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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 :  Covid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications
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Covid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications


Collectif


Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the many ramifications of Covid-19 on societies, politics, and the economies of Africa. The contributors examine measures,...

Parution : 2023-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-PFism in Zimbabwe
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Regime, Religion and the Consolidation of Zanu-PFism in Zimbabwe


Bekithemba Dube


This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe. It scrutinizes the actions of religious leaders such Andrew Wutawunashe and Jeremiah Mutendi who were prominent in the...

Parution : 2023-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Kimbanguism 100 Years On
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Kimbanguism 100 Years On


Adrien Nginamau Ngudiankama


From its genesis in 1921, Kimbanguism has constituted one of the most fascinating socio-cultural movements of the Kongo region. This interdisciplinary collection covers the socio-cultural dynamics of the Kimbanguist church and its contribution to African studies over...

Parution : 2023-09-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment
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Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment


Collectif


Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the several ramifications of Covid-19 in societies, politics, and the economies of Africa. The contributors examine...

Parution : 2023-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  African Battle Traditions of Insult
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African Battle Traditions of Insult


Tanure Ojaide


This book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance.This volume...

Parution : 2023-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  African Experience in the Application of the Development Aid Effectiveness Principles
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African Experience in the Application of the Development Aid Effectiveness Principles


Daniel Kipleel Borter , Nadeem Malik


This book analyses the diffusion and implementation of Aid Effectiveness Principles in Kenya’s agricultural sector. Although Aid Effectiveness Principles represent a significant step in aid and development discourse, studies on its implementation remain inadequate,...

Parution : 2023-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya
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Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya


James Duminy


This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the ‘analysis of government’, the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and...

Parution : 2022-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
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Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project


Toyin Falola


This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal...

Parution : 2022-07-14
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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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