Making the Mark

Miroslava Prazak

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 93
• Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of ... Lees meer

Your Madness, Not Mine

Makuchi

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 70
• Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision ... Lees meer

African Video Movies and Global Desires

Carmela Garritano

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 91
• African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced t... Lees meer

Voices from Madagascar Voix de Madagascar

Jacques Bourgeacq

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• There is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack... Lees meer

The Sacred Door and Other Stories

Makuchi

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 86
• The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths... Lees meer

Making the Mark

Miroslava Prazak

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 93
• Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of ... Lees meer

The Krobo People of Ghana to 1892

Louis E Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 58
• This book presents a broad analytical framework for the history of southeastern Ghana within the context of a representative study of one of the count... Lees meer

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough

Mohamed Adhikari

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 83
• The concept of Colouredness-being neither white nor black-has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The na... Lees meer

South Africa's Resistance Press

Les Switzer

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 74
• South Africa's Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confr... Lees meer

Screening Morocco

Valerie Orlando

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Since 1999 and the death of King Hassan II, Morocco has experienced adramatic social transformation. Encouraged by the more openly democraticclimate f... Lees meer

Portugal and Africa

David Birmingham

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniqu... Lees meer

African Intellectuals and Decolonization

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 90
• Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remai... Lees meer

Afrofuturisms

Isaac Vincent Joslin

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagi... Lees meer

The Children of Africa Confront AIDS

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost... Lees meer

Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State

Simeon Olusegun Ilesanmi, Simeon O Ilesanmi

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions... Lees meer

Afrofuturisms

Isaac Vincent Joslin

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagi... Lees meer

Paths toward the Nation

Joseph L Venosa

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 92
• In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea e... Lees meer

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana

Barry Driscoll

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• How have the waves of democracy and decentralization that swept the developing world in recent decades affected states--among the most important drive... Lees meer

Waterhouses

Mark Duerksen

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Waterhouses is about the places the people of Lagos have inhabited, imagined, and made home for the past two centuries. It asks what a house in Lagos ... Lees meer

The Western Bahr Al-Ghazal Under British Rule, 1898-1956

Ahmad Alawad Sikainga

• Paperback | Arabisch, Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Western Bahr al-Ghazal is perhaps one of the least known places in Africa. Yet this remote part of the Republic of Sudan can be regarded as a historic... Lees meer

The Twelve Best Books by African Women

Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 88
• In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of "A... Lees meer

Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa

Wayne Dooling

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 87
• Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-sevent... Lees meer

African Apocalypse

Robert R Edgar, Hilary Sapire

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 72
• The devastating influenza epidemic of 1918 ripped through southern Africa. In its aftermath, revivalist and millenarian movements sprouted. Prophets a... Lees meer