Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity approaches modern Sephardic literature in a comparative way to draw out similarities and differences among selected francophone novelists from various countries, with a focus on North Africa. The definition of Sepharad here is broader than just Spain: it embraces Jews whose ......
Northern Ghanaian Women's Artistry: Visualizing Culture explores women's tradition of wall painting, or bambolse, in northern Ghana by delving into the history of bambolse and how it has changed over time. This book explores women artists' experiences, knowledge, and technical processes.
Governance, security, and development are three critical components of a dialectical nexus that is both dominant and determinant for any objective and fruitful quest for the understanding of the trajectory of a country, a region or, in the case of Africa, a continent from a colonial past to a neocolonial and meta-colonial present, and toward a ......
This book provides a holistic and historic text on the history, heritage, and culture of the Akwa-Cross people of Nigeria. It offers historical facts as well as critical analysis on tradition, culture, economy, religion, sports, and media of the people of this second-largest minority tribe in Nigeria.
Kenneth C. Murray and Heritage Preservation in Colonial West Africa
This book provides an in-depth look at the early history of museums in Nigeria through the letters of Kenneth C. Murray, Bernard E.B. Fagg, and Edward H. Duckworth, uncovering the early efforts to preserve cultural heritage, repatriate stolen art, and build institutions that would define a nation.
In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within ......
Jews and Muslims of Morocco collects accounts of the intersecting worlds and emergent shared customs and culture, suggesting that the unique atmosphere in Morocco allowed for Rabbinic empowerment and a more practical approach to halakhah.
"Considering the ensuing conflicts, violence, and wars in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), the question staring us in the face is whether the world community has the will to change the current view of the untouchability of Westphalian sovereign states"--
Africa 2020-2022 provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
