Voices of the Poor in AfricaElizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them

as noted below the title of each poem

minimal literacy

and extends to many aspects which are usually neglected

journalism

الحائر، ومنارة للضال الشارد، وتعريفاً للناشيء الناشد، ونزهة للمحب الصادق، فيعمّ به

Elizabeth Isichei is Professor of Religious Studies

He was a powerful

ISBN-13: 978-0955454547

Saving Virtues

This book is a concise and immensely satisfying historical account of the first four caliphs of Islam

ISBN-13: 978-1887752978

and the hereafter