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Volume 12 • Number 6 • November 2018

 

On the cover: The late Randy Weston (1926-2018), an internationally renowned jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer, his music and scholarship advanced the argument that jazz is, at its core, African music, his creativity was inspired by his connection to an African ethos (photo by Carol Friedman).

 

● Africology at 30: Revolution in Our Lifetime
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● In Memoriam: “Ples” Sterling Stuckey
by Eric R. Jackson
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● Orí and Neuroscience: A Contextualization of the Yoruba Idea of Causality in the Age of Modern Science
by Gbadamosi, Oluwatoyin Adebola
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● Cultural Adaption Interventions: Appraising a Mainstay of not a Challenge to the Whitenizing Homogenization of Mental Health Establishmentarianism: From the Pigeonhole to the Reconstructionist Horizon
by Daudi Ajani ya Azibo
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● The Great Displacements of 2017: Acts of Genocide in Ethiopia
by Habtamu Dugo and Joanne Eisen
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● A Sociolinguistic Study of Social-Political Activism and Non-Violent Resistance in Stand-Up Comedy Performances in Nigeria
by Raheem Saheed
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● African Women and Social Transformation: Exploring Wangari Maathai’s Activism
by James Ochwa-Echel and Rosemary Onyango
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● Reconsidering the Owe Woven Cloth of Nigeria from a Gendered Perspective
by Roseline Morenike Oshewolo
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● Challenges and Prospects for the Transformation of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa by 2025
by Torque Mude
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● A Personal Perspective on Afro-Cuban Rhythmic Integration in Contemporary Jazz Composition
by Rafael Zaldivar
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● An Investigation of the Life, Influences, and Music of Randy Weston
by Jason Squinobal
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● Politically Motivated Campaign Songs and Voting Behaviour: Reflections on Tiv Campaign Songs in the 2015 Elections in Benue State, Nigeria
by Ver-Or Kachii
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● The Inclusive Education Policy in Sport: Four Secondary Schools in Masvingo, District in the Republic of Zimbabwe
by Tapiwa Mudyahoto
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● Old and New Diasporic African People in Contemporary USA: Tracing the Relational Journey
by Angellar Manguvo
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Announcements

● Year of Return, Ghana 2019: 400-Year Anniversary
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● National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting
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● When African-American Students Took Control: Remembering Ford & Sydeman Halls at Brandeis University in 1969
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● Charles Henry Rowell, founder and editor of Callaloo literary magazine and professor of English at Texas A& M wins the Madam C.J. Walker Award
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● National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc.
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