|
Author |
Country |
Title |
Review |
|
Samir Amin |
Egypt |
Accumulation on a World Scale, Two Volumes in One |
Monthly Review Press |
|
Ifi Amadiume |
Nigeria |
Male Daughters, Female Husbands |
The classic study of sex and gender roles in
(primarily) Nigeria. |
|
Mário de Andrade |
Angola |
Origens do nacionalismo africano |
Sa da
Costa |
|
Anthony Appiah |
Ghana |
In My Father's House |
A survey of literary criticism and ideology which
considers the nature, origins and dynamics of culture and nationalism, and the
place of 'Africa' in these structures: Africa, race, the native, myth,
ethnophilosophy, gods, post-colonialism/ modernism, states, identities, etc |
|
Amilcar Cabral |
Guinea-Bissau |
Unity and Struggle |
This book details the
thoughts of Amilcar Cabral a central leader of the revolution in Guinea-Bissau |
|
Rocha Chimera |
Kenya |
Kiswahili, past, present and future horizons |
An examination of Kiswahili as a tool for intra-
and inter-ethnic communication, national unity, cultural integration, economic
well-being, and technological advancement |
|
Cheikh Anta Diop |
Senegal |
**Antériorité
des civilisations nègres
The African Origin of Civilization
 |
The author attacks the view that there is an
indigenous, collective African philosophy separate and distinct from the Western
philosophical tradition Presents Diop's
main thesis - that historical, archeological and anthropological evidence
supports the theory that the civilization of ancient Egypt was actually Negroid
in origin |
|
Efua Dorkenoo |
Ghana |
Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation: The Practice & Its Prevention: |
This book examines issues, practices, remedies, case studies in Africa and the
West |
|
J. E. Casely Hayford |
Ghana |
Ethiopia Unbound |
Cass |
|
Paulin J. Hountondji |
Benin |
Sur la
philosophie africaine
African Philosophy |
The author attacks the view that there is an indigenous, collective African
philosophy separate and distinct from the Western philosophical tradition |
|
Samuel Johnson |
Nigeria |
The History of the Yorubas
 |
A standard history, which also covers sociological
and cultural subjects. |
|
Jomo Kenyatta |
Kenya |
Facing Mount Kenya |
Secker
& Warburg |
|
Joseph Ki-Zerbo |
Burkina
Faso |
Histoire de l'Afrique noire
General History of Africa |
Hatier |
|
Antjie Krog |
South
Africa |
Country of My Skull |
A vivid depiction by an award-winning poet of the
testimonies made to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
|
Mama, Amina |
Nigeria |
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Identity
|
Explores the power relations of race and gender at
work in the creation of academic discourse. |
|
Mahmood Mamdani |
Uganda |
Citizen and Subject |
James
Currey Publishers |
|
Nelson Mandela |
South
Africa |
Long Walk to Freedom
|
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long
Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly
while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's
apartheid regime. |
|
Marais,
Eugene |
South
Africa |
Die
Siel van die Mier |
J.L.
van Schaik |
|
Albert Memmi |
Tunisia |
Portrait du colonisé suivi de portrait du colonisateur
The Colonizer and the Colonized |
Memmi captures the contradictions and destructive forces of colonialism from an
individual perspective, but more importantly he provides us with a work that
transends his subject matter and allows for greater understanding of the manner
in which structural and institutional forces of other forms of oppression and
inequality affect us today. |
|
Eduardo Mondlane |
Mozambique |
The struggle for Mozambique |
Penguin |
|
Ezekiel Mphahlele |
South
Africa |
Down Second Avenue |
Every
discerning reader should have read this classic, by pre-eminent author Es'kia
Mphahlele. In his true-life drama, Mphahlele chronicles the life of a young
Black man growing up in South Africa. |
|
V. Y. Mudimbe |
Dem.
Rep. of Congo |
The Invention of Africa |
Addresses the meaning of Africa and of being African, and what constitutes
African philosophy, and shows how these discourses influence perceptions of
identity |
|
Kwame Nkrumah |
Ghana |
Kwame
Nkrumah:
Autobiography |
This book goes in depth into the mind of a man who's one goal in life was to
share the glory of freedom of self rule with his people. It goes into his life
experiences as well as the politics and government in Ghana. |
|
Solomon T. Plaatje |
South
Africa |
Native Life in South Africa |
A classic account of life in South Africa, from an early leader of the ANC |
|
Wole Soyinka |
Nigeria |
Ake: The Years of Childhood
|
These are Soyinka's memoirs of his early childhood, growing up the youngest son
of a headmaster in the Yoruba town of Ake. But this is more than a memoir. Ake
succeeds on every level: first as a vivid, humourous, touching, evocation of an
African culture. |
|
Charles Van Onselen |
South
Africa |
The Seed Is Mine |
An extraordinary biography of a share cropper, Kas Maine, throwing light on the
social history of South Africa, from 1894 to 1985. This tale of an African
struggling to maintain his family in a society which was dedicated to enriching
only white people has been given rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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