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Emotions in Muslim Hausa Women's Fiction
More than Just Romance
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim women writers use fiction in their indigenous language to demonstrate and express their anger about the problems they face in a patriarchal society.Umma Aliyu Musa shows how Hausa …
Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
A History of Dàdàkúàdá
Inbunden, 2019
1002 kr
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This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the history, cultural identity, performance …
Development In Modern Africa
Past and Present Perspectives
Av Martin S. Shanguhyia, Toyin Falola
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africa’s experiences with the development process. It does so by adopting a historical and contemporary analysis of this experience. The book is set within the context of critiques on development in …
African Metropolis
Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
Av Toyin Falola, Bisola Falola
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and …
Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations
Southern African Experiences in Global View
Av Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. Situated within debates on borders, borderlands, …
African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World
Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola
Av Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Ngozi Nwogwugwu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa’s role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality. The contributors engage the unresolved problematics of the historical and contemporary …
African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World
Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola
Av Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Ngozi Nwogwugwu m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa’s role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality. The contributors engage the unresolved problematics of the historical and contemporary …
Children, Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone
Left in Our Hands
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demographic increase through the judicial emancipation of Liberated Africans. Within this complex and often …
Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria
Towards a Tradition of Nigerian Philosophy
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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What does it imply for Nigerian philosophers to conscientiously and engagingly reflect on Nigeria as a place of philosophy and as a dynamic plural context of socioeconomic, political, cultural and ethnic problems? Any answer to this question automatically constitutes the opening salvo to the …
Right to Development in the African Human Rights System
Häftad, 2020
637 kr
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The right to development (RTD) seeks to address global inequities hidden in world politics and global institutions through the game of influences played by powerful actors. The negative impacts of the Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, and the subjugation of Africa through globalisation and its …
Nigerian Female Dramatists
Expression, Resistance, Agency
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made …
Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations
Southern African Experiences in Global View
Av Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. Situated within debates on borders, borderlands, …
Governance and Leadership Institutions in Nigeria
Av Ernest Toochi Aniche, Toyin Falola
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of political leadership in the post-colonial era. The contributors examine the role and nature of traditional governance institutions in West Africa from pre-colonial times to …
Governance and Leadership Institutions in Nigeria
Av Ernest Toochi Aniche, Toyin Falola
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of political leadership in the post-colonial era. The contributors examine the role and nature of traditional governance institutions in West Africa from pre-colonial times to …
Nigerian Female Dramatists
Expression, Resistance, Agency
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made …
Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile
Identity and Alienation in Southern African Fiction
Av Joshua Agbo
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head’s novels and short fiction.An exile herself, arriving in Botswana as a South African refugee, Bessie Head’s fiction serves as an important example of African exile literature. This book argues that Head’s …
Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile
Identity and Alienation in Southern African Fiction
Av Joshua Agbo
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head’s novels and short fiction.An exile herself, arriving in Botswana as a South African refugee, Bessie Head’s fiction serves as an important example of African exile literature. This book argues that Head’s …
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.The study …
Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Africa’s modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century where European countries …
Emotions in Muslim Hausa Women's Fiction
More than Just Romance
Häftad, 2021
799 kr
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This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim women writers use fiction in their indigenous language to demonstrate and express their anger about the problems they face in a patriarchal society.Umma Aliyu Musa shows how Hausa …
Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
A History of Dàdàkúàdá
Häftad, 2021
388 kr
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This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the history, cultural identity, performance …
Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination and in the midst of so many natural resources? Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa provides new understandings of the persistent issue of poverty in …
Literature and Culture in Global Africa
Häftad, 2019
799 kr
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Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts …
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora
Contesting History and Power
Av Toyin Falola, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together …
Right to Development in the African Human Rights System
Inbunden, 2018
2323 kr
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The right to development (RTD) seeks to address global inequities hidden in world politics and global institutions through the game of influences played by powerful actors. The negative impacts of the Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, and the subjugation of Africa through globalisation and its …
Children, Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone
Left in Our Hands
Inbunden, 2018
2600 kr
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Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demographic increase through the judicial emancipation of Liberated Africans. Within this complex and often …
Africa's Soft Power
Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s …
Africa's Soft Power
Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports
Häftad, 2023
694 kr
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This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s …
Life and Times of Chinua Achebe
Av Kalu Ogbaa
Häftad, 2021
534 kr
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The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things …
Life and Times of Chinua Achebe
Av Kalu Ogbaa
Inbunden, 2021
1950 kr
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The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things …
