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by Asuzu Agwunobi
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The African Child author tells it as it happened from the harrowing childhood experience to the ups and downs of his adulthood in the African capital cities and the rural typical village. The interesting mix of hard work and faith in Gods Providence makes for an exhilarating reading that challenges...
by Meg Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing Gates's life from his West Virginia birth, the book follows him through his undergraduate education at Yale and then to Cambridge, where he became the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success.
Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to...
Theology for a Violent Age
Religious Beliefs Crippling African American Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Any politician or pundit will agree: we live in a violent and dangerous age. Our pent-up anger and rage fills our households and spills over into our neighborhoods and streets, leaving African American families who live in poverty and with limited capability to ward off shame and self-contempt as...
Pragmatic Spirituality
The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Gayraud S. Wilmore, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of the African American church, is one of the founders of black theology and author of Black Religion and Black Radicalism. Pragmatic Spirituality brings together some of his most compelling writings to speak to continuing issues...
The Fathers of My Children: the Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria
The Tale of Africans in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria describes the ancestral origin of the Umorens and the existing lineal connection with all Africans in the Diaspora, regardless of their different migrational pathways in which they found themselves...
Come Shouting to Zion
African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred....
Scattered Assets
How African-Americans & Other Resources Can Shape 21St Century Pan-African Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
Scattered Assets seeks to be a conduit for facilitating a much-needed and provocative dialogue on optimal 21st Century Pan-African development, through understanding the leverage and power of resource use; a selected, 8-work anthology of the authors speeches and writings (from the vantage points of...
The Making of African America
The Four Great Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one...
From Victimization to Empowerment
The Challenge of African American Leadership the Need of Real Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
From Victimization to Empowerment Offers a historical analysis that speaks to unique role African people played in America development of power and wealth, and Maafa - The African Holocaust, which stripped us of our culture, names, language, identity, and our system of cosmogony etc.
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The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category...
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics
African Spirituality in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion...
American Africans in Ghana
Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled...
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...