CURRENT ISSUE

 

Volume 12 • Number 7 • December 2018

 

On the Cover: A:JPAS executive editor and Tshwane University Press president Itibari M. Zulu with A:JPAS co-authors Kmt Shockley and Kofi LeNiles (both at Howard University) who received the best article of the year award for "Meeting the People Where They Are: The Promises and Perils of Attempting an African Centered Institution in a Public School System" (published March 2018) at the 2018 30th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference sponsored by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (photo by Asar Imhotep of the Madu-Ndela Institute).

 

● Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? The Quagmire of Interdisciplinary Black Diaspora Studies
editorial by Itibari M. Zulu
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● Displacing Black People and Culture,
Gentrification: The New “Negro Removal” Program: A Call for an Emergency Summit
guest editorial by Ron Daniels
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● James H. Cone: The Vocation of Christian Theology and the Christian Church Today
by Celucien L. Joseph
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● Blackness as a Pedagogic Tool Against the Dishonesty of a Post-Racial Teleology
by Kelisha B. Graves
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● Psychological Implications of the Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Aiding Agricultural Production among the Yorùbá of South Western Nigeria
by Oláléye Samuel Káyòdé
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● Human Rights and Displacement in Literature: The Case of M. Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick and K. Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo
by Anna Kula
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● “I Am Because of What I Know I Have”: A Descriptive Analysis of Chinamwali in Preparing Women for Womanhood, Sexual Life and Reproduction
by Carina Mweela Talakinu
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● Elusiveness and the Presence of Essence: Rethinking Trappler’s ‘Notions of Being/Moments of Being’ from a Heideggerian Perspective
by Okoronkwo, Ikechukwu Francis and Peter Alawa
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● Campaign Suppression, Electoral Paranoia and the Poetics of Elections in Nigeria after June 12, 1993
by Garhe Osiebe
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● Sankofa: The Critical Nkrumahist Theory
by Evelyn Kissi
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● Held in Trust by History: Lerone Bennett Jr., Intellectual Activism, and the Historical Profession
by Cchristopher M. Tinson
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● Black Student Engagement: Resilience & Success Under Duress
By Serie McDougal, III, Wesley Cox, Tiana Dorley, and Hanna Wodaje
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● Dialectics of Oppression: Fanon’s Anti-colonial Critique of Hegelian Dialectics
by Adebayo A. Ogungbure
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Book Review

● Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, A Gem in the Mist of the Pile
A book review by Itibari M. Zulu
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