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Télécharger le livre :  Whitehall and the Black Republic
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Whitehall and the Black Republic


Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri


This book examines the history of the relationship between Liberia and Britain—the world’s first black republic, founded by former slaves, and the world’s strongest colonial power. Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri excavates a wealth of archival sources to reconstruct a turbulent...

Parution : 2018-04-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Remapping African Literature
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Remapping African Literature


Olabode Ibironke


This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the...

Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria
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Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria


Adeoye O. Akinola


The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians. Adeoye O. Akinola tackles this “vexed” oil question by examining the political economy of efforts to deregulate the...

Parution : 2018-01-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Trafficking and Security in Southern Africa
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Human Trafficking and Security in Southern Africa


Richard Obinna Iroanya


This book investigates the links between human trafficking and national security in Southern Africa. Human trafficking violates borders, supports organised crime and corrupts border officials, and yet policymakers rarely view the persistence of human trafficking as a...

Parution : 2018-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Conceiving Mozambique
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Conceiving Mozambique


John A. Marcum


This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed this work...

Parution : 2017-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Issues in African Society
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Contemporary Issues in African Society


George Klay Kieh, Jr.


This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them. The book covers topics such as the expansive role of non-governmental organizations, the growing...

Parution : 2017-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Xenophobia in South Africa
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Xenophobia in South Africa


Hashi Kenneth Tafira


This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the...

Parution : 2017-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Kenyatta and Britain
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Kenyatta and Britain


W. O. Maloba


This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta’s formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British...

Parution : 2017-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Shadows of Empire in West Africa
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Shadows of Empire in West Africa


John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu , Victoria Ellen Smith


These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural...

Parution : 2017-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anatomy of Neo-Colonialism in Kenya
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The Anatomy of Neo-Colonialism in Kenya


W. O. Maloba


The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were...

Parution : 2017-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe
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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe


Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni


This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his...

Parution : 2017-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016
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Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016


Ogenga Otunnu


This book, the second of two parts, demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in...

Parution : 2017-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona
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African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona


Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu


This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of...

Parution : 2017-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Africa and its Global Diaspora
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Africa and its Global Diaspora


Jack Mangala


The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political...

Parution : 2017-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
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Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa


Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois


This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist...

Parution : 2017-03-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
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Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria


Bonny Ibhawoh , Uyilawa Usuanlele


This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the...

Parution : 2017-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Media in Kenyan History
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Popular Media in Kenyan History


George Ogola


The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics.The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage...

Parution : 2017-02-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I
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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I


Mario J. Azevedo


This book examines the historical and current state of health and the health of the African people, including the Arab North, impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements, cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and traditional systems....

Parution : 2017-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II
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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II


Mario J. Azevedo


This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health...

Parution : 2017-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890 to 1979
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Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890 to 1979


Ogenga Otunnu


This book demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in Uganda is the severe crisis...

Parution : 2016-12-26
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