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The letter of the law in j. e. casely hayford's west africa
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and British imperi...
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Negotiating mistrust
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical lands...
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Journey through genocide
Journalist Raffy Boudjikanian speaks with genocide survivors from Darfur and Rwanda; and in eastern Turkey confronts the legacy of the Turkish government's denial of its responsibility for the Armenian genocide of 1915, an atrocity that resulted in the murder and exiling of many, including the au...
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Extracting profit
A piercing historical explanation for poverty and inequality in African societies today, and social impact of resource-driven growth.
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Xhosa masculinities and manhood in south africa
Sipungu provides an interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to be a traditionally initiated Xhosa man with a visible physical disability. Employing qualitative methods, including interviews, group discussions, and auto-ethnographic reflections, this unique study presents a rich tapestry of...
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Valley song
Valley Song is a tender poem of deep, deep love between two human beings, a story of rebirth, and of miracles at hand. —John Heilpern, New York Observer Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served ...
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The chibok girls
On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram. Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again.On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondar...
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The years of blood
Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC WriterISELE MAGAZINE | EDITOR'S CHOICE: 25 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025 THE MODACULTURE | 10 ANTICIPATED AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2025 OPEN COUNTRY MAGAZINE | ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo ...
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A revolutionary for our time
Rodney’s immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysis in the period he lived.
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Class struggle and resistance in africa
This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.
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Apartheid israel
Eleven prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.
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Reading revolution
Shakespeare's work gives hope and inspiration to the political prisoners held on apartheid South Africa's infamous Robben Island.
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Next time they'll come to count the dead
In fast-paced and dramatic fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world.
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Voices of liberation
A perfect introduction to one of the most influential figures in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.
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Treachery and diplomacy
Treachery and Diplomacy shines a light on US-Africa security partnerships, revealing their simmering internal tensions, hidden racial politics, and consequences for peace and democracy.
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Perspectives of black histories in schools
This book examines the state of k-12 Black history education, exploring its foundation, curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and psychology. It brings together diverse scholars to discuss what Black history is and how it should be taught, highlighting the progress made and the challenges that remain.
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Joy, reflections, resistance – lgbtiq+ lived realities in africa
This book brings together activist and scholarly perspectives from different African countries on the multifaceted lived realities of LGBTIQ+ persons.
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The quality of growth in africa
This book brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth tr...
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Property tax in africa
This book is the first comprehensive study of the property tax in Africa. Rigorously researched, it reviews and analyzes developments in the policies, laws, and administrative practices in 29 countries and offers public officials and practitioners on the ground information to meet the fiscal chal...
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Faithful to secularism
In Faithful to Secularism, David T. Buckley develops the concept of “benevolent secularism” to describe institutions that combine a basic division of religion and state with extensive room for participation of religious actors in public life.
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Subterranean fanon
The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even ...
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Industrial policy and economic transformation in africa
Explores the vital role that industrial policies can play in bringing about a transformation of African economies
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The suspended disaster
After Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Thomas Serres offers new insights into the last years of Bouteflika’s rule and the factors that shaped the emergence of an unexpect...
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Shouting in a cage
Shouting in a Cage offers new ways to understand co-optation’s power and its limits by examining two co-opted parties, the Wafd Party in Egypt and the Istiqlal Party in Morocco.
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The algerian civil war, 1990–1998
The civil war in Algeria shows no sign of imminent resolution. Yet little has been written about the conflict, its various participants, and the opinions of Algerians—indeed, even about what exactly is being fought over. Restrictions on movement within Algeria have severely limited the ability of...
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China's relations with africa
This book examines the full scope of contemporary political and security relations between China and Africa. Drawing on two decades of systematic data and hundreds of surveys and in-person interviews, David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman shed new light on the state of China-Africa relations today a...
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Civil strife against local governance
This book connects the critical issue of community protests to the equally precarious issue of political trust in local governance in South Africa by using comparative analysis of grassroots activism in predominantly black communities and predominantly white communities.
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To catch a dictator
To Catch a Dictator is a dramatic insider’s account of the hunt for Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, and his momentous trial. The human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims went on a quest for justice.
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Transforming africa
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As Africa stands at the threshold of rapid global and technological change, Transforming Africa offers a timely, agenda-setting response to the urgent call for bold, future-oriented innovation across the continent.
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Tomorrow's battlefield
Investigative journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking expansion of the U.S. military’s covert wars in Africa
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The changing face of empire
The Changing Face of Empire is a devastating anatomy of the U.S. military’s new six-point program for twenty-first-century war.
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Compromised bodies
This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation”The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital ...
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Headstrong
Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialism and enslavement, undergi...
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Community development practice in africa
This book explores community development from an African perspective, addressing the gap in literature dominated by Global North practices. It examines how local contexts shape theories and applications, offering critical insights for scholars and practitioners.
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Social im/mobilities in africa
Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a un...
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Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western uganda
Focusing on runyege, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda.Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional p...
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The rover
Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight.
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The columbia guide to south african literature in english since 1945
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African lite...
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We travel the space ways
This book gathers a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach toward the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents,...
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The columbia guide to west african literature in english since 1945
Composed by a premier scholar of African literature, this volume is a comprehensive guide to the literary traditions of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, five distinct countries bound by their experience with colonialism. Oyekan Owomoyela begins with an overview of the authors, t...
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Oriental languages and civilisations
The volume consists of 6 parts devoted to literature, languages, history, culture, science, religions and philosophy of the Eastern World. Its aim is to portray the present-day state of oriental studies, which are here understood predominantly as philologies of Asia and Africa, but also as a fiel...
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Resolving the african leadership challenge
Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa’s leadership challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership effectiveness.
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The embodiment and transmission of ghanaian kete royal dance
This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous...
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An ethos of transdisciplinarity
Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa’s most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.
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Climates of migration
Climates of Migration offers a transcultural, transhistorical, transcolonial and transnational analysis of the interplay between migration and climate change. The emphasis is on the anxiety, disinformation and fear generated by the political instrumentalization of these issues, and examines how t...
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Party politics and populism in zambia
Analysis of the political history of Zambia through a study of Michael Sata. It shows the interaction between party politics and populism since the 1950s, the nature and competitiveness of electoral politics in single or dominant party regimes, and the importance of individual political leadershi...
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African kings and black slaves
A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with AfricaAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that po...
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The golden rhinoceros
An unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which Ghâna, Nubia, and ...
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What fanon said
Challenging the notion of theory as white and experience as black, Lewis Gordon here offers a philosophical portrait of the thought and life of the Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an example of “living thought” against the legacies of colonial...
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