists have o?ered the inspiration for black freedom and must not be forgotten. Ethiopianists and Ethiopianism ……続きを見る

L’Africanologie est une discipline réflexive née de la jonction des sciences philosophiques, expérimentales, des cultures africaines, occidentales et des sciences humaines. Elle est un champ interdi……続きを見る

La revue le Caïlcédrat est une revue canadienne de philosophie, lettres et sciences humaines dont les champs de recherche sont les études africaines et canadiennes. Cette revue se veut le lieu de la……続きを見る

Alienation and Literature is concerned with the problem of change in the society and how it is perceived by the West African writer. It aims to define and identify the various facets of alienation a……続きを見る

This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relations……続きを見る

This book applies the growing theoretical field of hauntology to a body of literature which has previously been examined through the lenses of Orientalism and exoticism. Through a chronological stud……続きを見る

The Soliloquist is a timeless and contemporary lamentation of disturbing events and experiences of life which have aroused the anonymous character of this account from his comfortable state of silen……続きを見る

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twent……続きを見る

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first c……続きを見る

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization tha……続きを見る

In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentieth- and recent twenty-first-century representations of the Middle Passage creat……続きを見る

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of……続きを見る

This essay will discuss Hutcheon's theory about “historiographic metafiction” in order to explain the meanings of Djebar's work; it will introduce Djebar's approach to history from a gender and post……続きを見る

In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volu……続きを見る

Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study ……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, whi……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Half of a Yellow Sun with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda N……続きを見る

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and t……続きを見る

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His So……続きを見る

This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflor……続きを見る

Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s eight chapters explore the ways in whic……続きを見る

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare’s presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of ex……続きを見る

This reference collection presents academic reviews of more than twelve-hundred contemporary Africa-related publications relevant for informed Christian reflection in and about Africa. The collectio……続きを見る

Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government’s policies, and they had limited time for entertainment. Still, they closely e……続きを見る

In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnatio……続きを見る

The Africa Politics has hindered the development of the nation. African's lack of understanding of politics and its importance. Politics accepts people's opinions and the rule of many. Some African'……続きを見る

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, w……続きを見る

An ex-service man of the famous British West African Frontier Force comes back to devote himself as a benevolent worker. James Walker Gray realises he needs a youngman to help facilitate his work. T……続きを見る

The Chadian writer Nimrodーphilosopher, poet, novelist, and essayistーis one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod’s writing has b……続きを見る

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive ……続きを見る