Verso's Southern Questions – serie
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12 produkter
The Cameroon War
A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa
Av Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
175 kr
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According to conventional wisdom, France''s empire in sub- Saharan Africa ended peacefully. But this book tells a different story. The shocking violence of a secret war roiled Cameroon in the 1950s and ''60s. A mass movement for self-determination had emerged under the leadership of the Union of …
Barrel of a Gun
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État
Av Ruth First
Häftad, 2026
303 kr
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A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assassination by South Africa's Special Branch in 1982. The Barrel of a Gun establishes First's position in the canon of post-colonial revolutionary thought.
This Fiction Called Nigeria
The Struggle for Democracy
Häftad, 2024
214 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria's crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonizers at the turn of the twentieth century. In the years …
The Cameroon War
A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa
Av Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
208 kr
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According to conventional wisdom, France's empire in sub- Saharan Africa ended peacefully. But this book tells a different story. The shocking violence of a secret war roiled Cameroon in the 1950s and '60s. A mass movement for self-determination had emerged under the leadership of the Union of the …
This Fiction Called Nigeria
The Struggle for Democracy
E-bok, 2024
179 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria''s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonizers at the turn of the twentieth century. In the years …
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
Häftad, 2025
312 kr
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Acclaimed worldwide, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the acknowledged classic on rural poverty in India. Three decades after publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of its reportage, providing an intimate view of the daily struggles of the poor and the efforts, often ludicrous, …
Barrel of a Gun
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État
Av Ruth First
E-bok, 2026
230 kr
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A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assas,sination by South Africa's Special Branch in 1982. The Barrel of a Gun establishes First's position in the canon of post-colonial revolutionary thought.
Djamila Boupacha
Av Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi
Häftad, 2027
267 kr
Kommande
In 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth year, 22-year-old Djamila Boupacha was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a university cafeteria. While in custody, she was tortured and raped by French soldiers. Her case would have been buried like countless others had it not …
Algeria 1962
A People's History
Av Malika Rahal
Häftad, 2027
373 kr
Kommande
Algeria 1962: A People's History offers a gripping portrait of one of the twentieth-century's most dramatic turning points-the birth of independent Algeria. Malika Rahal immerses us in the tumultuous year when, after more than a century of French settler rule and eight years of war, Algerians …
Reading in Dark Times
Literature and Politics
Inbunden, 2027
406 kr
Kommande
What can literature tell us about the making of the modern world? Examining a range of novelists and critics during the decades of decolonization, the cold war and globalization, Pankaj Mishra uncovers how political intelligence and literary sensibility became gradually disjunct in Anglo-American …
My Country, Africa
Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria
Häftad, 2025
241 kr
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Andrée Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana.In this autobiography, Blouin …
My Country, Africa
Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria
E-bok, 2025
184 kr
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Andr�e Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ''60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana. In this autobiography, Blouin …
