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Free Download Donal Cruise O’Brien, John Dunn, Richard Rathbone, "Contemporary West African States"
English | 1990 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 0521368936, 0521363667 | PDF | 4,8 mb
The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume-appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise-provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorizing by both governments and scholars. The volume also contains important observations on the political importance of religious fundamentalism in the region, and the growth of subnational forms of political activity. The writers are well-known scholars in the field, and include contributors to the influential journal Politique Africaine. This will be a useful textbook for everyone interested in African politics, but it is also a provocative contribution to the debate on the nature of the state and political processes in Africa.

Free Download Tobias Marevesa, "Contemporary African Perspectives on the Bible"
English | ISBN: 3031541677 | 2024 | 427 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This volume explores current methodological developments in the interpretation of the Bible from an African perspective. Previous scholarship has explored the relevance of Eurocentric biblical interpretive methods to African experiences and contexts. This book furthers the discussion by examining the continuing importance of contextual Bible interpretation. Authors provide an evaluation of the work done by the precursors and predecessors interpreting the Bible from an African point of view, and then analyse the emerging challenges to interpreting the Bible in an ever-changing context. The volume is a comprehensive resource, providing new interpretations of the Bible in Africa, and addressing the contemporary questions of people in Africa and beyond.

Free Download Tobias Marevesa, "Contemporary African Perspectives on the Bible"
English | ISBN: 3031541677 | 2024 | 427 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This volume explores current methodological developments in the interpretation of the Bible from an African perspective. Previous scholarship has explored the relevance of Eurocentric biblical interpretive methods to African experiences and contexts. This book furthers the discussion by examining the continuing importance of contextual Bible interpretation. Authors provide an evaluation of the work done by the precursors and predecessors interpreting the Bible from an African point of view, and then analyse the emerging challenges to interpreting the Bible in an ever-changing context. The volume is a comprehensive resource, providing new interpretations of the Bible in Africa, and addressing the contemporary questions of people in Africa and beyond.

Free Download Christian Remnant – African Folk Church By Höschele
2007 | 663 Pages | ISBN: 900416233X | PDF | 5 MB
Tanzanian Adventism exemplifies one of the most fascinating shifts in the history of religions: the growth of Christianity in Africa. Most striking in this account is the analysis of a minority denominations transformation to a veritable folk church.

Free Download Daniel G. Williams, "Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales 1845-1945 "
English | ISBN: 0708319874 | 2012 | 357 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Black Skin, Blue Books is a major contribution to the field of comparative transatlantic studies, as it analyzes the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states. This volume examines friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as actor Paul Robeson’s connections with socialists in Welsh mining communities and novelist Ralph Ellison’s stories about his experiences as a GI stationed in wartime Swansea. Offering insights into national and ethnic identity, this wide-ranging book draws on literary, historical, visual, and musical sources to open new avenues of research in Welsh and African American studies: nationalism and assimilationism, religion and secularism, language and race, and cultural identity and political citizenship.

Free Download Herman Potgieter – Aircraft of the South African Air Force
C. Struik ✅Publishers | 1984 | ISBN: 0869771337 | English | 188 pages | PDF | 170.26 MB
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Free Download African-American Political Psychology: Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era By Tasha S. Philpot, Ismail K. White
2010 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0230623557 | PDF | 4 MB
Decades of research in both political science and psychology have demonstrated that external, environmental factors influence individuals’ mental processes, especially as they relate to politics. Inasmuch as such factors vary systematically across racial and ethnic groups, the political psychology of these groups warrants study, hence, the objective of this volume. We have assembled a number of papers from both psychologists and political scientists in an effort to combine both disciplines’ understanding of the psychological underpinnings of Blacks’ orientation to the political world. Our goal is to take lessons learned from previous research and incorporate them into new theories and utilize new data sources in an effort to create a unified study of Black political psychology.

Free Download Salikoko S. Mufwene, "African-American English: Structure, History, and Use "
English | ISBN: 0367760681 | 2021 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon as well as the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English.

Free Download African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies: Essays in Honour of Jacob Kehinde Olupona By Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye
2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 140944614X | PDF | 2 MB
The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of ‘Africa as Object’ to ‘Africa as Subject’, thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies. The book is structured under two main sections. The first provides new insights into the interface between Religion and Society, Religion in Society. The African Diaspora, and the categories of Youth and Gender have not featured prominently in studies on religion in Africa, the second section reflect this reality by focusing on Diaspora, Youth and Gender Dynamics. Contributors drawn from diverse African and global contexts situate current scholarly traditions of the study of African religions within the purview of academic encounter and exchanges with non-African scholars and non-African contexts. African scholars enrich the study of religions from their respective academic and methodological orientations. Jacob Kehinde Olupona stands out as a pioneer in the socio-scientific interpretation of African indigenous religion and religions in Africa and the new African Diaspora. This book is to his honour and marks his immense contribution to an emerging field of study and research.

Free Download African Oral Epic Poetry: Praising the Deeds of a Mythic Hero By Fritz H. Pointer, Charles S. Bird, Daniel P. Kunene, Mamadou Koita, Bourama Soumaoro
2012 | 301 Pages | ISBN: 0773440879 | PDF | 13 MB
A major critical edition and English translation of this important African epic myth.