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Pathos And Power - Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Widowhood In Africa, Past And Present

~~39,19€~~ 31,35€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Pathos and Power provides a critical exploration of widowhood in Africa through a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The contributors investigate how the category of widowhood can obscure or reveal various social dynamics while demonstrating the diversity of material, symbolic, and embodied circumstances faced by African widows.
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Projections Of Dakar - (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema

de Devin Bryson e Molly Krueger Enz

~~37,84€~~ 30,27€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The authors draw from interviews and ethnographic observations to center filmmakersâ€™ practices and conceptualizations of contemporary cinema in Dakar. In each chapter of this book, they focus on a particular urban issue and analyze how Senegalese filmmakers reimagine Africa as a place that will lead to a better future for its inhabitants.
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Nature Of Politics - State Building And The Conservation Estate In Postcolonial Botswana

de Annette A. Larocco

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservationâ€™s political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
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Power, Patronage, And The Local State In Ghana

de Barry Driscoll

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This quantitative and qualitative account of Ghanaian development shows how closely fought elections drive subnational local state institutions to patronize party volunteers. Extrapolating from Ghanaâ€™s example, the author shows how locally salient varieties of patronage shape political competition in a variety of contexts.
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Afrofuturisms - Ecology, Humanity, And Francophone Cultural Expressions

de Isaac Vincent Joslin

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 As a philosophical, literary, and visual aesthetic, Afrofuturism has been predominately defined through Anglophone, diasporic expressions. In Afrofuturisms Isaac Vincent Joslin reorients and expands this critical discourse toward colonial and postcolonial Francophone literature and film originating from continental Africa.
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Radical Utu - Critical Ideas And Ideals Of Wangari Muta Maathai

de Besi Brillian Muhonja

~~43,71€~~ 34,97€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 In Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai, Wangari Maathai is presented as a scholar whose contributions to gender equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global governance, and indigenous African languages and knowledges paralleled her renowned environmental activism.
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Africa Every Day - Fun, Leisure, And Expressive Culture On The Continent

~~41,08€~~ 32,86€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Africa Every Day is a multidisciplinary and accessible counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on war, poverty, corruption, and other challenges on the continent. Essays address creative and dynamic elements of daily life without romanticizing them, showing that African leisure and popular culture are the product of dynamism and adaptation.
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Colonialism In The Congo Basin, 1880â€“1940

de Samuel H. Nelson

~~36,49€~~ 29,19€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Presents the study of the Mongo people of the upper Congo River basin that focuses on the evolution of Mongo work patterns from the period of the late nineteenth century to 1940, the high-water mark of the colonial period.
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Making The Mark - Gender, Identity, And Genital Cutting

de Miroslava Prazak

~~43,71€~~ 34,97€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?
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Children Of Africa Confront Aids - From Vulnerability To Possibility

~~43,71€~~ 34,97€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. This book depicts the reality of how African children deal with the AIDS epidemic, and how the discourse of their vulnerability affects acts of coping and courage.
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Sacred Door And Other Stories - Cameroon Folktales Of The Beba

de Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah

~~30,46€~~ 24,37€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Offers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. This title showcases a variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society's oral literature and traditions.
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Your Madness, Not Mine - Stories Of Cameroon

de Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah

~~29,08€~~ 23,26€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. This title includes short stories that represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.
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Empire In Africa - Angola And Its Neighbors

de David Birmingham

~~38,41€~~ 30,73€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 In this illuminating history, noted historian David Birmingham explains how Angola went from colony to independence, how in the 1990s the Cold War legacy turned to civil war, and how peace finally dawned in 2002.
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Not White Enough, Not Black Enough - Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community

de Mohamed Adhikari

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The concept of Colouredness - being neither white nor black - has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. This book presents the study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.
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African Video Movies And Global Desires - A Ghanaian History

de Carmela Garritano

~~35,76€~~ 28,61€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Offers a study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. This book brings the insights of historical context as well as literary and film analysis to bear on a range of movies and the industry as a whole.
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Paths Toward The Nation - Islam, Community, And Early Nationalist Mobilization In Eritrea, 1941-1961

de Joseph L. Venosa

~~43,66€~~ 34,93€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region. Thid book focuses on Eritrea's nationalist movement.
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African Intellectuals And Decolonization

~~33,11€~~ 26,49€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Shows Africa's decolonization is an ongoing process across a range of fronts, and intellectuals - both African and non-African - have significant roles to play in that process. This book outlines ways in which intellectual practice can serve to de-link Africa from its global representation as a debased, subordinated, deviant, and inferior entity.
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African Philosophy, Culture, And Traditional Medicine

de M. Akin Makinde

~~29,73€~~ 23,78€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 For over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien European perspective. This book demonstrates the potential for the development of African philosophy and even African traditional medicine.
Pathos And Power - Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Widowhood In Africa, Past And Present

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 This interdisciplinary volume on widowhood in Africa offers in-depth perspectives on a previously underexplored subject. Empirical case studies from across the continent make the book an excellent resource for teaching gender studies in African contexts.
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Projections Of Dakar - (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema

de Devin Bryson e Molly Krueger Enz

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 This comprehensive overview of contemporary Senegalese documentary film culture features interviews with contemporary Senegalese filmmakers living and working in Dakar and analyses of the interconnections between cinema, social issues, and urban life in Senegal.
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The Nature Of Politics - State Building And The Conservation Estate In Postcolonial Botswana

de Annette A. Larocco

32,44€

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservationâ€™s political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
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The Nature Of Politics - State Building And The Conservation Estate In Postcolonial Botswana

de Annette A. Larocco

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservationâ€™s political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
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Waterhouses - Landscapes, Housing, And The Making Of Modern Lagos

de Mark Duerksen

30,27€

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 How did Lagos, Nigeria, grow from a tiny island kingdom to a megalopolis famous for its frenetic and congested form of coastal urbanism? This first-of-its-kind history provides a comprehensive narrative for understanding one of Africaâ€™s largest citiesâ€"its buoyant vibrancy and its two-headed problem of housing shortages and rising seasâ€"today.
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Waterhouses - Landscapes, Housing, And The Making Of Modern Lagos

de Mark Duerksen

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 How did Lagos, Nigeria, grow from a tiny island kingdom to a megalopolis famous for its frenetic and congested form of coastal urbanism? This first-of-its-kind history provides a comprehensive narrative for understanding one of Africaâ€™s largest citiesâ€"its buoyant vibrancy and its two-headed problem of housing shortages and rising seasâ€"today.
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