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Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Author: Harriet E. Wilson
ISBN-10: 0142437778
ISBN-13: 9780142437773
Published: 2004-12-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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"Our Nig" is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic one; having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her.
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African Politics and Society
Author: Peter J Schraeder
ISBN-10: 0333802713
ISBN-13: 9780333802717
Published: 1999-11-05
Publisher: Palgrave
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This textbook covers African politics and society from the pre-Colonial era to the 1990s. It surveys the theoretical, historical, political and cultural forces that have shaped contemporary Africa, with special emphasis on trends in the post-Cold War era.
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State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
Author: Martin Meredith
ISBN-10: 0743268423
ISBN-13: 9780743268424
Published: 2005-05-31
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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I Write What I Like
Author: Steve Biko
ISBN-10: 1770100067
ISBN-13: 9781770100060
Published: 2004
Publisher: Picador Africa
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Africa Works : Disorder As Political Instrument (African Issues (Indiana University Press).)
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ISBN-10: 0852558147
ISBN-13: 9780852558140
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (Modern Library Classics)
Author: Ralph Ellison
ISBN-10: 0812968263
ISBN-13: 9780812968262
Published: 2003-09-09
Publisher: Modern Library
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Book Description:
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
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African Myths of Origin (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN-10: 0140449450
ISBN-13: 9780140449457
Published: 2006-06-27
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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A rich, unique anthology of retold fables from Africa Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From accounts of the inventive wiles of animal- creators and a community forced to flee a giant crocodile to the heroic story of the cripple Sunjata who rose to found an empire, all the narratives here concern origins. They offer a kaleidoscopic picture representative of the rich cultures and societies of the African continent: the ways of life, the peoples—from small hunting bands to great empires—and the states that have taken shape over many generations and environments.
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
Author: Sarah Erdman
ISBN-10: 0805073817
ISBN-13: 9780805073812
Published: 2003-09-03
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
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A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to changeWhen Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first Caucasian to venture there since the French colonialists. But even though she was thousands of miles away from the United States, completely on her own in this tiny village in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, she did not feel like a stranger for long. As her vivid narrative unfolds, Erdman draws us into the changing world of the village that became her home. Here is a place where electricity is expected but never arrives, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women grinding corn with pestles rings out in the mornings like church bells. Rare rains provoke bathing in the streets and the most coveted fashion trend is fabric with illustrations of Western cell phones. Yet Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, where children work like adults while still managing to dream. Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.
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Ethiopia, the Unknown Land: A Cultural and Historical Guide
Author: Stuart Munro-Hay
ISBN-10: 1860647448
ISBN-13: 9781860647444
Published: 2002-05-03
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Book Description:
A result of a lifetime’s study of the mysterious country, this book is the first truly comprehensive work on the monuments and art of Ethiopia, as well as a literary companion to its land and history. Stuart Munro-Hay provides a valuable guide to the country’s architecture, geography, peoples, art, and history which covers all the major sites of the land from ancient times to the present.
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I Am That Child: Changing Hearts and Changing the World
Author: Elizabeth Geitz
ISBN-10: 0819227781
ISBN-13: 9780819227782
Published: 2012-02-01
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
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Book Description:
What happens when three American women put their faith into action in a developing nation? In I Am That Child, Episcopal priest Elizabeth Geitz proves that cross-cultural relationships among people of faith can change our world one person at a time. Geitz welcomes readers to join her pilgrimage to an orphanage in Cameroon, sharing both humorous and gut-wrenching wisdom from leaders and children who struggle against AIDS, global poverty and sexism. Along the way, Geitz and readers take a hard look at race and cultural privilege and find hope for reconciliation back home. The book concludes with study and resource guides to help readers engage global poverty efforts and build community across continents or across the street.
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