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New York, NY, U.S.A.: International Publishers, 1954. The author, the foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker (London), recounts the struggle for freedom throughout British colonial Africa in the face of terrible repressions; with an introduction by Alphaeus Hunton, Secretary of the Council on African Affairs, chaired by Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois (corners and spine ends slightly bumped, review copy notice with hand-written date of publication pasted to first page; yellow dust jacket with red lettering, sunned along spine, edgewear at ends of spine, otherwise completely intact, a bright, clean copy). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Africa, Africa! A Continent Rises to Its Feet
de Kartun, Derek
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African Ceremonies, Volumes 1 & 2
de Beckwith, Carol; Fisher, Angela
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New York , NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. This is a very large two-volume boxed set of color photographs of African rituals, based on ten years of field work across East, West, and Southern Africa; the authors' intent was to create a visual exploration of the meaning and power of traditional rituals and ceremonies they had witnessed before they disappeared forever; the 43 ceremonies from 26 countries are divided into three sections: Birth & Initiation, Courtship & Marriage, and Royalty & Power; each section includes an introduction describing the ceremonies (black cloth with gold lettering on the spine & photo in gold frame on the front; each volume in nearly perfect condition except for previous owner's name on the front end paper; box has some shelf war; otherwise these are bright, clean tight volumes; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 14" X 10.5". Boxed Set.
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African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance (Dress, Body, Culture)
de Hansen, Karen Tranberg; Madison, D. Soyini (editors)
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London, England, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2013. This is a collection of essays, originally delivered as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action in Africa at Northwestern University in 2009, and focused on dressed bodies and questions of agency and power; the essays are divided into four sections: Dressed Bodies and Power; Material Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display; Connecting Worlds through Dress; and Transcultured Bodies; includes many photographs and other illustrations (white pictorial cover with red, orange, yellow & black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2".
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Cast in a Racial Mould: Labour Process and Trade Unionism in the Foundries
de Webster, Eddie
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Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1985. This book analyzes the nature of work and worker resistance in the metal industry of South Africa; asserting that most studies of the labor process have neglected worker resistance, it describes two forms of resistance that have been important in the history of South Africa's foundaries, and then analyzes the interplay between the transformation of the labor process and the crisis in the system of racial capitalism to show how worker organizations have begun to develop a working class politics; includes photographs (red pictorial cover has very slight edge wear, pages are tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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Community Development in Ghana
de Du Sautoy, Peter
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London, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1958. The author was Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development in Ghana (dark red cloth with gilt lettering, dark blue dust jacket, minor edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
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Critical Perspective on Wole Soyinka
de Gibbs, James
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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Three Continents Press, 1980. This is a collection of critical essays on the work of the celebrated African writer Wole Soyinka, with two introductory essays on Soyinka's early writings and on Yoruba writers, followed by critical essays on his plays, poetry, and prose; includes two photographs and a definitive bibliography of Soyinka's writings (red & white pictorial cover with some shelf and edge wear, otherwise a good, clean, tight, unmarked copy). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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Dongola: A Novel of Nubia
de Ali, Idris;Theroux, Peter (translator)
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Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A.: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. In this, the first Nubian novel every translated, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, Awad, dreams of Dongala, the capital of medieval Nubia, now lost to the flood waters of the Aswan High Dam; in Dongala, the Nubians reached their zenith, defeating and dominating Upper Egypt; now, while Awad works in Cairo for good wages, his wife remains at home in squalor and must deal with the reality of today's Nubia, a poverty-stricken land (dark green cloth with gold lettering; green dust jacket with yellow lettering, author's photo on rear flap, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine.
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The Imperial Bureaucrat: The Colonial Administrative Service in the Gold Coast, 1920-1939 (Hoover Colonial Studies)
de Kuklick, Henrika
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Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. This is a signed copy of an ethnography of the British colonial service that examines the district officers in Ghana during the period between the world wars, their individual backgrounds, their collective value system, and their behavior patterns; this is the author's own copy of her first book, signed on the front end paper (dark green cloth with gold lettering on front & spine; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright,, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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Nuer Religion
de Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
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London, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1967. First published in 1956, this is the third printing of the author's third and final volume on the Nuer, a Nilotic people who inhabit the Nile Valley of South Sudan, whose study he began with field work in 1930; includes photographs and other illustrations (black cloth with gold lettering on spine has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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The Politics Of Official Discourse In Twentieth-Century South Africa (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)
de Ashforth, Adam
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New York , NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1990. In this book the author traces the history of changes in official discourse in a series of major South African commission reports on the "Native Question" in order to examine how a repressive and exploitative regime used officially approved discourse to legitimate itself (black cloth with gold lettering on spine; green dust jacket with white & yellow lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipoment from a reliable independent bookstore) . Hard Cover. As New/As New.
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The Power of Babel: Language & Governance in the African Experience
de Mazrui, Ali A. & Alamin M.
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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1998. In this book the authors explore the cultural and political implications of Africa's linguistic diversity (white pictorial covers with blue & orange lettering, photo of authors on the back; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.
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The Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofán (Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnographical Series)
de MacMichael, H. A.
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New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Originally published in 1912, this was the first major ethnographic account of the Sudan; it combines the local history of the province with the history of different ethnic groups and genealogies of the indigenous population; the author was the deputy inspector of Kordofan province from 1906 to 1912 and combined his administrative work with ethnographic research; includes photographs (yellow & blue pictorial cover with photo on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Reprint. Trade Paperback. As New.
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Urbanization and Political Change : The Politics of Lagos, 1917-1967
de Baker, Pauline H
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Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1974. A major study of the politics of tropical Africa's largest city which examines the impact of urbanization on the distribution and exercise of influence within the Nigerian capital as grew from a colonial town of 100,000 people to a metropolis with a population of over 1.25 million; the main thesis is that urban political structure in Lagos has shifted from oligarchy to communalism, defined as a form of domination in which political control is vested in a cultural aggregate whose members share a common identity and a sense of corporate solidarity; includes a fold-out map of the city of Lagos (corners slightly bumped, dust jacket slightly rubbed, with wear at lower edge of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States
de Pikirayi, Innocent
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Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.: Altamira Press, 2001. This book examines the growth and decline of the precolonial states on the Zimbabwe plateau and adjacent areas of southern Zambezia; it focuses on their historical and cultural development; includes photographs and other illustrations; the author is professor history at the University of Zimbabwe (black, white & blue pictorial cover with photo on the front, slight crease on back; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.
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