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A History of Nigeriaby Toyin Falola; Matthew M. Heaton
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00An exploration of Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. more...
Cultural Foundations of Economic Developmentby Emily Chamlee-Wright
Routledge 1997; US$ 200.00This book argues that international aid programmes are unsuccessful for indigenous African institutions because it is based on mainstream economic theory which is fundamentally acultural which does not understand their cultural context. more...
Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounterby Sandra E. Greene
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 15.95"Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs... and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body." -- Emmanuel Akyeampong Sandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual... more...
Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agencyby Daryl Zizwe Poe
Routledge 2003; US$ 158.00Analyses contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of the Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966. more...
Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politicsby Kwame Botwe-Asamoah
Routledge 2004; US$ 126.00This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centred paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. more...
Making History in Bandaby Ann B. Stahl; Colin Renfrew; Wendy Ashmore; Clive Gamble; John O'Shea
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 50.00Using approaches from several disciplines, Stahl reconstructs the daily lives of Banda villagers of west central Ghana, from when they were drawn into the Niger trade (around 1300 AD) until the twentieth century establishment of British overrule. Stahl argues for closer integration of archaeology, history and anthropology in African studies. more...
Culture and the Sensesby Kathryn Linn Geurts
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of "intuition," comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu.... more...
Shady Practicesby Richard A. Schroeder
University of California Press 1999; US$ 12.95Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative communal market gardens. more...
Nigerian Historical Studiesby E.A. Ayandele
Taylor & Francis 1979; US$ 116.95The collection of writings brought together in this book was written within the last ten years in different circumstances and for different purposes. However, they have one thing in common: they were intended to shed new light, or strike new depths, or widen scope of knowledge on some aspects of Nigerian history in the context of the author?s researches. Certainly a work of this kind cannot possess the organic unity of a book purposely conceived as a monolith. Nevertheless, it has a unity of style and approach usually absent from multi-authored, organically conceived books. Notwithstanding the fact that historical scholarship on Nigeria has grown in size and depth in the past quarter of a century, I am consoled by the fact that the intention... more...









