African Studies: History, Politics and Culture
René and Postcolonial Seychelles: An African Chameleon in the Indian Ocean
1st Edition
By Ashton Robinson
May 27, 2024
Robinson details the life and times of France-Albert René (1935–2019), the second post-independence leader of Seychelles who oversaw the nation’s transition to democracy after over a decade of his brutal dictatorship. René’s career was Seychelles’ history over the forty-three years from ...
Pan-African Education: A Must for the African Union
1st Edition
By John K. Marah
September 01, 2020
This book makes a critical contribution to the study of pan-Africanism and the education of African people for continental African citizenship. It is a unique endeavor in that it intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides ...
Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agency: An Afrocentric Analysis
1st Edition
By Daryl Zizwe Poe
October 12, 2017
This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966....
The Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
1st Edition
By Daniel J. Paracka, Jr.
November 24, 2015
This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (...
Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic
1st Edition
By Mariam Konaté Deme
April 27, 2015
There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals. In both cases, Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African ...
Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By Tiffany Fawn Jones
April 10, 2014
In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and ...
Nyansapo (The Wisdom Knot): Toward an African Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By Kwadwo A. Okrah
September 09, 2013
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ...
Nefer: The Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt
1st Edition
By Willie Cannon-Brown
July 09, 2013
This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt...
Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960
1st Edition
By Gloria Chuku
May 09, 2013
This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro....
Law, Morality, and International Armed Intervention: The United Nations and ECOWAS
1st Edition
By Mourtada Deme
May 03, 2013
International law is often manipulated in the debate about humanitarian intervention. The Liberian case provides an opportunity to challenge the UN and The Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS') new approach. ECOWAS and the UN's justifications for moving away from the current norms ...
The Hidden Debate: The Truth Revealed about the Battle over Affirmative Action in South Africa and the United States
1st Edition
By Akil Kokayi Khalfani
February 14, 2013
The Hidden Debate is a fresh and cutting-edge comparative analysis of the ongoing and highly charged social conflict over affirmative action in South Africa and the United States. The debate over affirmative action has raged for over 30 years in the United States and since the early 1990s in South...
Doing Justice without the State: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model
1st Edition
By Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi
January 14, 2013
This study examines the principles and practices of the Afikpo (Eugbo) Nigeria indigenous justice system in contemporary times. Like most African societies, the Afikpo indigenous justice system employs restorative, transformative and communitarian principles in conflict resolution. This book ...