African Studies

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1. African Minorities in the New World

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Ancient Egyptian Family

   Kinship and Social Structure

   By Troy D. Allen

   Series: African Studies

   Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? In taking a fresh and innovative look at the ancient Egyptian family, Allen attempts to solve this long-standing puzzle. Allen argues that the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Trans-Atlantic Migration

   The Paradoxes of Exile

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

   By Tiffany Fawn Jones

   Series: African Studies

   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...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic

   By Mariam Konaté Deme

   Series: African Studies

   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...

   Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
6. The African Origins of Rhetoric

   By Cecil Blake

   Series: African Studies

   Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor" -- the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. Blake offers a thorough examination of...

   Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
7. African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance

   By Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah

   Series: African Studies

   Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and...

   Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge
8. Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition

   The Legacy of the Songhoy People

   By Hassimi Oumarou Maiga

   Series: African Studies

   By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that documents the oral and literate traditions of...

   Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge
9. A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics

   Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria

   By Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

   Series: African Studies

   This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Human Cost of African Migrations

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

    Series: African Studies

    In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...

    Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge