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The Cameroon War
A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa
AvThomas Deltombe,Manuel Domerguem. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 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 the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC), and France responded with brutal repression. As in Algeria, French forces waged a bloody counterinsurgency campaign. They eventually eradicated the opposition and installed a client dictatorship in the capital, Yaound�.With the world focused on the Algerian bloodbath, the conflict in Cameroon received little attention at the time. Its devastating aftermath - and tens of thousands of victims - were intentionally obscured by French authorities and their local collaborators. The Cameroon War uncovers this hidden history. It illuminates a forgotten struggle for decolonisation at the origin of neocolonial rule in Francophone Africa, a story that is still unfolding today.
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Barrel of a Gun
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État
AvRuth First
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
293 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
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.
The Cameroon War
A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa
AvThomas Deltombe,Manuel Domerguem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
208 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
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 Peoples of Cameroon (UPC), and France responded with brutal repression. As in Algeria, French forces waged a bloody counterinsurgency campaign. They eventually eradicated the opposition and installed a client dictatorship in the capital, Yaoundé.With the world focused on the Algerian bloodbath, the conflict in Cameroon received little attention at the time. Its devastating aftermath - and tens of thousands of victims - were intentionally obscured by French authorities and their local collaborators. The Cameroon War uncovers this hidden history. It illuminates a forgotten struggle for decolonisation at the origin of neocolonial rule in Francophone Africa, a story that is still unfolding today.
This Fiction Called Nigeria
The Struggle for Democracy
AvAdéwálé Májà-Pearce
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
210 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
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 since its independence in 1960, Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship. Yet the blessings of today's democracy are unclear to many, especially among the more than half of the population living in extreme poverty. Buffeted by unemployment, saddled with debt, menaced by bandits and Islamic fundamentalists, Nigeria faces the threat of disintegration.Maja-Pearce shows that recent mobilizations against police brutality, sexism, and homophobia reveal a powerful undercurrent of discontent, especially among the country's youth. If Nigeria has a future, he shows here, it is in the hands of young people unwilling to go on as before.
This Fiction Called Nigeria
The Struggle for Democracy
AvAdéwálé Májà-Pearce
E-bok
Engelska, 2024
175 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 since its independence in 1960, Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship. Yet the blessings of today''s democracy are unclear to many, especially among the more than half of the population living in extreme poverty. Buffeted by unemployment, saddled with debt, menaced by bandits and Islamic fundamentalists, Nigeria faces the threat of disintegration.Maja-Pearce shows that recent mobilizations against police brutality, sexism, and homophobia reveal a powerful undercurrent of discontent, especially among the country''s youth. If Nigeria has a future, he shows here, it is in the hands of young people unwilling to go on as before.
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
AvPalagummi Sainath
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
305 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
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, made to uplift them.The Indian poor are too often reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the hundreds of millions living below the poverty line gets overlooked. In this thoroughly researched study of the poorest of the poor, we see how they manage and what sustains them. The people in this book typify the lives and aspirations of a large section of Indian society, and their stories give a glimpse into the true face of development.
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Barrel of a Gun
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État
AvRuth First
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
222 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
AvSimone de Beauvoir,Gisèle Halimi
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
261 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 been for the efforts of her lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, and the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir to transform it into an international cause célèbre. Djamila Boupacha is the culmination of this campaign to expose the systemic violence of colonial rule. "To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses,'" Beauvoir writes, "is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simply an all-pervasive system."More than a historical document, the book is a profound exploration of morality, complicity and resistance. A classic text of anticolonialism, this is a story that demands to be read-and remembered.
Algeria 1962
A People's History
AvMalika Rahal
Häftad, Engelska, 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 claimed their freedom. The result is a history alive with the voices, emotions and experiences of those who lived it.In March 1962, the Évian Accords recognised Algeria's independence. Yet the months that followed were far from peaceful. Colonialist dead-enders launched a scorched-earth campaign of terrorist violence, nationalist factions fought for supremacy, and returning refugees and released prisoners reshaped the social landscape. At the same time, millions poured into the streets in unprecedented celebration, reclaiming public space and imagining new futures.Rahal's history traces how independence was lived and remembered through rumour and ritual, joy and grief, the redistribution of land and the reopening of mosques, episodes that continue to resonate in today's Algeria. Sweeping yet intimate, Algeria 1962 redefines how we think about decolonisation, revealing it as both rupture and reinvention, a story written not only by victors but by an entire people.
Reading in Dark Times
Literature and Politics
AvPankaj Mishra
Inbunden, Engelska, 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 fiction and criticism, and the consequences that has for what and how we read. Examining writers from Naipaul to Don DeLillo, Natalia Ginzburg to Edward Said, Mishra explores the twenty-first century decline of Westen cultural promenence. In doing so, he unravels the literary, political and ideological clashes that make up contemporary fiction and reading. Taking its name from Hannah Arendt's Men in Dark Times, this book lays the foundation for radical, internationalist forms of cultural criticism. Like our cultural moment, Mishra traverses borders and languages, asking what kinds of worlds emerge through this literary and political landscape. What emerges is a new mode of understanding the delicate balance of interiority and social upheaval, one no longer indebted to the Western canon, politically detached criticisms or Anglo-American hegemony.
My Country, Africa
Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria
AvAndrée Blouin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
330 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 retraces her remarkable journey as an African revolutionary. Born in French Equatorial Africa and abandoned at the age of three, she endured years of neglect and abuse in a colonial orphanage, which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen. She later became radicalized by the death of her two-year-old son, who was denied malaria medication by French officials because he was one-quarter African.In Guinea, where Blouin was active in Sékou Touré's campaign for independence, she came into contact with leaders of the liberation movement in the Belgian Congo. Blouin witnessed the Congolese tragedy up close as an adviser to Patrice Lumumba, whose arrest and assassination she narrates in unforgettable detail.Blouin offers a sweeping survey of pan-African nationalism, capturing the intricacies of revolutionary diplomacy, comradeship, and betrayal. Alongside intimate portraits of the movement's leaders, Blouin provides insights into the often-overlooked contribution of African women in the struggle for independence.
My Country, Africa
Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria
AvAndrée Blouin
E-bok
Engelska, 2025
178 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 retraces her remarkable journey as an African revolutionary. Born in French Equatorial Africa and abandoned at the age of three, she endured years of neglect and abuse in a colonial orphanage, which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen. She later became radicalized by the death of her two-year-old son, who was denied malaria medication by French officials because he was one-quarter African.In Guinea, where Blouin was active in S�kou Tour�''s campaign for independence, she came into contact with leaders of the liberation movement in the Belgian Congo. Blouin witnessed the Congolese tragedy up close as an adviser to Patrice Lumumba, whose arrest and assassination she narrates in unforgettable detail.Blouin offers a sweeping survey of pan-African nationalism, capturing the intricacies of revolutionary diplomacy, comradeship, and betrayal. Alongside intimate portraits of the movement''s leaders, Blouin provides insights into the often-overlooked contribution of African women in the struggle for independence.