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

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

Waterhouses

Mark Duerksen

• Hardcover | 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

Cannabis, Alcohol, and the South African Student

Brian M Dutoit, Brian M Du Toit

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 59
• Du Toit examines the results of two surveys which he made a decade apart among high school students of Black, Indian, White, and Colored backgrounds. ... Lees meer

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana

Barry Driscoll

• Hardcover | 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

Nigerian Video Films

Jonathan Haynes

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Nigerian video films--dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes--are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major... 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

Wanasema

Don Burness

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 46
• There is a tendency to regard African literature as a homogenous product. Certainly it is true that African writers have created a vibrant, modern lit... 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

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

Negotiating Power and Privilege

Philomina E Okeke-Ihejirika

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Even with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and persona... 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

Swahili Beyond the Boundaries

Alamin Mazrui

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili,... 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

Africa Every Day

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African studies classes on w... 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

The Political Economy of Health in Africa

Toyin Falola

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa | nr. 60
• This book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Afr... 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

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

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

Radical Utu

Besi Brillian Muhonja

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio Ris Africa
• Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Priz... Lees meer