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This book is the first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development. It interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism. Drawing on the experiences of other organic “federal societies” across the globe, it explores similarities and differences in the tortuous trajectory of nation-building and presents exciting prospects for the resolution of the National Question. Here top scholars offer refreshing insight into the prospects for transforming Africa into the super-power of the third millennium. The breadth and depth of coverage and analytical rigor unite the essays, culminating in one the most comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the subject in recent years.

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Fire from the Ashes tells the extraordinary story of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) revolution, from its beginning in February 1975 by a handful of students, its expansion into the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition, and their victory in May 1991 over the Soviet-backed military dictatorship of Mengistu Haile-Mariam. The story accumulates slowly through multiple voices and perspectives. It is presented from the point of view of an external observer learning as she goes along. The book is based on three journeys through the war zone, which not only show different points in the process of revolution , but different states I the author's understanding of the history, causes and evolution f this struggle. She investigates the history and goes to the war front. Her quest was to understand this uniquely transforming moment in Ethiopian history form dictatorship to a fledgling democracy.

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During the early 19th century some African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system. Perceptive, dramatic and often starkly horrifying, these narratives dared to challenge their author's former owners who sang the praises of human bondage. Having examined the slave narratives, recent scholars have judged them historically accurate and reliable, and the most significant form of early African American literature.

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Flight: In Search of Vision chronicles the evolution of Black/Africana Studies and explores its potential for spearheading contemporary efforts to confront various intellectual and social challenges. The essays explore a wide breadth of subject matter and challenge persisting misconceptions that Black/Africana Studies is simply the uncoordinated study of the experiences of people of African descent. The author argues forcefully that its full potential as a discipline can only be realized by approaching it as a freestanding academic and activist enterprise.

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One of an early stream of critical works on the "new world order," this book attempts to link that brave new subject with the already sizable literature on foreign aid. The author examines the roles of shifting power relationships and technological developments in order to explain the dynamics of foreign aid in the emerging world order. Unlike many other assessments of foreign aid, however, this work turn a deaf ear to ideology and instead closely examines the actual foreign aid data over the 43-yea period of the Cold War (1947-1990).

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This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power, from scholarly works embedded in academic disciplines to “ethnic” museums and several race-based exclusionary political practices. The point of view is comparative--that of a woman of color feminist--and that of one born into a “red zone,” the world of urban Native America in the second half of the twentieth century.

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