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Water into Bones
Birth Rituals, Ancestors, and Religious Hybridity in Northern Madagascar
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780253072405
Pub Date: March 2025
The Forgotten Era
Nigeria Before British Rule
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CA$47.00
ISBN: 9780745350080
Pub Date: February 2025
Imprint: Pluto Press
The beautifully complex history of how Nigerians lived before colonisation
The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey
Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720?1940
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CA$46.95
ISBN: 9780253071439
Pub Date: November 2024
From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring...
Global Yorùbá
Regional and Diasporic Networks
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CA$71.95
ISBN: 9780253070555
Pub Date: September 2024
In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural...
International Statebuilding in West Africa
Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire
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CA$65.95
ISBN: 9780253070630
Pub Date: August 2024
At the turn of the twenty-first century, manipulation of the democratic process coupled with preexisting political and economic grievances led to years-long civil wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and...
Antiblackness and Global Health
A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake
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CA$47.00
ISBN: 9780745346281
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Pluto Press
Examines how colonial mentalities and infrastructures shaped the response to the West African Ebola epidemic
Queens of Afrobeat
Women, Play, and Fela Kuti's Music Rebellion
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CA$63.95
ISBN: 9780253068644
Pub Date: June 2024
In Queens of Afrobeat, the women of Afrobeat music—a unique blend of jazz, soul, highlife, and West African rhythms—are finally given the recognition they deserve. This extensive study takes a multifaceted...
Making an African City
Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra
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CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780253069337
Pub Date: April 2024
In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable"...
Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana
A Social History of Cape Coast
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CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780253067920
Pub Date: January 2024
The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation...
Imperial Homeland
Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780271092997
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Independent Africa
The First Generation of Nation Builders
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CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780253066657
Pub Date: September 2023
Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations.Drawing...
The West African Revival
Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918-1929
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CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781481318655
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Baylor University Press
In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members...
Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780271092300
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
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Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
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CA$12.98
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781685900045
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: New York University Press
A classic collection of essays calling for decolonization through self-liberation ?For us,? said Amilcar Cabral, ?freedom is an act of culture??and these were not just words. Guided by the concrete...
Pastoral Power, Clerical State
Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
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CA$135.95
ISBN: 9780268203139
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the Fourth Republic.Pentecostal...
Pastoral Power, Clerical State
Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
Price:
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780268203146
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the Fourth Republic.Pentecostal...
Water into Bones
Birth Rituals, Ancestors, and Religious Hybridity in Northern Madagascar
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780253072405
Pub Date: March 2025
The Forgotten Era
Nigeria Before British Rule
CA$47.00
ISBN: 9780745350080
Pub Date: February 2025
Imprint: Pluto Press
The beautifully complex history of how Nigerians lived before colonisation
The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey
Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720?1940
CA$46.95
ISBN: 9780253071439
Pub Date: November 2024
Global Yorùbá
Regional and Diasporic Networks
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9780253070555
Pub Date: September 2024
International Statebuilding in West Africa
Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire
CA$65.95
ISBN: 9780253070630
Pub Date: August 2024
Antiblackness and Global Health
A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake
CA$47.00
ISBN: 9780745346281
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Pluto Press
Examines how colonial mentalities and infrastructures shaped the response to the West African Ebola epidemic
Queens of Afrobeat
Women, Play, and Fela Kuti's Music Rebellion
CA$63.95
ISBN: 9780253068644
Pub Date: June 2024
Making an African City
Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra
CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780253069337
Pub Date: April 2024
Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana
A Social History of Cape Coast
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780253067920
Pub Date: January 2024
Imperial Homeland
Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780271092997
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Independent Africa
The First Generation of Nation Builders
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780253066657
Pub Date: September 2023
The West African Revival
Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918-1929
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781481318655
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Baylor University Press
Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780271092300
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Return to the Source
Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
CA$12.98 CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781685900045
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: New York University Press
Pastoral Power, Clerical State
Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
CA$135.95
ISBN: 9780268203139
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Pastoral Power, Clerical State
Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780268203146
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press