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  • WOMEN IN AFRICA
    TOYIN FALOLA / OLAJUMOKE YACOB-HALISO
    This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day. In many precolonial African societies, women were empowered and considered to be important participants in the social structures and political systems that ma...

    $1,160.00

  • 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. Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African literature, and considers the oral tradition, pre-colonial literature, apartheid, print media and digital literature, postcolonialism,...

    $1,040.00

  • A HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA
    TOYIN FALOLA
    This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day. Over the course of twenty seven short and engaging chapters, the book delves into the social, cultural, economic and political history of West Africa, through prehistory, revolutions, ancient empires, thriving trade netwo...

    $1,120.00

  • SABELO NDLOVU-GATSHENI AND AFRICAN DECOLONIAL STUDIES
    TOYIN FALOLA
    This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni has been instrumental in the construction of theories and ideas necessary for advancing a decolonial system of education a...

    $1,160.00

  • GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA
    ERNEST TOOCHI ANICHE / TOYIN FALOLA
    This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of political leadership in the post-colonial era. The contributors examine the role and nature of traditional governance institutions in West Africa from pre-colonial times to the post-colonial era. Part I considers a range of traditional institutions incl...

    $1,100.00

  • AFRICANIZING KNOWLEDGE
    TOYIN FALOLA
    Nearly four decades ago, Terence Ranger questioned to what extent African history was actually African, and whether methods and concerns derived from Western historiography were really sufficient tools for researching and narrating African history. Despite a blossoming and branching out of Africanist scholarship in the last twenty years, that question is still haunting. The mos...

    $1,240.00

  • POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES IN AFRICA
    TOYIN FALOLA AND MIKE O. ODEY
    A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination and in the midst of so many natural resources? Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa provides new understandings of the persistent issue of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and makes recommendations for policy frameworks to help African ...

    $1,260.00

  • DISSENT, PROTEST AND DISPUTE IN AFRICA
    EMMANUEL M. MBAH AND TOYIN FALOLA
    This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to pose challenges in Africa. The contributors argue that, dissent, protest and most forms of disputes in Africa are the result of daily challenges that its people have faced and continue to encounter to this day. These challenges incl...

    $1,320.00

  • HUMAN RIGHTS, RACE, AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
    TOYIN FALOLA AND CACEE HOYER
    Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these encounters. This book addresses these issues and their connections to social justice, discriminati...

    $920.00

  • MUSIC, PERFORMANCE AND AFRICAN IDENTITIES
    TOYIN FALOLA
    Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa. ...

    $1,420.00

  • 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, whilst also situating them in their historical context. Viewed from the outside, African politics are often said to be too complex and multifarious to understand properly, leading to widespread misunderstandings and stereotypes...

    $1,160.00

  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE YORUBA
    TÓYÌN FÁLỌLÁ AND AKÍNTÚNDÉ AKÍNYẸMÍ
    "The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource." — Yoruba Studies Review The Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and...

    $251.00