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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 combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism.
African Postcolonial Modernity
Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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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.
550 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, flags, and other public icons.
Prisoners of Rhodesia
Inmates and Detainees in the Struggle for Zimbabwean Liberation, 1960-1980
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
550 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 challenged and negotiated their incarceration.
615 kr
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Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics.
550 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 capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.
Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
Leadership in Transformation
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 311 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 leaders.
Regionalism and Integration in Africa
EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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Set within one of the main objectives of the Economic Partnership Agreements, he also interrogates the prospects and challenges of regional integration in Africa under the regime of transnational accumulation, which the Economic Partnership Agreements represents.
876 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 prospects.
550 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.
985 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.
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This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. There were also profound shifts in the financing and economic role of higher education reflected in the processes of privatization of universities and curricula realignments to meet the shifting demands of the economy.
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 202 kr
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Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. Tafira explores a range of topicsincluding youth political movement, the social construction of blackness inAzania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Turning Water into Gold
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
985 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.
1 202 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 combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism.
African Postcolonial Modernity
Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
1 094 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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.
550 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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, flags, and other public icons.
Prisoners of Rhodesia
Inmates and Detainees in the Struggle for Zimbabwean Liberation, 1960-1980
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
550 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 challenged and negotiated their incarceration.
550 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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.
876 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 prospects.
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Turning Water into Gold
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
713 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.
1 528 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 independence and civil war.
Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
Tales That Come, Tales That Go
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
534 kr
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This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. These dynamics affect some types of tales more than others, reflect social change and intergroup contact, but also depend on characteristics of the tales themselves.
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 202 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. Tafira explores a range of topicsincluding youth political movement, the social construction of blackness inAzania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.
1 528 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 independence and civil war.
Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
Tales That Come, Tales That Go
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
550 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. These dynamics affect some types of tales more than others, reflect social change and intergroup contact, but also depend on characteristics of the tales themselves.
985 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.
Narrating the New African Diaspora
21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
932 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.
1 163 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. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu’s Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more.
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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.