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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cheryl Benoit Mwaria; Silvia Federici; Joseph McLaren; Hofstra University. |
| ISBN: | 0275971023 9780275971021 0313310459 9780313310454 |
| OCLC Number: | 46761812 |
| Description: | xxii, 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | PART I: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Poem: "What is the soul of Africa? / by Dennis Brutus -- Africa 2000: in the new global context / Dennis Brutus -- The international property regime and the enclosure of African knowledge / C. George Caffentzis -- Mijikenda perspectives on freedom, culture and human "rights" / Diane Ciekawy -- Structural adjustment and the African diaspora in Italy / Steven Colatrella -- The new African student movement / Silvia Federici -- Academic pursuits under the LINK / Karim F. Hirji -- Democratization and interventionism in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa / Francois Ngolet -- A vision of the past as a beacon for the future: the application of Fatimid ideals in the city of Cairo / Habibeh Rahim -- Women, AIDS and the female condom: preventing HIV in Southern Africa / Ida Susser -- PART II; LITERATURE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND CULTURE: Poem: "The monstrous instrument" / by Maina Kinyatti -- African languages and global culture in the Twentieth Century / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Hybridity, neouniversalist cultural theory, and the comparative study of Black literatures / F. Odun Balogun -- White women, Black revolutionaries: sex and politics in four novels by Nadine Gordimer / Nancy Topping Bazin -- Popular Hausa drama in Niger and the politics of its appropriation / Ousseina D. Alidou -- Developmental pleasures, education, entertainment, and popular literacy in South Africa / Loren Kruger -- Socialist-oriented literature in postcolonial Africa: retrospective and prospective / Alamin M. Mazrui -- The Nigerian novel in English; trends and prospects / Joseph McLaren -- Writing in and out of Algeria, writing Algeria, today / Soraya Mekerta -- Post Apartheid drama / Donald M. Morales. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 197 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Cheryl B. Mwaria, Silvia Federici, and Joseph McLaren ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University. |
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