Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture – serie
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39 produkter
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
The Nyiginya Kingdom
Av J. Vansina
Häftad, 2004
284 kr
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To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots …
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
The Nyiginya Kingdom
Av J. Vansina
Inbunden, 2004
757 kr
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To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots …
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa
Av Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn. Osborn m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that “a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African.” Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but …
Power in Colonial Africa
Confict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960
Inbunden, 2007
764 kr
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Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. Displays of opposition by Africans, too indirect to counter or quash, percolated throughout the colonial era and kept alive a spirit of …
Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960
Häftad, 2009
298 kr
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What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agents allowed Africans to …
Defeat Is the Only Bad News
Rwanda Under Musinga, 1897-1931
Av Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, David Newbury
Häftad, 2011
295 kr
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A Rwandan proverb says “Defeat is the only bad news.” For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but also for a battle of wits—and not only with foreigners, but also with each other. In Defeat Is the Only Bad News, Alison Des Forges recounts the …
Mau Mau's Children
The Making of Kenya's Postcolonial Elite
Häftad, 2012
307 kr
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In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, …
Whispering Truth to Power
Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda
Häftad, 2013
313 kr
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For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's post-genocide government for its efforts to foster national unity and reconciliation by downplaying ethnic differences and promoting ""one Rwanda for all Rwandans"". Examining …
Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Häftad, 2015
458 kr
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Angola, a former Portuguese colony in southern central Africa, gained independence in 1975 and almost immediately plunged into more than two decades of conflict and crisis. Fidel Castro sent Cuban military troops to Angola in support of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA), leading …
Early African Entertainments Abroad
From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians
Häftad, 2014
342 kr
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the …
Education As Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Häftad, 2015
618 kr
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In 1914, Blaise Diagne was elected as Senegal’s first black African representative to the National Assembly in France. Education as Politics reinterprets the origins and significance of this momentous election, showing how colonial schools had helped reshape African power and politics during the …
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Av Jelmer Vos
Inbunden, 2015
764 kr
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A case study of colonialism in Africa from economic, religious, and political perspectives that examines the participation of African elites in colonial ruleThis is a richly documented history of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries, and the Portuguese colonial state in the …
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Av Jelmer Vos
Häftad, 2017
225 kr
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This richly documented account of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries, and the Portuguese colonial state in the Kongo realm is told from the perspective of the kingdom’s inhabitants. Jelmer Vos shows that both Africans and Europeans were able to forward differing social, …
Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Inbunden, 2017
742 kr
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In parts of West Africa, some babies and toddlers are considered spirit children—nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the family. These are usually deformed or ailing infants, the very young whose births coincide with tragic events, or children who display unusual …
Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Häftad, 2019
219 kr
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Some babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered spirit children—nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the family. These are usually deformed or ailing infants, or children whose births coincide with tragic events or who display unusual abilities. Aaron R. …
Postcolonial Paris
Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
Av Laila Amine
Inbunden, 2018
593 kr
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In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a significant presence in the Parisian landscape …
Postcolonial Paris
Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
Av Laila Amine
Häftad, 2021
284 kr
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In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a significant presence in the Parisian landscape …
Farming and Famine
Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889-1991
Av Donald Crummey, James McCann
Inbunden, 2018
938 kr
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In modern times, Ethiopia has suffered three grievous famines, two of which—in 1973–74 and in 1984–85—caught the world's attention. It is often assumed that population increase drove Ethiopia's farmers to overexploit their environment and thus undermine the future of their own livelihoods, part of …
Senegal Abroad
Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
Inbunden, 2019
1048 kr
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Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, it depicts how they make sense of who they are—and how they fit into their communities, countries, …
Senegal Abroad
Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
Häftad, 2020
284 kr
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Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, it depicts how they make sense of who they are—and how they fit into their communities, countries, …
Whose Agency
The Politics and Practice of Kenya's HIV-Prevention NGOs
Inbunden, 2019
822 kr
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Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local efforts to improve the lives of people often living in or near poverty. Yet their external origins often cloud their ability to impact health or quality of life, …
Health in a Fragile State
Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
Inbunden, 2019
938 kr
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Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus John M. Janzen's earlier books on …
Health in a Fragile State
Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
Häftad, 2021
254 kr
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Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus John M. Janzen's earlier books on …
Names of the Python
Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
Inbunden, 2021
938 kr
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Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork-the imaginative labor that …
Names of the Python
Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
Häftad, 2023
371 kr
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Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork—the imaginative labor that …
Entrepreneurial Goals
Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies
Inbunden, 2022
938 kr
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The idea that the African private sector will generate economic prosperity and social wealth—an objective many governments and foreign charitable organizations have failed to achieve—continues to attract attention in business and policy circles. Yet little research has actually been conducted on …
Religious Entanglements
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
Inbunden, 2022
911 kr
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Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa, today boasting more than one million members in the Democratic Republic of …
Religious Entanglements
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
Häftad, 2023
360 kr
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The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators—the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga—in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the mutually …
Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963
Av Sean Redding
Inbunden, 2023
938 kr
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Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not inherent in African culture; rather, violence resulted from the ways in which Africans navigated the hazardous social and political landscape imposed by …
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Inbunden, 2023
938 kr
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In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and …
