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New Book Launched at the 2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting!

Cambria Press author Professor Amadou Fofana’s book, The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, was published JUST IN TIME for the  2012  African Studies Association annual meeting!  ASA attendees kept asking for the book and were pleased to be able to browse it. Nobody, of course, was more pleased than Professor Fofana himself who saw his book for...

2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting – Great Conference for Cambria Press!

Cambria Press enjoyed a great conference at the 2012  African Studies Association annual meeting in Philadelphia! In addition to the Cambria Press booth being right by the entrance, the outside back cover of the ASA program featured the Cambria Press ad and many visitors to the booth stopped by to learn more about Cambria Press books in African Studies as well as the...

African Studies Association Booth #308 and Outside Back Cover of the 2012 Program

See you at the 2012 African Studies Association annual meeting in Philadelphia! Don’t forget to see the Cambria Press ad on the outside back cover of the ASA program–there are many excellent new books featured and two new series announcements, plus there is also a 30% discount code on it! STAY POSTED! Follow Cambria Press on Twitter, like Cambria Press on...

The Memory of Slavery and Human Trafficking Today – Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present (General Editor: Ana Lucia Araujo)

This new series by Cambria Press will feature high-quality, innovative, and peer-reviewed monographs and edited books that examine the history of slavery and how its memories and legacies remain alive in various regions of the globe. With this aim, the series will include studies on contemporary slavery and human trafficking as well. The geographical scope of the series is broad. It...

Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery by Afro-Asia – See this book at the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia!

Public Memory of Slavery:  Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic by Ana Lucia Araujo has earned yet another rave review! Afro-Asia commends the book for having “the virtue of pioneer works” and states that “one of the most important contributions of the text is the constant confrontation between the knowledge consolidated by the historiography and the processes of memory disputes”. Be...

Cambria Press Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series New Book! The Films of Ousmane Sembène – Published Just in Time for the 2012 African Studies Annual Meeting!

Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer whom the Los Angeles Times considered one of the greatest authors of Africa. Often called the “father of African film,” Sembène strongly believed that African films should be geared primarily toward educating the masses and making the philosophical quandaries and political issues contested by elites accessible to the poor and...

The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Culture, and Politics by Amadou Fofana – Discussion Questions

The following are discussion questions that the author, Professor Amadou Fofana, helpfully compiled for those who would like to use his book,  The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, for course adoption. (There are no discussion questions for chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter.) Chapter 2: Contextualizing Ousmane Sembène 1) How did the specific time period of Sembène’s...

Cambria Press New Series! Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present

Cambria Press is proud to announce a new, exciting series–the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present, which will have Professor  Ana Lucia Araujo (author of the highly praised book Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic and editor of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images. The series will feature high-quality, innovative,...

Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery — Path-breaking Work of Original Research!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on yet another excellent review of her book, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic, by The Public Historian. The journal review describes Professor Araujo’s book as “a path-breaking work of original research in which Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates the processes, politics, and economics of forgetting and remembering slavery...

Cambria Press Author, Adams Bodomo, on Voice of America segment for “African Immigrants Talk About Life in Beijing”

A recent segment on Voice of America asked Africans living in Beijing about their experiences living in China. Naturally, Professor Adams Bodomo, author of the first book-length study on Africans living in China (appropriately titled Africans in China), was consulted on his take on the situation. Please click on the following links to read the article and to listen to...

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