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  • African Politics
    Toyin Falola
    African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad-ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends. This book is perfect for an undergraduate student starting out in their studies of African politics, or for any reader who wants to learn more about African governance. ...
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    75,72 €

  • African Politics
    Toyin Falola
    African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad-ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends. This book is perfect for an undergraduate student starting out in their studies of African politics, or for any reader who wants to learn more about African governance. ...
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    266,45 €

  • African Rivers
    Toyin Falola / Victor Angbah
    The Nile, Congo, Niger, Chad and Zambezi are names that evoke watershed periods in Africa’s history. Yet, until now, scholars have paid little attention to Africa’s riverine environment or how it has shaped the continent’s civilizations.African rivers are not only part of the ecosystem but also hold immense ecological, political, economic, and sociocultural significance. At the...
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    153,52 €

  • African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
    Toyin Falola
    Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs, social practices, oral, linguistic, and values that define an individual’s way of life. In other words, in memoir writing, the emphasis is often to propagate a unilateral need or embrace of self-identity. However, the dominant narrative and method of analysis in this study holds the notion and privileg...
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    50,26 €

  • Decolonizing African Knowledge
    Toyin Falola
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    44,86 €

  • Chinua Achebe
    Toyin Falola
    An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe’s novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe’s literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa’s present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the ...
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    153,96 €

  • Understanding Colonial Nigeria
    Toyin Falola
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    179,75 €

  • Understanding Colonial Nigeria
    Toyin Falola
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    58,13 €

  • Milestones in African Literature
    Toyin Falola
    Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes. This book is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. ...
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    68,87 €

  • Milestones in African Literature
    Toyin Falola
    Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes. This book is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. ...
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    240,67 €

  • Writing the History of the African Diaspora
    Toyin Falola
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    27,35 €

  • Writing the History of the African Diaspora
    Toyin Falola
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    84,42 €

  • Decolonizing African History
    Toyin Falola
    Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending European intellectual hegemony over Africa’s political, economic, historical, and cultural ways, the reverse of its effects, and the pursuit of absolute liberation and self-determination for Africa. As an intellectual under-taking, decolonizing African history emphasizes the study of African history from an African per...
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    22,94 €

  • A History of West Africa
    Toyin Falola
    This book introduces readers to the fascinating history of West Africa, all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day. This book will serve as an excellent textbook for entry-level History and African Studies courses. ...
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    81,66 €

  • A History of West Africa
    Toyin Falola
    This book introduces readers to the fascinating history of West Africa, all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day. This book will serve as an excellent textbook for entry-level History and African Studies courses. ...
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    266,71 €

  • African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems
    Toyin Falola
    Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. 'Sacred words' are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engag...
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    50,82 €

  • Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and African Decolonial Studies
    Toyin Falola
    This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, instrumental in theorising how to advance a decolonial system of education and epistemology. This book examines the development of decoloniality discourse and of considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy. ...
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    267,88 €

  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
    Adeshina Afolayan / Toyin Falola
    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subte...
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    50,82 €

  • Decolonizing African Studies
    Toyin Falola
    This book examines the most significant aspects of decolonization and decoloniality, the voices that articulate them, and how they are represented in the disciplines. From the anticolonial intellectual insurgency to the contemporary conception of Afro-futurism, the book argues that alternative thought processes are informed by radical and contentious ideas. The knowledge produc...
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    42,89 €

  • Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
    Toyin Falola
    This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal authentic perceptions of Nigeria’s history and culture today. Many of the lessons in these works of literature ...
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    146,13 €

  • Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age
    Toyin Falola
    This is a comprehensive analysis on Nigeria, its people, and emerging contemporary digital trends through the expanding concept of the virtual community. It uses Farooq Kperogi, a prominent leader in the virtual community, and his writings as a lens to foreground the discussion. ...
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    160,45 €

  • Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa
    Nicole Griffin / Toyin Falola
    The book connects the logic and histories of religion, ideology and indigenous beliefs to understand knowledge systems in Africa. ...
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    54,54 €

  • Memories of Africa
    Toyin Falola
    Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of African migrants over time through political, social, and cultural spheres. In reading African dias...
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    50,12 €

  • Memories of Africa
    Toyin Falola
    Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of African migrants over time through political, social, and cultural spheres. In reading African dias...
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    158,28 €

  • African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
    Toyin Falola
    Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs, social practices, oral, linguistic, and values that define an individual’s way of life. In other words, in memoir writing, the emphasis is often to propagate a unilateral need or embrace of self-identity. However, the dominant narrative and method of analysis in this study holds the notion and privileg...
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    158,42 €

  • Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
    Toyin Falola
    This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal authentic perceptions of Nigeria’s history and culture today. Many of the lessons in these works of literature ...
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    144,44 €

  • Decolonizing African Knowledge
    Toyin Falola
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    52,12 €

  • African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems
    Toyin Falola
    Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. 'Sacred words' are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engag...
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    154,06 €

  • Decolonizing African Studies
    Toyin Falola
    This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge systems imposed on Africa. It critically examines the silencing and exclusion of subalterns in global knowledge production and the far-reaching implications of this for pedagogy and policy. As global power is concentrated in the globa...
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    138,36 €

  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
    Adeshina Afolayan / Toyin Falola
    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subte...
    Disponible

    154,06 €


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