African Identities: Past and Present – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien African Identities: Past and Present. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
20 produkter
Decolonizing African Knowledge
Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
Av Toyin Falola
Häftad, 2025
442 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the …
Performing Power in Nigeria
Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism
Häftad, 2023
484 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu that affirmed and contested their desires for …
Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa
The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga
Av Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen million people were uprooted from West Africa and enslaved in the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave systems The state of Gajaage, located on the West African hinterland, offered a doorway to the Atlantic Ocean and played a …
Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa
The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga
Av Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré
Inbunden, 2023
2046 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen million people were uprooted from West Africa and enslaved in the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave systems The state of Gajaage, located on the West African hinterland, offered a doorway to the Atlantic Ocean and played a …
Building the African Nation
The African Association and Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How did people in East Africa come to see themselves as 'Africans,' and where did these concepts originate from? Utilizing a global intellectual history lens, Ethan Sanders traces how ideas stemming from global black intellectuals of the Atlantic, and others, shaped the imaginations of East …
Marginalized Identities in Africa
Av Toyin Falola
Häftad, 2026
511 kr
Kommande
Across Africa, power structures from colonial legacies to modern social hierarchies create and sustain exclusion. Exploring the individuals and groups living on the periphery of African society, this book situates Africa's marginalized identities as catalysts for social transformation. Toyin Falola …
Marginalized Identities in Africa
Av Toyin Falola
Inbunden, 2026
1685 kr
Kommande
Across Africa, power structures from colonial legacies to modern social hierarchies create and sustain exclusion. Exploring the individuals and groups living on the periphery of African society, this book situates Africa's marginalized identities as catalysts for social transformation. Toyin Falola …
Knowing Ethnicity
The Politics of Classification and Pluralism in Kenya
Häftad, 2026
496 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There is a widespread assumption that both ethnicity itself and ethnic conflict, are inevitable. Yet, we know very little about how ethnic identifications function in bureaucratic terms in Africa. The stakes of this problem are rapidly escalating in moves to digital identification and population …
Knowing Ethnicity
The Politics of Classification and Pluralism in Kenya
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There is a widespread assumption that both ethnicity itself and ethnic conflict, are inevitable. Yet, we know very little about how ethnic identifications function in bureaucratic terms in Africa. The stakes of this problem are rapidly escalating in moves to digital identification and population …
Abolition in Sierra Leone
Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
Häftad, 2022
586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Tracing the lives and experiences of 100,000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone having been taken off slave vessels by the British Navy following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this study focuses on how people, forcibly removed from their homelands, packed on to slave …
Abolition in Sierra Leone
Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
Inbunden, 2020
1677 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Tracing the lives and experiences of 100,000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone having been taken off slave vessels by the British Navy following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this study focuses on how people, forcibly removed from their homelands, packed on to slave …
Minority Identities in Nigeria
Contesting and Claiming Citizenship in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ethnic majorities and minorities are produced over time by the same processes that define national borders and create national institutions. Minority Identities in Nigeria traces how western Niger Delta communities became political minorities first, through colonial administrative policies in the …
Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa
Race, Childhood, and Citizenship
Inbunden, 2023
1577 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationships persisted, resulting in the births of thousands of children. These children, mostly born to African women and European men, sparked significant …
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo
Inbunden, 2019
1878 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as 'Swahili'. Seeking an …
Knowing Women
Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Inbunden, 2021
1432 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the …
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo
Häftad, 2021
687 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as 'Swahili'. Seeking an …
Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa
Race, Childhood, and Citizenship
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationships persisted, resulting in the births of thousands of children. These children, mostly born to African women and European men, sparked significant …
Knowing Women
Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Häftad, 2022
553 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the …
Performing Power in Nigeria
Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism
Inbunden, 2021
1260 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. The Pentecostal modes of constructing the world by using their performative agencies to embed their rites in social processes have imbued them with immense cultural power to contour …
Decolonizing African Knowledge
Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
Av Toyin Falola
Inbunden, 2022
457 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the …
