 | A Catalogue of Pan-African University Press Introducing some best-selling books from the collection of Pan-African University Press. | | | | ![This innovative anthology presents an interdisciplinary approach to Yorùbá culture and customs. Written by Yorùbá experts on all continents, the seventy-five chapters in the volume employ a variety of multi-faceted perspectives to provide a detailed study of the Yorùbá people with insights from anthropology, arts, language and linguistics, literature, history, religion, sociology, philosophy, psychology, criminology, law, technology, medicine, pharmacy, engineering, economics, education, political science, music, theater, popular culture, cultural studies, migration and diaspora studies, gender, etc. Each chapter addresses the changes that have taken place in traditional culture. This blend between traditional culture and modifications to such culture gives a balanced and authentic picture of what can be regarded as culture and customs in present-day Yorùbá society. Tóyìn Fálọlá is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author and editor of more than one hundred books, including Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá (IUP, 2016), The Yorùbá Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2005), Yorùbá Warlords of the 19th Century (AWP, 2001), and The Yorùbá Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa (AWP, 1999). Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and affiliate faculty at the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of Orature and Yorùbá Riddles (Palgrave, 2015) and Yorùbá Royal Poetry: A Socio-Historical Exposition and Annotated Translation (BASS, 2004); co-author of Dictionnaire usual Yorùbá-français (AFRA-Karthala, 1997); and co-editor of Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá (IUP, 2016). ISBN: 978-1-943533-18-3 Ι Published 2017 | Pan-African University Press [COPIES AVAILABLE FOR N15,000]](https://mcusercontent.com/4a7329e2b9fd1f5d213e82a33/images/3c964e3c-e59f-565a-517d-0f0a6981e568.png) | Culture and Customs of the Yorùbá This innovative anthology presents an interdisciplinary approach to Yorùbá culture and customs. Written by Yorùbá experts on all continents, the seventy-five chapters in the volume employ a variety of multi-faceted perspectives to provide a detailed study of the Yorùbá people with insights from anthropology, arts, language and linguistics, literature, history, religion, sociology, philosophy, psychology, criminology, law, technology, medicine, pharmacy, engineering, economics, education, political science, music, theater, popular culture, cultural studies, migration and diaspora studies, gender, etc. Each chapter addresses the changes that have taken place in traditional culture. This blend between traditional culture and modifications to such culture gives a balanced and authentic picture of what can be regarded as culture and customs in present-day Yorùbá society.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-18-3 Ι Published 2017 | Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N15,000]
| |  | Sweat is Invisible in the Rain Sweat is Invisible in the Rain is a memoir of living in two homes, one on either side of the Atlantic. Cherno Njie describes his childhood and youth in Banjul, the capital of the small African country of The Gambia, and his later life after moving to the United States in the 1980s to earn his university degree. The Njie family compound was an idyllic home: brothers and sisters, uncles and aunties, friends and strangers. Cherno tells how he carried the memories of his home and the lessons of his mother and father to Austin, Texas, where he studied at the University of Texas at Austin. His life and successful career in Texas, though far from Gambia, was nevertheless rooted in that country. After the Gambian elections of 2011, which long-standing president Yahya Jammeh allegedly won, he explains his growing resolve at the time to contribute to Jammeh's defeat. This came to a head when he participated in a coup plot that failed on December 30th, 2014. Njie gives his side of the story, his account of the coup, and what has since happened. Though Sweat is Invisible in the Rain is a story of two homes, it is a story of one life.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-43-5 Ι Published 2019 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N7,000]
| |  | Texts and Contexts of Migration in Africa and Beyond The essays in this volume attest to the fact that, while migration evinces challenges in the economy and other aspects of development, its impact on other branches of knowledge is understudied. This book attempts to connect migration to literary and cultural studies, thereby broadening our understanding of an important aspect of African lives.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-54-1 Ι Published 2021 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N10,000]
| |  | In the Sands of Time In the Sands of Time is a culmination of some of the brilliant stories received for the inaugural Toyin Falola Prize. A total of 34 power-packed narratives render a broad range of African youths' perception of their continent and how they can relate to it in creative form. "These stories delightfully bring the diverse experience of being African in contemporary times quite close."
ISBN: 978-1-943533-55-8 Ι Published 2021 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N7,000]
| |  | The Brass-Bells Drum: A Novel A preeminent translator has translated a prominent book, producing an outcome that is magnetic and majestic. A timeless story comes alive, the strictures of state decadence narrated with clairvoyance, but the resolution drags us to an uncertain destination. Can there be a secular rapture?
ISBN: 978-1-943533-57-2 Ι Published 2021 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N7,000]
| |  | Life Begins at 70!: The Manual for Building a Successful Life and a Godfather's Confessional Memoir Literally, I could not sleep; hyperbolically, I could not breathe, until I finished reading Life Begins at 70 – A Godfather's Confessional Memoir. . . It's that good – pure and simple! The memoir of Bola Dauda is breathtaking and "bewitchedly" captivating! This is one book to be read in whole, diligently, and with undivided attention. —Professor Michael Oladejo Afoláyan, Fate of Our The Collected Memories of An African Village Boy Reading Bola Dauda rekindles the feelings I had with The Confessions of Saint Augustine. Both are spiritually anchored and authentic. A nugget for readers interested in personal biographies. Dr. Dauda provides practical suggestions that are applicable to those nefarious issues of daily existence and along with it, several amusing stories and anecdotes. —Professor Augustine Agwuele, Professor of Linguistics, Texas State University, U.S.A.
ISBN: 9781943533381 Ι Published 2019 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N8,000]
| |  | Urban Crises and Management in Africa: A Festschrift for Akin Mabogunje Africa is a rapidly urbanizing continent largely due to increasing rural/urban migration. The rapid growth is without commensurate infrastructure, basic services and employment opportunities. What is the nature of these problems and how do urban residents and institutions respond to them in different contexts? What are the gaps left to be filled by policy makers and other stakeholders? The essays in this volume respond to these questions and a few other strategic issues. In this respect, this publication looks at the issue of "urban crisis" and its management from three tracks: (i) the human security track that underscores the stressful living conditions of many city dwellers in Africa; (ii) the governance track which pertains to how those responsible for managing African cities fail in their duties; and (iii) the relational track that deals with how the urban dwellers in Africa are engaged in different forms of conflicts (violent and non-violent) largely as a result of the stressful conditions of city life. Some policy recommendations are made in the papers.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-40-4 Ι Published 2019 Ι Pan-African University Press [ AVAILABLE FOR N10,000]
| |  | The Yoruba Nation and Politics since the Nineteenth Century: Essays in Honor of J.A. Atanda This book honors the memory of the late Professor J. A. Atanda for his contributions to Yoruba scholarship and society. The book covers a wide range of topics discussing the Yoruba people of West Africa, exploring various themes on their cultural backgrounds, history, and institutions. The editors are both Toyin Falola teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor Dipo Olubomehin has served as the Head of Department and Dean, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.
Published 2020 | ISBN: 9781943533503 | Published By: Pan-African University Press [ AVAILABLE FOR N12,000]
| |  | Adébísí Afọláyan: The Celebration of a LivingLegend – His Life, Works and Everything In-Between Legend has it that there was a man with huge popularity and cult following in a distant village community of old. He once thought to himself that he needed to ascertain the truth or falsity of the genuineness of his followership. A Sage warned him not to believe what he was seeing until he could see what he could not believe. And so, the sage then advised him to just make an announcement about a terminal illness he had been diagnosed with, and that it would require a small amount of money in order for him to get over the debilitating ailment. He went all over the community, talking to his family members, friends, colleagues and all those admirers. He appealed to them for support, but while everyone sympathized with him, not a single one was willing to come to his aid by donating the money needed to get him cured. He was disappointed but within him he still understood that people probably genuinely loved him, it was just that they did not have the material things to support him at this time. He returned to the Sage, who provided him another strategy to further measure the loyalty of those people that surrounded him. He instructed him to arrange with his doctor and announce to the same group of people that he had finally succumbed to the weight of the illness and eventually died, and that the funeral had been arranged at a stipulated place and on a particular date. On hearing this, the same group of people who had nothing to give to get this friend and relative cured came around to donate large sums of monies, and expensive materials – cattle, food, drinks, and other merchandise to celebrate his death. They purchased expensive clothing materials and called upon the best musicians far and wide to come and grace the occasion. They were dolling out bales of money to celebrate the dead man. It was during the people's festive moods at the fake funeral that the man entered the room with his hands full of whisks and bludgeons to pummel the hypocrites out of his sight and out of his life.
Published 2024 | ISBN: 9781943533718 | Published By: Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N12,000]
| |  | Understanding Ogbu Kalu: Christianity and Culture in Africa This is one of the few books ever written on an African scholar, showing the possibility and benefits of such a rare approach and unprecedented generosity. Rich with details, learned in its findings, and revolutionary in its recommendations, Toyin Falola continues to extend the frontiers of scholarship in African studies with finesse.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-41-1 Ι Published 2019 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLEFOR N12,000]
| |  | Transforming The African Public Service This volume is an attempt to consistently think through the reform of the public administration and public service dynamics that could serve as an institutional framework for reorienting Africa's postcolonial predicament. Africa has often been regarded, among other uncomplimentary epithets, as the most difficult administrative contexts in the world. The failure of the public service in Africa is essentially the failure of the democratic experiment in Africa. The ten lectures gathered in this significant volume derive from the author's practical and intellectual involvement with public administration thinking on the continent including the articulation of the African Public Service Charter under the auspices of the African Union Commission. The essays are all united by a firm conviction that once the public/civil service in Africa fails, then all else has failed in terms of an infrastructural transformation of Africa that will make democratic governance a meaningful experiment for Africans. The volume therefore delivers a serious trajectory of how the African public service and administrative dynamics can leverage on global best practices and existing reform ideas to undermine the African predicament and install good governance for Africans. "…there is no one better positioned to take up the urgent task of fashioning the philosophical and intellectual enterprise crucial to the re-alignment of public service in Africa, which he superbly demonstrates throughout the pages of this book…" Toyin Falola, Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, The University of Texas at Austin
ISBN:9781943533251 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N6,000]
| |  | The Right to Development in Africa: Issues, Constraints and Prospects The right to development in Africa is both urgent and mandatory. As this book points out, the components of this right fostering respect for the rule of law, defeating corruption, tapping into African cultures and philosophies, advancing gender justice, and promoting the right to education. This thought-provoking book is useful to lawyers, academics, policymakers, and students. Serges Djoyou Kamga is a Professor of Law at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI), UNISA. He is a member of the 'building committee' of the Cross-cultural Human Rights Centre, a consortium of one European University, ten Chinese and four African universities aimed at bringing Southern concepts and ideas in the area of human rights to Northern audiences. His areas of interest include Leadership and African renaissance, Development and human rights, human rights from a cross-cultural perspective, and Disability rights. He publishes in these areas.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-53-4 Ι Published 2021 Ι Pan-African University Press. [ AVAILABLE FOR N10,000]
| |  | Echoes of Great Benin A RENAISSANCE BOOK about Benin, Edo, invites you into the quaint world of probably the greatest living traditionalists of this part of modern Nigeria, the Edo. As she struggles for relevance in a country much of which she had ruled before the coming of the British, she is as the proverbial butcher of carrion. Her fingers are slimy with decayed flesh and they stink. She cannot use them to scratch her itchy body. Her art treasures, artifacts and much of her history, she lost to the British in 1897. Her famous dry moat, Iya, has decrepit sections of it left. Ibota, the aural source of Benin stories I knew, now belongs in the past. The people of Benin, the Edo, now speak Pidgin English in their homes. Indeed, Benin is gradually effacing her history and etching out a life of anonymity. Please read on for a peep into a bit of her present and a greater look into much of her past!
ISBN: 978-1943533121 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press. [ AVAILABLE FOR N6,000]
| |  | The Long Struggle: Discourses on Human and Civil Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora The long and arduous struggle for human and civil rights is a defining theme in the historical experiences of African people and their descendants in the Diaspora. Challenges to fundamental human and civil rights continue to manifest in multiple dimensions, and are still critical issues in the political, economic, and social realities of black people. Featuring thirteen original chapters contributed by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, this book interrogates the complex dynamics of human dignity and rights within the global African context from a multidisciplinary perspective. By providing an integrated discourse on fundamental issues of human and civil rights such as state repression in the modern African state, women's rights, minority rights, the right to education, and racial disparities and injustice in Black America, the book offers academics and the general reader a valuable resource to understand the historical and contemporary processes shaping human rights and freedom in the African world.
ISBN: 978-1943533237 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press. [ AVAILABLE FOR N7,000]
| |  | Migrant Stories: A Memoir of Living and Survival in the West and Asia Migrant A Memoir of Living And Survival In The West And Asia is volume 2 of A.B. Assensoh's life, times and odysseys. With a foreword by Professor Damien Ejigiri, the long-serving Dean of the Nelson Mandela College of Government and Social Sciences at Southern University and A & M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the book provides a unique overview of a professional colleague that he has known for some decades. Dr. Assensoh has provided a proverbial mirror – similar to what Duke University's distinguished History Professor John Hope Franklin did with his own published memoir – through which his readers can read about a variety of topical migrant stories, which have been couched in his own preface; musings about far away from home stories; faces, places and celebrations; the shocking story of a modern "cougar" pouncing on a young black man; racial escapades in Europe and the Americas; discussions beyond politics, several of which have law flavor, stemming mostly from his latter-day Law Studies; and an epilogue dealing with a discussion of issues before he enters eternity, during which he expects his Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity members to initiate him into their prestigious Omega chapter, just as it was done for other past deceased members, including the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a proud Alpha and Morehouse College man. Similar to what he shared with his readers in volume one of his earlier published memoir, Dr. Assensoh has provided readers of Migrant A Memoir of Living and Survival In The West And Asia with several memorable photos, with appropriate captions.
ISBN: 978-1943533350 Ι Published 2018 Ι Pan-African University Press. [ AVAILABLE FOR N7,000]
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