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Contemporary Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
Inbunden, 2014
1130 kr
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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 contemporary African challenges while …
African Postcolonial Modernity
Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus
Av S. Osha
Inbunden, 2014
1130 kr
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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 notions of democratization.
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
Av H. Fuller
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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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 currency, stamps, museums, …
Prisoners of Rhodesia
Inmates and Detainees in the Struggle for Zimbabwean Liberation, 1960-1980
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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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 prisoners, showing how they …
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
Personally Speaking
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact …
Mugabeism?
History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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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 perspectives. It is concerned with …
Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
Leadership in Transformation
Av Ebenezer Obadare, Wale Adebanwi
Inbunden, 2015
1355 kr
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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 those conditions have shaped …
Regionalism and Integration in Africa
EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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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 context of the Economic Partnership …
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Historical, Political, and Policy Milestones
Av Michael Mwenda Kithinji, Mickie Mwanzia Koster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
906 kr
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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 experience, and the future …
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Education, Gender, and Policy
Av Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Michael Mwenda Kithinji m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
569 kr
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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 experiences of the postcolonial …
Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Av Niyi Afolabi
Inbunden, 2016
989 kr
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Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving for racial equality and economic empowerment. Against this complex background, performative theory …
Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
Inbunden, 2016
962 kr
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This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also profound shifts in the financing …
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
Inbunden, 2016
1243 kr
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Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks atthe Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonialmodernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister …
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Turning Water into Gold
Inbunden, 2017
1018 kr
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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 destinations. This book makes …
Contemporary Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
Häftad, 2015
1243 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 contemporary African challenges while …
African Postcolonial Modernity
Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus
Av S. Osha
Häftad, 2014
1130 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 notions of democratization.
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
Av H. Fuller
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 currency, stamps, museums, …
Prisoners of Rhodesia
Inmates and Detainees in the Struggle for Zimbabwean Liberation, 1960-1980
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 prisoners, showing how they …
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Education, Gender, and Policy
Av Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Michael Mwenda Kithinji m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 experiences of the postcolonial …
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Historical, Political, and Policy Milestones
Av Michael Mwenda Kithinji, Mickie Mwanzia Koster m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
906 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 experience, and the future …
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Turning Water into Gold
Häftad, 2020
737 kr
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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 destinations. This book makes …
Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
Inbunden, 2016
1580 kr
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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 slaves, and toward its political …
Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
Tales That Come, Tales That Go
Inbunden, 2016
552 kr
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This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author …
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
Häftad, 2018
1243 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks atthe Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonialmodernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister …
Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
Häftad, 2018
1580 kr
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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 slaves, and toward its political …
Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
Tales That Come, Tales That Go
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author …
Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa
Av Jeff Schauer
Inbunden, 2018
1018 kr
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This book traces the emergence of wildlife policy in colonial eastern and central Africa over the course of a century. Spanning from imperial conquest through the consolidation of colonial rule, the rise of nationalism, and the emergence of neocolonial and neoliberal institutions, this book shows …
Narrating the New African Diaspora
21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context
Inbunden, 2019
961 kr
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This book provides the first comprehensive survey and collection of Nigerian diaspora literature, offering readings of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Helen Oyeyemi, Taiye Selasi, Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, and Ike Oguine. As members of the new African diaspora, …
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Häftad, 2019
1202 kr
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This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the …
Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa
Av Kenneth Kalu
Häftad, 2018
1128 kr
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During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that foreign aid in its current form …
