This work examines the counselling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers though videotape and interview was analysed by a Nigerian women from the Yoruba ethnic groups. The results of the volume support the premise that culture plays a significant role in the kind of healing methods and counselling techniques used by professionals and traditional healers, as well as in the type of...
This work examines the counselling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed ...
This study analyses contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of pan-African groups from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat that deposed Nkrumah's government in February 1966. This study employs an Afrocentric approach and a synthesis of tools from a variety of disciplines used by scholars in Black Studies and African studies.
This study analyses contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of pan-African groups from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Man...
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of the socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ideas, methods and technology from abroad.
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of the socialization process among the Akan of Ghan...
Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four sections: I. African Unity and Consciousness: Assets and Challenges; II. Language, Information, and Education; III. African Women, Children and Families; and IV. Political and Economic Future of the African World. In original essays, the authors...
Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilit...
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration, this volume treats a range of issues: economic, socio-political, pedagogical, developmental, and cultural. Organized with a multidisciplinary thrust in mind, this book argues that any discussion of...
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political w...
This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World--mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa during slavery. Along with this sense of freedom and voluntary migration comes a paradox--that of living in two worlds and negotiating the pleasures and agonies that come with living in exile. For the new African immigrant, the primary factor motivating migration is the desire for a better life...
This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World--mostly well educated, high-income earning professi...
This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro.
This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the ...
This study explores the relationship between the nature and context of non-traditional occupations and the empowerment status of women in society. Specifically, it examines the extent to which women in non-traditional occupations have been empowered by their skills, knowledge, and position within the Togolese Government's existing training policies for the increased participation of women in non-traditional sectors of the labor force. In Togo, like many other African countries, several evaluation exercises have been conducted regarding the number of women who have successfully completed...
This study explores the relationship between the nature and context of non-traditional occupations and the empowerment status of women in society. Spe...
This book focuses on the politics of democratization in Africa, especially the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposition within the context of transition politics. The decade 1990- 2000 saw a total of 78 top leadership elections involving 43 of the 48 sub-Saharan African countries. Of these elections, only 27% led to regime change. Yet even where regime change occurred, authoritarianism persisted. The objective of the book is to analyze and explain this dual paradox of limited change of regime and persistent authoritarianism in the face of democratization. Its...
This book focuses on the politics of democratization in Africa, especially the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposit...
International law is often manipulated in the debate about humanitarian intervention. The Liberian case provides an opportunity to challenge the UN and The Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS') new approach. ECOWAS and the UN's justifications for moving away from the current norms are flawed. No enlightened person would disagree with the values of peace, democracy, human rights, and economic development. This book, however, explores whether these goals be pursued within the current framework or outside it.
International law is often manipulated in the debate about humanitarian intervention. The Liberian case provides an opportunity to challenge the UN an...
