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For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on the magazine's staff in the 1960s and again...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-15
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This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world. It argues that Pentecostalism keeps both a continuous and a discontinuous relationship in tension. Based on field research in a South African township,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-16
Collection :
Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
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In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite. They were the experts who drafted and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-18
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The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image.The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-27
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Die Studie untersucht, wie Reiseberichte und verwandte Publikationen diskursiv einen Sog nach Afrika erzeugten. Zentrale Verfahren sind die Inszenierung der eigenen Pionierleistung, der Rivalität mit Konkurrenten um Zugriff auf Afrika und der gegenseitigen Überbietung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-19
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This book explores British post-colonial foreign policy towards Kenya from 1963 to 1980. It reveals the extent and nature of continued British government influence in Kenya after independence. It argues that this was not simply about neo-colonialism, and Kenya’s elite...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-30
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Born a poor Glasgow cotton-mill worker, David grew up to become a great explorer and hero of his time.This is his incredible story. The tough man of Victorian Britain would stop at nothing in his determination to be the first white man to explore Africa, even if it...
Editeur :
Short Books
Parution :
2017-06-01
Collection :
Great Victorians
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The tenacious belief in a disjunction of genocide and art has risen a persisting polemic in literary cricism. Narrating Itsembabwoko challenges this dichotomous thinking by assuming that a narrative about genocide is both a work and a testimony because the sense-making...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-13
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'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
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Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history.Guinea is also exceptional in that it was the first French...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2016-12-15
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WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZEThe compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book explores an Australian regional community’s reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an ‘occasional war’ in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-05-01
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A reassessment of the precedents, course, and legacy of the Reformation has occurred in the present generation of academic writing. This collection of essays brings together research by established and new scholars on themes of the Reformation with a particular focus on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-15
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Wie werden Aufstände, Rebellionen, Revolutionen, Systemwechsel, Krisen und Umbrüche in Gesellschaften in Literatur und Sprache reflektiert? Welchen Beitrag leisten Texte, Filme und andere Medien im sozialen Wandel?Wie wird Afrika in Europa und umgekehrt Europa in Afrika...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-01
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In 1962, almost one million people were evacuated from Algeria. France called these citizens Repatriates to hide their French Algerian origins and to integrate them into society. This book is about Repatriation and how it became central to France's postcolonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-11-12
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-10
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The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production. However, any idea(l)s of planned irrigation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-04
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