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This digital document is an article from World Education Encyclopedia, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 6816 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This edition provides up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and technological advances. ... Read more

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This powerful and revealing look into God's purpose for the black race gives scholastic yet simple answers to questions you have always had about the black presence in the Bible. The roles and exploits of blacks in the Bible that have either been omitted or treated lightly by European and Euro-American scholars are now revealed. ... Read more

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A must for all African- Americans
This book shatters the myth that we as black people are not in the the Bible. God has a plan for us and christianity is not a white mans religion.We were also never cursed. In the light of white America's liesthrough the years it is time to get the truth. And as the Bible says thetruth shall set you free.

black race and the bible
this is a must read for every african american in the us. the bible does not neglect to talk about black people.

Well-written examination of black biblical history
This book should be required reading for black church leaders in the USAand for anyone of any color wondering about the history and possiblehealing of race relations within the church and the nation.Includes aprophecy for the purpose of suffering during slavery.Revealing of how Goduses people and their relationships to work out his historical and eternalpurposes.Surprising details on people of color all through the Old andNew Testament.

well I really didn't finish the book.I was born in Ethiopia.
well it started prewtty good. ... Read more

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This fascinating and relevant interdisciplinary book is the result of personal histories of service and research that have now spanned nearly five decades. More specifically, it explores life in an Ethiopian village over the course of five generations. The first generation arrived in 1945 with the idea of establishing a town on the road built by the Italians. They also greeted Haile Sellasie in 1965 when he camped next to their village with his guest, Queen Elizabeth II. The second generation built the first elementary school and rectangular houses. The third and four generations experienced the trauma of war and a Marxist revolution. The fifth generation, born since the fall of Mengistu in 1991, lives in a growing town with businesses, electricity, a health post, access to public transportation, and an elementary school with 1300 students. Drawing upon health and population surveys, maps, and ethnographic analyses collected between 1963 and 2007, this book explores development initiatives in Kossoye since the 1960s. Over time, the authors discovered that goals and strategies in the village changed, and the results have been mixed. Access to education has had a profound influence, especially on the status of women. Rapid population growth has severely reduced land holdings and consequently, the food security of the fourth and fifth generations. The sixth and future generations will face challenges unlike any faced by their ancestors.This is one of those rare books that traces the social and economic development and cultural transformation of an Ethiopian community over the past half-century. The authors have skillfully blended first-hand accounts of the lives of some of the social innovators with relevant insights into the major political, cultural, economic and demographic changes that have shaped the community as it exists today. This provides a good introduction for any reader interested in how development processes shape and reshape communities over time, particularly in the African context. --Henry Mosley, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health A rich and humane history of an Ethiopian community's encounter with public health, revolution, and the political, cultural, and economic consequences of 'development.' Highly recommended. ----James L.A. Webb, Jr., author of Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria ... Read more

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Since the ninth century, Morocco has been ruled by a sultan-king who has monopolized the levers of power. This striking longevity invites questions about the institutions and social processes that bolster the monarchy's stability. This collection of twelve articles approaches the question of power by bringing together the most recent scholarship on Moroccan political culture as seen from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and historical moments, from the medieval period until today. Focussing primarily on popular understandings of authority, the studies in this volume encompass themes of sainthood, ceremony, submission, tolerance, violence, sexuality, gender, and intergenerational conflict. They offer a lively and uninhibited account of the means by which the Moroccan monarchy has mastered the symbols of power and their public representations. ... Read more

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The elephant is abundantly represented in African culture. In this lavishly illustrated anthology, eighteen scholars pay homage to both the African elephant and African creativity. The elephant's natural history is the starting point for this collection. Other essays discuss the animal's place in religious imagery, local economies, and regional cultures. The global appetite for ivory and the consequences of the ivory trade are the focus of two essays and of the epilogue, which also discusses the elephant as an endangered species.This volume bridges the gap that often separates the scholar from the general reader. Its visual mini-essays are entertaining and also broaden the scope of the book, and the spectacular photographs invite hours of pleasurable exploration. ... Read more

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This is extensive work.Great Illustrations and photograps.For the serious collector and examiner. ... Read more

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In 1970, author Ed White was in the U.S. Army and assigned to Kagnew Station, in Asmara, Ethiopia (now Eritrea).During his tour of duty in Africa, White met a little girl who has occupied a special place in his heart for over 30 years.This true heart-warming story details how the little African girl, who grew up in war-torn Eritrea and Ethiopia, changed his life forever. ... Read more

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Read This Book!
Ed White is a good man telling a great personal story of Love and friendship that endures the test of time, war and separation. The reader will fall in love with Latikedan....... an African Treasure........ just as the author did! I am Joseph S Bonsall, Oak Ridge Boy and author of G.I. Joe and Lillie and I HIGHLY recommend An African Treasure by Ed White! ... Read more

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Ethiopia has been in turmoil; conflicts, famines and poverty have been its hallmark. Despite the changes in regimes in 1974 and 1991 respectively, Ethiopia?s woes continue unabated. Still, colossal poverty prevails, society is deprived of its basic human and political rights, a one man authoritarian rule prevails, sporadic famine strikes and the government frequently begs for food aid even under a bumper harvest, ethnic groups are marginalized, violence is unleashed against women and the country has not moved forward an inch. This book unravels why all this is still happening in Ethiopia and blames the political governance. It synergizes a poverty analysis with prevalence of unfreedom and the state of the domains of sustainable development and explains why civil society could still not emerge. It gives background to the rise of the discourse of ethnicity in Ethiopia and deconstructs the policies of the ruling EPRDF and analyses the development challenges that Ethiopia faces and examines the government?s performance. In a nutshell, it explains Why Ethiopia Remains Poor. ... Read more

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This collection of essays is about the lives, ideas and modes of interaction of children in Ethiopia, against the background that in-depth knowledge of perceptions of cultural values and practices regarding children would contribute to improved work with them and to the promotion of their rights as children. The study is supported by Save the Children Sweden and Norway, and the essays are a collaboration between those bodies and the Department of Social Anthropology at Addis Ababa University. Some essays are based on Master theses from the Department, and others on fieldwork. Seminars and meetings formed part of the research with and about children. The editor provides a theoretical, methodological and ethical aspects overview, and makes proposals on possible new themes. The five other contributors cover Conceptualizations of Children and Childhood: The Case of Kolfe and Semen Mazegaja, Addis Ababa; Growing up in Town and in the Countryside in Amhara Society; Continuity and Change in the Lives or Urban and Rural Children: The Case of Two Schools in SNNPR; Conceptualizations of Children and Childhood in Bishoftu, Oromia; and Children in Ethiopian Media and School Textbooks. ... Read more