Society & Politics in Africa – serie
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Juju Fission
Women’s Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between
Häftad, 2007
706 kr
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Women, especially leaders, holding tête-à-têtes with men to address political impasses have been recognized as shrewd, double headed, or witchlike distinctions that link them with juju or extraordinary, survivalist powers. Juju Fission: Women’s Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, …
Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria
Prospects and Challenges for Development
Av Patience Idaraesit Akpan-Obong
Häftad, 2009
510 kr
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In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been linked with socioeconomic development with the assumption that they can be harnessed for economic growth in developing countries and facilitate integration into the global information society. However, very few studies in …
French Investment in Colonial Cameroon
The FIDES Era (1946-1957)
Inbunden, 2009
979 kr
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French Investment in Colonial Cameroon: The FIDES Era (1946-1957) analyzes French investments in Cameroon during the era of the program for the development of French colonies known as FIDES. It offers not only a description of the economic structures of colonial Cameroon, but also an analysis of …
Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
Inbunden, 2012
653 kr
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Focusing on yellow fever, cholera, and plague epidemics as well as on sanitation in the context of urban growth in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal between 1867 and 1920, this book explores how the French colonial and medical authorities responded to the emergence and re-emergence of deadly epidemic diseases …
Narratives as Muslim Practice in Senegal
Inbunden, 2012
1009 kr
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Sufi oral discourse in Senegal is overwhelmingly dominated by stories about past and current shaykhs. An important corpus of oral narratives about Sufi clerics is not only (re)told by Sufi speakers throughout Senegal but also in the Senegalese diasporas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. These …
Political History of Guinea since World War Two
Inbunden, 2014
1363 kr
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Political History of Guinea since World War Two provides an in-depth study of the political evolution of Guinea from World War Two to the present. Based on primary-source information, it examines with rare depth and breadth the eventful history of this nation-state, whose trajectory has impacted in …
Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980)
Inbunden, 2015
1068 kr
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Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980) examines the most expressive medium in Somali culture and politics, that is, oral poetry, in its ideological and discursive dimension. Oral poetry has a formidable impact …
Uses of African Antiquity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Av Jorge Serrano, Akwasi P. Osei
Inbunden, 2018
1101 kr
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African antiquity has been discerned both nullifyingly and constructively. Uses of African Antiquity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries reveals how reading the past can be extended to understand sensitivities involving origins and how it imparts collective posture. The ancient historical …
Issues and Trends in Contemporary African Politics
Stability, Development, and Democratization
Häftad, 2003
330 kr
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Africa, at the close of the twentieth century, has witnessed a tremendous amount of social, economic, and political transformation. By tackling the issues of political instability, democratization, and economic development, this book goes to the heart of the African conundrum and makes an …
Inculturation and Postcolonial Discourse in African Theology
Av Edward P Antonio, Edward P. Antonio
Inbunden, 2006
862 kr
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What is inculturation? How is it practiced and what is its relationship to colonial and postcolonial discourses? In what ways, if any, does inculturation represent the decolonization of Christianity in Africa? This book explores these questions and argues that inculturation is a species of …
