African category: 8440 books
Mapping Diaspora
African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates...
Minoan Signs
An African Decipherment
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Minoan Linear Signs have now been explained as Niger-Congo. And some twenty five full words have been related to Fula. Problematic words of Greek have also been given tentative African etymologies. A new African language, four thousand years old, has come to light in the Linear A documents. So we...
My Brown Baby
On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective” -*Ebony*
For almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically...
Mentoring African American Males
A Research Design Comparison Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Mentoring African American Males provides important black male research and student performance data to guide the efforts of those who accept the enormous task of standing in the gap to increase black male achievement. Dr. Ross provides guidance for individuals and institutions embracing the important...
Contemporary African American Families
Achievements, Challenges, and Empowerment Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
For decades the black community has been perceived, both in the United States and around the world, as one which thinks alike, acts alike and lives alike - in poor and downtrodden environments. Following the persistent effects of the great recession and the American elections of 2008, now more than...
by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brotherhood of man. This volume of West African folk tales includes a number of such tales, among them, "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Greedy...
Stolen Women
Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"STOLEN WOMEN gives us what Mama couldn't--a way to be in charge of our own bodies. This probing, fact-based book dissects the myths, discards the stereotypes, and unshackles our minds."--BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL Author of Brothers and Sisters
"The culmination of twenty-two years of clinical practice...
Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans
Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
In 1964, Muhammad Ali said of his decision to join the Nation of Islam: "I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want to be.†?
This sentiment, the brash assertion of individual freedom, informs and empowers each...
African American Preachers and Politics
The Careys of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the spiritual...
by Minna Rose
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
#1 Bestseller - African Cooking.
Minna Rose enjoys travelling and loves exploring different cultures through food. She adds her own twists to the recipes she discovers and loves to share the results with her family and friends.
Each recipe comes with detailed instructions and mouth-watering...
by Caroline Afolalu
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
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...
Training Black Spirit
Ethics for African American Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Like all teens, African American teens find themselves wondering what they should or should not be doing and how they should behave toward each other -- only they often have no male role model in the home and negative models, like gang-banger, on the street. As they struggle to build their characters,...
Stigma and Culture
Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States—and around the globe—is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and income by dishonoring other stigmatized...
My African Restaurant Adventure
Branding Afro Flavour
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
My book is prescriptive to process change, and it outlines strategic thinking about market competition. It is a vital tool for restaurant owners who wish to embark on a practical approach to achieve growth and branding of food. The book highlights areas for improvement that might work and what may...