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Contemporary Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
AvT. Falola,E. Mbah
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 137 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
AvS. Osha
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 137 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
AvH. Fuller
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
572 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
AvM. Munochiveyi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
572 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.
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
Personally Speaking
AvTanure Ojaide
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
640 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 on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. 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. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.
Mugabeism?
History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe
AvSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
573 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
AvEbenezer Obadare,Wale Adebanwi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 365 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
AvSamuel O. Oloruntoba
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
556 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 Agreements in terms of the political and economic implications of the agreements on Nigeria’s non-oil exports sub-sectors. 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.
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Historical, Political, and Policy Milestones
AvMichael Mwenda Kithinji,Mickie Mwanzia Kosterm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
912 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.
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Education, Gender, and Policy
AvMickie Mwanzia Koster,Michael Mwenda Kithinjim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
573 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 period as well as postulate on the way forward. Through this exploration of the Kenyan experience since independence, the authors present an optimistic view that despite the many obstacles and challenges, the country still has promising prospects as a nation.
Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
AvNiyi Afolabi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
996 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 offers significant new meanings. In ritualistically integrating Bakhtinian categories of free interaction, eccentric behavior, carnivalistic misalliances, and the sacrilegious, Ilê Aiyê anchors its social discourse on showcasing the black race as a critical agency of beauty, pride, wisdom, subversion, and negotiation. Ilê Aiyê carnival is not only racially conscious, it heightens the conflicts by dislocating the very establishment that invests in its cultural politics. In fusing the sacred, the profane, the performative, the musical, with the political, Ilê Aiyê succeeds in indicting racism, ironically sacrificing the very power it pursues. Despite these limitations, Ilê Aiyê creatively engages alternative dialogues on Brazilian politics through sponsored performances across transnational borders.
Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
AvPaul Tiyambe Zeleza
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
969 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 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. Moreover, the systems of knowledge production, organization, dissemination, and consumption, as well as the disciplinary architecture of knowledge underwent significant changes. Internationalization emerged as one of the defining features of higher education, which engendered new modes, rationales, and practices of collaboration, competition, comparison, and commercialization. External and internal pressures for accountability and higher education’s value proposition intensified, which fuelled struggles over access, affordability, relevance, and outcomes that found expression in the quality assurance movement.
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
AvHashi Kenneth Tafira
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 252 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 accessories, war,murder, rape and genocide have had a lasting impact onto those unfortunateenough to receive such ghastly visitations. 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
AvAndrea L. Arrington-Sirois
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 026 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 a case for a critical reading of Victoria Falls as much more than a localized natural wonder. Europeans with multiple and often competing agendas, as well as African leaders and laborers were brought into contact with one another at Victoria Falls. Their visions of the past and hopes for the future shared Victoria Falls as a common point of inspiration. The value these parties placed on the Falls extended far beyond its location on the Zambezi and had broad implications for the British Empire in Southern and Central Africa.
Contemporary Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
AvT. Falola,E. Mbah
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
1 250 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvS. Osha
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
1 137 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.
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism
AvH. Fuller
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
572 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
AvM. Munochiveyi
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
572 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.
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Education, Gender, and Policy
AvMickie Mwanzia Koster,Michael Mwenda Kithinjim. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
572 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. This edited collection of chapters also aims to illuminate the lessons learned from the experiences of the postcolonial period as well as postulate on the way forward. Through this exploration of the Kenyan experience since independence, the authors present an optimistic view that despite the many obstacles and challenges, the country still has promising prospects as a nation.
Kenya After 50
Reconfiguring Historical, Political, and Policy Milestones
AvMichael Mwenda Kithinji,Mickie Mwanzia Kosterm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
911 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvAndrea L. Arrington-Sirois
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
742 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 a case for a critical reading of Victoria Falls as much more than a localized natural wonder. Europeans with multiple and often competing agendas, as well as African leaders and laborers were brought into contact with one another at Victoria Falls. Their visions of the past and hopes for the future shared Victoria Falls as a common point of inspiration. The value these parties placed on the Falls extended far beyond its location on the Zambezi and had broad implications for the British Empire in Southern and Central Africa.
Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
AvJoseph Kaifala
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 589 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. In 1462, the country was discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). Sierra Leone later became a lucrative hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Freetown was selected as a home for the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling. The Black Poor were joined by the Nova Scotians, American slaves who supported or fought with the British during the American Revolution. The Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, arrived in 1800. The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and thirty years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil war.
Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
Tales That Come, Tales That Go
AvWalter E.A. van Beek
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
556 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 collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of this oral transmission. The comparison between the two corpuses shows that folktales are a much more dynamic cultural system than is usually thought. 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. Cognitive approaches of memory shed light on these varieties of transmission, as do performance aspects in tale telling, in particular ideophones.
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
AvHashi Kenneth Tafira
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 250 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. The author looks atthe Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonialmodernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister accessories, war,murder, rape and genocide have had a lasting impact onto those unfortunateenough to receive such ghastly visitations. Tafira explores a range of topicsincluding youth political movement, the social construction of blackness inAzania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.
Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
AvJoseph Kaifala
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 589 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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. In 1462, the country was discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). Sierra Leone later became a lucrative hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Freetown was selected as a home for the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling. The Black Poor were joined by the Nova Scotians, American slaves who supported or fought with the British during the American Revolution. The Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, arrived in 1800. The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and thirty years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil war.
Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
Tales That Come, Tales That Go
AvWalter E.A. van Beek
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
572 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of this oral transmission. The comparison between the two corpuses shows that folktales are a much more dynamic cultural system than is usually thought. 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. Cognitive approaches of memory shed light on these varieties of transmission, as do performance aspects in tale telling, in particular ideophones.
Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa
AvJeff Schauer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 024 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 how these fundamental themes of the twentieth century shaped the relationships between humans and animals in what are today Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi. A set of key themes emerges—changing administrative forms, militarization, nationalism, science, and a relentlessly broadening constituency for wildlife. Jeff Schauer illuminates how each of these developments were contingent upon the colonial experience, and how they fashioned a web of structures for understanding and governing wildlife in Africa—one which has lasted into the twenty-first century.
Narrating the New African Diaspora
21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context
AvMaximilian Feldner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
969 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, their literature captures experiences of recent Nigerian migration to the United States and the United Kingdom. Examining representative novels, such as Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, Abani’s GraceLand, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl, the book discusses these novels’ literary and narrative methods and provides detailed analyses of two of the most common themes: depictions of migratory experiences and representations of Nigeria. Placing the novels in their relevant historical, sociological, philosophical, and theoretical contexts, Narrating the New African Diaspora presents an insightful study of current anglophone Nigerian narrative literature.
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
AvKenneth Kalu,Toyin Falola
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 209 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 benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. 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. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies.
Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa
AvKenneth Kalu
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 137 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 does not have the capacity to procure development or eradicate poverty. This is because since colonialism, the average African state has remained an instrument of exploitation, and economic and political institutions continue to block a majority of citizens from meaningful participation in the economy. Drawing upon case studies of Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria, this book makes the case for redesigning development assistance in order to strike at the root of poverty and transform the African state and its institutions into agents of development.

African Histories and Modernities – serie

Contemporary Africa

African Postcolonial Modernity

Building the Ghanaian Nation-State

Prisoners of Rhodesia

Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature

Mugabeism?

Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa

Regionalism and Integration in Africa

Kenya After 50

Kenya After 50

Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa

Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015

Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa

Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa

Contemporary Africa

African Postcolonial Modernity

Building the Ghanaian Nation-State

Prisoners of Rhodesia

Kenya After 50

Kenya After 50

Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War

Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa

Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War

Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa

Narrating the New African Diaspora

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa