Jamdown : images of Africa / un film de Emmanuel Bonn.

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White on black : images of Africa and blacks in western popular culture / by Jan Nederveen Pieterse. by Nederveen Pieterse, Jan

After the ceremonies : new and selected poems / Ama Ata Aidoo ; edited and with a foreword by Helen Yitah. by Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023

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Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency / Bernard W. Bell. by Bell, Bernard W.

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Rethinking race : Franz Boaz and his contemporaries / Vernon J. Williams, Jr. by Williams, Vernon J.

Table of Contents: “…Ellis, and the reconstruction of the image of Africa -- Robert Ezra Park and race and class relations.…”

Digital histories / guest editors, Ian Anderson and Lucy A. Tedd.

Table of Contents: “…EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Editorial: digital histories; Digital London; Opportunistic collaboration; The development of digital resources by library and information professionals and historians; JSTOR: a case study in the recent history of scholarly communications; Digital imaging South Africa (DISA): a case study; Unlocking the Royal Geographical Society Archives; Small organisations and cultural institutions -- a digital future?…”
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James Baldwin / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Table of Contents: “…Charlie / Philip Roth -- The lesson of the master / Charles Newman -- The Negro church / Edward Margolies -- Out of control / Roger Rosenblatt -- Images of Africa in the writings of James Baldwin / Marion Berghahn -- Coming home / Pearl K. …”

Discourses of space / edited by Judit Pieldner and Zsuzsanna Ajtony.

Table of Contents: “…; "the baseless fabric of this vision"; "the play's the thing"; space construction in adaptationsof hamlet; part ii; space and identity in g. b. shaw's plays; the image of africa; space, travel, freedom; spaces of alterityin the works of julian barnes; the sublime in contemporary arts; interart representationin the künstlerdrama; entering the room; lost and found; part iii; the notion of ethnic space; the epistemology of the arbour; trauma and simulacra; surrogate nature, culture, women.…”
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Best Stock shots. No.2 / Independent Television News (Great Britain).

Table of Contents: “…Images of the Water and Water Life (5:54) -- Images of Technology (4:32) -- Images of Africa (4:23) -- Images of Life Around Europe (5:32) -- More Images of Technology (2:45) -- Images of Egypt (5:13) -- Images of Industrialization (4:24) -- Images of Washington, D.C. (0:45) -- Aerial Images (8:26) -- Scenes of Snow and Ice (2:32) -- Images of a Volcanic Eruption (3:17) -- Contrasting Images (8:24) -- Images of Animals (1:36) -- Images of a Train Crash Demonstration (1:20)…”
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Rethinking Race : Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. by Williams, Vernon J., Jr

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois, George W Ellis, and the Reconstruction of the Image of Africa; 5 Robert Ezra Park and American Race and Class Relations; Conclusion; Appendix: Toward an Ecumenical Mythistory; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y.…”
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Beyond borders : cross-culturalism and the Caribbean canon / edited by Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon -- Part 1 Language and Cultural Evolution -- Language and the Politics of Ethnicity -- Gender and Genre -- More Than the Sum of Its Parts -- Caribbean Cross-Culturalism in The Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods -- Part 2 Beyond Borders: Questioning the Canon -- Borders, Boundaries and Frames -- Mutual Ground -- Part 3 Negotiating Subjectivities, Finding Ease -- Coping with the New Culture -- Reflections on the Imaging of Africa in the Calypso of Trinidad and Tobago -- Bordering on the Transgressive -- Part 4 The Way Forward -- Issues in Caribbean Cultural Studies -- The School as a Forum for Cross-Culturalism -- Cultural Studies -- Contributors.…”
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Political Communication in the Anglophone World : Case Studies / Theodore F. Sheckels. by Sheckels, Theodore F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Chapter One: Making the Most of the Moments; Chapter Two: Kim Campbell and Gender; Chapter Three: Michael Manley's Rhetorical Consistency; Chapter Four: Bob Marley's Rhetorical Journey to Pan-Africanism; Chapter Five: Images of Africa; Chapter Six: Kibaki's Failed Inaugurating Rhetoric; Chapter Seven: The Rhetoric of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa; Chapter Eight: The Rhetorical Success of Thabo Mbeki's 1996 "I am an African" Address; Chapter Nine: The Democratic Alliance; Chapter Ten: Responding to Being Sacked.…”
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Chinua Achebe : African Literature as Celebration / Digital Classics (Firm).

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Chinua Achebe (1:26) -- Mbari Concept of Celebrating Life (7:05) -- Deconstructing Colonialism (4:08) -- Literary Colonization (1:47) -- European Image of Africa (5:21) -- Colonial Education (3:13) -- Adopting English for Political Reasons (3:58) -- Irony in Nigerian Stories (4:40) -- New African Literature (0:51) -- Defining Universality (2:02) -- Celebrating African Humanity (3:23) -- Advice for New African Writers (2:36) -- Supporting Free Speech (2:01) -- Analyzing "Heart of Darkness" (2:58) -- Nigeria's Economic Problems (2:43) -- Artist vs. …”
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Southern African literatures / Michael Chapman. by Chapman, Michael (Michael J. F.)

Table of Contents: “…Oral tradition: a usable past -- Bushman (San) songs and stories -- African (Bantu) songs, stories, praises -- Writing of European settlement: South Africa 1652-1910 -- Images of Africa, 1652-1820 -- The story of the frontier, 1820s-1870s -- Anglicisation and the Afrikaans language movements, 1875-1930 -- The story of the colony fiction, 1880- -- African or colonial literature: 1880s to 1960s -- The colonial past in the independent state -- Belonging and belief in South Africa, 1910-1948 -- Identity and the Apartheid state, 1948-1970 -- Commissioned by the nation, commissioned by the society. independence, post-independence -- Malawi and Zambia: the writer in the one-party state.…”

Film and censorship : the Index reader / edited by Ruth Petrie ; introduced by Sheila Whitaker.

Table of Contents: “…. / Steven Goldman -- No End in Sight / Philip French -- Screening Rape / Jane Mills -- Horror: on the Edge of Taste / Mark Kermode -- China: Censors, Scapegoats and Bargaining Chips / Tony Rayns -- A Matter of Perception / Roman Polanski -- Festivals, Films and Fireworks / Nadezhda Pokornaya -- It's Good out in the Jungle / Milos Forman -- Images of Africa / Haile Gerima -- Beyond 2001 / Arthur C. …”

Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa / edited by Miriam [sic] de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald.

Table of Contents: “…6 Les enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La transformation des relations domestiques dans les ménages des Congolais de la diaspora (Julie Ndaya)7 From individual act to social agency in San trance rituals (Thomas Widlok); 8 The dynamics of families, their work and provisioning strategies in the changing economies in the urban townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Otrude N. Moyo); 9 Images of Africa: Agency and nature conservation in South Africa (Malcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels); 10 Solitary births in Téra, Niger: A local quest for safety (Gertie Janssen)…”
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Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / edited by MaryEllen Higgins.

Table of Contents: “…Harrow -- Ambiguities and paradoxes: framing northern intervention in The constant gardener / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph -- Minstrelsy and mythic appetites: The last king of Scotland's heart of darkness in the Jubilee Year of African independence / Ricardo Guthrie -- "An image of Africa": representations of modern colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson's King Kong / Clifford T. …”

Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / edited by MaryEllen Higgins.

Table of Contents: “…Harrow -- Ambiguities and paradoxes: framing northern intervention in The constant gardener / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph -- Minstrelsy and mythic appetites: The last king of Scotland's heart of darkness in the Jubilee Year of African independence / Ricardo Guthrie -- "An image of Africa": representations of modern colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson's King Kong / Clifford T. …”
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Contemporary African literature in English : global locations, postcolonial identifications / Madhu Krishnan. by Krishnan, Madhu

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Historical dictionary of United States-Africa relations / Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. by Waters, Robert Anthony, 1960-

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