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The Land Has Changed - History, Society, And Gender In Colonial Nigeria

by Chima J. Korieh

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 In this unprecedented study of the Igbo region of southeastern Nigeria, Chima Korieh points the way to a more complex and inclusive approach to declining agriculture in the region. Korieh how regional dynamics and local responses played vital roles in this era of transformation.
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A Common Hunger - Land Rights In Canada And South Africa

by Joan G. Fairweather

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 Based on extensive research, this book is a comparative work on the history of indigenous land rights in Canada and post-apartheid South Africa. The author has constructed a balanced examination of the impact of land dispossession on indigenous peoples in both countries and their response to centuries of European domination.
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Shrines In Africa Volume 5 - History, Politics, And Society

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 In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies.
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Secession And Separatist Conflicts In Postcolonial Africa

by Charles G. Thomas e Toyin Falola

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 Examines the historical arc of secession and secessionist conflict across sub-Saharan Africa. Paying particular attention to the development of secessionist conflicts and their evolving goals, this book draws on case studies and research to examine three waves of secessionist movements, themselves defined by international conflict and change.
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Unlocking

by Amy Leblanc

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 Told over the course of one long winter, Unlocking is a poignant and penetrating exploration of grief, community, family, and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.
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Akak'Stiman - A Blackfoot Framework For Decision-Making And Mediation Processes

by Reg Crowshoe e Sybille Manneschmidt

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 Shows how Blackfoot healing methods can be integrated with western approaches on the Peigan reserve. Oral evidence from interviews with elders and historical documents bring varying approaches to this timely topic. This is an important document in the neglected field of Indigenous procedures and philosophies.
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Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing - The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi

by Betty, Phd Bastien

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 Presents a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of reclaimed identity, Betty Bastien offers a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world.
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Stress Tested - The Covid-19 Pandemic And Canadian National Security

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 Brings together leading experts to examine the role of Canada's national security and intelligence community in anticipating, responding to, and managing a global public welfare emergency. This interdisciplinary collection offers a clear-eyed view of successes, failures, and lessons learned in Canada's pandemic response.
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I Wish I Could Be Peter Falk

by Paul Zits

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 These poems challenge the standards of the masculine convention, and the various media that help sculpt our expectations, tirelessly telling men how to feel, how to think, how to dress, what to drive, and how to identify.
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Signs Of Water - Community Perspectives On Water, Responsibility, And Hope

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 Brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. These essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today.
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I Want To Tell You Love - A Critical Edition

by Bill Bissett e Milton Acorn

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 Published for the very first time, I Want to Tell You Love is the combination of Bill bissett and Milton Acorn's seemingly incongruous poetics to confront the turbulent and swiftly changing world of the 1960s. A collection of poems and illustrations, it is a window into the lives and motivations of two soon-to-be-canonized cultural figures.
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Greatest Garden - The Paintings Of David More

by Mary-Beth Laviolette

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 Offers a celebration of David More's engagement with the garden as a multifaceted subject. Featuring over fifty original artworks, this book encompasses a career spent in conversation with gardens in their many and varied forms.
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In Singing, He Composed A Song

by Jeremy Stewart

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 A masterful experimental novel that blends poetry and fiction, past and future, word and image, to radically question how language and authority intertwine to shape the ways we view ourselves. It finds the music - however dissonant - that canâ€™t be held behind steel doors or hidden in the pages of your file.
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Happy Sands

by Barb Howard

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 Full of humour, sharp observations, revealing massages, and surprisingly uncomfortable lawn chairs, Happy Sands is a highly entertaining and poignant story of summer vacation gone all-too-predictably wrong.
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Integrated Environmental Modelling Framework For Cumulative Effects Assessment

by Anil Gupta, Babak Farjad, George Wang, Hyung Eum e Monique Dube

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 Examines the ways in which interactions and relationships between environmental components are understood, paying special attention to climate, land, water quantity and quality, and both anthropogenic and natural stressors. The book reviews modelling approaches for each component and reviews existing integrated modelling systems for CEA.
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Creative Tourism In Smaller Communities - Place, Culture, And Local Representation

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 Examines the processes, policies, and methodologies of creative tourism, paying special attention to the ways creative and place-based tourism can aid sustainable cultural development. The collection offers a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives from a variety of experts.
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The Tensions Between Culture And Human Rights - Emancipatory Social Work And Afrocentricity In A Global World

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 Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.
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Social Work In Africa - Exploring Culturally Relevant Education And Practice In Ghana

by Linda Kreitzer

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 Drawing on her experience as a social work instructor in Ghana with field research conducted for her doctoral thesis, author Linda Kreitzer addresses the history of social work in African countries, the hegemony of western knowledge in the field, and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and programs.
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The Politics Of Access - University Education And Nation Building In Nigeria, 1948-2000

by Ogechi E. Anyanwu

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 Through analysis of exceptionally rich data obtained from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, and from Nigeria's national archives, author Ogechi Anyanwu demonstrates how the pursuit of mass university education not only decolonized the elitist British education system but also ultimately reshaped modern Nigeria.
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African Wars - A Defense Intelligence Perspective

by William Thom

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 During the past forty years, Africa south of the Sahara has been the most conflict-prone region of the world. In spite of its geopolitical importance, it remains one of the least understood. African Wars provides a concise summary of four decades of warfare in sub-Saharan Africa with expert commentary by William Thom.
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Reinventing African Chieftaincy In The Age Of Aids, Gender, Governance, And Development

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 A collection of essays examining the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy â€œre-inventingâ€ itself. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who are now bringing new resources to the challenges posed by AIDS, gender, governance, and development.
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New Directions In African Education - Challenges And Possibilities

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 Essays from African scholars who, before pursuing graduate studies in North America, had first-hand experience with the education system in post-colonial Africa. Their cross-cultural perspective has provided a unique opportunity to critically examine education in the African context and to present possible courses of action to reinvent its future.
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The African Diaspora In Canada - Negotiating Identity And Belonging

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 Includes essays that provide readings of how the social structures of Canada and of the respective countries of origin - including their ethnicity, ancestry, and lineage - interact to shape the identities, expectations, and aspirations of African Canadians.
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Grassroots Governance? - Chiefs In Africa And The Afro-Caribbean

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 Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. This title addresses it and includes case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica.

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