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African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine

Book by M. Akin Makinde; Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988

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Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization, Philosophy, African, Traditional Medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

The African philosopher might then conclude that the American philosopher who writes and teaches African philosophy cannot be called an African philosopher. To our hypothetical African philosopher this...
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African Literature, African Critics: The Forming of Critical Standards, 1947-1966

Book by Rand Bishop; Greenwood Press, 1988

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African Literature (English)--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, African Literature (French)--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Canon (Literature), Criticism--Africa--History--20th Century, Literature And Society--Africa--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...experience as seen through the eyes of an African. Questions shifted to the qualification of African literature. What were the essential elements...territories. Ronald Segal, a white South African, challenged the validity of "that feeling...
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Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues

Book by Richard H. Bell; Routledge, 2002

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Philosophy, African, Philosophy--Africa

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Africa, in Kiros, ed., Exploration in African Political Thought New York and London: Routledge, 2001 , pp. 69-80. 45. Hountondji, African Philosophy, p. 67. 46. Hountondji, African Philosophy, p. 67. 47. Hountondji, African...
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African-American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader

Book by Harry J. Elam Jr., David Krasner; Oxford University Press, 2001

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African American Theater, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

many African American playwrights work to capture the...gender and racial circumstances surrounding African Americans literal movement. Historians...Darlene Clark Hine, have documented how African American men and women had markedly different...
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The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945

Book by Marc Gallicchio; University of North Carolina Press, 2000

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African Americans--Politics And Government--20th Century, African Americans--Relations With Chinese, African Americans--Relations With Japanese, China--Relations--United States, Japan--Relations--United States, Racism--Political Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Foreign Relations--Citizen Participation, United States--Relations--China, United States--Relations--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...system struck responsive chords among African Americans who had developed their own...audiences to watch the Indian people, African American and Indian leaders traveled across...meet and exchange ideas and support.47 African Americans identification with the peoples...

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Journal Articles on: african

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"Not an Academic Affair": African American Scholars and the Development of African Studies Programs in the United States, 1942-1960

Journal article by Jerry Gershenhorn; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, 2009

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African American scholars--Demonstrations and protests, Black history, Black studies--History, Blacks--History, Blacks--Study and teaching

Collections: History, Entire Library

...social scientists to study African Americans and Africans only as subjects of domination...cultural achievements of Africans and African Americans. By doing so...exposing white society to Africans and African Americans monumental contributions...
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The Longue Duree of Africans in Mexico: The Historiography of Racialization, Acculturation, and Afro-Mexican Subjectivity

Journal article by Irene A. Vasquez; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010

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Africans--Economic aspects, Africans--Educational aspects, Africans--History, Africans--Social aspects, Anthropological research, Mexico--Social aspects

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...reproduction. Over time, Africans and people of African descent in Mexico displayed...church officials on Africans and African-descended people during...broached the subject of African cultural input, but minimized Africans influence in favor of...
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"We, Too, Rise with You": Recovering Langston Hughes's African (Re)Turn 1954-1960 in an African Treasury, the Chicago Defender, and Black Orpheus

Journal article by Daniel Won-Gu Kim; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Political aspects, African American poets--Works, An African Treasury (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Black Orpheus (Periodical), Chicago Defender (Newspaper), Hughes, Langston--Criticism and interpretation, Hughes, Langston--Political aspects, Hughes, Langston--Works

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...would become An African Treasury: Articles...Poems by Black Africans, a breakthrough...great number of Africans as he assembled An African Treasury. Noting...for example, Africans "taking back" their African names) that has...
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Race, Masculinity, and Military Occupation: African American Soldiers' Encounters with the Japanese at Camp Gifu, 1947-1951

Journal article by Yasuhiro Okada; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 96, 2011

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African American leadership--Management, African American soldiers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Gifu Prefecture, Japan--Military aspects, Gifu Prefecture, Japan--Social aspects, Masculinity--Management, Military occupation--Social aspects, Racial attitudes--Management, United States. Army. 24th Infantry Division--Management

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and attitudes toward African American GIs during...practices toward the Africans and other dark-skinned...civilization" and "African barbarity and savagery...first contact with the African Diaspora can be traced...traders, several hundred Africans arrived in Japan and...
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The Rise of African Studies (Usa) and the Transnational Study of Africa

Journal article by William G. Martin; African Studies Review, Vol. 54, 2011

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African studies, Studies, United States, World War II

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...very, very few Africans or African Americans. Existing...addition of a few Africans to the Executive...resistance by many African scholars." Vice...continental Africa, by Africans. As a result...1970s and 1980s African scholars and Euro...

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Magazine Articles on: african

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African Americans in South African-American Diplomacy: A Case Study in Race and Citizenship Debates, 1895-1925

Magazine article by Robert Trent Vinson; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 61, January 1998

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African Americans--Relations with South Africa, South Africa--History, Turner, Henry McNeal--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...twentieth century, white South Africans associated African Americans with Ethiopianism...legal distinctions between Africans and African Americans. Indeed, James...land and only 13% for the African majority. Africans did not receive the 13...
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100 Influential Africans

Magazine article by Regina Jere-Malanda, Raissa Vieyra; New African, June 2011

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Africans--Appreciation, Celebrities--Appreciation, Government officials--Appreciation

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...grown solutions to African problems, making Africans responsible and...researcher at the South African Astronomical Observatory...encourage black South Africans to take up astronomy...world-class African sports personality...reputation of Africans as the greatest...
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African American Religion and Public Life: An Assessment

Magazine article by Peter J. Paris; Cross Currents, Vol. 58, Fall 2008

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Abolition of slavery--Religious aspects, African American religious groups--Aims and objectives, African American religious groups--History, African American religious groups--Management, African Americans--Aims and objectives, African Americans--History, African Americans--Management, African Americans--Religious aspects, Megachurches--History, Megachurches--Management, Racism--Religious aspects, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Then and then alone did African Americans rightfully...people formerly known as Africans in America and subsequently...proclaimed hybrid name, African American. This practice...racism. Thereafter, the African Methodist Episcopal...activity. Rather, Africans universally condemned...
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African Union - Forward Ever, Backward Never: The African Union Must Not Be the OAU with a Different Name, Just as the EU Is Not the EEC by Another Name

Magazine article by Mammo Muchie; New African, September 2001

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African cooperation--Management, International relations--Planning, Organization of African Unity--Management

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...Union genuinely African is if Africans try creative ways...resources for the African Union must come from Africans themselves. External...in millions over African death. This must be stopped. Only Africans at a union level...
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African Immigrants Making Headway in USA

Magazine article by Leslie Goffe; New African, December 2011

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Africans--Emigration and immigration, Africans--Influence, United States--Demographic aspects

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...York area paper for African expats, says Africans in the US are politically...one of New Yorks 47 African-run mosques. Africans in New York City are...advocacy group, the United African Congress, convinced Africans to vote as a bloc and...

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African Group Emerges as Peacekeeper: SADC's Original Goal Was Stronger Economic Growth

Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, October 22, 1998

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Southern African Development Community

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

African group emerges as peacekeeper: SADCs original...growth by Gus Constantine The Southern African Development Community (SADC), created...Africa in a wider war between two rival African blocs, with Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia...
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Leaders Dare to Change Dark Continent; African Union Is Hopeful, but Doubts Remain

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 11, 2002

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African Union, Mbeki, Thabo, Organization of African Unity

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...spectacular greeting to the African Union this week. It...the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which...telephone interview. "The Africans themselves are taking...continents regeneration. The Africans say they are, at last...commentators and some African leaders derided the...
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South African President: Gadhafi Ready for Truce

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 31, 2011

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African Union, Rebels, Zuma, Jacob

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

South African President: Gadhafi Ready for Truce...fighting in his country, the visiting South African president said Monday after meeting the...Rebels quickly rejected the offer. South African President Jacob Zuma said Gadhafi is ready...
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African Art of Today; 'Obsessed Collector' Shares His Treasures

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 26, 2005

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Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

African Art of Today; Obsessed Collector Shares His Treasures. Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES If the National Museum of African Arts "African Art Now: Masterpieces From the Jean Pigozzi Collection" doesnt knock...
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African Republic Resents Presence of Gadhafi Troops

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 16, 2002

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Central African Republic, Qadhafi, Muammar

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...between Libya and the Central African Republic. "The Chadians are...intervention in the Central African Republic, especially as they...involvement in the country. Central African Republics independent press...the Libyan troops. "Central Africans are asking themselves: what...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african

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African Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Some of the first African writings to gain attention...Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), which described...the slave trade. As Africans became literate in their...After World War II, as Africans began demanding their independence, more African writers were published...
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African Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AFRICAN ART art created by the peoples south of...tools, were a vital art in nearly all African cultures. The lack of archaeological excavations...restricts knowledge of the antiquity of African art. As the value of these works was inseparable...
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African Languages

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AFRICAN LANGUAGES geographic rather...tongue Nubian, the only modern African language with early written...cent. Because the majority of Africans do not know a European tongue, the use of written African languages has become increasingly...
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South African Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE literary works...Africa or written by South Africans living in other countries...distinctive literature in many African languages as well as Afrikaans...and English. See also African literature . Although Afrikaans...
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Central African Republic

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC republic (2005 est. pop. 3...Population density is low relative to other African nations, and the eastern portion of the...pharmaceuticals are imported. The Central African Republics chief trading partners are Belgium...

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