African category: 8440 books
NOSY WHITE PEOPLE CALLING POLICE ON BLACK PEOPLE
WHITE AMERICA'S FEAR and SHAME
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
I understand America is a free country, however, that does not white people should feel free to harass and disrespect the life of African Americans. Nosy white people are making it a sick habit of calling police on African Americans for the sake of amusement and maybe to see police brutality. Nosy...
by M. I. Ogumefu
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Yoruba Legends
by M. I. Ogumefu
"The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly Language... They all speak Yoruba.
In present day West Africa, the main countries where Yoruba speaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative "Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas" to an...
Santeria
African Spirits in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería* *community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful...
Kente Cloth
History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book is about the history of an African clothing material known as Kente cloth. All relevant cultural aspects of the cloth have been explained in details with several pictorial illustrations. The book traces Kente history and how it has been used since its invention, about four hundred years...
African Art and the Colonial Encounter
Inventing a Global Commodity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about...
by Tom Penfold
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South...
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
A Voice of the Black Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associated Negro Press, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented...
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors—and on twentieth-century American debates about race—Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation...
The Emancipation Proclamation
Three Views
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects:...
Strength for Their Journey
5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The result of more than twenty years' collaborative work focusing on the heart of successful parenting, the acclaimed five disciplines program developed by Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Paulette Stanford has helped thousands of African-American children and their parents cope with the myriad of social...
Fruits of the Harvest
Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays offers more than 125 treasured recipes from people of African descent all over the world: Jerked Pork Chops and Fresh Papaya Chutney from Jamaica; New-Fashioned Fried Chicken, a dish from the Deep South; and Tiebou Dienne, Senegalese...
by Ernest H. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Unlike the media would have you believe, most black males find great value in education. They want to believe that they have a special gift and that they can make a difference in the world. The problem is that they have ill feelings about how society has deprived them of the most qualified teachers...
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party....