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Télécharger le livre :  Women's Representation in African Politics
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Women's Representation in African Politics


Zainab Monisola Olaitan


Does the election of more and more women into political offices mean that women’s interests will be better protected? This question forms the background upon which this book is written as it forms a timely intervention concerning the clamour for increased women’s...

Parution : 2024-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn
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Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn


Dawne Y. Curry


This book, which examines the role of African women in the conversation on nationalism during South Africa’s era of segregation, excavates female voices and brings them to the provocative fore. From 1910 to 1948, African women contributed to political thought as...

Parution : 2022-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  South African Autobiography as Subjective History
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South African Autobiography as Subjective History


Lena Englund


This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation’s socio-political realities, both past and present. The texts in focus represent and depict a South Africa caught in the midst of contradictory and competing images of the...

Parution : 2021-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony
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Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony


William J. Mpofu


This book is a philosopher’s view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabe’s Will to Power. The Will to Power refers to a spirited desire for power and overwhelming fear of powerlessness that Mugabe artfully concealed behind performances of...

Parution : 2021-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Visions of African Unity
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Visions of African Unity


Frank Gerits , Matteo Grilli


This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity...

Parution : 2021-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'
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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'


Désiré Baloubi , Christina R. Pinkston


This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their...

Parution : 2020-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe
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The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe


Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni , Pedzisai Ruhanya


This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but...

Parution : 2020-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940
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Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940


Francis Dube


This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact...

Parution : 2020-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature
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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature


Christopher E. W. Ouma


This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and...

Parution : 2020-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Sudan’s “Southern Problem”
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Sudan’s “Southern Problem”


Sebabatso C. Manoeli


The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan’s civil wars. It explores the battle for legitimacy between the Sudanese state and Southern rebels. In particular, it examines how racial thought and rhetoric were used in international debates about...

Parution : 2019-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891
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Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891


Femi J. Kolapo


In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and...

Parution : 2019-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982
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A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982


Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini


Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders...

Parution : 2019-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Public History and Culture in South Africa
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Public History and Culture in South Africa


Ali Khangela Hlongwane , Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu


The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is...

Parution : 2019-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa
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Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa


Jeff Schauer


This book traces the emergence of wildlife policy in colonial eastern and central Africa over the course of a century. Spanning from imperial conquest through the consolidation of colonial rule, the rise of nationalism, and the emergence of neocolonial and neoliberal...

Parution : 2018-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa


Toyin Falola , Kenneth Kalu


This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it...

Parution : 2018-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Nkrumaism and African Nationalism
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Nkrumaism and African Nationalism


Matteo Grilli


This book examines Ghana’s Pan-African foreign policy during Nkrumah’s rule, investigating how Ghanaians sought to influence the ideologies of African liberation movements through the Bureau of African Affairs, the African Affairs Centre and the Kwame Nkrumah...

Parution : 2018-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
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Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora


Abimbola Adelakun , Toyin Falola


This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in...

Parution : 2018-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa
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Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa


Adeshina Afolayan , Toyin Falola , Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso


As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent. This collection of essays offers a groundbreaking study of the complex links between politics and African...

Parution : 2018-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Africa and Globalization
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Africa and Globalization


Toyin Falola , Kenneth Kalu


This book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa. Why have African states been perennially unable to diversify their economies and move beyond export of primary produce, even as Southeast Asia has made a tremendous leap into manufacturing?...

Parution : 2018-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa
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Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa


Kenneth Kalu


During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that...

Parution : 2018-05-22
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