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Cultures in Africa
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African Arts & Culture
Jacqueline Chanda / Hardcover / Published 1994
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African Cinema : Politics & Culture
Manthia Diawara / Hardcover / Published 1992
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This book contains valuable information on the history of African film from colonial
times to the present. It explains why film production in Africa is what it is today, from
region to region. This is mainly a book on African film history, so reviews of films are
not emphasized.
African Culture : the Rhythms of Unity
Molefi K. Asante (Editor), Kariamu
Welsh Asante (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1989
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African Experiences of Cinema
Imruh Bakari (Editor), et al / Paperback / Published
1996
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Brings together important historical documents, contemporary testimonies and critical
essays. Film-makers, scholars and critics detail their responses to, and experiences of,
the challenges of cinema across the African continent. From various perspectives, and
informed by differing aspirations, the contributors explore the inter-relation of
aesthetics, history, politics and ideology in African cinema, as well as the cultural,
social and economic forces which blend to form this vital and important cinematic
movement.
African History and Culture
Richard Olaniyan / Paperback / Published 1982
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African Material Culture
Mary Jo Arnoldi (Editor), et al / Paperback /
Published 1996, 369 pages
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Fourteen interdisciplinary essays examine African societies and cultures through the
examination of material objects and ceremonies representing African culture. This
college-level, scholarly collection will best appeal to any school with an African studies
program in place: chapters which consider technological style influences, identity
construction, and issues of changing interpretations of African objects and artifacts
provide in-depth analysis.
African Theology in Its Social Context
Benezet Bujo / Paperback / Published 1992, 143 pages
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The Arts of the Hausa; An Aspect of Ilamic Culture in Northern Nigeria
(A University of Chicago Press)
David Heathcote / Paperback / Published 1977
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Asafo! : African Flags of the Fante
Peter Adler, Nicholas Barnard / Paperback /
Published 1992
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Bacchae of Euripides a Communion Rite
Wole Soyinka / Paperback / Published 1975
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Black African Cinema
Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike / Paperback / Published
1994
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Christianity in Africa : The Renewal of Non-Western Religion
Kwane Bediako / Paperback / Published 1996
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Bediako's new book is the best to date on African theology. The author looks at the
history of theological development in Africa. Many will be surprised to learn that
Africans began forming their own theological evaluations of the new religion very soon
after its acceptance: African theology is not a recent phenomenon. Bediako demolishes the
ethno-centric arguments of both mission apologists and antagonists by conclusively
demonstrating that the African appropriation of Christian faith as an African religion
overrides all claims to an European-centered Christianity. Not only is Christianity an
African religion, but its appropriation by Africans may be its revitalization.
Christianity was distorted by the way it entered Europe, i.e., forced conversions and
violence, but in Africa the true primalness of the Christian faith resurfaces. The only
weakness of the book is that its scholarly nature will prevent many from searching its
depths.
Citizen and Subject : Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
Colonialism
Mahmood Mamdani / Paperback / Published 1996, 353 pages
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The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
Peter R. Schmidt (Editor) / Hardcover / Published
1996, 338 pages
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Archaeological and ethnographic investigations in western Tanzania in the 1970s
revealed remarkable evidence for a complex and highly advanced iron technology that
existed there several thousand years ago. Still, Western scientific and historical
practice continues to obscure the history of iron technology and its accomplishments in
Africa. Weaving together myth, ritual, history, and science, this work describes the
systems of smithing and iron smelting, some of which arose 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.
Revealing the world of African technological achievement, the contributors to this work
demonstrate that iron production there is a socially constructed activity and that its
cultural and technological domains cannot be understood separately.
Custodians of the Land : Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania
(Eastern African Studies)
Gregory Maddox (Editor), et al / Paperback / Published 1995
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Contains nine essays addressing the continually changing relationship between
environment and rural culture, politics, and the economy in the farming and pastoral
societies of Tanzania. Contributors include scholars of African studies, history, and
anthropology.
Dancing Prophets : Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
(Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Steven M. Friedson / Paperback / Published 1996
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Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa : Problems
and Prospects
Brendalyn P. Ambrose / Hardcover / Published 1995
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Antigua-born Ambrose recounts the events, and more importantly the non-events,
affecting democracy and human rights in Africa during the period 1991-93 while she was
there as a consultant for an international development agency. She argues that western
style liberal democracy is not suitable to Africa's economic and social heritage, that
protecting human rights requires empowering people and reducing want and ignorance at the
grassroots rather than tinkering with the parliaments and courts, and that the social and
economic problems of the continent should be addressed collaboratively by Africans,
Africans in the diaspora, and non- Africans in the international community.
Difficult Women, Artful Lives : Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, in and
Out of Africa (Parallax : Re-Visions of Culture and Society)
Susan R. Horton / Paperback / Published 1995, 312 pages
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Distinctive Characteristics and Common Features of African Cultural Areas
South of the Sahara (Introduction to African Culture No, 7/U1526)
Paperback / Published 1986
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Dividing the Commons : Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana
Pauline E. Peters / Paperback / Published 1994
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Hardcover /
Published 1994
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Double Image : Biblical Insights from African Parables
Delbert Howard Tarr, et al / Paperback / Published
1994
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Eldoret : An African Poetics of Technology (Culture and
Technology)
Richard M. Swiderski / Hardcover / Published 1995
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Through an impressionistic examination of the many indigenous and imported
technologies of one small town in the Kenyan highlands, the author (an anthropologist)
explores much wider issues of poverty, structural unemployment, gender relations, ethnic
and class conflict, and the problems of development in the Third World. Drawing on two
years spent in the town of Eldoret, Swiderski includes 32 of his lovely, quirky line
drawings.
Elephant : The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture
Doran H. Ross (Editor) / Paperback / Published
1995, 415 pages
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures : Africa (Ed by David Levinson)
Vol 9
David Levinson (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
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The eighth in the ten-volume set covering world cultures focuses on those located in
Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands. More than 80 contributors share expert
information in descriptive summaries ranging from a few lines (due to available
information) to five or six pages, providing demographic, historical, social, economic,
political and religious information. Among the numerous cultures discussed are the Ngawbe,
Seri, Chinantec, Ladinos, Chatino, Miskito, Chuj, and the Mam. The series places
particular emphasis on the life of the people, and the factors that have caused cultural
changes over time. Includes maps, ethnonym index, filmography, and glossary. The subject
index is in a separate volume.
The Gelede Spectacle : Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in African Culture
Babatunde Lawal / Hardcover / Published 1996
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This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote
nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular
community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba
of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. The Gelede Spectacle is illustrated in
color and black-and-white with over 150 field and museum photographs, including a rare
sequence on the dressing of a masquerader. It offers, in addition, more than 60 Gelede
song texts, proverbs, and divination verses, each in the original Yoruba as well as in
translation. Lawal's interpretations of these pieces indicate the rich complexities of
metaphor and analogy inherent in the Yoruba language and art.
Human Rights in Africa : Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'Im, Francis M. Deng (Editor)
/ Paperback / Published 1990, 399 pages
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In My Father's House : Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
Kwame Anthony Appiah / Paperback / Published 1993
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Hardcover / Published 1992
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Synopsis:
In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who
now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many
preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the
end of the 19th century. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
John Edgar Wideman : Reclaiming the African Personality
Doreatha Drummond Mbalia /
Hardcover / Published 1995
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John Edgar Wideman's process of decentering himself from European life and culture
and centering himself within African life and culture is the focus of this study. In later
works, Wideman's writing style no longer imitates that of such European writers as T. S.
Eliot, but imitates that of the African community, with all of its jive, rap, and
hokey-pokey nuances. Once Wideman sees himself as one of many Africans all over the world
who are exploited and oppressed, his perspective broadens as well. In the later work, the
point of view is no longer national in scope, but rather international, tackling such
issues as apartheid in South Africa and reflecting the international scope of capitalism.
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
David D. Laitin / Hardcover /
Published 1992, 205 pages
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Maasai: People of Cattle (Tribal Wisdom)
David M. Anderson / Hardcover / Published 1995
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Mauritius (Culture Shock! Guides)
Roseline Lum / Paperback / Published 1997
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Muntu : African Culture and the Western World
Janheinz Jahn / Paperback / Published 1991, 267
pages
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The Muse of Modernity : Essays on Culture As Development in Africa
Philip G. Altbach, Salah M. Hassan (Editor) /
Paperback / Published 1997
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This book focuses on the role of culture in the process of development, and on
strategies for ensuring the growth of indigenous African culture and the strengthening of
cultural industries in the African context. The prospects for filmmaking, the performing
arts, publishing, radio, museums, art, and traditional storytelling in Africa are
creatively examined and explored by some of Africa's most creative cultural figures. This
book combines thoughtful analysis of the problems and a "state of the art"
assessment of key cultural industries with practical suggestions for improvement and
progress.
Olorgesailie : Archeological Studies of a Middle Pleistocene Lake Basin
in Kenya (Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology)
Glynn Llywelyn Isaac, et al / Hardcover / Published 1977, 272
pages
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Ousmane Sembene : Dialogues With Critics and Writers
Samba Gadjigo, et al / Paperback / Published 1993,
123 pages
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Published in October 1993 as a special issue of Contributions in Black Studies (Five
Colleges, Inc.). Based primarily on a conference held in Amherst, Massachusetts, in April
1990. Celebrates the work of the brilliant African filmmaker and writer who has worked
since the 1950s in his native Senegal. Some interview and discussion material is presented
in both English and French.
Parallel Worlds : An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham / Paperback /
Published 1994, 324 pages
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Perspectives on Africa : A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation
Roy Richard Grinker, Christopher B. Steiner
(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996
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Picturing Bushmen : The Denver African Expedition of 1925
Robert James Gordon / Paperback / Published 1997,
325 pages
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Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa
Graham Furniss / Paperback / Published 1996
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Protecting Human Rights in Africa : Roles and Strategies of
Non-Governmental Organizations (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Claude E., Jr. Welch / Hardcover / Published 1995
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A comparative study of how human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have
brought revolutionary change to sub- Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on NGOs based in
Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, and Senegal. Major topics include female genital mutilation,
systematic discrimination, authoritarian rule, widespread impoverishment, and the absence
of legal aid.
The Rebirth of African Civilization
Chancellor Williams / Paperback / Published 1993
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Reinventing Africa : Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in
Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Annie E. Coombes / Hardcover / Published 1994, , 288 pages
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The Search for Africa : History, Culture, Politics
Basil Davidson / Paperback / Published 1995
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An important work in the debate over Africanism, Eurocentrism, and the historical
role of Africa. This essay collection begins with an work on the roots and contributions
of Africa's ancient kingdoms and ends with a reflection on what Davidson calls the
"curse of Columbus."
Somalia in Word and Image
Katheryne Loughran (Editor) / Paperback /
Published 1986, 175 pages
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Space, Text, and Gender : An Anthropological Study of the
Marakwet of Kenya (Mappings)
Henrietta L. Moore / Paperback /
Published 1996
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First published in 1986, this book is based on fieldwork carried out in 1980 and
1981. The author presents an admittedly "narrow" view in her examination of this
African people. Focusing primarily on the organization of domestic space as one form of
cultural representation, and its interaction with gender relations, Moore (London School
of Economics) looks at how that interaction shifts as a result of changes in social and
economic conditions.
Swahili Origins : Swahili Culture & the Shungwaya Phenomenon
(Eastern African Studies)
James De Vere Allen / Paperback / Published 1993, 272 pages
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Published 1993
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Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa. Yet there can be few
historic peoples whose identity is as elusive as that of the Swahili. This book is a major
study of the origin of the Swahili and of their cultural identity. Allen focuses on how
the African element in their cultural patrimony was first modified by Islam and later
changed until many Swahili themselves lost sight of it. They share a language and they
share a culture. Their territory stretches from the coast of southern Somalia to the Lamu
archipelago in Kenya, to the Rovuma River in modern Mozambique and out into the islands of
the Indian Ocean. But they lack a shared historical experience.
Theories of Africans : Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa
(Black Literature and Culture Series)
Christopher L. Miller / Paperback / Published 1991, 328 pages
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Toward an African Christianity : Inculturation Applied
Eugene Hillman / Paperback / Published 1993
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Towards an African Narrative Theology (Faith and Cultures
Series)
Joseph Healey, Donald Sybertz / Paperback / Published 1997,
397 pages
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This book is the fruit of many years of collecting the proverbs and wisdom sayings
that are both paradigmatic expressions of traditional African self-understanding and the
best place to begin a study of African Christian theology. Fathers Joseph Healey and
Donald Sybertz make a major contribution to articulating a full-blown African theology, a
project that only Africans, ultimately, can do for themselves. Towards an African
Narrative Theology explores how proverbs, stories, and wisdom sayings reveal the shape of
Christianity's inculturation in Africa and alert readers to the need to open minds and
hearts to new ways of looking at the Christian mysteries.
Tracing Memory : A Glossary of Graphic Signs and Symbols in African Art
and Culture (Mercury Series)
Clementine M. Faik-Nzuji / Paperback / Published 1997
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Transgressing Boundaries : New Directions in the Study of Culture in
Africa
Brenda Cooper, Andrew Steyn (Editor) / Paperback / Published
1997
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From a September 1993 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, 15 papers explore the
course of the new discipline of African cultural studies, emphasizing the crossing of
academic and political boundaries. They map the field that incorporates Marxism,
postmodernism, and the established disciplines; offer case studies on poison, the
Lydenburg Heads, and the representation of slavery; and look to the future of
representations of the middle passage, appropriations, and dominant voices.
What Will My Mother Say : A Tribal African Girl Comes of Age in America
Dympna Ugwu-Oju / Hardcover / Published 1995, 414 pages
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This unique autobiography of an African tribal girl who lives two very different
cultural lives in America provides a revealing story indeed. Dympna left her restrictive
Ibo-Catholic culture to attend college in the U. S. , becoming the first Nigerian woman to
hold a professorial position. At work she's a professor;at home she's a traditional Ibo
wife and mother: her insights and experiences make for a fine account.
West African Popular Theatre (Drama and Performance)
Karin Barber, et al / Paperback / Published 1997, 542 pages
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White on Black : Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture
Jan Nederveen Pieterse / Paperback / Published
1995
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Writing African Women : Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West
Africa
Stephanie Newell (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1997
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Yurugu : An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and
Behavior
Marimba Ani / Hardcover / Published 1994
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