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Books on Africa
and Africans
The World and Africa
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Things Fall Apart /
Mandela’s Way /
Leadership without a Moral Purpose
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Who Fears Death
Hottentot Venus: A Novel
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Incognegro: A Memoir of
Exile and Apartheid
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama /
Diary
of a Lost Girl
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
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Darfur: a short history of a long war /
The Land Question in South
Africa
The Autobiography of an Unknown
South African /
Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works /
Becoming Ebony
The Osu Caste
Discrimination in Igboland /
Lumumba Speaks: Speeches and Writings, 1958-1961 /
Before the Palm Could Bloom
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan Africanist
Feminist /
The Prophet of Zongo Street
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Overview
For hundreds of years on this island, peoples of different
continents met in fear and cruelty. Today we gather in respect
and friendship, mindful of past wrongs and dedicated to the
advance of human liberty.
At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human
beings were delivered and sorted, and weighed and branded with
the marks of commercial enterprises and loaded as cargo on a
voyage without return.
One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the
greatest crimes of history. Below the decks, the middle passage
was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of
confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
Some refused to eat, preferring death to any future their
captors might prepare for them. Some who were sick were thrown
over the side. Some rose up in violent rebellion, delivering the
closest thing to justice on a slave ship. Many acts of defiance
and bravery are recorded. Countless others we will never know. Those who lived to see land again were displayed, examined and
sold at auctions across nations in the Western Hemisphere. They
entered society indifferent to their anguish and made prosperous
by their unpaid labor. There was a time in my country's history where one in every
seven human beings was the property of another.
In law they were regarded only as articles of commerce, having
no right to travel or to marry or to own possessions. Because families were often separated, many were denied even the
comfort of suffering together.
For 250 years the captives endured an assault on their culture
and their dignity. The spirit of Africans in America did not
break.—George
Bush,
Goree Island (8
July 2003)
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For the young English
teacher, even the choice of the language he was writing in
was a political act. In 1968, the local dialect Chichewa was
declared Malawi's national language. "Banda tried to
establish this thing like the French Academy, choosing which
words were in and which were out, but he had mostly
everything out, and there wasn't very much in," Mapanje
laughs. "So as a result, it was not creative." Mapanje and
his colleagues in the writers' group founded just a year
later didn't want any part in the promotion of Chichewa, and
so "adopted English as a result of that".
It was as part of the writers' group, along with poets such
as Felix Mnthali, Steve Chimombo and Frank Chipasula, that
he began exploring the rich oral traditions that are so
characteristic of his work. The group sought to move beyond
the work of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa
Thiong'o: "One of the things that made us slightly more
original was that we studied African oral literature more
seriously." This oral tradition characterises what Mapanje
calls an "African" mode of communication, based on the
telling and re-telling of stories.—Interview
with Jack Mapanje,
Books Guardian
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A writer should be like a tortoise, always carrying along
its home or protective shell wherever it goes. If the
African Diaspora will accept reciprocal relations with the
continent across the Atlantic, as in the example of Aime
Cesaire, then there is no cause to fear this migratory
export of our continent’s literature. The important issues
for me are: How relevant are these movements to the
realities of the masses on either side? Is the discourse
still African in content and message? Have the egalitarian
concerns of continental African writing become drowned by
its close migratory proximity to the elitist perceptions of
metropolitan literature? Indeed does the African writer
still remain the conscience of his/her people even if he/she
becomes an exile of sorts? These to me are the real
challenges – the need to sustain the vibrant voices of our
writings and remain connected to the aspirations of our
people. Remember Ali Mazrui used to say we have suffered
from many years of colonial penetration. This may be time
for Europe and America to get their own dose of African
counter-penetration. – a feat our politicians have failed to
perform but which committed African writing can.—George
Ngwane, Cameroonian Literature
in Transition.
African
Writing
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The position of the ANC
government in South Africa vis à vis the
situation in Darfur is utterly disappointing. Providing
unconditional political and diplomatic support to the
government of Sudan in its attempts to cover up the
crimes it has willfully committed in Darfur amounts to
certain complicity. More so, efforts of the government
of South Africa to abort robust regional and
international plans to protect the defenceless civilian
population in Darfur betray the ideals of justice, human
dignity, equality, liberty and peaceful coexistence for
which the South African masses fought a heroic rebellion
against the racist apartheid regime.
Because of such glorious
history of that nation, the position of the ANC
government in South Africa in support of GoS in the
crimes it continues to commit in Darfur disturbs the
victims of this tragedy more than the position of China,
Egypt, Algeria, Russia or other friends of Sudan.
External observers too could easily say that even if
Africans don’t give a hang about African victims of the
Darfur tragedy why should the rest of the world care?—Abdelbagi
Jibril
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Abdelbagi
Jibril
South Africa and Darfur --
Fact Sheet
Adeyinka Makinde
Book Reviews
Dick Tiger: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal
African Retentions
Ahmadou Kourouma
Waiting
for the Vote of the Wild Animals
Akoli Penoukou
The Ancestors Are Not Really Dead
How can we trust them
Into His Arms
Love
One Another
On Learning of Walter Rodney's
Death
Out of the Clouds
Alinnnor Arinze
Chinese Invasion of Nigeria
Amilcar Cabral
Amilcar Cabral Bio
Cabral
Bio-Sketch
The Cabral Quotable
Island
Murder of Amilcar Cabral
Arthur
Edgar E. Smith
Black Consciousness Poet--Claude
McKay
Female Characters in
Camara Laye
John Pepper Clark's Raft Running
Adrift
The Life and Times
of Black Poet Claude McKay
Literary Arts in
Sierra Leone
Wole Soyina Kongi's Harvest
Ayi
Kwei Armah
Bakari
Akil
Tears of the Sun
Bankie
Bankie
Discussion
of Arab Racism in Africa
Lessons and Warnings
from South Sudan
Pan-African
Nationalist Thought and Practice
South Sudan
in Sudan-Situation Analysis
Bantu Stephen Biko:
A Profile
Ben
Schwartz
Glory Days
– Sahara Nights
Letters on Africa
Notes to a Diabetic
Betty Wamalwa Muragori
An African Out in the World
Blue Eyed Dolls in
Africa
Dangerous Abroad
How I Became a Marxist
Mind
Games and Other Poems
Queen Africa (and other poems)
Say
My Name
The Seasons of My City
B.F. Bankie
Pan African Nationalist Thought
South Sudan in
Sudan-Situation Analysis
Bill
Fletcher, Jr.
Trans Africa on Mugabe
Binyavanga
Wainaina
Banning Chinua Achebe in Kenya
Introduction I Write What I Like
kwani?
Bisi Adjapon
The Funny Side of Racism
Staying
in Touch with Ghana
Bruce Dixon
Andy Young, Obasanjo Kin, & Russell Simmons Announce
Chinweizu
Black
Africa's duty to help Zimbabwe defeat sanctions
Black
Enslavement: Arab and European Compared
Letter from
Chinweizu
Racism: Arab and European Compared
Reparations and
the Pan-African War on Genocide
Reparations for Darfur: A
Resolution
USAfrica: A
Mortal Danger for Black Africans
Chioma Oruh
Remembering Biafra: A
Literary Review
Chizoma Osuagwu
A Rejoinder To:
Black Brothers And Their White Chics
Cliff Chandler
In Search Of Our Culture (narrative
of African trip)
Danille K. Taylor
What
Does It Mean to Be Black in the 21st Century
(narrative
of African trip)
Reflections on Senegal and
Australia
David Morse
Blood,
Ink, and Oil
Can Georgia Do Right
Clinton and Obama on Darfur
Morse Book Reviews
What Can
We Learn from Darfur?
E. Ablorh-Odjidja
A Critique of the
book Out of America
Disadvantaged by race, set back by language
The
Joseph Principle Enacted
Edward Brathwaite
the visibility
trigger/a poem for kwame nkrumah
Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
Zimbabwe: In The House of Stone
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Thinkable Genocide: the Tragedy of Rwanda
Ellen Dunbar
My Grandma Rocks the Cradle and Rules the World
Ellen Tarry
Mr. Randolph Visits Ghana
Emmanuel
Franklyne Ogbunwezeh
Explaining the African
Predicament
The
Inauguration of Illegitimacy
Libya and the Brutality of
Nations
Nigeria A Failed State
The Real Trouble with Zimbabwe
Roguery, Incorporated
Scaffolds of Primitive Corruption
Thieves in the Nigerian Senate
Folasayo
Dele-Ogunrinde
Equality in African Relationships
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
Black World and
Fanon (1973)
The Fact
of Blackness (1952)
Fubara David-West
Reflections on Bush's NBC Interview
Gerald A. Perreira
Coalition of Crusaders Join with al Qaeda
Libya Getting
It
Right
Glen Ford
U.S.-Ethiopian
Occupation of Somalia
Gloria Chuku
Igbos in Virginia
Godspower Oboido
God's
Visit to Nigeria
Poems (MONSTERS / WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MAMA'S LAND)
Grada Kilomba
The Mask:
Remembering Slavery, Understanding Trauma
Gunnar Myrdal
Negro History and Culture
Hakeem Babalola
African
Hungarian Union
Etteh's House of Area Boys
Gaddafi: A System of His Own
Gambian Godfather
Libya: The Return of Colonialist Bondage
Life
as African Hungarian—Klara
Bassey
Living with Immigration Torture
Nigerians Blood on their Hands
A Nightclub Forbidden to African
The Second Slavery
Ship
They Make Me Hate My Type
Henny H. Seibeb, Bernadus C. Swartbooi and T.
Elijah Ngurare
Pan Afrikanism
in Present Day Namibia Irene Monroe
Irene Monroe Table
Oprah's
Good Intentions
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Issaka K. Souare
Interview with Issaka K. Souare
Jacob H. Carruthers
The Passing of Jacob H Carruthers
Jane Musoke-Nteyafas
African
American Writers: Meet Rudolph Lewis
African
Musicians Meet Jay Lou Ava
AFRO-DISIAC
Deng and Alek
Enough
with the Poisonous Lyrics
FORBIDDEN FRUIT
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Tells All from Mexico
REMEMBER:
CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
WE BE BLACK PEOPLE
Where Is the Love of All Things
African?
Women’s Role in
Hip Hop
Jean Y.T. Lukaz
Dark Tourism in Ghana: The Joseph Project
Jennifer McGill
A
Seminarian’s Religious Journey to Ghana (narrative
of African trip)
Jerhretta Dafina Suite
I
Am Memory (narrative
of African trip)
John
Henrik Clarke
The Global
Perspective of John Henrik Clarke
PanAfrican
Nationalism in the Americas
Portrait of a Liberation Scholar
Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Julius
K. Nyerere Bio
Ujamaa By Junious Nyerere
Jumoke Verissimo
A note from my
neighbourhood
Skirting around dustbin dreams
Kalamu ya Salaam
Criticisms of the
Disapora
The
Forts and Castles of Ghana (narrative
of African trip)
Foreign
Exchange (narrative
of African trip)
Haile
Gerima in Ghana
Once You've Been There (narrative
of African trip)
Tarzan Can Not Return to Africa
(A-B-C-D)
Tarzan Can Not
Return to Africa (E-F-G-H)
Tarzan Can Not
Return to Africa (I-J-K-L)
Tarzan Can Not Return to Africa
(M-N-O-P-Q-R)
Tarzan Can Not Return to Africa (S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z)
What's
Your Name? (narrative
of African trip)
The
Whole of Ourselves (narrative
of African trip)
Kate Nkansa
Time for Africans to Explore
African
Keith Jennings
Sham Elections in Kenya
K.L. Barron
Nomads of Niger
Kola Boof
Bible
Killers of Sudan
Bio-Chronology
Black Americans Campaign
Boof
Banned in Anacostia
Boof
Dismissed as Star
Boof
Surrenders
Christmas on the Nile
Every Little Bit Hurts
Gone
Dry
Kola Boof Fraud
My
Master, My Husband
SUDAN:
Purple Eye
To Be Invisible
WHO
IS KOLA BOOF?
Kwame
Nkrumah
Osagyefo
on African Renaissance
Responsibility of a Pan-African Socialist
Lamin Sanneh
Abolitionists Abroad
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
Remembering Chinwe & Teaching
in Nigeria (narrative
of African trip)
Lewis Nkosi
Home and Exile
Lil Joe
Zimbabwe Crisis
Louis Reyes
Rivera
Louis Reyes Rivera Table
Creating
an Africana Canon
Lloyd D. McCarthy
“White” Cloud Storms Africa
Madge
Dresser
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Mahmood Mamdani
When Victims Become Killers
Margaret Kimberley
Oprah and Bad Samaritans
Mariahadessa
Ekere Tallie
Pieces
of a Dream
Marvin
X
Marvin X
Africa
or America:
The Emphasis in Black Studies Programs
Masauko Chipembere
A
Hip Hop Clothing Store
Historical Context for Hip Hop
Store in Malawi
Maulana
Karenga
Kwanzaa
and the Seven Principles
Maurine
Otor
Poems for Peace in Kenya
Poems of Love and Pain
Mfanelo Skwatsha
South African Oppression and Poverty
Milton Allimadi
The Hearts of
Darkness
Inventing Africa: New York Times
Times
Concocted 'Darkest Africa'
Miriam Decosta-Willis
Miriam in Ghana
Pilgrimage to Ghana Mpumelelo Toyise
Ban Firearms in South
Africa
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
The Prophet of Zongo Street
Mukoma wa Ngugi
A Glimpse into African Consciousness
Justice for Mau Mau War
Veterans
Mwatabu S. Okantah
Griot Tradition in the
Americas
Naboth
Mokgatle
Christian Missionaries
in Phokeng
Unknown South African
Reviews
Natasha
Gerson (Holland)
Richard
Wright's Seven Photos
Nnedi Okorafor
Interview
Ng'ethe Githinji
I Am Not Superman #1
Twenty Short Stories of Love
Niyi Juliad
Osundare's
Universe of Burdens
The
Poet's Pen & Other Poems
Niyi Osundare
Dear President Obasanjo: Another
Letter
Niyi
Osundare At 60 (Ugochukwu)
Niyi Niyi Osundare
(poem) by Lee Meitzen Grue)
Osundare's
Universe of Burdens
PraiseSong
for Niyi Osundare (Mona Lisa Saloy)
Norman Otis Richmond
Remembering Ahmed Sekou Touré as Guinea Turns 50
Onyeka Nwelue
Interview with Onyeka Nwelue
Men in Suit? Give ’Em A
Chance
Onyeka Nwelue
Interviews Jude Dibia
The Train Journey (short
story)
A Tree Was Once an Embryo
Patrice
Lumumba
Independence
Day Speech (Lumumba, June 30, 1960)
Letter
to Pauline Lumumba
Lumumba:
A Biography (Robin McKown)
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Patrick Bond
African Workers and Scholars Unite
Paul Odili
My
plans to satisfy Nigerians Ojukwu
Peter Eric Adotey Addo
The African Queen
Books by Peter Addo
For Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
- A Year
Ago
How
a Black African Views His American Black Brothers
Origins
Of African American Spiritualism
Peter H. Abrahams
Abrahams Bio to
1957
Kwame
Nkrumah, Kenyatta, and the Old Order
Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought
from Africa to America
Richard Drayton
The
Wealth of the West Was
Built on Africa's Exploitation
Robert Mugabe
UN
Speech Roi Ottley
God
Save His Majesty's Blacks
Romare Bearden
About
Romare Bearden
The Negro Artist and Modern Art
Rose Ure Mezu Rose Ure Mezu Index
Africana Women
Their
Historic Past and Future Activism
The Fourth World Multiculturalism as Antidote to Global Violence
A History of Africana
Women's Literature
Introduction: A
Continuum of Black Women's Activism
Of National and Racial Archetypes Rudolph Lewis
The
Adventures ofBlack Girl in Her Search for God
I,
Momolu or Liberia in the Bush (book
review)
In
Search of an African Identity (narrative of African trip)
Obama, Political
Cynicism, and the Tea Party
President
Omar al-Beshir
Do
You Know This Man?
Rudy
Interviews Askia Touré
Telling
the Truth about Africa
Tending
One’s Own Garden (book review of Shaw's "Black Girl")
Why
Africa Ain't Israel in Today's African American Thinking
Runoko Rashidi
Niger and the
National Museum of Niger
Sekou Nkrumah and Akili Mosi Secka
Obama Bombs
Africa: Targets African Unity
Sitawa Namwalie
An African Out in the World
Blue Eyed Dolls in Africa
Dangerous Abroad
How I Became a Marxist
Mind Games and Other
Poems
Queen Africa (and other
poems)
Say My Name
The Seasons of My City
Tribe (On Kenyan Political Violence)
Would You
(Poem on Kenyan Violence)
S. Okechukwu Mezu
Nigerian Elections 2007: Chronicle of Shame and Deceit
Spring Ulmer
Back from Rwanda
Tourism of
Death
Stanton Tierman
Baltimore's
Old Slave Markets, 1835 Well-Established Dealers
Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko
On Black Consciousness
Stephen Millies
Lynched Mau Mau Leader
Dedan Kimathi
Stephen Gowans
Zimbabwe's
Lonely Fight for Justice
Tajudeen
Abdul-Raheem
Deposing Charles Taylor
Discussion of Arab Racism
Thabo
Mbeki, President of South Africa
African Diaspora in the
21st Century
Haiti after the Press Went
Home
I
Am an African
Nobody ever chose to be a slave
On Saartjie Baartman
Tom K Alweendo
Economic
Emancipation of Africa
and the Way
Forward
Uche
Nworah
Uche Nworah Table
Feminism
in Africa
The
Mythology of Igbo Names
Nke Onye Chiri Ya Zaa!(On Igbo Titles)
Nigerian
Politicians as Gangsters
Prime
Minister Tony Blair and
the African Poverty Crises
Ugochukwu
Ejinkeonye
Ugochukwu Table
APRM:
Will the Dragon Dance in Abuja?
A
Mother Like Stella Obasanjo
Baroness Lynda Chalker
Must
Baroness Lynda Chalker Insult Us Too?
Nigeria:
The High Cost Of Neglect
Nigeria's Gen. Obasanjo An
Extortioner?
The
Pope and "Dictatorship of Relativism"
Still
A Cannibal In Our Midst
Ugochukwu
Interviews
Sam Kargbo
Where
Then Shall We Run To?
Van G. Garrett
African
Folktales Still Influence Modern Thought
Victor Dike
Democracy
and Political Life in Nigeria
The Osu Caste
Discrimination
Victor Lavalle
Beyond the Skin Trade
Walter Bgoya
From Tanzania to Kansas and
Back
W.D.
Weatherford
African
Background of the Negro
W.E.B. Du Bois
Letter to Yolande 1958
Speaks to Africa (All-African Congress
in 1958)
Yambo Ouolohuem
Bound to Violence Bio & Review
Interview of
Yambo Ouologuem
The Legend of the Saifs
Night of the Giants
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Ancient African Nations
Contemporary African Immigrants to The United States /
African immigration to the United States
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African Aid breeds African dependency
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Strange Fruit Lynching Report
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Anniversary of a Lynching
Willie
McGhee Lynching /
My Grandfather's Execution
Dr. Robert Lee Interview /
African American Dentist in Ghana
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African Aid breeds African dependency
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African Renaissance
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Kwame
Nkrumah, Kenyatta, and the Old Order /
God Save His Majesty
For Kwame Nkrumah
Night of the Giants /
The Legend of the Saifs /
Interview with Yambo Ouologuem
Yambo
Bio & Review
African
Renaissance (Journal)
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Speaking Truth to Power: Selected Pan-African Postcards
By Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (Author)
Salim Ahmed Salim
(Preface), Horace Campbell (Foreword)
Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem's
untimely death on African Liberation Day 2009 stunned the
Pan-African world. This selection of his Pan-African postcards,
written between 2003 and 2009, demonstrates the brilliant wordsmith
he was, his steadfast commitment to Pan-Africanism, and his
determination to speak truth to power. He was a discerning analyst
of developments in the global and Pan-African world and a vociferous
believer in the potential of Africa and African people; he wrote his
weekly postcards for over a decade. This book demonstrates Tajudeen
Abdul-Raheem's ability to express complex ideas in an engaging
manner. The Pan-African philosophy on diverse but intersecting
themes presented in this book offers a legacy of his political,
social, and cultural thought. |
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Represented here are his fundamental respect for the
capabilities, potential and contribution of women in
transforming Africa; penetrating truths directed at
African politicians and their conduct; and
deliberations on the institutional progress towards
African union. He reflects on culture and emphasises
the commonalities of African people.
Also represented are his denunciations of
international financial institutions, the G8 and
NGOs in Africa, with incisive analysis of
imperialism's manifestations and impact on the lives
of African people, and his passion for eliminating
poverty in Africa. His personality bounces off the
page—one can almost hear the passion of his voice,
'Don't Agonise! Organise!'
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (1961-2009)
was a Rhodes scholar and obtained his D. Phil in Politics from Oxford
University. In 1990 he became Coordinator of the Africa Research and Information
Bureau and the founding editor of
Africa World
Review. He co-founded and led Justice Africa's work, becoming its
Executive Director in 2004, and combined this with his role as General Secretary
of the Pan-African Movement. He was chair of the Centre for Democracy and
Development and of the Pan-African Development Education and Advocacy Programme
in Uganda and became the UN Millennium Development Campaign's Deputy Director in
2006.
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Files on
Zimbabwe
Attempt to Defame
Grace Mugabe
Black
Africa's duty to help Zimbabwe defeat sanctions
Colin Powell on Mugabe
In The House of Stone
Land Expropriations
The Lynching of Robert Mugabe
The Real Trouble with
Zimbabwe
Reporting Zimbabwe
Sanctions on Zimbabwe
Trans-Africa on Mugabe
Zimbabwe and the
Question of Imperialism
Zimbabwe's
Lonely Fight for Justice
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Response to "Women We Hate"
Rudy,
the
essay by
Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde is actually very
well-written, very intelligently and compassionately
argued. It is also fair and balanced. All of the
issues about which she is concerned are actually treated
exhaustively in Women
in Chains: Abandonment in Love Relationships in the
Fiction of Selected West African Writers (Black Academy Press, 1994)—the book is already in featured in the web page you
created of my writings in Nathanielturner.com. Rather
than lopsided, Folasayo's essay also pinpoints the areas
in which Yoruba / Nigerian women (who could somewhat be
extended to mean African women) sell themselves short,
and become willing victims of their own oppression.
On the other hand, the rejoining
essay (and I really do not care to get into its
polemics) trivializes really serious cultural and
personal attitudes and issues that determine the
happiness or misery of many unfortunate women—educated or illiterate, urbanized or rural. His light /
frivolous style reminds me of that of the Nigerian
writer Chinweizu.
Generally, African male / female
relationships have, and will continue to
sustain in-depth exploration by all humanist writers /
theorists who want a change—indeed an obliteration—of those negative features of African culture promoted
by male attitudes, dictated by an overblown ego, and by
an unjust but entrenched sense of male entitlement. So
much harm is done in the name of culture whereas it is
actually all about what is right, human and godly.
Concerned women and empathetic men
called gynandrists—see writings by the Kenyan
Ngugi
wa Thiong'o, the Congolese
Henri Lopez, the Camerounian
Mongo Beti, Nigerian
Isidore Okpewho, and
especially Senegalese
Ousmane Sembene (moderately
Chinua Achebe, and by many other more modern and younger
socio-cultural writers)—are actually striving to
change the retrogressive aspects of the traditional
status quo, while retaining the good features that will
usher Africa into a period of progress, peace,
tolerance and prosperity. Such revisionists ideas (no
doubt to be opposed by the self-indulging male) are
grounded on an equitable treatment of the female
population encouraged in ways that will not only
empower women but contribute to the maintenance of a
stable, family structure - which is the bedrock of
African humanism. Women in Chains . . . and
A History of Africana
Women's Literature (BAP 2004) deal
exhaustively with all these. In all the arguments,
enlightened men who are secure in their maleness because thery are successful as well as just have nothing to
fear, and everything to gain from any female educated
or not who is happy, respected and secure in her
womanhood. Man and woman—African or otherwise—deserve to be happy in relationship to each other. Take
care.—Dr.
Rose Ure Mezu
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Files on
South Sudan and Darfur Nuba-Darfur-South
Sudan Table
Deng and Alek: Lovers Paradise Lost
Lessons and
Warnings from South Sudan
Response of Southern Sudanese Intellectuals to African
Nationalism
Modern Chinese Tanks for the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)
Why South Sudan Wants Obama to Lose
White House Bid
With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan
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African Renaissance
Kwame
Nkrumah, Kenyatta, and the Old Order
God Save His Majesty For Kwame Nkrumah
Night of the Giants
The Legend of the Saifs
Interview with Yambo Ouologuem Yambo
Bio & Review
African
Renaissance (Journal)
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Banda Grandfather of New
African Politics
Biko and the Problematic of Presence
Biko
Biosketch
Biko
Speaks on Africans
Black Education and Afro-Pessimism
Blood,
Ink, and Oil
Choosing
Sides
Climbing
Malcolm's Ladder
Colin Powell on
Mugabe
Communism
as Russian Imperialism
Conference on the Ancient African Literacy Tradition
Control,
Conflict, and Change
Difficulties
of Colonization
Escaping
the Black-Bible Belt
Exhibiting Others in West
Fearing Forced
Female Genital Mutilation
For Kwame Nkrumah
From Parks to Marxism: A Political Evolution
Ghana and The Right to Abode
God Save His Majesty
A Hip Hop Clothing Store Called
Nigger
Hottentot Venus
How
to Stop Killing
Hunger for a Black President
Josephus Roosevelt Coan
(missionary)
Kalahari
Bushmen win ancestral land case
Kwame
Nkrumah, Kenyatta, and the Old Order
Lumumba: A Biography
Major Scholar of Blacks in Antiquity
(Frank Snowden)
Master of the Intellectual Dodge
Minstrelsy and White Expectations
Nkrumah-Lumumba-Nyerere
Index
Nonwhite
Manhood in America
No
phone, No computer for most Africans
Ousmane Sembene, African cinema
pioneer, dies
Pan African Nationalist
Thought
The
Political Thought of James Forman
Reporting South Africa
Reporting
Zimbabwe
Report to African Union
Summit
Responsibility of a Pan-African Socialist
Sanctions on Zimbabwe
Sara Story
A
Shattered Dream
Tin Mines War Murder
Rape Cell Phones
Trans Africa
& Progressives on Mugabe
Where
the White Man Can't Win
Why Steve Biko Wouldn't Vote
WTO Summit in Cancun
Zimbabwe's
Lonely Fight for Justice
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Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to
International Supermodel
By
Alek Wek
The State of African Education
(April 200) /
Attack On Africans Writing Their Own
History Part 1 of 7
Dr Asa Hilliard III speaks on the assault of academia on
Africans writing and accounting for their own history.
Dr Hilliard is A
teacher, psychologist, and historian.
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Chinua Achebe wins $300,000 Gish prize—Philip Nwosu—Monday, September 27, 2010—The author of
the epic novel,
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, has emerged
winner of the United States Dorothy and Lillian Gish
Prize. The Gish prize, which was established in 1994 by
the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Trust and
administered by JPMorgan Chase Bank as trustee, is given
annually to “a man or woman who has made an outstanding
contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s
enjoyment and understanding of life.” The prize is worth
$300,000. . . . Achebe’s writings examine African
politics and chronicle the ways in which African culture
and civilization have survived in the post-colonial
world. Some of his acclaimed works include
A Man of the People (1966) and
Anthills of the Savannah (1988). [The
80-year-old author has founded a number of magazines for
African art, fiction and poetry.] Achebe, who is
paralyzed from the waist down due to a 1990 car
accident, is currently Professor of Africana Studies at
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.—SunNewsOnline Reading Rose Ure Mezu
Achebe Preface
Achebe Introduction
Mezu and Achebe: An
Inside Knowledge
Women
in Achebe's World
Achebe
Another Birthday in Exile
Banning Chinua Achebe in Kenya
Okonkwo's
Curse
Achebe's Female Characterisation
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The Slave Ship
By Marcus Rediker
In this
groundbreaking work, historian and scholar
Rediker considers the relationships between
the slave ship captain and his crew, between
the sailors and the slaves, and among the
captives themselves as they endured the
violent, terror-filled and often deadly
journey between the coasts of Africa and
America. While he makes fresh use of those
who left their mark in written records (Olaudah
Equiano, James Field Stanfield, John
Newton), Rediker is remarkably attentive to
the experiences of the enslaved women, from
whom we have no written accounts, and of the
common seaman, who he says was a victim of
the slave trade . . . and a victimizer.
Regarding these vessels as a strange and
potent combination of war machine, mobile
prison, and factory, Rediker expands the
scholarship on how the ships not only
delivered millions of people to slavery,
[but] prepared them for it. He engages
readers in maritime detail (how ships were
made, how crews were fed) and renders the
archival (letters, logs and legal hearings)
accessible. Painful as this powerful book
often is, Rediker does not lose sight of the
humanity of even the most egregious
participants, from African traders to
English merchants.—
Publishers
Weekly |
Marcus Rediker
is professor of maritime history at the University of
Pittsburgh and the author of
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1987),
The Many-Headed Hydra (2000), and
Villains of All Nations (2005), books that
explore seafaring, piracy, and the origins of
globalization. In The Slave Ship, Rediker
combines exhaustive research with an astute and highly
readable synthesis of the material, balancing
documentary snapshots with an ear for gripping
narrative. Critics compare the impact of Rediker’s
history, unique for its ship-deck perspective, to
similarly compelling fictional accounts of slavery in
Toni Morrison’s
Beloved and Charles Johnson’s
Middle Passage. Even scholars who have written
on the subject defer to Rediker’s vast knowledge of the
subject. Bottom line:
The Slave Ship is sure to become a
classic of its subject.—Bookmarks
Magazine
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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Speaking Truth to Power: Selected
Pan-African Postcards
By Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (Author)
Salim
Ahmed Salim (Preface), Horace Campbell
(Foreword)
Dr
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem's untimely death on
African Liberation Day 2009 stunned the
Pan-African world. This selection of his
Pan-African postcards, written between 2003
and 2009, demonstrates the brilliant
wordsmith he was, his steadfast commitment
to Pan-Africanism, and his determination to
speak truth to power. He was a discerning
analyst of developments in the global and
Pan-African world and a vociferous believer
in the potential of Africa and African
people; he wrote his weekly postcards for
over a decade. This book demonstrates
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem's ability to express
complex ideas in an engaging manner. The
Pan-African philosophy on diverse but
intersecting themes presented in this book
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Represented here are his fundamental respect for the
capabilities, potential and contribution of women in
transforming Africa; penetrating truths directed at
African politicians and their conduct; and
deliberations on the institutional progress towards
African union. He reflects on culture and emphasises
the commonalities of African people.
Also represented are his denunciations of
international financial institutions, the G8 and
NGOs in Africa, with incisive analysis of
imperialism's manifestations and impact on the lives
of African people, and his passion for eliminating
poverty in Africa. His personality bounces off the
page—one can almost hear the passion of his voice,
'Don't Agonise! Organise!'
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (1961-2009) was a Rhodes scholar and obtained his D.
Phil in Politics from Oxford University. In 1990 he
became Coordinator of the Africa Research and
Information Bureau and the founding editor of
Africa World Review. He co-founded and led
Justice Africa's work, becoming its Executive Director
in 2004, and combined this with his role as General
Secretary of the Pan-African Movement. He was chair of
the Centre for Democracy and Development and of the
Pan-African Development Education and Advocacy Programme
in Uganda and became the UN Millennium Development
Campaign's Deputy Director in 2006.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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