A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a population of nearly 40 million spread across Western Africa - and diaspora communities in Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and North America - Yoruba are one of the most researched groups emanating from Africa. Yet, to date, very few have grappled fully with the historical foundations and development of this group which has contributed to shaping the way African communities are analyzed from prehistoric to modern times. This commendable book deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretations and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume to date. This exceptionally lucid account gathers and imparts a wealth of research and discourses on Yoruba studies for a wider group of readership than ever before.

A History of the Yoruba People

Akintoye, Stephen Adebanji

Religion & Spirituality

Amalion Publishing

[Please note: This book is published in French language text.] Wala Bok: An Oral History of Hip Hop in Senegal explores and reflects on the evolution of generations of hip hop artistes and practitioners, from the early pioneers to the new kids on the block, producers, and the social critics involved in this complex movement. In Senegal, hip hop has been very political from the go, from 'Set Setal' cleanliness campaigns of the 80s and 90s, to the Y'en a marre movement that became instrumental to derailing the monarchic wishes of an octogenarian president to usher in a second 'alternance' in 2012. The images and testimonies of this movement, shaped by the recognition for cultural diversity and motivated by the quest for making the world a better place, unveil a heterogeneous eclectic community pulled between individual artistic promotion and political commitment. Includes photographs and contributions from scholars such as Greg Thomas, Eugene Adams, Ousmane Sene, Abdoulaye Niang and many hip hop artistes and practitioners in Senegal including Daara J Family, Didier Awadi, Fou Malade, Keur Gui, Daddy Bibson, Lord Alajiman, Chronik 2H, ALIF, Moona, Rapattack and many others. Kande Senghor studied cinema, civilizations and languages at the Universite Charles de Gaulle in Lille, France. She worked with the director Wim Wenders on The Invisible (2007), a documentary on women raped by the May May fighters during the civil war in Congo. She was a privileged collaborator of Sembene Ousmane. In 2006, she presented photographic works in the exhibition Snap Judgements at the invitation of Okwui Enwezor at the New York Contemporary Photography Museum. The documentary The Other in Me (2012) explores the threads in connection, identity, belonging and the Diaspora between two identical twin brothers. In 2015, her documentary film Giving Birth on the enigmatic Senegalese sculptor Seni Camara was an official selection at the Venice Biennale.

Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Senegal: An Oral History of Hip Hop in Senegal

Arts & Photography

Senghor, Fatou Kande

Music

"My heart is pounding against my chest. I am having a hard time breathing and a hard time thinking. I cross the terrace. One step, one small step. Then another tiny step. Now I am on the lawn. The grass is cold and wet under my bare feet. A gust of wind pastes my green sweatshirt against my body. My long grey skirt sticks to my legs like the skin of a rhinoceros. My heart tells me to run, to run as fast as my legs can carry me, with all my might. But I can't...." *** One morning in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, a lucky 13-year-old girl named Tina, who came from a modest family, is preparing to go to France to become part of Linda and Godwin Okpara's family. Linda is a homemaker and Godwin is a soccer player at the top French club Paris Saint-Germain, as well as for the Super Eagles, Nigeria's national squad. The couple have four children and Tina dreams of going with them to school and joining in their games, living the European dream. But, soon after her arrival, the reality becomes different. Written in collaboration with acclaimed French journalist, Cyril Guinet, Tina Okpara recounts how imprisonment, torture, and abuse - in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the 21st century - could not break her. Tina's gripping story of survival and escape to rebuild her life is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor. "A chance at a better life should never be overlooked, but occasionally something foul lurks under opportunity....a read to be very much considered for international memoir collections". The Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch, November 2012, The Memoir Shelf.

My Life Has a Price: A Memoir of Survival and Freedom

Biographies & Memoirs

Okpara, Tina

Guinet, Cyril

Memoirs

In the past decade, the emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are the capacities to give not only to help, but also to address the root causes of injustice, want, ignorance, and disease. The narratives are also about the questioning of the role and place of Africans in the world's philanthropic traditions, and what constitutes African specificities, as well as African differences and varieties. Giving to Help, Helping to Give deftly explores African philanthropic experiences - the varieties, the challenges, and the opportunities - while also documenting, investigating, analyzing, and reflecting on philanthropy in multifaceted Africa. This ground-breaking book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms, vehicles, and means in which philanthropy is expressed. It is a pioneering and ambitious effort in a field and community of practice that is new, both in terms of scholarship and in professional practice. Many of the chapters boldly engage the burden of reflections, questions, ambivalences, and ambiguities that one often finds in an emerging field, innovatively positing the outlines, concepts, frameworks, and theories of scholarship and practice for a field critical to development on the continent. *** "Overall this volume effectively represents the vibrancy and diversity of emerging institutions of philanthropy on the African continent. The contributions are clearly located in an emerging community of practice and scholarship and provide a wealth of new data on a rapidly changing philanthropic landscape." -- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, August 2016 [Subject: African Studies, Development Studies, Sociology]Ã?Â?

Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Dans La dette odieuse de l'Afrique, Boyce et Ndikumana revelent le fait choquant que, contrairement a la perception populaire comme quoi l'Afrique ponctionne les ressources financieres de l'Occident, le continent est en fait un creancier net du reste du monde. Le volume de la fuite des capitaux de l'Afrique est remarquable : plus de 700 milliards de dollars au cours des quatre dernieres decennies. Toutefois, les actifs de l'Afrique detenus a l'etranger sont prives et caches tandis que ses dettes exterieures sont publiques, dues par les peuples africains a travers leurs gouvernements. Leonce Ndikumana et James K. Boyce demasquent les liens intimes entre les prets etrangers et la fuite des capitaux. Plus de la moitie de l'argent emprunte par les gouvernements africains dans les dernieres decennies a " fuit " dans la meme annee, une partie importante etant deposee dans des comptes prives dans les memes banques qui ont fourni les prets. Entre-temps, le service de la dette continue a drainer les ressources rares de l'Afrique, reduisant ainsi les fonds disponibles pour la sante publique et d'autres besoins de base. De facon provocatrice, les auteurs proposent que les gouvernements africains devraient repudier ces " dettes odieuses " dont leur peuple n'a tire aucun avantage et que la communaute internationale devrait aider dans cet effort. Un livre indispensable pour quiconque s'interesse a l'Afrique, son avenir et ses relations avec l'Occident.

La dette odieuse de l'Afrique: Comment l'endettement et la fuite des capitaux ont saigné un continent (French Edition)

James K. Boyce

Léonce Ndikumana

Economics

In 2010, billions of naira currency were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 - from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures, and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and profligacy, and much more of the many contradictions of a complex national polity. In this special collection, poets from different backgrounds, generations, and persuasions explore what it means to be a citizen of this unique African country. Shifting from despair to hope, lamentation to happiness, condemnation to adoration and every gamut of sensibilities imaginable, these poets reiterate the notion of engagement and the power of the written word to push for social change in their beloved nation. In 50 poems, Nigeria becomes the muse, not just to raise questions about its past experiences and present contexts, but also to posit aspirations for a better nation.

Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

[PLEASE NOTE: This book is written in French.] "Without a doubt, Louis Camara possesses this sense of the tale as well as the genius of narration. His magical pen draws from the ages and the deepest Yoruba thought the sons of gods, curious about humanity, playing out for us the game of individual destiny, unveiling for us its mysterious fabric woven from alternating strands of freedom and compulsion....And to choose one's Ori is for each soul on its way to humanity, to choose one's character, one's personality, and one's destiny." -- Pr. Issiaka Prosper Laleye, Universite Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal **"Louis Camara reveals a Yoruba world-view that is humane and sane, in luminous French prose that reveals a complex relationship to the material - which is to say, life itself - but one that is always philosophical, good-natured, and accepting. As his characters work through their destinies, ...in a sentimental pretence that all have the same opportunities for successful lives, Camara represents not only the foolish and thoughtless choices made by the protagonists, but also the deterministic aspects of their provenance, and we may not forget them...It is the human condition, that paradox of free will and determinism, which Louis Camara presents unflinchingly but always good-naturedly. The tone is unsentimental, humorous, perceptive, and accepting, and in itself portrays the attitude one should have toward existence. It bespeaks a deep religious faith in the sanity of the universe and eschews despair and meaninglessness." -- Prof. Jean-Pierre Metereau, Department of English and Communication Studies, Texas Lutheran University, USA. ** Born in Saint Louis, Senegal, Louis Camara teaches literature and Yoruba civilisation at Universite Gaston Berger. He is passionate about poetry and the Yoruba cosmogony and mythology. He has published several works of fiction including Histoire d'Iyewa (1998) and Le Tambour d'Orunmila (2003).

Le choix de l'Ori

Children's Books

Camara, Louis

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

[PLEASE NOTE: This book is written in French.] Kalidou Kasse is a Senegalese artist, painter, weaver and sculptor whose perspective for the legitimization of African contemporary art has given birth to several prize-winning works and exhibitions all over the world. His unique style of threadlike characters in a background of lively and brilliant colours describes a poetic and charming world painted with a constant concern for forms, details and colours. From a historic point of view, he is the artist who has delicately blended and balanced the art of western pictorial with African aesthetics inherited from his family of weavers. By refusing the representation imposed by western art, he reaffirms an individual form that is original in heralding the art of an emerging dominant force unabashed and unfettered by its past. This groundbreaking book explores the foundations of Kasse's aesthetics and subtly traces the individual trajectory of the painter within the wider collective and historic movement of art on the continent and beyond. Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo is a professor of Sociology is currently the Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. He has taught in several universities in Africa, Europe and in North America. He is the author of several works in the field of art in Africa, including Art photographique en Afrique (Harmattan, 2002), Identite visuelle en Afrique (Amalthee, 2008), and Norbert Elias, Ecrits sur l'art africain, (Kime, 2002). From 2002 to 2008, he was Deputy-Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal.

Kalidou Kasse peintures: Experiences de la forme

Ouedraogo, Jean-Bernard

History & Criticism

British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources

"In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are."--Prof. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, U. of Oxford, UK  Author Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa, and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today. His work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule" or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation. [Subject: African Studies, History]

History

Tukur, Mahmud Modibbo

Africa

"In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are."--Prof. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, U. of Oxford, UK Author Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa, and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today. His work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule" or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation. *** "A successful counter-thesis, the book is a definitive study for understanding colonial Nigeria. The book also contains a eulogy to its late author (d. 1988), a foreword that points to the violent and exploitative nature of British rule, and an impressive introduction that sets the book within a broad historiographical canvas, and that regards the totality of the contributions as 'pathbreaking.' Highly recommended." --Choice, Vol. 54, No. 10, June 2017*****Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by Choice Magazine!! [Subject: African Studies, History]

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A History of the Yoruba People

Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Senegal: An Oral History of Hip Hop in Senegal

My Life Has a Price: A Memoir of Survival and Freedom

Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy

La dette odieuse de l'Afrique: Comment l'endettement et la fuite des capitaux ont saigné un continent (French Edition)

Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria

Le choix de l'Ori

Kalidou Kasse peintures: Experiences de la forme

British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources

British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources