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Title The Africans : a reader / senior editor, Ali A. Mazrui ; managing editor, Toby Kleban Levine ; coordinating editors, Tracy Burke Carrier, Frieda Lindfield Werden.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Praeger, 1986.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  960 Af832 1986    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xviii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "Praeger special studies. Praeger scientific."
Text developed as a companion volume to the public television series, The Africans, co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and WETA/TV, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-322) and index.
Contents Indigenous Africa / Christopher Davis-Roberts -- Anatomy of a continent / Merrick Posnansky -- The triple heritage of lifestyles / Elliott P. Skinner -- New gods / Lamin Sanneh -- Exploitation / Robert I. Rotberg -- New conflicts / Pearl T. Robinson -- In search of stability: independence and experimentation / Fred M. Hayward -- A garden of Eden in decay? / Victor Olorunsola, with the assistance of Dan Muhwezi -- A conflict of cultures / Elliott P. Skinner, Gwendolyn Mikell -- Africa in the world / Victor T. Le Vine -- Africa is one: the view from the Sahara / Ali A. Mazrui -- The cultural diaspora / Mbye Cham.
Subject Africa -- Civilization.
Afrique -- Civilisation.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Genre/Form Television programs. (OCoLC)fst01726253
Television programs.
Added Author Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin.
Levine, Toby Kleban.
Added Title Africans (Television program)
ISBN 0030062098
9780030062094
0030062128 (pbk.)
9780030062124 (pbk.)
0275920739
9780275920739

 
    
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