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Powerful Frequencies - Radio, State Power, And The Cold War In Angola, 1931â€“2002

by Marissa J. Moorman

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 Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.
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Much Matter In A Penny Paper - Early Yoruba Print Culture In Lagos, 1910â€“1930

by Karin Barber

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 This book examines the emergence of YorÃ¹bÃ¡-language newspapers in colonial Lagos. It explores bilingual print culture, genre innovation, civic discourse, and media history in early twentieth-century Nigeria, highlighting the roles of editors, writers, and readers in shaping public communication.
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Much Matter In A Penny Paper - Early Yoruba Print Culture In Lagos, 1910â€“1930

by Karin Barber

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 This book examines the emergence of YorÃ¹bÃ¡-language newspapers in colonial Lagos. It explores bilingual print culture, genre innovation, civic discourse, and media history in early twentieth-century Nigeria, highlighting the roles of editors, writers, and readers in shaping public communication.
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Preparing The Modern Meal - Urban Capitalism And Working-Class Food In Kenya'S Port City

by Devin Smart

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 This book explores how twentieth-century urban capitalism created a new food system in East Africaâ€™s most important port city: Mombasa, Kenya. Inside households, the dynamics of urban life changed the gendered structures of cooking, while new businesses emerged to sell food to working-class communities that now had to rely on cash to acquire their daily sustenance.
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Moroccan Modernism

by Holiday Powers

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 The Casablanca School artists shaped the Moroccan experience of modernism through their visual arts activism. Here Powers explores their work to advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in the transnational anticolonial, pan-African, and pan-Arab intellectual movements that defined the era.
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Morality Of Revolution - Reeducation Camps And The Politics Of Punishment In Socialist Mozambique, 1968-1990

by Benedito Luis Machava

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 This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimoâ€™s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the partyâ€™s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.
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Society, Power, And Land In Northeastern Zimbabwe, Ca. 1560-1960

by Admire Mseba

~~46,36€~~ 41,72€ 10% OFF

 This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.
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Elusive Histories - Mozambican Migrant Laborers In Rhodesia, Ca. 1900â€“1980

by Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman e Joy M. Chadya

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 Making visible the hundreds of thousands of Mozambican men and women who made their lives in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Elusive Histories offers rich insights into the social history of labor migration and the experience of racism, and it rebukes the idea that arbitrary borders determine where and how a person belongs.
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The Morality Of Revolution - Reeducation Camps And The Politics Of Punishment In Socialist Mozambique, 1968â€“1990

by Benedito Luis Machava

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 This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimoâ€™s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the partyâ€™s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.
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Moroccan Modernism

by Holiday Powers

~~37,84€~~ 34,06€ 10% OFF

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 The Casablanca School artists shaped the Moroccan experience of modernism through their visual arts activism. Here Powers explores their work to advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in the transnational anticolonial, pan-African, and pan-Arab intellectual movements that defined the era.
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Society, Power, And Land In Northeastern Zimbabwe, Ca. 1560â€“1960

by Admire Mseba

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 This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.
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Available Light - Omar Badsha And The Struggle For Change In South Africa

by Daniel Magaziner

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 Tells the story of an activist, an artist, a uniquely South African individual, and his community and family across the second half of the twentieth century. Magaziner chronicles how art and politics became intertwined in South Africa and explains what it takes to maintain a critical aesthetic approach to political crises in the past and present.
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Country Of Defiance - Mapping The Casamance In Senegal

by Mark W. Deets

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 This analysis of culture and nationalism in the Casamanceâ€"home of the longest-running conflict on the African continentâ€"considers colonialism, cartography, agriculture, religion, forests, education, and sports history to explain and analyze the complex identities that have driven the separatist movement as well as the Senegalese nation.
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Acholi Intellectuals - Knowledge, Power, And The Making Of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850-1960

by Patrick William Otim

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 Contains two stories set in East Tennessee in the mid-18th century and share certain characters. The first tells the story of the Overmountain Men and the battle of King's Mountain, a tide-turning battle in the American Revolution. The second is an exploration of white-Cherokee relationships from early contact through the time of the Revolution.
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Unruly Ideas - A History Of Kitawala In Congo

by Nicole Eggers

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 In this conceptual history, Nicole Eggers argues that practitioners of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala can be understood as intellectuals, innovators, and vital participants in the construction and use of power. Eggers also explores the relationship between healing and violence in their frequently gendered central African manifestations.
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Powerful Frequencies - Radio, State Power, And The Cold War In Angola, 1931-2002

by Marissa J. Moorman

46,31€ + 10% CARD

 Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.
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Hornyheads, Madtoms, And Darters - Narratives On Central Appalachian Fishes

by Stuart A. Welsh

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 Central Appalachia hosts a dazzling array of fish species that attracts robust scientific and recreational interests. Stuart A. Welsh draws on the work of early modern naturalists to examine central Appalachian fishes in terms of the food chain, conservation, climate change, and more as he considers these important creatures and their waterways.
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Imagine Lagos - Mapping History, Place, And Politics In A Nineteenth-Century African City

by Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi

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 Combining archival research with a digital humanitiesâ€"focused examination of cartography, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi reveals the gendered, spatial, and environmental responses to historical, political, and social change in mid-nineteenth-century Lagos, Nigeria.
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Apartheid'S Leviathan - Electricity And The Power Of Technological Ambivalence

by Faeeza Ballim

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 Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africaâ€™s economic growth and negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nationâ€™s mining, manufacturing, and power generation. This study thus demonstrates how technology has shaped South African history.
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Apartheid'S Leviathan - Electricity And The Power Of Technological Ambivalence

by Faeeza Ballim

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 Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africaâ€™s economic growth and negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nationâ€™s mining, manufacturing, and power generation. This study thus demonstrates how technology has shaped South African history.
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Convening Black Intimacy - Christianity, Gender, And Tradition In Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

by Natasha Erlank

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 This social history of twentieth-century Black intimacy and family life in South Africa is the first book to demonstrate the singular role of Christianity in reshaping sexual and marital traditions. It is a must-read for scholars interested in the politics of gender, sexuality, and family in South Africa, as well as for historians of Christianity.
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Language For The World - The Standardization Of Swahili

by Morgan J. Robinson

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 Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahiliâ€"a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabetâ€"argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
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Spear - Mandela And The Revolutionaries

by Paul S. Landau

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 Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandelaâ€™s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africaâ€™s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.
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A Language For The World - The Standardization Of Swahili

by Morgan J. Robinson

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 Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahiliâ€"a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabetâ€"argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
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