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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and profligacy and much more of the many contradictions of a complex national polity. In this special collection Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, poets from different backgrounds, generations and persuasions explore what it means to be a citizen of this unique African country. Shifting from despair to hope, lamentation to happiness, condemnation to adoration and every gamut of sensibilities imaginable, the contributors reiterate the notion of engagement and the power of the written word to push for social change in their beloved nation. In fifty poems, Nigeria becomes the muse not just to raise questions about its past experiences and present contexts, but also to posit aspirations for a better nation. Contributors: Sulaiman Adebowale, Kole Ade-Odutola, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Richard Ali, Ifi Amadiume, Afam Akeh, Tade Akin Aina, Peter Akinlabi, Funso Aiyejina, Ismail Bala, John Pepper Clark, Omohan Ebhodaghe, Amatoritsero Ede, Hope Eghagha, Ogaga Ifowodo, Zainabu Jallo, Adebayo Lamikanra, Akeem Lasisi, Okinba Launko, Chidi Anthony Opara, Uche Nduka, Obi Nwakanma, Cyril Obi, Olu Oguibe, Tolu Ogunlesi, Tanure Ojaide, Tope Omoniyi, Femi Oyebode, Jekwu Ozoemene, Remi Raji, E. E. Sule, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Sumaila Umaisha, Olajumoke Verissimo, Molara Wood, and Prince Abiathar Zadok. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Tendo Katende was looking forward to the holidays and a break from schoolwork, but two weeks in he can't stand the routine of playing video games all day long any more. Will the rest of the holiday be like this? Then a visit from an uncle he has never met before changes everything. Uncle Moses comes with a gift of a holographic video game like none Tendo has ever played before.When strange happenings at the farm start causing havoc, mayhem and destruction, Tendo gets into serious trouble with his father, concerned about the game's power. Is the new holographic game linked to the mysterious events at the farm? Does that mean Tendo needs to stop playing his super-fun, highly addictive video game if he is to save the farm? What if there are more sinister forces with vindictive agendas at work on the farm? Suddenly, the holidays are no longer boring, Tendo teams up with his friends to solve the mystery before the whole farm is destroyed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Le tres beau roman de Louis Camara nous fait voyager dans l'univers fabuleux de la cosmogonie yoruba. Un univers de mythes qui nous ramene a nous-memes. Le dramaturge Abdou Anta Ka disait qu'il fallait s'inspirer des mythes pour ecrire notre histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Les hommes ont tendance a changer, mais pas les dieux. Les dieux sont eternels." - Ken Bugul, Le baobab fou, Riwan ou le chemin de sable, Rue Felix-Faure, De l'autre cote du regard, etc. "A n'en pas douter, Louis Camara possede ce sens du conte et ce genie de la narration. Sous sa plume magique, venus du fond des ages et des plis les plus profonds de la pensee et les traditions mythologiques du peuple yoruba, des fils de dieux curieux de l'humanite jouent pour nous le jeu du destin individuel et nous devoilent, ce faisant, sa mysterieuse trame toute faite de liberte et de necessite alternee . Car choisir son Ori, c'est pour chaque ame en route vers l'humanite, choisir son caractere, sa personnalite, son destin." - Pr. Issiaka Laleye, Universite Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal. Louis Camara est ne en 1950 a Saint-Louis, Senegal ou il enseigne la litterature Yoruba a l'universite Gaston Berger. Il est amoureux de la poesie et passionne de la mythologie et cosmogonie yoruba. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Histoire d'Iyewa (1998) et Le Tambour d'Orunmila (2003). "Le trAs beau roman de Louis Camara nous fait voyager dans l'univers fabuleux de la cosmogonie yoruba. Un univers de mythes qui nous ramAne A nous-mAames. Le dramaturge Abdou Anta Ka disait qu'il fallait s'inspirer des mythes pour A(c)crire notre histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Les hommes ont tendance A changer, mais pas les dieux. Les dieux sont A(c)ternels." - Ken Bugul, Le baobab fou, Riwan ou le chemin de sable, Rue FA(c)lix-Faure, De l'autre cAtA(c) du regard, etc. "A n'en pas douter, Louis Camara possAde ce sens du conte et ce gA(c)nie de la narration. Sous sa plume magique, venus du fond des Ages et des plis les plus profonds de la pensA(c)e et les traditions mythologiques du peuple yoruba, des fils de dieux curieux de l'humanitA(c) jouent pour nous le jeu du destin individuel et nous dA(c)voilent, ce faisant, sa mystA(c)rieuse trame toute faite de libertA(c) et de nA(c)cessitA(c) alternA(c)e . Car choisir son OrA, c'est pour chaque Ame en route vers l'humanitA(c), choisir son caractAre, sa personnalitA(c), son destin." - Pr. Issiaka LalAyAa, UniversitA(c) Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, SA(c)nA(c)gal. Louis Camara est nA(c) en 1950 A Saint-Louis, SA(c)nA(c)gal oA1 il enseigne la littA(c)rature Yoruba A l'universitA(c) Gaston Berger. Il est amoureux de la poA(c)sie et passionnA(c) de la mythologie et cosmogonie yoruba. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Histoire d'Iyewa ( Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "My heart is pounding against my chest. I am having a hard time breathing and a hard time thinking. I cross the terrace. One step, one small step. Then another tiny step. Now I am on the lawn. The grass is cold and wet under my bare feet. A gust of wind pastes my green sweatshirt against my body. My long grey skirt sticks to my legs like the skin of a rhinoceros. My heart tells me to run, to run as fast as my legs can carry me, with all my might. But I can't." One morning in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, a lucky 13-year-old girl named Tina from a modest family is preparing to go to France to become part of Linda and Godwin Okpara's family. Linda is a home maker and Godwin is a footballer at top French club Paris Saint-Germain and for the Super Eagles, Nigeria's national squad. They have four children and Tina dreams of going with them to school and joining in their games and pranks, living the European dream. But soon after her arrival the reality becomes different.Written in collaboration with acclaimed French journalist, Cyril Guinet, Tina recounts how imprisonment, torture and abuse in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the twenty-first century could not break her. Tina's gripping story of survival and escape to rebuild her life is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor. Written in collaboration with acclaimed French journalist, Cyril Guinet, Okpara recounts how imprisonment, torture, and abuse in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the 21st century could not break her. Her gripping story of survival and escape to rebuild her life is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. How could I have lived and worked in the presence of the brilliant and caring young man called Ibrahima Amadou Niang (we called him Ibou, in great affection) and not know that I was rubbing shoulders with a great young poet? Because we talked about everything except the essential? Now the essential is here in these fierce and moving and often haunting poems speaking of love and travels and sadness and compassion - for people and for pelicans! - and sometimes of anger. The love is deep and nuanced, the way with words is scintillating and apt and impressive way beyond what one would expect from a young wordsmith, and the anger can only be that of a profoundly committed poet. I am privileged to have seen these poems and to be allowed to say: 'I know this man. His heart is strong and nimble. He does pride to his ancestors. He takes his place among the finest voices of his country. And be sure - he will go far.'--Breyten Breytenbach, author of Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (2009) and Catalects (Artefacts for the slow uses of dying)(2012). Author Ibrahima Amadou Niang is a Senegalese writer, poet and political scientist. [Subject: African Studies, Poetry] The love is deep and nuanced, the way with words is scintillating, apt and impressive way beyond what one would expect from a young wordsmith, and the anger can only be that of a profoundly committed poet. He does pride to his ancestors, takes his place among the finest voices of his country. And be sure - he will go far. - Breyten Breytenbac Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Rich-veined, sensual, and probing, this rewarding collection bears the imprint of a keen, world-wise poet. Tade Aina is a well-traveled man who weaves the lore, legends and histories of hearth and far-flung places with equal self-assurance." - Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods, Inc. (Soho Press 2014)."Tade Aina's book, The Wanderer's Waves, is an outstanding poetic chronicle of a trailblazer's explorations, observations and experiences across the world, from the Americas to Zimbabwe and from the early years of youth. The composition style is a combination of traditional, renaissance and modernist archetypes in postcolonial poetic rendition. The poems, in total, also have a universal community spirit and reflectively speak to our blessed multiple identities as humans, while shedding clear light on the ties that bind humanity, such as ties to nature and mobility." - Akwasi Aidoo, author of Rhythms of Dignity (Amalion 2020)."Travel, landscapes, people, the territories of the senses, of the heart. 'Life, for him a geography of minutes'. Echoes from the experiences of the restless soul about the world, whose work also turns him into an eavesdropper, the fly-on-the-wall insights. In this body of work, to be gently savored, the reader will encounter the dimensions of worlds, refracted in a most refreshing way." - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust (Granta 2015). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Akwasi Aidoo's Rhythms of Dignity is a remarkable, bold first collection. There is a rich diversity in range of form, expressiveness, experience, and passion. Reading through this work is a journey through the undercurrents of experience that reflect on living through the charged realities of the 'post-colonial' decades of our modern African not only with an intimate Pan-African awareness of history but also with a poignant sensibility of brotherhood, sisterhood and belonging. Clearly evocative of the age the poet has lived through, these poems have both a sharp clear eye on history, and an abiding tender trust in human relationships." - Abena P.A. Busia, Professor of literature and poet. Rhythms of Dignity is a reflective and imaginative collection that seeks to align insights and foresight in humanity's quest for peace and justice; covering the value of our beloved, our links to nature, and what must change in our world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When Issa was sent as one of the several thousands to a peacekeeping mission in the Congo, Malika, his newly wedded wife, watched and waited in helpless horror, entangled in someone else's war. As Issa guarded the UN base, barring rebels from raping children and patrolling the borders of a rich-yet-ruined territory, back home in Segol, Malika has felt the weight of separation, descending to a gradual but forceful emotional abyss. Fatimata, her mother-in-law, pained by the absence of a son, has accused Malika of being a witch and has sent her to Bintou, the marabout. The conflict between Malika and Fatimata escalates, drawing fire from their mutual longing. The Peacekeeper's Wife deftly captures the human catastrophe of wars and migration in faraway lands, through the excruciating loss and loneliness of estranged families burdened by the separation from loved ones. *** "In a story that could well be ripped from today's headlines about the seemingly endless conflicts in Africa, 'The Peacekeeper's Wife' is a compelling read from beginning to end and showcases author Kevin Eze as an impressively talented novelist of the first order.very highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review, MBR Bookwatch: March 2016, Taylor's Bookshelf [Subject: Adult Fiction, African Literature] Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. In 100 thought-provoking textually original poems, Mildred Kiconco Barya explores elements of time and space on the landscapes of memory, observation, and experience at individual points and collective levels. This poet uses motion as a connecting thread for the seven parts of human experiences and livelihoods - revolving lives, stormy heart, before the sun sinks, the pain of tenderness, shame has a place, the shape of dreams, and until the last breath is drawn - to herald an inspiring collection of maturity and tenderness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book brings together cutting-edge research by leading African communication and media theorists to provide a broad but detailed survey of the history and present state of the art of advertising in Africa. The book is a thought-provoking reminder of the variety of approaches to the study of marketing communication on a continent where advertising is often taken for granted. From indigenous African forms of advertising - by street criers, wall paintings, and even olfactory appeals - to the latest experiments in integrated marketing communication via the Internet, home videos, smartphones, and social media, Dimensions of Advertising Theory and Practice in Africa is a comprehensive survey both of Africa's contributions to the globalized advertising industry and of the industry's profound affect on African economies and cultures. The first collection of its kind, the book marks an important moment in the study of marketing communication in Africa. It will be an essential text for years to come. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In the past decade, the emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are the capacities to give not only to help, but also to address the root causes of injustice, want, ignorance, and disease. The narratives are also about the questioning of the role and place of Africans in the world's philanthropic traditions, and what constitutes African specificities, as well as African differences and varieties. Giving to Help, Helping to Give deftly explores African philanthropic experiences - the varieties, the challenges, and the opportunities - while also documenting, investigating, analyzing, and reflecting on philanthropy in multifaceted Africa. This ground-breaking book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms, vehicles, and means in which philanthropy is expressed. It is a pioneering and ambitious effort in a field and community of practice that is new, both in terms of scholarship and in professional practice. Many of the chapters boldly engage the burden of reflections, questions, ambivalences, and ambiguities that one often finds in an emerging field, innovatively positing the outlines, concepts, frameworks, and theories of scholarship and practice for a field critical to development on the continent. *** "Overall this volume effectively represents the vibrancy and diversity of emerging institutions of philanthropy on the African continent. The contributions are clearly located in an emerging community of practice and scholarship and provide a wealth of new data on a rapidly changing philanthropic landscape." -- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, August 2016 [Subject: African Studies, Development Studies, Sociology]A?A? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Innovation Ecosystems in Africa aims to deepen and broaden the visibility and interrogation of African innovation systems in practice by offering unique analysis of the emergence, growth and future prospects of endogenous innovation practices and lessons across the continent. The stories depict systemic innovations in a range of critical development areas from health and education to leadership and entrepreneurialism, and span from North to South, and East to West, covering more than a dozen different African cities and countries.In addition to sharing knowledge about exciting but rarely acknowledged cases of innovation in Africa, the book serves also to inform policymakers and practitioners throughout Africa on how to learn from experiences towards developing more enabling innovation ecosystems to nurture creativity and solve the problems that we have. This book provides policymakers, business and opinion leaders both inspiration and useful policy takeaways that can guide strategies and support concrete measures to foster and speed up the pace of developmentally impactful innovation on the continent.Innovation Ecosystems in Africa builds upon the work of the African Innovation Summit (AIS), by further examining how the innovation systems environments in Africa function (or not) to address the most basic conditions of socio-economic and institutional development required on the continent. In this volume, learning case studies identified alongside the second Africa Innovation Summit (Kigali, June 2018) examine various sectoral exemplars and transversal dimensions to help inform insights about how policymakers and practitioners might develop more effective and impactful innovation-driven strategies, ecosystems and enterprises.This edited collection uses multi-country, cross-sectoral case studies to advance an empirically grounded, appreciative investigation of how innovation is being used to address fundamental development challenges on the continent, and how the African innovation ecosystems could be made more enabling into the future.Contributors Olugbenga Adesida, Yap Boum II, Jeff Chen, Liza Rose Cirolia, Jeremy de Beer, Pauline Anna Marie Delay, Aidan Eyakuze, Kareem Ibrahim, Daniel Irurah, Heinrich Kammeyer, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Deena Khalil, Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Taibat Lawanson, Sechaba Maape, Samuel Munzele Maimbo, Shadreck Mapfumo, Ntombini Marrengane, Martin Mbaya, Mammo Muchie, Robert Mudida, Omar Nagati, Caroline Ncube, Chidi Oguamanam, Brian Omwenga, Joao Resende-Santos, Davlin Richardson, Nagla Rizk, Vipua Inata Rukambe, Isaac Rutenberg, Youdi Schipper, Tobias Schonwetter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Wala Bok se souvient et narre les memoires des generations de pratiquants du hip hop, des derniers precurseurs aux derniers arrives, des promoteurs et des rares critiques sociaux interesses par ce mouvement aux multiples facettes. Les portraits et temoignages de ce mouvement motive par la reconnaissance de la diversite culturelle et la quete d'un monde meilleur devoilent une societe heteroclite qui tire les ficelles entre promotion artistique personnelle et engagement politique En interrogeant l'histoire du hip hop au Senegal, on voit clairement que ses acteurs des le depart se demarquent des politiques officielles et se melent de la gestion des affaires de la cite. Ils adherent a plusieurs agitations citoyennes, Set Setal des annees 1980 et 1990, avec le combat hautement mediatise du mouvement Y'en a Marre qui sera reconnu comme etant l'une des sentinelles essentielles ayant servi a ecourter le projet monarchique du president Abdoulaye Wade et a installer la deuxieme alternance politique au Senegal en 2012, et qui influence dorenavant les mouvements sociaux du pays jusqu'a present. C'est un livre qui se veut temoin de son temps, telle une anthologie, et un journal intime qui converse hip hop, religion, politique et avenir pour comprendre les enjeux de l'existence meme de la culture hip hop, seul garde fou de nos societes. Contributions par Eugene Adams, Greg Thomas, Ousmane Sene et Abdoulaye Niang. An Oral History of Hip Hop in Senegal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Le travail danalyse sociale nous pose toujours la question de la transcription des donnees et des resultats obtenus. Les modeles canoniques privilegient lusage de lecriture orthographique et releguent souvent les formes decritures iconographiques dans la perception sensible, lallusif et le flou symbolique, a lextreme oppose de la rigueur demonstrative et argumentative de lecriture. Dans le processus de production et de diffusion des connaissances en sciences sociales, le moment de lenquete, en particulier, est une situation de transcription ideale pour examiner le passage dun ordre de fait a un autre, et pour retracer sa fonction dans le projet scientifique. Cet ouvrage interroge les modalites dimplication de limage dans la fabrication, la transformation et la presentation des donnees issues de lenquete de terrain.La premiere partie questionne la constitution des memoires et des identites individuelles et collectives. La photographie se tient au seuil de la memoire et perpetue une interrogation sur les conditions dexercice de la memoire individuelle et collective. La contribution nous rappelle que limage oblige les chercheurs plus que tout autre mode de presentation a sinterroger sur leur position. La deuxieme partie est consacree a lepistemologie des images. Que les images soient produites par les chercheurs eux-memes ou recoltees lors du terrain ethnographique leur representation est dune importance cruciale mais ne va pas de soi. La troisieme partie aborde la question de la restitution des donnees issues de lenquete de terrain a travers lanalyse des photographies et plaide pour une analyse des rythmes, rare en sciences sociales, afin de saisir les complexites de lurbanisation globale et de la restituer par les techniques de theatre grace a une approche du sensuous scholarship. Canonical models in the social sciences often neglect the importance of images in the transcription and interpretation of data and results from fieldwork and rather focus on the argunmentation in textual scholarly writing. The book proposes to break with this representation and argues that the valorization of an analysis is no longer synonymous Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Amalion Publishing, Dakar, Senegal 2010 First edition. Octavo in English. xii, 498 pages. Original interesting soft cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Blue dustjacket with colour image panel and blue and white lettering. Preface, Acknowledgements, 18 chapters, Notes, Bibliography and Index at rear. Seven listed maps. Some black and white photographs throughout. Book in near fine condition with slightest bump to one corner. Dustjacket very good of better with slightly more wear. See photographs. Book 4142 location 2-2.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. La condamnation du Hissein Habre pour crimes contre l'humanite a ete decrite comme un tournant pour la justice des droits humains en Afrique et au-dela. Pour la premiere fois, un criminel de guerre africain etait condamne sur le sol africain. Pour avoir, des le debut, suivi le proces et interroge de nombreuses personnes impliquees, la journaliste Celeste Hicks raconte la remarquable histoire de la maniere dont Habre a ete traduit en justice. Sa condamnation fait suite a une campagne heroique de 25 ans menee par des militants et des survivants des atrocites de Habre qui a abouti, malgre l'indifference internationale, l'opposition des allies de Habre et plusieurs tentatives infructueuses de le traduire en justice en Europe et ailleurs. Face a de telles difficultes, la condamnation d'un dirigeant, autrefois intouchable, represente un tournant majeur, et a de profondes implications pour la justice africaine et l'avenir de l'activisme pour les droits humains dans le monde. La condamnation du Hissein Habre pour crimes contre l'humanite a ete un tournant pour la justice des droits humains en Afrique et au-dela. Pour la premiere fois, un criminel de guerre africain etait condamne sur le sol africain suite a une campagne heroique de 25 ans menee par des militants et des survivants des atrocites de Habre. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Dans le contexte social changeant des societes burkinabe, l'offre religieuse et les routes migratoires ne cessent de se diversifier. La pluralite des pratiques, des acteurs et des situations rencontres invite ainsi a penser les articulations entre religions et migrations. Croisant des approches methodologiques et des objets de recherche diversifies, ce livre part d'exemples issus de recherches de terrain au Burkina Faso pour interroger de facon plus globale les liens entre pratiques religieuses et pratiques migratoires, ainsi que leur role dans l'insertion sociale, a un niveau local. Le religieux en migration est principalement envisage ici lorsqu'il est mobilise pour permettre l'insertion sociale dans des situations d'installations ou de reinstallations au Burkina Faso, ou quand les mecanismes sociaux habituellement mobilises sont satures ou ne suffisent plus.Cet ouvrage rend ainsi compte de recherches recentes sur les pratiques religieuses en migration au Burkina Faso, fruit des travaux d'une equipe pluridisciplinaire composee de chercheuses et de chercheurs de l'Institut des sciences des societes (INSS), de l'Universite Joseph Ki-Zerbo au Burkina Faso, et de l'Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) en France, qui ont travaille au sein du projet ANR L'insertion par le religieux des migrants au Burkina Faso (Relinsert) . Les contributions sont rassemblees autour de deux grandes parties. La premiere revient sur des terrains connus dans les etudes sur les migrations au Burkina Faso, reinterroges sous l'angle du religieux. La seconde partie du livre presente des textes explorant des terrains et des thematiques nouvelles, proposes par de jeunes chercheurs en lien avec leurs travaux sur la sante, les transports ou encore les dynamiques urbaines.Contributeurs Issouf Bonsa, Yacouba Cissao, Aissa Diallo, Alice Degorce, Siaka Gnessi, Ludovic O. Kibora, Katrin Langewiesche, Aude Nikiema, Yacouba Ouedraogo, Maud Saint-Lary, Ousseny Sigue et Irissa Zidnaba. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Notes d'Afrique relate l'essor de la musique populaire sur le continent. Le livre couvre les evenements et les styles musicaux qui se sont developpes depuis les annees 60, jusqu'aux annees 80 lorsque que le terme World Music a ete invente comme label marketing, et que des musiciens africains, notamment Youssou N'Dour et ses contemporains, sont apparus sur la scene internationale, et la dominance d'Afrobeats de la periode contemporaine. Jenny Cathcart nous offre, a travers son experience personnelle et son travail aux cotes de Youssou N'Dour, des portraits et des histoires de la vie de tous les jours et leur influence sur la musique en Afrique. Il en resulte de nouvelles perspectives pour la culture contemporaine, la religion et la politique, aussi bien pour le developpement que pour de futures collaborations sur le continent et dans sa diaspora.Un tour magnifique des artistes qui ont marque l'histoire de la musique populaire africaine.Ali Farka Toure * Alpha Blondy * Angelique Kidjo * Bantu * Baaba Maal * Bembeya Jazz * Bonga * Coumba Gawlo Seck * Carlou D * Cesaria Evora * Daara J * Dimi Mint Abba * Doura Barry * Fanta Damba * Franco * Fela Anikulapo Kuti * Geoffrey Oryema * Hugh Masekela * Ifang Bondi * Kezia Jones * King Sunny Ade * Khaled * Lura * Mariza * Manu Dibango * Omar Pene * Osibisa * Orchestra Baobab * Pape & Cheikh * Papa Wemba * Richard Bona * Souad Massi * Salif Keita * Thomas Mapfumo * Tiken Jah Fakoly * Thione Seck * Wally Badarou * Wally Seck * Xalam Notes d'Afrique relate l'essor de la musique populaire depuis les annees 60 a la periode du "World Music", et que des musiciens africains, notamment Youssou N'Dour et ses contemporains, sont apparus sur la scene mondiale. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period.British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Entre le Savoir et le Culte presente des etudes et documents originaux qui mettent a jour l'evolution de l'islam et du christianisme parmi les etudiants d'universites des pays du Sahel. Il revele les fissures et les conflits entre les groupes, et analyse leurs modes oraux, ecrits et vestimentaires d'affichage et de performance. Cet ouvrage apporte ainsi un puissant eclairage sur l'emprise du religieux sur l'elite en formation, et examine les deux interrogations qui alimentent l'activisme religieux universitaire la signification de la revendication d'une identite musulmane ou chretienne, et comment celle-ci faconne la modernite des deux religions et vice-versa. A lire pour comprendre le dynamisme des terribles crises qui amenent la region sahelienne a se tourner sur elle-meme. - Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Columbia University, Etats-Unis. Quelquefois negligees ou mal comprises par les analystes etrangers, les universites saheliennes sont le theatre de debats profonds sur l'identite nationale, et d'importantes negociations autour de la religiosite et de l'ethnicite. Cette collection rassemble les travaux d'eminents specialistes dans ce domaine, et propose une perspective riche et comparative de leur travail collectif, ancree dans leur recherche sur le terrain. L'ouvrage sera indispensable a tous les chercheurs, analystes, et decideurs politiques qui travaillent sur le Sahel. Ces chapitres contribueront beaucoup a la comprehension des experiences et priorites d'une generation d'activistes et de leaders qui marqueront la region dans les annees a venir. - Alex Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Universite de Cincinnati, Etats-UnisContributeurs: Mamadou Ballo, Mamadou Bodian, Mamadou Lamine Dembele, Ladiba Gondeu, Koudbi Desire Kabore, Abakar Walar Modou, Elemine Ould Mohamed Baba Moustapha, Benjamin Soares, Magloire Some, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leonardo A. Villalon. Cet ouvrage examine le phenomene d'activisme et mouvements religieux dans six pays saheliens. S'appuyant sur de recherches de terrain et de vaste experience, les auteurs decrivent et analysent la maniere dont les contextes politiques nationaux et les facteurs sociologiques ont faconne les modeles d'activisme religieux sur les campus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When Issa was sent as one of the several thousands to a peacekeeping mission in the Congo, Malika, his newly wedded wife, watched and waited in helpless horror, entangled in someone else's war. As Issa guarded the UN base, barring rebels from raping children and patrolling the borders of a rich-yet-ruined territory, back home in Segol, Malika has felt the weight of separation, descending to a gradual but forceful emotional abyss. Fatimata, her mother-in-law, pained by the absence of a son, has accused Malika of being a witch and has sent her to Bintou, the marabout. The conflict between Malika and Fatimata escalates, drawing fire from their mutual longing. The Peacekeeper's Wife deftly captures the human catastrophe of wars and migration in faraway lands, through the excruciating loss and loneliness of estranged families burdened by the separation from loved ones. *** "In a story that could well be ripped from today's headlines about the seemingly endless conflicts in Africa, 'The Peacekeeper's Wife' is a compelling read from beginning to end and showcases author Kevin Eze as an impressively talented novelist of the first order.very highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review, MBR Bookwatch: March 2016, Taylor's Bookshelf [Subject: Adult Fiction, African Literature] Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and profligacy and much more of the many contradictions of a complex national polity. In this special collection Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, poets from different backgrounds, generations and persuasions explore what it means to be a citizen of this unique African country. Shifting from despair to hope, lamentation to happiness, condemnation to adoration and every gamut of sensibilities imaginable, the contributors reiterate the notion of engagement and the power of the written word to push for social change in their beloved nation. In fifty poems, Nigeria becomes the muse not just to raise questions about its past experiences and present contexts, but also to posit aspirations for a better nation. Contributors: Sulaiman Adebowale, Kole Ade-Odutola, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Richard Ali, Ifi Amadiume, Afam Akeh, Tade Akin Aina, Peter Akinlabi, Funso Aiyejina, Ismail Bala, John Pepper Clark, Omohan Ebhodaghe, Amatoritsero Ede, Hope Eghagha, Ogaga Ifowodo, Zainabu Jallo, Adebayo Lamikanra, Akeem Lasisi, Okinba Launko, Chidi Anthony Opara, Uche Nduka, Obi Nwakanma, Cyril Obi, Olu Oguibe, Tolu Ogunlesi, Tanure Ojaide, Tope Omoniyi, Femi Oyebode, Jekwu Ozoemene, Remi Raji, E. E. Sule, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Sumaila Umaisha, Olajumoke Verissimo, Molara Wood, and Prince Abiathar Zadok. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Tendo Katende was looking forward to the holidays and a break from schoolwork, but two weeks in he can't stand the routine of playing video games all day long any more. Will the rest of the holiday be like this? Then a visit from an uncle he has never met before changes everything. Uncle Moses comes with a gift of a holographic video game like none Tendo has ever played before.When strange happenings at the farm start causing havoc, mayhem and destruction, Tendo gets into serious trouble with his father, concerned about the game's power. Is the new holographic game linked to the mysterious events at the farm? Does that mean Tendo needs to stop playing his super-fun, highly addictive video game if he is to save the farm? What if there are more sinister forces with vindictive agendas at work on the farm? Suddenly, the holidays are no longer boring, Tendo teams up with his friends to solve the mystery before the whole farm is destroyed. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Le tres beau roman de Louis Camara nous fait voyager dans l'univers fabuleux de la cosmogonie yoruba. Un univers de mythes qui nous ramene a nous-memes. Le dramaturge Abdou Anta Ka disait qu'il fallait s'inspirer des mythes pour ecrire notre histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Les hommes ont tendance a changer, mais pas les dieux. Les dieux sont eternels." - Ken Bugul, Le baobab fou, Riwan ou le chemin de sable, Rue Felix-Faure, De l'autre cote du regard, etc. "A n'en pas douter, Louis Camara possede ce sens du conte et ce genie de la narration. Sous sa plume magique, venus du fond des ages et des plis les plus profonds de la pensee et les traditions mythologiques du peuple yoruba, des fils de dieux curieux de l'humanite jouent pour nous le jeu du destin individuel et nous devoilent, ce faisant, sa mysterieuse trame toute faite de liberte et de necessite alternee . Car choisir son Ori, c'est pour chaque ame en route vers l'humanite, choisir son caractere, sa personnalite, son destin." - Pr. Issiaka Laleye, Universite Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal. Louis Camara est ne en 1950 a Saint-Louis, Senegal ou il enseigne la litterature Yoruba a l'universite Gaston Berger. Il est amoureux de la poesie et passionne de la mythologie et cosmogonie yoruba. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Histoire d'Iyewa (1998) et Le Tambour d'Orunmila (2003). "Le trAs beau roman de Louis Camara nous fait voyager dans l'univers fabuleux de la cosmogonie yoruba. Un univers de mythes qui nous ramAne A nous-mAames. Le dramaturge Abdou Anta Ka disait qu'il fallait s'inspirer des mythes pour A(c)crire notre histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Les hommes ont tendance A changer, mais pas les dieux. Les dieux sont A(c)ternels." - Ken Bugul, Le baobab fou, Riwan ou le chemin de sable, Rue FA(c)lix-Faure, De l'autre cAtA(c) du regard, etc. "A n'en pas douter, Louis Camara possAde ce sens du conte et ce gA(c)nie de la narration. Sous sa plume magique, venus du fond des Ages et des plis les plus profonds de la pensA(c)e et les traditions mythologiques du peuple yoruba, des fils de dieux curieux de l'humanitA(c) jouent pour nous le jeu du destin individuel et nous dA(c)voilent, ce faisant, sa mystA(c)rieuse trame toute faite de libertA(c) et de nA(c)cessitA(c) alternA(c)e . Car choisir son OrA, c'est pour chaque Ame en route vers l'humanitA(c), choisir son caractAre, sa personnalitA(c), son destin." - Pr. Issiaka LalAyAa, UniversitA(c) Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, SA(c)nA(c)gal. Louis Camara est nA(c) en 1950 A Saint-Louis, SA(c)nA(c)gal oA1 il enseigne la littA(c)rature Yoruba A l'universitA(c) Gaston Berger. Il est amoureux de la poA(c)sie et passionnA(c) de la mythologie et cosmogonie yoruba. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Histoire d'Iyewa ( Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Born in Diourbel on October 5, 1957, Kalidou Kasse is a Senegalese artist, painter, weaver and sculptor whose perspective for the legitimization of African contemporary art has given birth to several prize-winning work and exhibitions all over the world. His unique style of threadlike characters in a background of lively and brilliant colours describes a poetic and charming world painted with a constant concern for forms, details and colours. From a historic point of view, he is the artist who has delicately blended and balanced the art of western pictorial with African aesthetics inherited from his family of weavers. By refusing the representation imposed by western art, he reaffirms an individual form that is original in heralding the art of an emerging dominant force unabashed and unfettered by its past. This groundbreaking book explores the foundations of Kasse's aesthetics and subtly traces the individual trajectory of the painter within the wider collective and historic movement of art on the continent and beyond.Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo is a professor of Sociology is currently the Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.He has taught in several universities in Africa, Europe and in North America. He is the author of several works in the field of art in Africa, including Art photographique en Afrique (Harmattan, 2002), Identite visuelle en Afrique (Amalthee, 2008), and Norbert Elias, Ecrits sur l'art africain, (Kime, 2002). From 2002 to 2008, he was Deputy-Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal. Born in Diourbel on October 5, 1957, Kalidou Kasse is a Senegalese artist, painter, weaver and sculptor whose perspective for the legitimization of African contemporary art has given birth to several prize-winning work and exhibitions all over the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "My heart is pounding against my chest. I am having a hard time breathing and a hard time thinking. I cross the terrace. One step, one small step. Then another tiny step. Now I am on the lawn. The grass is cold and wet under my bare feet. A gust of wind pastes my green sweatshirt against my body. My long grey skirt sticks to my legs like the skin of a rhinoceros. My heart tells me to run, to run as fast as my legs can carry me, with all my might. But I can't." One morning in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, a lucky 13-year-old girl named Tina from a modest family is preparing to go to France to become part of Linda and Godwin Okpara's family. Linda is a home maker and Godwin is a footballer at top French club Paris Saint-Germain and for the Super Eagles, Nigeria's national squad. They have four children and Tina dreams of going with them to school and joining in their games and pranks, living the European dream. But soon after her arrival the reality becomes different.Written in collaboration with acclaimed French journalist, Cyril Guinet, Tina recounts how imprisonment, torture and abuse in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the twenty-first century could not break her. Tina's gripping story of survival and escape to rebuild her life is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor. Written in collaboration with acclaimed French journalist, Cyril Guinet, Okpara recounts how imprisonment, torture, and abuse in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the 21st century could not break her. Her gripping story of survival and escape to rebuild her life is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. How could I have lived and worked in the presence of the brilliant and caring young man called Ibrahima Amadou Niang (we called him Ibou, in great affection) and not know that I was rubbing shoulders with a great young poet? Because we talked about everything except the essential? Now the essential is here in these fierce and moving and often haunting poems speaking of love and travels and sadness and compassion - for people and for pelicans! - and sometimes of anger. The love is deep and nuanced, the way with words is scintillating and apt and impressive way beyond what one would expect from a young wordsmith, and the anger can only be that of a profoundly committed poet. I am privileged to have seen these poems and to be allowed to say: 'I know this man. His heart is strong and nimble. He does pride to his ancestors. He takes his place among the finest voices of his country. And be sure - he will go far.'--Breyten Breytenbach, author of Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (2009) and Catalects (Artefacts for the slow uses of dying)(2012). Author Ibrahima Amadou Niang is a Senegalese writer, poet and political scientist. [Subject: African Studies, Poetry] The love is deep and nuanced, the way with words is scintillating, apt and impressive way beyond what one would expect from a young wordsmith, and the anger can only be that of a profoundly committed poet. He does pride to his ancestors, takes his place among the finest voices of his country. And be sure - he will go far. - Breyten Breytenbac Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Rich-veined, sensual, and probing, this rewarding collection bears the imprint of a keen, world-wise poet. Tade Aina is a well-traveled man who weaves the lore, legends and histories of hearth and far-flung places with equal self-assurance." - Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods, Inc. (Soho Press 2014)."Tade Aina's book, The Wanderer's Waves, is an outstanding poetic chronicle of a trailblazer's explorations, observations and experiences across the world, from the Americas to Zimbabwe and from the early years of youth. The composition style is a combination of traditional, renaissance and modernist archetypes in postcolonial poetic rendition. The poems, in total, also have a universal community spirit and reflectively speak to our blessed multiple identities as humans, while shedding clear light on the ties that bind humanity, such as ties to nature and mobility." - Akwasi Aidoo, author of Rhythms of Dignity (Amalion 2020)."Travel, landscapes, people, the territories of the senses, of the heart. 'Life, for him a geography of minutes'. Echoes from the experiences of the restless soul about the world, whose work also turns him into an eavesdropper, the fly-on-the-wall insights. In this body of work, to be gently savored, the reader will encounter the dimensions of worlds, refracted in a most refreshing way." - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust (Granta 2015). Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …