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''Mesfin Hagos joined the Eritrean war of independence in 1967 at the tender age of nineteen years. He rose to prominence and became an iconic figure of the nationalist movement by dint of his brilliance, strength of character, iron discipline, and tireless learning and self-improvement. He was at the scene during the most difficult turns and twists of the nationalist movement and led its most decisive battles. This book is as much the story of his life as it is an account of the Eritrean war of independence and struggle for freedom. It is a story of ungrieved losses and uncelebrated heroism. It is a tale of un-indemnified sacrifices and imperiled gains. The milestones of the nationalist movement and government came with its own unexpiated missteps. This book bears witness to all that and points toward a way out.'' - from the introduction by Awet Tewelde Weldemichael.

''In Okantah''s new book, A Black Voice in the Wilderness, he writes ''word sounds have power,'' which could be the four-word biography of his life. Everything about his poetry, blogs, performances, teaching, etc. centers around what happens when he uses his voice to document Black life and speak out against racial injustice through a cultural collective lens while coining new terms and phrases like: ''Truth is rinsed white,'' ''white privilege is Vanilla-ISIS,'' and ''Black people are still ''strange fruit.'' A must read.'' --Dr. Mary E. Weems, Poet, Playwright and social/cultural foundations Scholar. ''Mwatabu Okantah is a modern-day Griot giving voice to the inconvenient truths and spiritual sickness of our American story. He is one of the ''good people'' standing up to say, ''enough is enough.'' We need Okantah''s open and honest voice, these powerful poems and piercing commentary, now more than ever to wake us up to the modern plague of race hatred in this country.'' --David Hassler, Director, Wick Poetry Center. ''A Black Voice in the Wilderness must not be ignored. Okantah''s writing rips open the wounds of our racial history and allows for true and visceral vulnerability. The writing expands our consciousness as Americans still reeling in the pain of a deliberate and violent history. Okantah''s words offer us a pathway to begin to listen, and to heal.'' --Annie Fullard, Violinist, Cavani String Quartet

This book is highly recommended for use by postgraduate-level students and researchers in the socioeconomic and socio-behavioral fields. The book introduces novice researchers to commonly used econometric and statistical methods of data analysis. The methods covered in the book are commonly used for performing quantitative and qualitative data analyses in socioeconomic, demographic, public-health and socio-behavioral studies. The book is especially helpful to learners who wish to acquire basic skills in quantitative and qualitative data analysis by using statistical packages such as SPSS and STATA. Theoretical principles are outlined, followed by easy numerical examples, along with steps that need to be followed for performing data analyses and interpreting results obtained from data analyses. The book has two aspects (quantitative and qualitative data analyses). As part of the quantitative aspect, the book stipulates theoretical principles, steps needed for data analysis, and the interpretation of results of data analyses. The book provides easy examples to follow on how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation-and-referencing style. Examples are provided for journal articles, books, and Internet-based reports and sources of information. A sample proposal, a questionnaire of study, and a list of interview questions are provided for learners to follow. These documents are custom-made to requirements that apply to postgraduate-level studies at Tshwane University of Technology. The book also provides steps on how to use appropriate goodness-of-fit tests for all procedures of quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Such tests are required for assessing the theoretical reliability of fitted models. As part of the qualitative aspect, the book provides learners a practical example of thematic analysis, which is a commonly used method of qualitative data analysis. The book enables learners to write research proposals and perform quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis. Raw data sets are used for illustrating theoretical principles. The book performs the analyses of raw data sets in the statistical packages SPSS and STATA. Easy steps that need to be followed by learners are outlined and provided in all parts of the book.

Boko Haram, Islamic Protest, and National Security highlights one of the most serious problems of the contemporary world order - ideologically and religious motivated violence. Terrorist movements like Boko Haram represent a challenge to an understanding of contemporary Islam, distorted economic and political development, and the injustices of the international world order. The resonance between local conditions and trans-national problems raises serious issues of public policy and national security. These problems are perceived in religious terms that have dangerous consequences in terms of perceptions of Islam that undermine efforts to promote multicultural societies and peaceful interaction globally. Contributors to the volume approach the phenomenon ''from below'' by relying on primary sources, aiming to exhume the underlying roots of Boko Haram and present recommendations to generate effective policies.

Modern development had its hesitant beginnings less than 300 years ago, and historians still debate the forces behind this ongoing event. It clearly is related to the organization of human efforts and the use of natural sources, but arrangements in relation to trade and access to resources are equally significant. There is no society or country that does not want to take part in what we call economic development, but without degrading people to becoming just producing automata. Still we occasionally divide the word into the developed and the less developed (or even underdeveloped) parts of the world. It is not easy to point exactly to causes for the rapid development of some countries and why others linger behind. Many theories have been put forward to explain development and the lack of it. In this book, an attempt has been made to point to some of the factors that may have had a decisive influence on development and what has hindered such development. Both historical factors and soc

A bold and new critique on the nefarious impact of imperialism in Africa, and the way forward. Maloba states, in elaborate analysis, that the future of Africa lies in socialism, in pursuit of communism. How can this revolution be attained in Africa? For those in Africa, seeking to oust imperialism, we must start from the position that this is our moment. Maloba urges us to avoid self-doubt; fear and rehearsed inclination to imagine that imperialism is permanent and indispensable in the history and future of Africa. We cannot remain indifferent to the crimes of imperialism in our societies, in Africa. Further, it is crucial to avoid the self-serving theory of looking for overripe conditions for revolution. All revolutionary conditions, even if inviting and promising, must be woven into a revolution. It is bourgeois inspired naivete to imagine that revolution in Africa can occur without effort, planning, focus, devotion, leadership. This is a conspiracy against revolutionary action. Wit

Lawrence Hamm's life links the most powerful social movements of the last 50 years. Appointed to the Newark, New Jersey Board of Education in 1971 at the age of 17, he balanced the radical world of Newark's Black Power Movement with a racially-divided city's practical public policy concerns. What were his rewards? Harsh criticism in the press, dropping out of Princeton University, being publicly attacked by the man who appointed him--Kenneth Gibson, Newark's first Black mayor--and an attempted framing on a gun he never had. It's the story of how one man juggled Princeton, the power and contradictions of the People's Struggle, employment in corporate America, marriage and fatherhood, with some days being better than others. His greatest accomplishment was helping to found the People's Organization for Progress, a grassroots activist group that for the past 39 years has been a fixture in New York tri-state area activist circles. From fighting to free Mandela in the 1970s and 1980s to protesting local police brutality cases in George Floyd/Breonna Taylor 2020 and beyond, this autobiography--an intimate portrait of one man who took his elite education, tremendous oratory skills and well-honed stamina and created a transmutational spear from it--documents how he always knew his journey meant nothing without the People.

''History is real and authentic when written by history makers. Professor Bereket Habte Selassie demonstrated this reality in his latest book. It represents a culmination of Professor Bereket''s outstanding work, and a sturdy testimonial of Ethiopia''s intellectual heritage.'' - Tseggai Issac, Chancellor''s Professor of Political Science, Missouri Univ. of Science & echnology ''Critical Narrative & Reflections on Ethiopian History, authored by a distinguished professor, Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie is written at a time of creative stagnation in Ethiopia and it could be a blessing for potential Ethiopian scholars to initiate investigative discourses on the overall Ethiopian phenomenon despite the negative impulses in the larger Ethiopian society.'' - Ghelawdewos Araia, PhD, Associate Professor, African & International Studies, Lehman

The Appropriate Technology Manifesto is based on the collective work of the International Network on Appropriate Technology (INAT) and dates back to our first international conference on appropriate technology (1st ICAT) held in Zimbabwe in 2004. Since then we have held nine international conferences on appropriate technology across Africa. INAT has also supported appropriate technology projects in Benin, Kenya, South Africa and the Sudan. In 2010, INAT presented an Appropriate Technology Declaration at a National conference on Appropriate Technology held in Washington DC. This AT declaration is a cornerstone of much of the work of INAT and anchors INAT''s approach to technology policy. This declaration can be found on our website www.appropriatetech.net.

In his book ''Unmasking Forced Displacement'' Fikre Mariam explores the multiple intersections between the older colonialist legacies and the current wrong approaches and policies that make a significant breakthrough almost impossible in regard to the issues of displacement around the world. Taking the Horn of Africa''s displacement situation as a case in point, the book discusses that a change in beliefs and values is needed to effectively address the displacement challenge. The responsibility for welcoming refugees lies primarily with states in so far as control over borders and territories are exclusive sovereign rights of states. However, in order to tackle forced displacement, empathy and solidarity are needed so that everyone has a moral duty to reach out when fellow human beings are in distress. Unmasking Forced Displacement also debunks false narratives about forced displacement. It is partly a personal story and partly a bold analysis of the real causes of why people are forced

This monograph examines the ongoing career of the internationally recognized Kalabari-British artist, Sokari Douglas Camp, from her earliest documented undergraduate works of the 1980s through more than four decades of prolific sculptural production. It describes her recursive explorations of subjects engaged in masquerade performance, costumed display, spiritual activity, danced movement, and protesting violence, pollution, and racial injustice. These diverse themes are consistently informed by her viewpoint as a contemporary, cosmopolitan, African woman. Significant personal and environmental influences are brought out in discussions of the selected works; more than eighty colour figures, many never before published, illustrate the text. Douglas Camp''s name is well-known in the Black British and International arts worlds, but the attention paid her sculpture has swelled and receded episodically: this is the first publication to consider the complexity of her career and suggest reas

This book is about the evolution of modern medical practices in the Sudan including curative medicine, public health, medical research, and education. It covers an important era from 1924, when the first medical school in the country was inaugurated and goes until the Independence of Sudan in 1956. The Sudan, known then as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was not officially a British colony. The British came during zenith of the ''Great Scramble for Africa'' and Kitchener''s appeal for the Gordon Memorial College set the platform for modern education in the Sudan, and following his demise, his call to establish a medical school in the country was heeded. The medical school inaugurated in 1924 became the third of its kind in Africa, which helped the mesh of expanding the service to remote parts of the country. The author and translator of more than seven books on the history of Sudanese medicine walk us through a comprehensive and authoritative description of the formative years of KSM, events,

This book is a compilation of essays by prominent theologians and scholars analysing the experiences of Black people in the US and the historic and ongoing impact of systemic racism. In this instance, how do we understand the anger, holy black rage that has inflamed and enraged the American pubic since the murder of Mr. Floyd? As one of the contributors Dr. Charles Boyer says: ''Black rage is the equal and opposite reaction to unjust public policy. The outrage expressed in the streets is the rage most Black people feel but do not express externally or publicly. Black Christians seek peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation, yet Black Rage is an unquenchable fire shut up in our bones. That rage consumes us daily. We try to contain it, but the trauma weighs on our mental and physical health. Doc Rivers, head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, expresses our outrage perfectly in just a few words; ''It''s amazing, we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us''.''

Beyond These Eyes is an adult memoir. Focused on surviving against the odds with an unwavering desire for social betterment, this is a great read for individuals interested in hearing a diverse voice that highlights a distinguished Jamaican history born out of the struggles of post colonialism where this vulnerable child fights for acceptance. Beyond These Eyes is a poignant story about the early years of the youngest of four Jamaican sisters, left behind when their mother immigrated to a foreign land called Canada in 1970. This heroine''s relentless journey to survive despite near-death experiences, illiteracy, poverty, molestation, emotional abuse, abandonment, and deceit is unimaginable. From the vivid and descriptive memories of this survivor comes a page-turner that invites the reader to relive her difficult and humble beginnings contrasted with the imagery, history and taste of the Jamaican culture, customs, and cuisine. Beyond These Eyes will impart a significant message of hope

Ezra Gebremedhin (B.A., M.A., B.D., D.Th.) was born and brought up in Ethiopia, where he was also ordained into the ministry of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY). Ezra''s parents moved to Ethiopia from Eritrea (then an Italian colony) in the latter half of the Nineteen-twenties. He and his siblings received a deep and the lasting impression of the Evangelical Lutheran faith which had nourished their parents in Eritrea when they were young. A retired Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Uppsala, the author has also served as a pastor not only in the Church of Sweden but also among the Eritrean Diaspora and Ethiopians of Evangelical Lutheran and other Christain persuasions. This present work reflects experiences accumulated in the course of his academic research and teaching, his pastoral ministry, and everyday contacts among Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Swedes. Since 1994, the author and his wife, Gennet Awalom, are Swedish citizens and residents of Upp

The chapters contained in this volume explore the various political and social pillars that support Eritrean nationhood and sovereignty. These pillars of thought and action are a national imperative of which every Eritrean must be constantly reminded. The contributors to this volume are waging an intellectual struggle, similar to the thirty years of guerrilla warfare that secured Eritrea''s independent statehood and sovereignty. Contributors to this volume include: Bereket H. Selassie, ed., Awet T. Weldemichael, Samuel Emaha Tsegai, Assefaw Tekeste, Mohamed Kheir Omer, Anghesom Atsbaha, Ghirmai Negash, Abdulrazig K. Osman, Daniel Teklai and Ismail Omar-Ali.

''This is a great resource chronicling Anglophone Burkinabe literature, opening up the Francophone country Burkina Faso to the world! Kabore finally brings us a much awaited and sorely needed detailed compendium of a range of works written in English (or translated into English) starting in 1989 up to present, including poetry, plays, novels, tales, and shamen''s works. Key themes addressed, such as witchcraft, women''s emancipation with bicycle transportation, feminism, creation myths, and ecocriticism will allow scholars of Anglophone African literature to include Burkinabe literature into their comparative analysis. This book features over 25 Anglophone Burkinabe authors, the ancestors of future Anglophone Burkinabe authors. This compendium shall inspire further production of fine Burkinabe literature in English! Kabore''s call for required reading of Anglophone Burkinabe literature in Burkinabe schools; his call for these Burkinabe writers to make their English works available in Burk

In 1998 and 2000, Lawrence F. Sykes (1931-2020) and Charles Cantalupo travel together in Eritrea. Sykes in Eritrea offers a visual record and an account in poetry of their journey. Sykes''s experience as a longtime American photographer, graphic artist, professor, and citizen of the world prepares him for a unique encounter with a unique place. Cantalupo''s familiarity with Eritrea and its culture, including its writers and poets, provides him with an inimitable sense of place.

When Memuna is refused access to an Anglican Secondary school because of her name, she finds herself stuck in a British colonial legacy with no room for the ancient traditions in which she is being raised. But Sierra Leone is a complex society of Animists, Muslims, and Christians; of descendants of freed African slaves, of West Africans rescued from slave ships, and of indigenous peoples. In SENSE IN A CLEAR BOTTLE, we journey through ancestral worship and Muslim feasts, through Thanksgiving services and rugged neighbourhoods, to reveal corruption, coups, gender bias, the wretched condition of women, and undercover religious practices. This is a story of a young girl''s conflict between home and school, between Christian teachers and Muslim parents, and between community and self. The author remembers: ''I was three years old, sitting on a thin slab watching Granny bath my baby sister. ''I''m putting this bitter juice in your mouth today,'' she said, squeezing the chaff from kola nut she h

This ethnographic study appreciates the cultural traditions of African-descended communities in the south of Pakistan and is a first endeavour to show that their history, society, religion and everyday practices can be a source of pride for them. Known as Shidis, ''black'' Baloch and Khaskhelis, Afro-Pakistanis constitute a sizeable minority of around 300,000 souls living on the fringes of one of the world''s most populous multi-ethnic countries - mostly impoverished, socially deprived, and politically disempowered. Their distinct traditions and practices, ''til now understudied, are shaped by the historical circumstances of trans-oceanic migration. Uprooted from their original homelands in East-, Northeast- and Central Africa, the descendants of former slaves, soldiers and seafarers, but also of free men and women, still preserve their African heritage which significantly contributes to the cultural kaleidoscope and spiritual wealth of Pakistan. Their ''voices'', understood as reminiscence

FREEDOM FOR MOROCCO: A FAMILY TALE is a historical and autobiographical book. By weaving together two intertwined narratives, a personal account invites readers into the home of one Moroccan family. A collective narrative reveals the shared struggles of Moroccan citizens for democracy. By alternating between micro- and macro-histories, this book presents fragments that have long been erased from the history of contemporary Morocco. Thus, it offers a corrective re-examination of concepts and key events conveyed by official historical sources from 1921 to the present day, notably Morocco''s anti-colonial uprisings, the emergence of neocolonialism under the guise of formal independence, the institutionalisation of predatory capitalism, the establishment of a democratic facade, the Islamisation politics of the governing elite and the emergence of Islamism.

Africans played critical roles in the Allied victory over Nazism and totalitarianism in the Second World War. However, a palpable silence on Africa''s role in the annual commemorations of the war''s momentous events in North America and Europe speaks to a larger phenomenon of lack of recognition. While there is no shortage of work on the Second World War, the focus is on Europeans, North Americans, and Asians. Except for a few recent monographs, Africa''s contribution to the war remains on the margins of the academic discourse on the subject. This book moves Africa''s role from the margins to the center of the Second World War discussion. It asserts that the combat role of African soldiers was critical to the Allied victory in the war. Similarly, Africans'' non-combat role kept military and non-military supply lines open and whirring during the war and facilitated victory. Also of extraordinary importance was Africa''s economic role in the form of voluntary financial contributions, tax reve

Mulatu was the first Ethiopian jazz music-maker to study abroad and thus be exposed to Western musical trends. When he returned to Addis Ababa he pursued his dream of drawing on the musical heritage of his homeland - a heritage that has been buffeted by Ethiopia''s turbulent history - to produce a unique, compelling blend of music: ''Ethiopian sounds with a twist''. In the late 1960s, his Ethio jazz introduced, among other new ideas, the Afro-Latin soul where he played conga, piano, vibraphone and innovative musical arrangements. These included compositions of popular Ethio jazz music which took on a modern, funk, jazz-infused quality that soon had recording companies knocking at his door.

In Framing Somalia, Abdi Samatar goes beyond the gaze of Africa''s Merchants of Misery and offers a fresh and progressive rethinking on Somali cultural and political studies. Rather than turning Somalis, their culture, and politics into an orientalist fossil, this new book offers a more complex, dynamic, and context sensitive rendering of the political and cultural developments in the country over the last century. Abdi Samatar uses three case studies focusing on democratic politics, Islam, and piracy to show case alternative ways of being Somali and understanding Somalia.