Télécharger le livre :  Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe
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This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-17
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016
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This book, the second of two parts, demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-07
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona
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This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-06
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Africa and its Global Diaspora
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The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-07-12
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
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This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-22
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
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This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-18
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Media in Kenyan History
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The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics.The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-17
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I
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This book examines the historical and current state of health and the health of the African people, including the Arab North, impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements, cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and traditional systems....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-30
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II
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This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-24
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890 to 1979
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This book demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in Uganda is the severe crisis...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-26
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
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This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-22
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
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This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-03
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
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This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015.This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-01
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland
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This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-13
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
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This book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in 1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial modernity and coloniality of power and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-18
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Kenya After 50
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This book explores the key milestones in education, gender, and policy that Kenya has achieved since independence, the challenges of this experience, and the future prospects.This edited collection of chapters also aims to illuminate the lessons learned from the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-08
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Kenya After 50
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This book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963. It seeks to advance understanding of the country's major milestones in the postcolonial period, the challenges and the lessons that can be learned from this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-08
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
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This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the conditions under which political leadership has been produced, and how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-09
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Mugabeism?
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What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-26
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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Télécharger le livre :  Regionalism and Integration in Africa
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The resurgence of regionalism is borne out of the current political logjams that have characterized the governance and operations of multilateral trading system  over the past one decade and a half. Oloruntoba critically examines Euro-Nigeria relations within the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-11-10
Collection : African Histories and Modernities
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