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Les invitamos a leer una novela que no solo pone en valor la lucha, la resistencia y la trasmisión de valores de nuestrxs ancestrxs africanxs, sino que además, con una atrapante lectura, nos transporta y muestra esos rostros y cuerpos africanos invisibilizados por la historiografía oficial. Aquellas mujeres afro que nos legaron un sin fin de estrategias de trasmisión, preservación y resiliencia de la cultura afro.
Las ancestras luchadoras de...
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The African diaspora have been subjected to oppression for decades since the end of the transatlantic slave trade. In recent times this oppression has been most visible in the form of live killing and murder executed by law enforcement officers. However, the extent of the problems that face people of colour in the West are not limited to police brutality; the challenges are much broader spanning across every area of society: from politics and law...
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In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South African population. To be white today means having to adjust to a new racial paradigm. In this book, Jacob Boersema argues that this adaptation requires nothing less than unlearning racism: confronting the...
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The deeply revealing truth about the hidden identity of some of today's Black people. Book Two of the Trilogy of Truth.
Ever since the ideology of race was, invented, black people have been victim to racial injustices, from generation to generation, in different parts of the world, particularly in multiracial societies. Despite several centuries of Civil Rights and Anti-Racism movements and activism, the unequal and unhealthy status quo has persisted.
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Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the dynamic periods of colonialism, national independence, socialism, and democracy, its analysis focuses on the studio and documentary work of professional urban photographers, particularly in the capital city of Bamako and in smaller cities such as Mopti and Ségu.
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The key to the journey of life is to seek the knowledge of those who have experienced life before us. Our elders have passed down many wise words and teachings throughout time and history. The time has come for us to listen intently, rather than try to figure things out on our own.
Through the traditional teachings from our elders such as African proverbs, we have been provided with a guide to life, a handbook full of tips on how to handle situations...
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A Man among Other Men examines competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African metropolis of Abidjan, Cte d'Ivoire. Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Jordanna Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and value within labor, consumerism, and commodification.
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In a country gripped by the Covid–19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown, fear, loss and uncertainty were felt in all corners and by all. But, even in our darkest days, stories of immeasurable kindness emerged: of a woman reading to her neighbour's child through the fence; of a gardener who checked up on an old lady living alone on a farm and tended to her flowers; of a nurse who fed Weetabix to a dying man until the day he passed away, and of a...
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Our culture and tradition are fading away with great speed. As one of our culture's components and ingredients, the original procedure for customary marriage is seriously on the verge of collapse. The practice of our traditional marriage procedures is diminishing by you and me mainly because of the introduction of western ideologies, and also by self-denial, our idleness, negligence, copy and paste ideology, abandonment of our vernacular, unwillingness...
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A portrait of women's lives, struggles, and newfound freedoms in the last country in the world to abolish slavery.
Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discrimination against ex-slaves and their descendants. Katherine Ann Wiley examines the shifting roles of Muslim arain (ex-slaves and their descendants) women, who provide financial support for their families. Wiley...
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Beyond simplistic binaries of "the dark continent" or "Africa Rising," Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects-cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living...
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Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these...
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By honestly describing her difficult and gradual acceptance into the daily life of a West African rural community -- a world of herders, potters, subsistence farmers, diviners and initiates -- Carol Spindel renders a foreign culture with exceptional immediacy and emotional depth. She is especially drawn to the world of women, and her portraits of that world's beauty and hardship are extraordinary for their precision, warmth, and dramatic power. A...
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Lions and elephants and rhinos,,oh my! Take a walk through the African savannah with this these brilliantly photographed animals. Designed without distractions for babies and toddlers,,your little ones will love the bright colors, interesting animals and the chance to discover new things. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture Books are a great way to introduce African animals, their sounds and colors to kids. The Discover Series...
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At the Center of the World in Ethiopia
by S. W. Omamo
As the world lurches seemingly non-stop from one major humanitarian crisis to another, and as development challenges grow in complexity and urgency, this first-person account of leadership at the humanitarian and development frontline could not be more relevant or timely. The setting is Ethiopia from 2018 to 2021. The narrator is a former United Nations agency Representative to Ethiopia who framed...
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In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents' struggles in a sometimes-hostile country. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When...
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This extensive study of gender and trade in Nairobi is "a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended" (Choice).
Herskovitz Award—winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides a case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources...
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In Black & White: Healing Racial Divide, the author delivers a straight-down-the-middle version of the race problem in America and around the world. A child of the south and the civil rights movement, he equally speaks to black and white hang-ups when discussing racial problems.
He explains conversation killers such as white-guilt and black-unforgiveness. He compares Supremacy, Racism, and Unconscious Bias-noting that a person who simply has a...
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The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generation.
In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In his previous books, Jean Hatzfeld has documented the lives of the killers and victims, but after twenty-years, he has found that the enormity of understanding doesn't stop with one generation....
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