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[from amaah] Football in colonial Africa

football was never just a game

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[from amaah] horrors!

Posters of Nigerian movies collected in Ghana, the usual themes: angels and demons, superstition, fraud, morality, faith

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[from amaah] Searching for Highlife in Modern-day Ghana

On why tastes shifted in Ghana and the effect on highlife music. Politics: curfews tend to kill nightlife. Economics: taxes on musical instruments. Technology: the dreaded synthesizer. Social: no nightclub hence church, religion.The rise of hip-hop.

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[from amaah] Christianity Vs. the Old Gods of Nigeria

Early missionaries to Nigeria condemned most traditional practices as pagan. Roman Catholics and Anglicans later came to terms with most practices, even incorporating some traditional dances into church liturgy. But there was no room for local gods once t

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[from amaah] Mami Wata, the More Than Beautiful Woman

Mami Wata is the pidgin English name of the spiritual force known to Igbo-speakers as Ezenwaanyi (Queen or Chief of Women), Nnekwunwenyi (Honorable Woman), Ezebelamiri (Queen Who Lives in the Waters), and Nwaanyi mara mma the More Than Beautiful Woman

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[from amaah] On Mami Water by Birgit Meyer

seeks to explain the ongoing popularity of Mami Water as a destructive, yet incredibly seductive spirit by focusing on stories and rumors, pentecostalist sermons and teachings, and popular Ghanaian video movies. The eroticism of forbidden, yet compelling

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[from amaah] Sudan's legendary Islamist takes a 'so-called' moderate view

Some Sudanese question whether Turabi is merely a populist with a Karl Rove-like eye on the public mood, able to change his views in whatever way keeps him politically relevant. Others see his recent statements as an attempt to overthrow the government of

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[from amaah] The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

There are moments, when her ability to look suffering squarely in the eye and describe it in all its horror can be enough to make you take a brisk walk before returning to the next sentence. Here is language that does justice to the suffering of gods.

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[from amaah] Buzzword religion

Christianity in Ghana. The ubiquitous word of God is typically manifest in shop signs. Amongst my favorite are "Thy Kingdom Refrigeration" "Jesus is my Redeemer Real Estate" and "By the grace of God Rasta hairdoo". Not to be outdone, even a little bit of

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[from amaah] Evil consequences: the costs of reconciliation

A doctoral student, Ginn Fourie, discussed with her committee her proposal for writing a dissertation on the 1993 Heidelberg Tavern Massacre. Why had she chosen this subject? She answered, "My daughter Lyndi was killed in the massacre, and I want to find

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