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Cocoa & Kinship In Guana
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 158.00Published in the year 1983, Cocoa & Kinship In Guana is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science and Anthropology. more...
Culture and the Senses
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... more...
The Paradox of Third-Wave Democratization in Africa
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 30.99This book is concerned primarily with political and economic events in Africa and The Gambia, especially between the 1994 coup d'etat and 2008. Significantly, it proffers policy recommendations to position this small but potentially rich country to leverage economic globalization to benefit the poor. Readily comprehensible to specialists and laypersons... more...
K. O. Mbadiwe
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 95.00This book offers a comprehensive political biography of Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, (1915-1990), a central figure in Nigerian political history for more than forty years. more...
Nigeria Since Independence
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 88.00This book analyses the political and ethnical tensions that characterize Nigeria, which derive both from colonial and contemporary conflicts. It points out three major factors why Nigeria has not yet collapsed like many other African states: ethnic power sharing amongst the political elite, the military with its national outlook, and oil wealth. more...
A Cultural and Social History of Ghana From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 0.00This study examines the African side of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and proposes a new approach to an understanding of early Atlantic and Gold Coast modernity. The thematic framework allows the study to pursue cultural, material, social, and biographical lines that intersected the inter-connections of Gold Coast urbanism and Atlantic mercantile... more...





