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Télécharger le livre :  Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War


Joseph Kaifala


This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free...

Parution : 2016-11-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland
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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland


Augustine Agwuele


This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a...

Parution : 2016-08-13
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Kenya After 50
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Kenya After 50


Michael Mwenda Kithinji , Mickie Mwanzia Koster , Jerono P. Rotich


This book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963. It seeks to advance understanding of the country's major milestones in the postcolonial period, the challenges and the lessons that can be learned from this...

Parution : 2016-04-08
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Kenya After 50
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Kenya After 50


Michael Mwenda Kithinji , Mickie Mwanzia Koster , Jerono P. Rotich


This book explores the key milestones in education, gender, and policy that Kenya has achieved since independence, the challenges of this experience, and the future prospects.This edited collection of chapters also aims to illuminate the lessons learned from the...

Parution : 2016-04-08
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
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Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa


Wale Adebanwi , Ebenezer Obadare


This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the conditions under which political leadership has been produced, and how...

Parution : 2016-02-09
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Mugabeism?
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Mugabeism?


Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni


What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial...

Parution : 2015-12-26
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Regionalism and Integration in Africa
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Regionalism and Integration in Africa


Samuel O. Oloruntoba


The resurgence of regionalism is borne out of the current political logjams that have characterized the governance and operations of multilateral trading system  over the past one decade and a half. Oloruntoba critically examines Euro-Nigeria relations within the...

Parution : 2015-11-10
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Prisoners of Rhodesia
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Prisoners of Rhodesia


M. Munochiveyi


During the Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the settler regime imprisoned numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the guerrillas. This book is the first to look closely at the histories and lived experiences of these political detainees and...

Parution : 2014-12-10
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
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Building the Ghanaian Nation-State


H. Fuller


Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through...

Parution : 2014-12-10
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  African Postcolonial Modernity
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African Postcolonial Modernity


S. Osha


African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist...

Parution : 2014-09-04
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Africa
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Contemporary Africa


T. Falola , E. Mbah


60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these...

Parution : 2014-08-20
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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