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Volume 12 • Number 1 • September 2018

 

On the cover: “A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite caught this view of Africa and the entire sunlit side of Earth on July 9, 2015. NASA released the image July 29. Credit: NASA” (Space.com).

 

African Global Experiences

Guest Editor, Tracy Keith Flemming, Associate Professor of African/African-American Studies, Department of Area and Global Studies, Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University; Managing Editor, Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies.

● In Memoriam: Alton Hornsby, Jr.
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● African Global Experiences: An Introduction to the Special Edition
by Tracy Keith Flemming
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● A Comparative Analysis of Olojo Festival under the Late Adesoji Aderemi and the Late Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II
by Akinyemi Yetunde Blessing
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● A Dangerous Single Story: Dispelling Stereotypes through African Literature
by Robin Brooks
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● A Study of Festival Theatre to Flekstival Theatre: Emuodje Flekstival of Ekakpamre as a Paradigm
by Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
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● African Body Adorned in Christian Garb: A Study of the Prayers of Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Nigeria
by S.I. Fabarebo
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● Becoming Black and African: Nigerian Diasporic Transformations of Racial and Ethnic Identities in the United States
by Olaocha Nwadiuto Nwabara
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● Betty Okotie and the Birth of Solo Play Production in Post-Colonial Nigeria
by Greg Mbajiorgu
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● Colonialism in Africa: A Revisionist Perspective
by Mansour Gueye
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● Competency-based Education, Lifelong Learning and Adult Students: Insights from International Partnerships between East Africa, Southern Africa and USA-based Institutions of Higher Education
by Derise E. Tolliver, Akilah Martin, and Nyambura Salome
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● Economic Growth in Africa Through an Ethical Lens
by Ruth Wolf and Monica Thiel
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● From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter: The African Union and the African-Americans in the United States
by Roland Mireku Yeboah
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● Magun in Contemporary Yoruba Traditions
by S.I. Fabarebo
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● Men in the Land of Promise: Immigration and Challenges to Masculinity in M.G. Vassanji’s No New Land
by Edwin Asa Adjei
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● Migration Trajectories and Experiences of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the Limpopo Province of South Africa: Impediments and Possibilities
by Douglas Mpondi and Liberty Mupakati
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● Nancy Prince’s Narrative Compared to the Sidi Saint Mai Mishra
by Maryam Sharron Muhammad
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● National Identity Construction in Independence Day Speeches of Anglophone West Africa
by Dora F. Edu-Buandoh and Nancy Boahemaa Nkansah
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● On Constructing Black Cultural Citizenship in White Spaces
by Marny Garcia Mommertz
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● Oppression as a Major Cause of Social Unrest: An Examination of Akínwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá’s Play Text, Ayé Yẹ Wọ́n Tán
by Layọ̀ Ògúnlọlá
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● Political Leadership in Nigeria: Our National Anthem and National Pledge
by Iliyasu Biu Mohammed and Evans Oluwagbamila Ayeni
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● Public Higher Education Governance and Nigeria’s Development Agenda: The 12 ‘aces’ Paradox
by Iliyasu Biu Mohammed
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● Russian African Studies: Past and Present
by Kristina Bekenova
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● Satirized Feminism in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah
by Uwakwe Uchenna David
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● Sustainable Change in Rural Africa Through Village-Guided Interventions and Global Partnerships
by Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Samuel Nkrumah Yeboah, Nana Ama Yeboah, Eve Garlington Spratt, Marguerite Archie-Hudson, and Ida Singletary Taylor
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● The Brain Drain, Skilled Labour Migration and Its Impact on Africa’s Development, 1990s-2000s
by Adesote Samson Adesola and Osunkoya Olusesan Adewunmi
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● The British’s Contact with Nigeria’s Peoples, Amalgamation and the Question of Minority Agitation, 1914-1999
by Paul Ilesanmi Akanmidu
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● The Children of San Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion
by Paul C. Mocombe
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● The Impacts of Physical Disabilities on Labor Market Outcomes (A Tanzanian Case Study)
by Emmanuel N. Enemchukwu
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● The Influence of the Kingship Institution on Olojo Festival in Ile-Ife: A Case Study of the Late Ooni Adesoji Aderemi
by Akinyemi Yetunde Blessing
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● The Nexus of Globalisation and Global South Social Policy Crafting: Some Zimbabwean Perspectives
by Takudzwa Leonard Mathende and Tatenda Goodman Nhapi
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● The Role of Dance in a Depressed Economy: A Study of “The Drum of Danger”
by Nicholas Chielotam Akas
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● The Socio-Economic Value of Home Remittances as Means of Reducing Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Igbomina Migrants in Lagos
by E.O. Ibiloye
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● Travel Notes: Pan Africanism (Re)Visited: From Sankofa to Afrofuturism – Summary of the “2nd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual & Cultural Festival”
by Latif A. Tarik
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● True But Brief History of the Friendly Societies and Development of Black Bermudian Communities after Emancipation: Black People Seek Pride and Power in a Post-Slavery and Post-Emancipation World, the Bermuda Experience
by Michael Bradshaw
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● Two Minds, One World: Soyinka and Walcott Meet
by Olusegun Adekoya
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● What Does Africa Have to Do with Being an American?: U.S. African and European American College Students’ Notions of, Knowledge of, and Experiences with Africa
by Kenneth Sean Chaplin
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