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Book Synopsis Catalog of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University Library (Evanston, Illinois) and Africana in Selected Libraries by : Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Download or read book Catalog of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University Library (Evanston, Illinois) and Africana in Selected Libraries written by Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010 by : D.Elwood Dunn
Download or read book The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010 written by D.Elwood Dunn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 1927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year since 1848 Liberian presidents have delivered a state of the nation address to the Liberian National Legislature reflecting the various facets of the political, social, economic and ethno-cultural situation of the country. Liberia, the first and – for more than a century – the only independent state in Sub-Saharan Africa, was founded in 1822 by an assortment of American non-governmental organizations as an asylum for black Americans. Similar to a comprehensive longitudinal study, this collection of speeches describes the social and economic development of an African country over a time span of more than a century and a half, from 1848 until 2010. As such, it represents the first major research contribution to the history of the political system of one of the first countries of the continent to attain independence. The speeches illuminate the area of conflict between the autochthonous and the black emigrant populations and also documents the relations with the U.S. as "founding nation" and constitutional role model, especially in the 19th century. The presidents' speeches are a rich source of information for gaining a better understanding of Liberia's past and the country's current challenges and future prospects. With The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010, the speeches scattered in various Liberian and American archives and libraries have now for the first time been collected and reconstructed in one single edition. Biographies of the presidents and a scholarly introduction by the editor supplement the 146 speeches. The edition is a valuable source of information on the history and political situation of Africa during the past 163 years. The editor and publisher D. Elwood Dunn teaches political science at Sewanee: The University of the South. From 1974 until 1980 he served in the government of Liberia, becoming a member of the cabinet in 1979. He was editor of the Liberian Studies Journal from 1985 until 1995.
Book Synopsis Towards the Study of Liberian Literature by : S. Henry Cordor
Download or read book Towards the Study of Liberian Literature written by S. Henry Cordor and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Auspicious Shores by : Caree A. Banton
Download or read book More Auspicious Shores written by Caree A. Banton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Joint Acquisitions List of Africana by :
Download or read book Joint Acquisitions List of Africana written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture and Customs of Liberia by : Ayodeji Olukoju
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Liberia written by Ayodeji Olukoju and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberia has a strong connection to the United States in that it was founded by former slaves in 1822. Although Liberia had existed as an independent African nation and a symbol of hope to the African peoples under the rule of various colonial powers, its recent history has been bedeviled by a prolonged upheaval following a military coup d'etat in 1980. In this context, the narrative highlights the distinctiveness of Liberians in their negotiation of traditional indigenous and modern practices, and the changes wrought by Christianity and Western influences.
Author :American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :478 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis U.S. Army Area Handbook for Liberia by : American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
Download or read book U.S. Army Area Handbook for Liberia written by American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Myth of Self-Reliance by : Naohiko Omata
Download or read book The Myth of Self-Reliance written by Naohiko Omata and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research conducted over several years, this volume challenges the reputation of a 'self-reliant' model given to Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana and sheds light on considerable economic inequality between refugee households. "The Myth of Self-Reliance" provides valuable insights into refugees' experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.
Download or read book A Liberian Life written by D. Elwood Dunn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Liberian academic and former government official accounts for and reflects upon half a century of work and experience. An important Liberian political memoir, the book is at once Dunn’s critical exposition on his country and an attempt to explain how Liberia came to be what it is today. In 26 captivating chapters he recounts careers as academic, and services as aide to slain Liberian President Tolbert and consultant to former President Johnson Sirleaf. Between government service in crisis times (late 1970s) and in hopeful times (early 2000s) is positioned more than three decades of University teaching and research.
Book Synopsis Anthology of an Exiled African Dissident by : Mathew K. Jallow
Download or read book Anthology of an Exiled African Dissident written by Mathew K. Jallow and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five junior military officers in the Gambia ousted the government of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara in 1994. After three decades of relative political stability under a democratically elected government, it was a stunning turn of events – and what followed was two decades of political turmoil, tribalism, massive corruption, disappearances, and forced exile. Mathew K. Jallow, a U.S. citizen who was sentenced to death in absentia for his role in demonstrating against the military dictatorship in his native Gambia, examines his homeland’s history and how a global movement toppled the junta. Jallow captures the slow but steady erosion of human rights, economic plunder, and the collapse of state institutions under the junta’s heavy-handed Machiavellian rule. He also shows how all too often, funds meant to help the continent end up in the bank accounts of politicians, bureaucrats, and the politically connected. With his insightful commentary, the author helps explain why Africa, the wealthiest continent on the planet, remains hopelessly poor. He also takes readers into the minds of Africans, showing a face of Africa that is still a mystery to much of the developed world.
Book Synopsis Private Bank Lending and Developing-country Debt by : Pierre Sauvé
Download or read book Private Bank Lending and Developing-country Debt written by Pierre Sauvé and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1984 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book She Would Be King written by Wayétu Moore and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them. Moore’s intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. “If she was not a woman,” the wind says of Gbessa, “she would be king.” In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States. She Would Be King is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author.
Book Synopsis The Superpower Myth by : Nancy Soderberg
Download or read book The Superpower Myth written by Nancy Soderberg and published by Wiley (TP). This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there limits to American power? Drawing on eight years as a high-ranking official in the Clinton Administration, Nancy Soderberg takes you behind the scenes to examine how the president and his advisors responded to the challenge of shaping a new foreign policy for the post-Cold War era. She cites personal recollections, recently declassified documents, and interviews with the principals involved to provide insight into the decision-making process that all presidents face. Soderberg contrasts Clinton's approach--as it evolved from a shaky start to a carefully crafted blend of diplomacy, force, leadership, and cooperation--with Bush's embrace of the superpower myth, which holds that America is powerful enough to bend the world to its will through unilateral force. Soderberg demonstrates why military force alone is not always effective, why allies and consensus-building are crucial, and how the current administration's faulty worldview has adversely affected our security.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Government of Liberia First Country Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). by :
Download or read book Government of Liberia First Country Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Liberian Civil War by : George Klay Kieh
Download or read book The First Liberian Civil War written by George Klay Kieh and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the dominant view that the first Liberian civil war was caused by ethno-cultural antagonisms between and among the country's various ethnic groups. Alternatively, the book argues that the war was the consequence of the multifaceted crises of underdevelopment - cultural, economic, political, and social - generated by the neo-colonial Liberian State.
Book Synopsis Folktales Told Around the World by : Richard M. Dorson
Download or read book Folktales Told Around the World written by Richard M. Dorson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
Book Synopsis The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) by : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Download or read book The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
