This book examines the historical, socio-political and cultural significance of "The East." It explores the efforts of The East to build and sustain viable community and family-centered institutions in the context of nation(alist) building. Nation building is defined here as the conscious and focused application of African people’s collective resources, energies and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that Africans identify as theirs. Nationalist is used here to properly situate The East experience in the context and continuum of Black nationalist thought and praxis and its efforts to build upon this tradition.

Truth Crushed to the Earth Will Rise Again! The East Organization and the Principles and Practice of Nationalist Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Kwasi Konadu

Politics & Government

Africa Research & Publications

A fascinating insight into the idea-historical recapitulation of the negative image of the African, which in the western concept of progress since the 17th century has been the focal point of his redemptive reconstruction. The crucial epistemological phases of such reconstruction are the concept of the Great Chain of Being, the theory of social evolution and the current post-colonial concepts of social modernisation to strip Africans of their cultural identity and render them to exploitation in the global economic and financial system.

Washing the Negro White

Business & Money

Adu-Opako, Kwaku

Economics

African Women and Representation

Thérèse Migraine-George

Ifowodo was a frontline student leader in the early eighties and is a  lawyer and civil rights activist. In 1996 he was a writer-in-residence at  the Heinrich Boell Foundation. He was imprisoned between 1997 and 1998 and  was subsequently adopted by PEN. This is his first collection of poetry  which won the 1993 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize. Many of  the poems are responses to politics; or spring from the tensions between  writing political poetry, or art for art's sake, and other competing  subjects of poetry, such as romantic love. The poet, quoting Neruda, first  asks the reader expecting a poetic celebration of his natural world to  'come see the blood in the streets'. In the section section he writes  tributes to Tracey Chapman, Winnie and Nelson Mandela and Margeret  Thatcher ('the butcher'). The subject of the third section is the  rediscovery of romantic love, amidst and beyond turmoil and oppression.

Homeland and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Ogaga Ifowodo

Poetry

There is a general consensus that Africa entered the twenty-first century plagued by multifaceted crises of underdevelopment evidenced by, among other things, abject poverty, the inadequacy of basic human needs, social stresses and tensions in the various major urban centers, environmental degradation and the devastating effects of violent civil conflicts. While there is no doubt that slavery and colonialism have contributed to the continent's predicament, the failure of the neo-colonial state

Africa and the Third Millennium

George Klay Kieh Jr.

Social Sciences

In Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel the poet assumes the persona of a minstrel (Aminogbe) guided by a divine mentor (Aridon) to narrate and reflect on multifarious experiences. Each vignette or segment of the 36 section poem contributes to the totality of vision that the poet seeks in Aminogbe's journey in the company of Aridon. The long poem is a reflection on the minstrel's self and his people's historical memory and conciousness but ultimately addresses larger themes such as good, evil, faith and individual responsibility.

Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel

Ojaide, Tanure

Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World

Theater In Sierra Leone

The growing corpus of published Sierra Leonean literature would not be complete without the inclusion of plays by Sierra Leonean dramatists. Scholars, such as Eldred Durosimi Jones, generally agree that the vibrancy of drama in Sierra Leone has not been recognized outside the country and scarcely engaged by the intellectual community. This situation is palpable because of the weak publication history in the field. Although playwright Sarif Easmon put Sierra Leone on the artistic map with the publication of his two major plays in the 1960s, followed by Yulisa Amadu Maddy’s collection of plays, Obasai and Other Plays, in 1971, other artists did not follow suit with this publishing trend. In reality, theatre as a positive developmental force began in the 1970s with Raymond Dele-Charley’s classic The Blood of a Stranger and continued unabated until the civil war reached Freetown, the capital city, in the 1990s. Sierra Leone enjoyed a thirty-year period of immense growth in terms of the proliferation of amateur and quasi-professional theatre groups, the quality of written plays both in the vernacular and in English, and the record number of performances. Theater in Sierra Leone: Five Popular Plays, a collection of plays in English, is an attempt to revisit that remarkable era, the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and to make some of the plays accessible to a world audience, to scholars, and to College and High school students. The five plays in the volume are from some of the most recognizable dramatists in the country, dramatists who have made the most significant contributions to the climate of theater in Sierra Leone since the 1960s: Dele Charley, John Kolosa Kargbo, Julius Spencer, Tonie French and Mohamed Sheriff. The collection begins with a very succinct introduction by the editor, placing the plays within the context of the historical development of Sierra Leonean drama. Offering a brief critical analysis of each play, the editor also highlights some of the social, political, and historical issues that playwrights have grappled with, such as colonial arrogance, the ambivalence of history, the exploitation of African womanhood, and the consequences of modernity.

Theater In Sierra Leone: Five Popular Plays

Edited by Iyunolu Osagie

Book by Adesanya, Aderonke Adesola

Carving Wood, Making History

Arts & Photography

Adesanya, Aderonke Adesola

History & Criticism

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