ARCHIVE ISSUE

 

Volume 8 • Number 3 • August 2015

 

On the cover: This issue is devoted to the nine people, i.e., Mrs. Susie Jackson (87), Rev. Daniel Simmons (74), Mrs. Ethel Lee Lance (70), Mrs. Myra Thompson (59), Mrs. Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd (54), Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49), Mrs. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45), Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney (41), and Mr. Tywanza Sanders (26) who were massacred on June 17, 2015 at historic African-American Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church (the oldest AME church in the South, see brief history via "Mother Emanuel" African Methodist Episcopal Church History in this volume) in downtown Charleston, South Carolina during Bible study. The admitted killer, a 21-year-old Caucasian man sat through the Bible class for an hour with his victims before declaring he was there "to kill black people" and opening fire with multiple gunshots fired at close range.

● In Memoriam: The Charleston Massacre
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● "Mother Emanuel" African Methodist Episcopal Church History
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● Canada’s Gift: The Art of Artis Lane
by Paul Von Blum
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● A Qualitative Examination of African Self-Consciousness and Time Value Orientation in Lee Daniel’s The Butler
by Cassandra Chaney
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● Ethnicity as Discursive Construct in Kenyan Televised Comedy: Humorous Harm?
by Michael M. Ndonye, Felicia Yieke and James Ogola Onyango
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● Africana Studies: An Anchor in a Liberal Arts Education
by Michael Tyris Tillotson
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● Personal Name as a Reality of Everyday Life: Naming Dynamics in Select African Societies
by Abdulganiy Olatunji, Moshood Issah, Yusuf Noah, A.Y. Muhammed, and Abdul-Rasheed Sulaiman
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● Living on the Edge: A Reflection on the Survival Strategies of Rural Teachers in the 2005-2008 Economic Depression of Zimbabwe
by Samson Mutsagondo
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● Tanzania’s Constitutional Reform Predicament and the Survival of the Tanganyika and Zanzibar Union
by Mangasini Atanasi Katundu and Neema Penance Kumburu
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Commentary

● Blue on Black Violence: Freddie Gray, Baltimore, South Africa, & the Quietism of Africana Christian Theology
by Darryl Scriven
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Books of Interest

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Book Reviews

● Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension
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● Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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● The Radical King by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Announcements

● Nguzo Saba 2015 Conference
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● ASWAD 8th Biennial Conference
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● CFP: Pan-African Studies Department Kent State University
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● CFP: California State University, Sacramento
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● CFP: 7th Biennial AASR Conference in Ghana
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● São José Paquete de Africa: Ship of Enslavement Discovered
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● The Fourth Pan-African Cultural Congress Report and Framework of Action
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● Pan African Film Festival Call for Submissions
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