Macelle Mahala, "Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies"
English | ISBN: 0810145146 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Macelle Mahala's rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work's meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities' "arts ecologies" to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration.

African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil By Scott Ickes
2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0813044782 | PDF | 4 MB
Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as "Brazil's Black Rome." Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its African-descended population is one of the largest in Latin America. Yet despite representing a majority of the population, African-Bahians remain a marginalized racial group within the state as a whole. InAfrican-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil, Scott Ickes examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, African-Bahian cultural practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé during carnival and other popular religious festivals came to be accepted as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices were repressed in favor of more European traditions and a more "modern" vision. Newfound acceptance of these customs was a democratic move forward, but it also perpetuated the political and economic marginalization of the black majority. Ickes argues that cultural-political alliances between African-Bahian cultural practitioners and their dominant-class allies nevertheless helped to create a meaningful framework through which African-Bahian inclusion could be negotiated-a framework that is also important in the larger discussions of race and regional and national identity throughout Brazil.

Jennifer Cole, "Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration"
English | ISBN: 022640515X | 2016 | 352 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, the book explores the many ways migrants sustain and rework family ties and intimate relationships at home and abroad. It demonstrates how their quotidian efforts-on such a mass scale-contribute to a broader process of social regeneration.

South African Home Owner – September 2022
English | 182 Pages | PDF | 217.91 MB

Yoruba Mythology: Definitive Guide to African Orisha Gods, Goddess and Fascinating Stories by Trident Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B2PGDM4D | 52 pages | EPUB | 0.46 Mb
Yoruba religion has a long history that dates back to the Stone Age. Around 600 BC, it was influenced by the introduction of agriculture from the Middle East. Initially, their Gods symbolized various natural elements such as streams, storms, and forests. The Yoruba Gods' appearance has become more anthropomorphic as agriculture, metallurgy, and civilization expanded. Yoruba religion comprises ancient religious and spiritual conceptions, Yoruba mythology, and Yoruba customs.

Bavual The African Heritage Magazine - August 2022
English | 100 pages | PDF | 84.7 MB

Felix Maringe, "Decolonising African University Knowledges, Volume 1: Voices on Diversity and Plurality "
English | ISBN: 1032132272 | 2022 | 140 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics. It claims that academics from socially, politically, and geographically underprivileged communities in the South need to have their voices heard outside of the global power structure.

English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07PFLNYNK | Duration: 11:31 h | 158 MB
Mark Owens, Delia Owens / Narrated by Donna Postel, Sean Runnette
Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet in the 1970s and 1980s, about 1,000 of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. When biologists Mark and Delia Owens, residing in Africa to study lions, found themselves in the middle of a poaching fray, they took the only side they morally could: that of the elephants.

Kevin C. Dunn, Pierre Englebert, "Inside African Politics"
English | 2019 | pages: 488 | ISBN: 162637807X | PDF | 8,4 mb
The second edition of Inside African Politics, updated throughout to reflect political developments across the continent, not only provides thorough coverage of the full range of core topics, but also furthers an awareness and understanding of key theoretical issues and current debates. Drawing on their extensive teaching and fieldwork experience, Pierre Englebert and Kevin Dunn offer a straightforward, accessible style, making even complex ideas easy to understand, and a balanced approach, exposing multiple perspectives on contested issues; a focus on both states and citizens, politics from above and below; discussions of existing policies, as well as policy implications of different approaches; and an abundance of rich data and illustrative examples. The result is both an essential text and a long-term resource for students and scholars alike.

Nikkole Salter, Sandra Adell, "Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0252081196 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 1.7 mb