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Paths Toward the Nation
Islam, Community, and Early Nationalist Mobilization in Eritrea, 1941–1961
Häftad, 2014
364 kr
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In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region. During the …
Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana
Häftad, 2024
411 kr
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Ghana has long struggled against persistent corruption that has sapped state treasuries, distorted economic and social relationships, and undermined public confidence in government. In recent decades, concerns about corruption have become common in international policy circles, media, and academia. …
Pathos and Power
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present
Av Joanna Davidson, Benjamin N. Lawrance
Inbunden, 2025
1276 kr
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The collected essays in Pathos and Power provide a critical exploration of widowhood in Africa through a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The book challenges a simplistic understanding of widowhood by highlighting how the experience varies according to age, class, race, religion, …
Pathos and Power
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present
Av Joanna Davidson, Benjamin N. Lawrance
Häftad, 2025
403 kr
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The collected essays in Pathos and Power provide a critical exploration of widowhood in Africa through a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The book challenges a simplistic understanding of widowhood by highlighting how the experience varies according to age, class, race, religion, …
Wanasema
Conversations with African Writers
Av Don Burness, Donald Burness
Häftad, 1985
284 kr
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There is a tendency to regard African literature as a homogenous product. Certainly it is true that African writers have created a vibrant, modern literature. Nevertheless, they come from specific societies and reflect vastly differing worlds.Wanasema attempts to show some of the many faces of …
Khaki and Blue
Military and Police in British Colonial Africa
Av Anthony Clayton, David Killingray
Häftad, 1989
385 kr
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Drawing upon a survey of former police officers in the six British colonies of Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi, Clayton and Killingray examine the work of colonial law enforcement during the last years of British supremacy. In addition to such basic institutional information as …
African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
Häftad, 1988
327 kr
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For over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien European perspective. Many Africans now share this perspective, having been trained in the western, empirical tradition. Makinde argues that, …
Succession to High Office in Botswana
Three Case Studies
Av Jack Parson
Häftad, 1990
415 kr
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This book examines the process through which the mantle of leadership passed from one leader to another in Botswana. It concerns the succession to high office in Botswana over the course of more than half a century from the colonial time to the present. Three case studies explore the relationship …
In the Heart of the Hausa States
Häftad, 1990
990 kr
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Consequent upon the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884–1885), the Africanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland launched the Niger-Benue expedition to investigate possible riverine communications throughout the Niger-Benue river system. Responsibility for the expedition ultimately fell to Paul …
Western Bahr Al Ghazal Under British Rule, 1898–1956
Häftad, 1990
298 kr
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Western Bahr al-Ghazal is perhaps one of the least known places in Africa. Yet this remote part of the Republic of Sudan can be regarded as a historical barometer, registering major developments in the history of the Nile valley. In the nineteenth century the region became one of the most active …
Krobo People of Ghana to 1892
A Political and Social History
Häftad, 1991
318 kr
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This book presents a broad analytical framework for the history of southeastern Ghana within the context of a representative study of one of the country's most important political and economic forces.The 150,000 Krobo are the most numerous of the Adangme-speaking peoples. They are located in the …
Political Economy of Health in Africa
Av Toyin Falola, Toyin Falola m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
393 kr
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This book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa's underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people. Contributors …
Moral Philosophy and Development
The Human Condition in Africa
Av Tedros Kiros
Häftad, 1992
290 kr
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Although development issues generally have been considered in a framework of economic theory and politics, in this volume Tedros Kiros looks to European ideas of moral philosophy to explain the underdevelopment of Africa and the persistent African food crisis. He draws upon the works of Adam Smith, …
Echoes of the Sunbird
An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry
Häftad, 1993
284 kr
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This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa's leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize. The poems …
Colonialism in the Congo Basin, 1880–1940
Häftad, 1994
400 kr
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This exceptional study of the Mongo people of the upper Congo River basin focuses on the evolution of Mongo work patterns from the period of the late nineteenth century to 1940, the high-water mark of the colonial period. It brings new evidence from oral histories, anthropological research, and …
Katutura: a Place Where We Stay
Life in a Post-Apartheid Township in Namibia
Häftad, 1996
296 kr
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Katutura, located in Namibia's major urban center and capital, Windhoek, was a township created by apartheid, and administered in the past by the most rigid machinery of the apartheid era. Namibia became a sovereign state in 1990, and Katutura reflects many of the changes that have taken place. No …
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
Häftad, 1996
403 kr
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In the case of Nigeria, scholarship on religious politics has not adequately taken into account the pluralistic context and the idealistic pretensions of the state that inhibit the possibility of forging an enduring civic amity among Nigeria's diverse groups. Ilesanmi proposes a new philosophy or …
Moral Economy of the State
Conservation, Community Development, and State-Making in Zimbabwe
Häftad, 1998
454 kr
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The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of "moral economy" that explores negotiations between rural …
Most Promising Weed
A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1945
Häftad, 1998
371 kr
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A Most Promising Weed examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Steven C. Rubert provides evidence that Africans were not passive in their responses …
Your Madness, not Mine
Stories of Cameroon
Av Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah
Häftad, 1999
284 kr
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Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within …
African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet
Av Robert R. Edgar, Hilary Sapire
Häftad, 1999
334 kr
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The devastating influenza epidemic of 1918 ripped through southern Africa. In its aftermath, revivalist and millenarian movements sprouted. Prophets appeared bearing messages of resistance, redemption, and renewal. African Apocalypse: The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, A Twentieth-Century Prophet is …
Voices from Madagascar Voix De Madagascar
An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie De Littérature Francophone Contemporaine
Av Jacques Bourgeacq, Jacques Bourgeacq m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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There is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack of diffusion outside the country. Until recently, Madagascar suffered from political isolation resulting from its breakup with France in the 1970s …
Witchcraft Dialogues
Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges
Av Geore Clement Bond, George Clement Bond m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in which human beings construct, experience, and think about the "occult." It brings together anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to engage the metaphysical properties of "witchcraft" and …
Flickering Shadows
Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe
Av J. M. Burns
Häftad, 2002
400 kr
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Every European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from them, as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. Flickering Shadows is the first book to explore this little-known world of colonial cinema.J. M. Burns …
Struggle for Meaning
Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa
Häftad, 2002
399 kr
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The Struggle for Meaning is a landmark publication by one of African philosophy's leading figures, Paulin J. Hountondji, best known for his critique of ethnophilosophy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this volume, he responds with autobiographical and philosophical reflection to the dialogue …
Children of Africa Confront AIDS
From Vulnerability to Possibility
Av Arvind Singhal, Steve Howard
Häftad, 2003
360 kr
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AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life …
Portugal and Africa
Häftad, 2004
318 kr
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Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots. The Portuguese established sugar plantations on Africa's …
Negotiating Power and Privilege
Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria
Av Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika
Häftad, 2004
357 kr
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Even with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. Negotiating Power and Privilege is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa …
Not White Enough, not Black Enough
Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation.Not White Enough, …
Empire in Africa
Angola and Its Neighbors
Häftad, 2006
324 kr
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The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy.Empire in Africa …
