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Wealth, Land, And Property In Angola - A History Of Dispossession, Slavery, And Inequality

by Mariana P. (Emory University, Atlanta) Candido

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 Mariana Candido explores the history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in Angola from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and particularly African women, Candido advances the push to decolonize African history.
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A Man Of The World - Tom Mboya, The Cold War And Decolonization In Kenya

by Daniel (University Of Warwick) Branch

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 Focusing on Tom Mboya, one of Kenya's founding fathers, this book reveals how the Cold War profoundly shaped the outcome of decolonisation in Kenya. Daniel Branch explores Mboya's influence across the globe, including his controversial American network of supporters, thereby setting Kenya's decolonisation in its global context.
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An Anticolonial Development - Race, Schooling, And Emancipation In Twentieth-Century West Africa

by Elisa (National Institute Of Education, Nanyang Technological University) Prosperetti

~~128,43€~~ 115,59€ 10% OFF

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 In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates that freedom from colonial rule was inseparable from the freedom to go to school.
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An Anticolonial Development - Race, Schooling, And Emancipation In Twentieth-Century West Africa

by Elisa (National Institute Of Education, Nanyang Technological University) Prosperetti

~~43,26€~~ 38,93€ 10% OFF

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 In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates that freedom from colonial rule was inseparable from the freedom to go to school.
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The Political Economy Of Rwanda'S Rise

by Pritish (University Of Manchester) Behuria

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 Drawing on a decade of research, this political economy study explores Rwanda's rapid growth. Pritish Behuria examines the RPF's ambitions to transform the country into a regional services hub while grappling with foreign dependency, elite vulnerability and limited financial resources. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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The Political Economy Of Rwanda'S Rise

by Pritish (University Of Manchester) Behuria

~~128,43€~~ 115,59€ 10% OFF

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 Drawing on a decade of research, this political economy study explores Rwanda's rapid growth. Pritish Behuria examines the RPF's ambitions to transform the country into a regional services hub while grappling with foreign dependency, elite vulnerability and limited financial resources. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Political Belonging In The Ghanaâ€“Togo Borderlands - Citizenship And The Vote At The Margins Of The State

by Nathalie (University Of Birmingham) Raunet

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 Analysing the interaction between belonging, nation-state and the vote in the Ghana-Togo borderlands, this study interrogates how political community is constructed in the region. Nathalie Raunet contextualises the electoral debate on cross-border voting in Ghana in 2016 using archival research, interviews, oral tradition and newspaper analysis.
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Pan-African Education - A Must For The African Union

by John K. (College At Brockport, State University Of New York, Usa) Marah

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 This book intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides reflections from a multidisciplinary perspective on the urgency for continental pan-Africanism educational system in order to produce a renascent African for the twenty-first century.
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African Military Politics In The Sahel - Regional Organizations And International Politics

by Katharina P. W. (Sodertorns Hogskola, Sweden) Doring

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 Based on extensive empirical research, Katharina P.W. DÃ¶ring analyses the politics surrounding military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 and stresses the agency of regional organizations in African-led military interventions. Drawing on insights from critical geography, she considers the role that space plays in the power dynamics of the region.
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Black Soldiers In The Rhodesian Army - Colonialism, Professionalism, And Race

by M. T. (University Of Oxford) Howard

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% OFF

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 Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive archival research, M. T. Howard tackles the question of why so many black soldiers fought steadfastly and effectively for the Rhodesian Army during the war of liberation (1965-1980). It enriches scholarly understandings of the motivations and loyalties of colonial troops.
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Arming Black Consciousness - The Azanian Black Nationalist Tradition And South Africa'S Armed Struggle

by Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson (Georgia State University) Asheeke

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 Using oral and archival sources, Toivo Asheeke excavates the neglected history of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial struggle in South Africa. Asheeke highlights the BCM's engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black Internationalism.
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Plunder For Profit - A Socio-Environmental History Of Tobacco Farming In Southern Rhodesia And Zimbabwe

by Elijah (Universitetet I Agder, Norway) Doro

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 Examining the history of tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, Elijah Doro outlines the impacts left on landscapes, communities and people. Drawing from environmental history and political economy, Doro illuminates debates about colonialism, conservationism and sustainability.
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Child Slavery And Guardianship In Colonial Senegal

by Bernard (Virginia Commonwealth University) Moitt

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 Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.
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Navigating Local Transitional Justice - Agency At Work In Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

by Laura S. (University Of Nottingham) Martin

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 Highlights the agency of local people in enabling transitional justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. Moving past questions of institutional effectiveness, Laura S. Martin explores the diversity of post-conflict experiences and shows how individuals and communities enact justice on their own terms.
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Fractured Pasts In Lake Kivuâ€™S Borderlands - Conflicts, Connections And Mobility In Central Africa

by Gillian (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) Mathys

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 This innovative study explores how long-term historical processes in the Lake Kivu region have shaped present-day relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gillian Mathys reexamines historical understandings of mobility, conflict, identity formation and historical narration across state and ecological borders.
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Trajectories Of Authoritarianism In Rwanda - Elusive Control Before The Genocide

by Marie-Eve (University Of Ottawa) Desrosiers

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 Challenging assumptions regarding authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society.
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Invoking The Invisible In The Sahara - Islam, Spiritual Mediation, And Social Change

by Erin (New York University, Abu Dhabi) Pettigrew

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 Exploring the changing role of Muslim spiritual mediators and Islamic esoteric sciences, Pettigrew outlines how invisible forces have impacted social, religious, and political structures in the Saharan West over centuries. Combining historical and anthropological methods, she offers a model for future research that takes the immaterial seriously.
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New Sudans - Wartime Intellectual Histories In Khartoum

by Nicki (Cardiff University) Kindersley

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 Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, and hundreds of stories, poems, songs, jokes and photographs, this book tells the history of political ideas and projects organised by South Sudanese people displaced by war and famine in the capital Khartoum over Sudan's second civil war from 1983â€"2005.
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Money, Value, And The State - Sovereignty And Citizenship In East Africa

by Kevin P. (University Of Edinburgh) Donovan

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 A deeply researched study of twentieth-century political and economic fortunes in East Africa, this will interest historians, anthropologists, development scholars, and those in adjacent disciplines. By focusing on topics such as money, banking and smuggling, this book provides new interpretations of iconic topics of interest.
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Rene And Postcolonial Seychelles - An African Chameleon In The Indian Ocean

by Ashton (University Of Melbourne, Australia) Robinson

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 Robinson details the life and times of France-Albert RenÃ© (1935-2019), the second post-independence leader of Seychelles who oversaw the nationâ€™s transition to democracy after over a decade of his brutal dictatorship.
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How Did We Survive? African-American Women And The Trauma Within

~~304,75€~~ 274,28€ 10% OFF

 Black/African-American women have grappled with the burden of oppression and microaggressions daily. The vision of this book is to shine a spotlight on the enduring legacy of trauma that Black/African-American women bear and perpetuate through generations. In clinical terms, it might be labeled as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or transgenerational trauma. Still, for the Black/African-American women, it’s the reality of life. It is the reality of generational trauma bestowed upon the lives of Black women. This book is a vital contribution to the mental health field, shedding light on the overlooked experiences of Black/African-American women and their resilience in the face of enduring trauma. This book aims to aid mental health professionals to be attuned to the unique needs of this demographic and to cultivate a deeper understanding of their lived experiences to provide adequate care and support.
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Navigating Local Transitional Justice - Agency At Work In Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

by Laura S. Martin

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Ethiopiaâ€™S Â€˜Developmental Stateâ€™ - Political Order And Distributive Crisis

by Tom (University Of Manchester) Lavers

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 This book provides a comprehensive, multi-sector analysis of Ethiopia's development project, which has rightly been regarded as one of the development success stories of recent decades. The book will interest scholars in African studies, political science and development studies, in addition to those with specific interests in Ethiopia.
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Black Soldiers In The Rhodesian Army - Colonialism, Professionalism, And Race

by M. T. (University Of Oxford) Howard

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% OFF

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 Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive archival research, M. T. Howard tackles the question of why so many black soldiers fought steadfastly and effectively for the Rhodesian Army during the war of liberation (1965-1980). It enriches scholarly understandings of the motivations and loyalties of colonial troops.
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