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Africa experienced direct and indirect foreign interventions since the continent’s colonization by the Europeans in the nineteenth century. These interventions have had political, economic and social consequences for the continent and its people. This book explores the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-04-13
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Yoruba Idealism questions, debates, and redefines the assumed epistemology inYoruba idealism. It is a work in two parts. The first is built around a study of divinity–philosopher Orunmila, the mentalist, the father ofYoruba idealism, and the cultivator of Ifa–Ife...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-03-11
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This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as...
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Springer
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2021-11-06
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The subject of the study is the spontaneous city spreading process of Juba after the end of the civil war in South Sudan (2005).The book presents the complex dynamics of transformations within the new urban settings of post-war Juba.The viewpoint taken while describing...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-03-26
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This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as ‘bridewealth’) is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-03
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This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West—from architecture to gender discourse,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political consciousness. War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-15
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The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political consciousness. War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-15
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Why do states ban certain statements and interpretations of the past, how do they ban them and what are the practical consequences? This book offers an answer to these questions and at the same time examines, whether the respective legislation was supply-or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-31
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Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine? In many countries, officials speak of proper health care...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-16
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A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-12-03
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The new, fully-updated edition of the acclaimed textbook covering 200 years of African history A History of Modern Africa explores two centuries of the continent’s political, economic, and social history. This thorough yet accessible text help readers to understand key...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-10-16
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World
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How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-08
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How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-08
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an extraordinary,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2019-04-15
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'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and inclusion been...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-03-07
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The Legacy Trilogy
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Five years after the death of Nelson Mandela, and 25 years after sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with him, Frederik de Klerk reflects on his political legacy in a revealing series of letters to his old friend and political rival. In them, he recalls...
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Débats Publics
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-09-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978.A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There,Ngugi lives in a block alongside other...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-04-05
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