Award Winning Books: African Studies

African Intellectual Heritage

A Book of Sources

edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Abu S. Abarry

Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1997
Molefi Kete Asante, recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association

This comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diaspora

848 pages | 7 x 10

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The Afrocentric Idea

Revised and Expanded Edition

Molefi Kete Asante

Molefi Kete Asante, recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association

Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic

256 pages | 5.5 x 8.2

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Black Theatre

Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora

edited by Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II and Gus Edwards

Finalist for the George Freedley Memorial Award for an outstanding book in theatre or another area of live performance from the Theatre Library Association, 2002

An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history

432 pages | 7 x 10 | 1 table

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Black Venus 2010

They Called Her "Hottentot"

Edited by Deborah Willis

Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies by the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2011

Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the “Hottentot Venus”

288 pages | 7 x 10 | 42 duotones

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Hope Is Cut

Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia

Daniel Mains

Finalist for the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize, 2013

A detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalization

208 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps

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The Struggling State

Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea

Jennifer Riggan

Honorable Mention for the 2018 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from The Comparative and International Education Society

Examining Eritrean teachers’ paradoxical role of educating students forced into the military

258 pages | 6 x 9

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