Africa: Missing Voices – serie
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Grassroots Governance?
Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean
Av P. S. Reddy, Iasia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
655 kr
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Traditional leadership is a factor that has long been overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Grassroots Governance, an interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection, addresses this gap in African scholarship and brings new perspectives on …
African Diaspora in Canada
Negotiating Identity and Belonging
Häftad, 2006
500 kr
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What does it mean to be African-Canadian?The African Diaspora in Canada addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the term “African - Canadian.” In the midst of this fraught terrain, it focuses on first - generation, black continental Africans who have immigrated …
Common Hunger
Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
Häftad, 2006
500 kr
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Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human …
New Directions in African Education
Challenges and Possibilities
Häftad, 2007
445 kr
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It has been said that education in post-colonial Africa is in a state of crisis. Policies and practices from Eurocentric colonial regimes have carried over, intertwining with challenges inherent in the new political and economic climate. Leaders have done little to remedy the malfunctioning …
Shrines in Africa Volume 5
History, Politics, and Society
Häftad, 2009
444 kr
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In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here by Allan Charles Dawson demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and …
Land Has Changed
History, Society, and Gender in Colonial Nigeria
Häftad, 2010
444 kr
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A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not farm. Colonial policies, subsequent 'top-down' statism, and globalization are usually cited as primary …
African Wars
A Defense Intelligence Perspective
Av William Thom
Häftad, 2010
449 kr
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During the past forty years, Africa south of the Sahara has been the most conflict-prone region of the world. In spite of its geopolitical importance, it remains one of the least understood. African Wars provides a concise summary of four decades of warfare in sub-Saharan Africa with expert …
Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development
Av Donald I. Ray, Tim Quinlan m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
570 kr
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This collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy ""re-inventing"" itself.The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who are now bringing new resources to the challenges that …
Social Work in Africa
Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant.Drawing on her experience as a …
Politics of Access
University Education and Nation Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000
Häftad, 2011
445 kr
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Through analysis of exceptionally rich data obtained from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, and from Nigeria's national archives, author Ogechi Anyanwu demonstrates how the pursuit of mass university education not only decolonized the elitist British education system but also ultimately …
Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa
Av Charles G. Thomas, Toyin Falola
Häftad, 2020
453 kr
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Wars fought for political separation have become omnipresent in post-colonial Africa. From the division of Sudan, to the continued fragmentation of Somalia, and the protracted struggles of Cabinda and Azawad, conflict over secession and separation continues to the present day.This is the first …
Tensions Between Culture and Human Rights
Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World
Av Vishanthie Sewpaul, Vishanthie Sewpaul m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
453 kr
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Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.Drawing on …
