African category: 8440 books
The Price of Liberty
African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society...
Joke-Performance in Africa
Mode, Media and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and their performance and shows how African...
African American Religious History
A Documentary Witness
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents—many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult...
by Caroline Bimbo Afolalu
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This book shows the reader the techniques of Nigerian and African cooking. Caroline Bimbo Afolalu is the founder and director of Beautiful Foods Ltd, a food manufacturing company that has being producing the leading African snacks for retailers and major supermarkets in England since 2001. She has a...
Africa's Endangered Languages
Documentary and Theoretical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most immediately by other local languages. As a result, the threat of language...
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
The Art of the African American Essay
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks...
by Dorothy Bea Akoto-Abutiate
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
This book describes African Theology/ies and the Bible as a "contemporary mosaic." The book is shaped in the form of a "mosaic" with three patterns. One pattern deals with the Bible and Culture. The second deals with Hermeneutics (interpretations of various biblical texts) as they...
Recipes for Respect
African American Meals and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating...
The Awakening
Book One of the Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An erotically charged journey inside Atlanta's African-American Fetish/BDSM community. The first in the series revolves around an African-American dominant couple, Ramesses and Neferterri, and their submissives, told in a conversational style.
An erotically charged journey inside Atlanta’s...
Gods and Soldiers
The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature
Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking...
African-American Poetry
An Anthology, 1773-1927
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th...
African American Identity
Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...
by Turry Flucker, Phoenix Savage
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Enslaved Africans and free people of color of Louisiana deserve the title of �Founding Fathers� just as much as the French, the Spanish, and the Americans. In spite of their subjugated role as slaves, African Americans of Louisiana, and subsequently New Orleans, were contributors to the success of...
by Patsy Mose Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, African Americans in the Washington, D.C. area sought leisure destinations where they could relax without the burden of racial oppression. Local picnic parks such as Eureka and Madre's were accessible by streetcars. Black-owned steamboats ferried...