Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of li…
African Isms: Africa and the Globalized World
African isms: Africa and the globalized world
Monograph on forced labour, expropriation of indigenous landowners and the evolution of the African worker in colonial French-speaking Africa. Covers historical and sociological aspects of colonialism and capitalism in Central Africa, economic and social implications of the Cong…
Africa has been subject to Western misrepresentations since the earliest ventures of Europeans into the continent. The colonial clichés of Africa as the “Dark continent” and its people as lazy, licentious savages incapable of progress have been established to justify Western exp…
Immigration to the United States from African nations is growing exponentially. Female African immigrant populations in the United States are growing faster than male African immigrant populations. Despite the growing population, there has been limited research examining the Afr…
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role that information plays in the decision-making process of people leaving their native countries in distress and seeking refuge in a camp in a foreign country, in this case, Tanzania. The rise in the number of refugees globa…
The Baltimore Afro American newspaper, founded in 1892 advocated an African identity and forged a connection to Africa and other parts of the Diaspora for the local and national Black community. This dissertation uses a Pan-African paradigm to examine the Afro American's coverag…
This dissertation is about the transformation of an African pastoral system, involving the intertwined processes of intensification and individualization. The intensification of the pastoral system is a response to the disappearance of rangelands, and has led to a significant in…
The dissertation examines the transmission of cultural values in a selection of African women's texts, written in English and published between 1966 and 1986. Focusing on a range of works by Kenyan, Nigerian and South African women, the study explores modes of memory and examine…