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The power of ephemera: permanence and decay in protective power objects.	Bessire, Aimee	Report	Sep 22, 2009	6111
The Writer and His Critics: A Critical Review of Studies on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fiction.	Bodunde, Charles Agboola	Critical essay	Jun 22, 2009	2822
Vlles Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie.	Cohen, Joshua		Jun 22, 2009	1825
A Philadelphia company goes to Guinea: bringing African tradition back to the U.S.	Croft, Clare		Apr 1, 2009	623
A joyful return: Mali's Star of Stars.	Sangare, Oumou		Mar 1, 2009	740
Tropical treasures from the archives: Congolese rumba to the roots of zouk.			Feb 1, 2009	707
Dismissing Africa.			Jan 1, 2009	1259
Masquerade politics in contemporary Southeastern Nigeria.	Bentor, Eli		Dec 22, 2008	7121
The sense behind our nonsense; Libation is one of the most misrepresented African traditional practices. But it is extremely important because it is poured mainly to remind everyone that man is on the earth but the earth does not belong to him. "Listen and do the same!", therefore, is the basic message of libation.	Duodu, Cameron	Personal account	Aug 1, 2008	2965
At the tereshold of a renaissance: Ethiopia celebrates its third millennium against a backdrop of a rejuvenated economy, with an average growth rate of 11.9% in the last five successive years. All indicators show that the country, with a proud history going back 3,000 years, is on the cusp of a profound economic and social transformation.			Jun 1, 2008	1694
Racial politics of writing African history: "As a historian of African descent, I regard the decolonisation of knowledge as a crucial step in ensuring that Africans worldwide retake control of their own destinies and histories.".	Ray, Carina		May 1, 2008	1387
Temne twins (ta-bari) should share everything: do you mean everything?	Lamp, Frederick John	Critical essay	Mar 22, 2008	11418
Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria.	Borgatti, Jean M.	Critical essay	Mar 22, 2008	2329
His masters' voice.	Ankomah, Baffour		Jan 1, 2008	1679
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and the essentializing of Africa: a critical double standard?	Purcell, William F.	Critical essay	Nov 1, 2007	1034
Africa: cradle of civilisation.	Fofack, Hippolyte		May 1, 2007	1954
Southern exposure: highlighting the work of photographers from the Majority World.	Opebiyi, Bukkie	Brief article	Jan 1, 2007	214
The meaning of gender equality in Ghana: women's perceptions of the issues of gender equality: implications for social work education and practice in Ghana.	Sossou, Marie-Antoinette		Nov 1, 2006	10395
African art and culture in Maine.	Ottenberg, Simon		Mar 22, 2006	4576
African indigenous knowledge: claiming, writing, storing, and sharing the discourse.	Wane, Njoki Nathani		Jun 22, 2005	7831
Bamako: city of culture, people of hospitality; Stephen Williams, on a recent visit to Mali, was bowled over by the delights of the capital city, Bamako, one of Africa's great artistic epicentres which, as expected, acts as a magnet for many of the country's artists.	Williams, Stephen		May 1, 2005	1428
Echoes of Africa in To Sleep With Anger and Eve's Bayou.	Ellison, Mary		Mar 22, 2005	10908
Exploring cultures through maps.	Grady, Bev		Feb 1, 2005	634
Catholic saints, African Gods, black masks and white heads: tracing the history of some religious festivals in Bahia.	Roca, Roger Sansi		Jan 1, 2005	8877
The craft industry in South Africa: a review of ten years of democracy.	Gaylard, Joseph		Dec 22, 2004	2245
Immersed in West African ritual: a Brooklyn club samples the cuisine of Senegal to enrich its reading of a Senegalese novelist.	Houser, Pat		Nov 1, 2004	824
Updating the black struggle; Recently The Economist--which these days could simply change its name to The Businessman--wrote: "Portugal was the first African colony in Europe." Blacks in the Diaspora are tired of the Brazilian-style "marginalisation" which they have suffered from for much longer than the term has internationally been applied to Africa.	de Figueiredo, Antonio		Oct 1, 2004	1593
The cultural identity of Africa and the global tasks of Africana studies.	Konadu, Kwasi		Mar 22, 2004	4394
Drawing tradition: Dogon children's art in the age of tourism.	Schildkrout, Enid		Mar 22, 2004	5400
Kenyan women reject 'sex cleanser'.		Brief Article	Nov 1, 2003	327
African festival.		Brief Article	Aug 11, 2003	68
The magic of Kilwa Island. (Feature: Tanzania).	Hordern, Nick		Jan 1, 2003	2186
Time, communion, and ancestry in African biblical interpretation: a contextual note on 1 Maccabees 2:49-70.	Aguilar, Mario I.		Sep 22, 2002	12170
Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, Africa, and the "Darwinist trap".	Japtok, Martin	Critical Essay	Sep 22, 2002	7834
Leopold Senghor: the strength of contradictions. (first word).	Jules-Rosette, Bennetta		Jun 22, 2002	649
Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa. (exhibition preview).	Cameron, Elisabeth L.		Jun 22, 2002	5109
Dogon funerals. (photo essay).	Davis, Shawn R.		Jun 22, 2002	1250
Powers of blackness: Africanist discourse in modern concert music.	Kramer, Lawrence		Mar 22, 2002	7180

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