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IN MY LIFE TIME
Towards the Presidency of Barack Obamaby Herbert Daughtry
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, the recurring confession heard across Black America was, “I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.”
Especially among the older generations of Southerners was this incredulity felt deepest. Reverend Daughtry, a son of the South, writes, “In state houses, city halls, municipal buildings, governmental buildings, and places of importance, entrance was denied to blacks, except to work at menial tasks. As
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Voices from the Middle Passage edited by A. J. Williams-Myers
In Their Own Words is a gripping and haunting encounter with voices once silenced by the tragic Atlantic Voyage—The Middle Passage—reaching out across time to be heard. The book originated from a student project in the author’s class titled “Historical Terrorism Directed at African Americans and Native Americans,” taught during the Fall Semester of 2006 at the State University of New York at New Paltz. It was the final exercise of the term that put the students in a situation of feeling the long arm of terrorism, reaching out to touch them across a time
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ISLAM
Between Globalization and Counterterrorismby Ali A. Mazrui
This book examines the stresses and strains of relations between Islam and the West in this era of tense globalization. Issues of church and state within societies interact with issues of ideology and power in foreign relations. This book ranges from the creation of the state of Israel to the aftermath of 9/11 and the historical forces that led to both these momentous events.
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JIMMA ABBA JIFAR
An Oromo Monarchy in Ethiopia
With a Postscriptby Herbert Lewis
Established around 1830, the Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar was the largest and most powerful of the five monarchies formed by the Oromo in the Gibe region of southwestern Ethiopia. Although the Oromo are known for their democratic (“republican”) gada system, Jimma and other Gibe states arose through a series of processes and historical events in the 19th century that propelled certain men into positions of supreme power. Based on intensive fieldwork in Jimma, this book presents a study of the history and organization of Jimma under its most powerful ruler, Abba Jifar II (1878-1932). Lewis stresses the dynamic aspects of politics and places the politicial history and structure of Jimma in perspective by noting its similarities and differences to monarchial systems in other parts of Africa and the rest of the world.
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JOHN HENRIK CLARKE AND THE POWER OF AFRICANA HISTORY
Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereigntyby Ahati N. Toure
In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York and as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center.
The study explores Clarke’s development and conceptualization of Afrikan World History by examining his intellectual influences and training, his approach to teaching Afrikan World History, his notions regarding
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KWAME NKRUMAH’S LIBERATION THOUGHT
A Paradigm for Religious Advocacy in Contemporary Ghanaby Robert Yaw Owusu
Using both secular and religious sources and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study reappraises the precolonial social and political system in Ghana and assesses the impact of British colonial and postcolonial hegemonies on the state, religion, and civil society. With a view to reconstructing a new advocacy role for themselves in the Ghanaian society in the recapitulation of Ghana’s self-appraisal, self-dignity, self-realization, self-subsistence, and self-assertion, it is argued here that the diverse religious communities, the state, and multi-ethnic groups (indigenous states, aman) in Ghana must endeavor to coexist peacefully, eliminate ethnocentrism, act with courage and hope, and affirm and practice equitable co-existence.
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LAND, LITERACY AND THE STATE IN SUDANIC AFRICA by Donald Crummey
This exploration is based on a rich tradition of written documents, which particularly characterizes the Middle Nile Valley and the Ethiopian Highlands, but which extends as far west as Dar Fur and Bornu. These documents reach as far back as the thirteenth century, in the case of Ethiopia, and detail the granting of land to individuals and to institutions (principally churches) and the subsequent private transfers of those lands. The book, thus, draws attention to the role of the state in African history...
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MAKERERE
Becoming an African Universityby Carol Sicherman
As one of the first comprehensive look at an African university, this book tells the story of Makerere’s colonial beginnings, its efflorescence during the 1950s and 1960s, its calamitous decline during nearly two decades of tyranny and civil war, and its resurgence following the restoration of peace and relative stability. Throughout this history, Makerere has grappled with the fundamental question asked in this book: how to create a truly African university in an increasingly globalized world.
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