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Liberation and Development
Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa
Häftad, 2016
677 kr
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Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa is an account of the community development programs of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa. It covers the emergence of the movement’s ideas and practices in the context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, …
Sisters in Spirit
Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860–1970
Häftad, 2017
999 kr
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In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in …
City of Broken Dreams
Myth-Making, Nationalism and the University in an African Motor City
Häftad, 2019
781 kr
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What role should universities have in revitalizing rust-belt motor cities left to decay by economic and political transformation? In City of Broken Dreams, author Leslie J Bank addresses this question through a detailed case study of East London, a city in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Here, as in …
We Are Not Starving
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana
Häftad, 2022
1254 kr
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This critical text is a timely ethnography of how global powers, local resistance, and capital flows are shaping contemporary African foodways. Ghana was one of the first countries targeted by a group of US donors and agribusiness corporations that funded an ambitious plan to develop genetically …
Decolonizing Independence
Statecraft in Nigeria’s First Republic and Israeli Interventions
Av Lynn Schler
Häftad, 2022
745 kr
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Even before it gained independence in 1960, the process of nation-building in Nigeria was plagued by regional, ethnic, and class conflict. Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria’s First Republic and Israeli Interventions examines how many of the leading figures of what would become …
Kenya's Running Women
A History
Inbunden, 2023
2411 kr
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Since Pauline Konga’s breakthrough performance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, the world has become accustomed to seeing Kenyan women medal at major championships, sweep marathons, and set world records. Yet little is known about the pioneer generation of women who paved the way for Kenya’s …
Kenya's Running Women
A History
Häftad, 2023
503 kr
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Since Pauline Konga’s breakthrough performance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, the world has become accustomed to seeing Kenyan women medal at major championships, sweep marathons, and set world records. Yet little is known about the pioneer generation of women who paved the way for Kenya’s …
Prophet of the People
Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church
Häftad, 2024
1475 kr
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In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first mission without much to show. Little did he know that he would soon establish the Nazaretha Church as he began to attract attention from people …
Paradox of Protection
The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915
Häftad, 2025
871 kr
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The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915 charts the history of protection to tell a new story about indirect rule in West Africa. Protection emerged as one of the central concepts through which Africans and Britons negotiated over law and economy in …
Paradox of Protection
The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915
Inbunden, 2025
1582 kr
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The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915 charts the history of protection to tell a new story about indirect rule in West Africa. Protection emerged as one of the central concepts through which Africans and Britons negotiated over law and economy in …
Sufi Networks, Fulbe Itinerancy
A History of Islam in Senegambia, c. 1803–1996
Av Assan Sarr
Häftad, 2026
692 kr
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This book traces the development and expansion of a network of itinerant Fulbe clerics in southern Senegambia who forged solidarity under the banner of Islam. Beginning with a marabout named Cherno Muhammadu Jallow (c. 1803–1883)—who expanded the Umarian branch of the Tijaniyya sect into remote …
Sufi Networks, Fulbe Itinerancy
A History of Islam in Senegambia, c. 1803–1996
Av Assan Sarr
Inbunden, 2026
1459 kr
Kommande
This book traces the development and expansion of a network of itinerant Fulbe clerics in southern Senegambia who forged solidarity under the banner of Islam. Beginning with a marabout named Cherno Muhammadu Jallow (c. 1803–1883)—who expanded the Umarian branch of the Tijaniyya sect into remote …
Kilimanjaro Porters and Guides
History and Tourism on Africa's Highest Mountain
Av Leslie Anne Hadfield, Kokel Melubo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1661 kr
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Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, draws tens of thousands of tourists annually. Many attempt to climb its nineteen thousand feet snow-covered peak, an arduous trek that can span several days. Like the climbers who scale Everest, they are aided by local porters, cooks, and guides. But …
Kilimanjaro Porters and Guides
History and Tourism on Africa's Highest Mountain
Av Leslie Anne Hadfield, Kokel Melubo m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
635 kr
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Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, draws tens of thousands of tourists annually. Many attempt to climb its nineteen thousand feet snow-covered peak, an arduous trek that can span several days. Like the climbers who scale Everest, they are aided by local porters, cooks, and guides. But …
Forge and the Funeral
The Smith in Kapsiki/Higi Culture
Häftad, 2015
999 kr
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Throughout Africa one craft among many stands out: that of the blacksmith. In many African cultures, smiths occupy a significant position, not just as artisans engaging in a difficult craft but also as special people. Often they perform other crafts, as well, and make up a somewhat separate group …
Contours of Change
Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905-1965
Av Bala Saho
Häftad, 2018
781 kr
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Based on a previously unexamined body of qadi court records as well as two hundred oral interviews in Wolof and Mandinka, Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965, offers a new perspective on the impact of British rule in West Africa. …
To Swim with Crocodiles
Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996
Av Jill E Kelly
Häftad, 2018
1291 kr
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To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800–1996 offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. The book shows how Africans in the Table …
