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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press The First Black Dominican Sisters in Natal 192239
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Liverpool University Press Jose Diaz-Fernandez: The Blockhouse
Book SynopsisEl Blocao, one of the most distinguished examples of avant-garde, anti-colonialist prose produced in Spain, is a collection of seven short stories parodying the highly popular serial fiction on the country's colonial wars in Morocco. Diaz-Fernandez appropriates the populist discourse articulated in the Moroccan War pulp fiction, subverting it in order to denounce the political and economic interests that inform the colonial enterprise, while effectively adopting the rhetorical innovations introduced by the European avant-garde during the 1920s. The advent of the Spanish Civil War and the premature death of its author put an end to what promised to be a brilliant literary and political career. After decades of historical amnesia on the part of Spanish academics and the Spanish public at large, the renewed interest in Spain's Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956), brought about by the massive waves of Maghrebian immigration to Spain since the 1990s, has informed the recent fascination of scholars and the general public alike for Spain's last colonial enterprise. Spain's highly idiosyncratic colonization of the Maghreb (Morocco and Western Sahara) played a crucial role in the history of the country during the first half of the twentieth century. After the loss of its Latin American colonies in 1898, the Protectorate of Morocco became a poor substitute for the lost empire. Spain, no longer a European superpower, tried to reconcile the rebuilding of its own socio-economic infrastructures with its civilizing mission overseas. As one could expect, the resulting colonial discourse was ripe with contradictions that often betrayed Spain's long struggle.Table of ContentsIntroductionTranslator’s NoteBibliographyEl blocao / The BlockhouseDedicatoria / Dedication 1. El blocao / The Blockhouse 2. El reloj / The Pocket Watch 3. Cita en la huerta / Tryst in the Orchard 4. Magdalena roja / Red Magdalene 5. África a sus pies / Africa at his Feet 6. Reo de muerte / Death Sentence 7. Convoy de amor / Love’s convoyNotes
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West Virginia University Press East Africa: An Introductory History
Book SynopsisIn this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History, Robert M. Maxon revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. With revised sections and a new preface, this comprehensive text surveys East Africa's political, economic, and social history from pre-colonial to modern times. Maxon reveals the physical movement and societal development of and between ethnic groups before the 1890s; the capitalistic impact of European colonialism in the early nineteenth century; and the achievement and aftermath of independence in East Africa during the later part of this century.East Africa: An Introductory History, 3rd and Revised Edition offers the student and scholar: the only revision of this title in over a decade; a complete index and glossary of African terms that promote an effortless navigation of the complex history of this region; over twenty maps and diagrams that provide visual depictions of the development of eastern Africa; detailed geographical and topographical analysis that supplement the historical scope and investigation of this regionEast Africa: An Introductory History documents the transformation of East Africa from the Stone Age to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book is ideal for any reader interested in unraveling the intricate history of this East Africa, and especially for students coming to the study of this region for the first time.
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West Virginia University Press Saharan Winds
Book SynopsisContributes to a fairer energy horizon by illuminating the role of imaginaries--how we understand energy sources such as wind and the meanings we attach to wind--in determining the wider politics, whether oppressive or just, associated with energy systems. Shows the potential offered by nomadic, Indigenous wind imaginaries for a fairer future.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy: An Oral
Book SynopsisThis book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those who fled to Italy from East African states. It draws on oral history research carried out by the BABE project (Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memories in Europe and Beyond) in a host of cities across Italy that explored topics including migration journeys, the memory of colonialism in the Horn of Africa, cultural identity in Italy and Europe, and Mediterranean crossings. This book shows how the cultural memory of interviewees is deeply linked to an intersubjective context that is changing Italian and European identities. The collected narratives reveal the existence of another Italy – and another Europe – through stories that cross national and European borders and unfold in transnational and global networks. They tell of the multiple identities of the diaspora and reconsider the geography of the continent, in terms of experiences, emotions, and close relationships, and help reinterpret the history and legacy of Italian colonialism. Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Diasporic Identities2. Geographies of Emotions3. Postcolonial Memories of Colonialism4. The Black Mediterranean5. ConclusionAppendix.
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Springer International Publishing AG Race Ethnicity and Violence in South Sudan
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to understand how and why liberators of South Sudan have become perpetrators of ethnically driven violence.
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De Gruyter The Hatata Inquiries
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de Gruyter The Medieval History of the Coast of Tanganyika
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Springer International Publishing AG The History of Business in Africa: Complex
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive study of the history of African business. By analyzing the specificities of African business culture, as well as the dynamically changing African policy context, the author sheds new light on the development of African enterprises, markets and institutions. The book covers a wide range of historical studies, starting with the earliest exchange networks, the new market opportunities resulting from European penetration, the dualism of state-owned companies and private enterprises during the twentieth century, the role of foreign direct investments and multinational companies during the 1990s, and the globalization of African business.Table of ContentsAfrica and Africas.- Networks of Exchange.- Business in New Markets Under New Masters.- Business in Independent Africa.- Enter the Market: African Entrepreneurial Rebirth After 1980.- Into the Global.- Conclusion: The Beginning of African Business History.
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Springer International Publishing AG Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England: Palm
Book SynopsisThis book shows how a stormy parliamentary debate over the sale of German properties in Nigeria on 8 November 1916 began the process which brought down Asquith and made Lloyd George prime minister. The colonial secretary, Bonar Law, who was also leader of the Conservative Party, wanted neutral firms to bid. Usually presented as a policy imposed on him by doctrinaire Liberal free-traders, it was in fact that of the colonial government, which hoped that encouraging foreign competition would prevent the Nigerian export economy becoming controlled by a ring of mainly Liverpool firms. Seeing itself as the defender of Nigerian interests, the Colonial Office endorsed this. The large British companies got up an agitation, which was taken over by Sir Edward Carson, the one significant opposition politician, as part of his attack on supposed German influence in high places. Law counter-attacked by arguing that a supposedly patriotic cause masked the greed of an emergent cartel. He succeeded because smaller British and African firms, trying to break into the now profitable produce export trade, had already painted that picture. By defeating Carson in the debate, Law became again an effective party leader, who hoped to re-invigorate the coalition, but instead found himself working with Lloyd George to sideline Asquith. Based on underused sources, and overturning established interpretations, the book situates the debate within the context of the development of the Nigerian economy, the conflicts between the major firms, the role of oils and fats in wartime, and the emergence of Nigerian nationalism. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2. 1914, Nigeria and the World Economy.- Chapter 3. The Impact of War.- Chapter 4. Lugard, the Colonial Office, and the Politics of Crushing.- Chapter 5. The Colonial Office, the Ministry of Munitions, and the Shippers.- Chapter 6. “An Agitation has been Got Up”; the Sale of the German Properties.- Chapter 7. “Jingo Pot and Tariff Kettle”; the Nigeria Debate and the Sales.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Consequences and Epilogues.- Appendices.
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Leiden University Press Cape Conflict: Protest and Political Alliances in
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Leiden University Press Bureaucrats of Liberation: Southern African and
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Forgotten Books La Tunisie Et lOeuvre du Protectorat Français Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books British East Africa or Ibea A History of the Formation and Work of the Imperial British East Africa Company Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books History of Liberia Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books The Slave Trade of East Africa Classic Reprint
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Hardpress Publishing The Negro Problem Solved Or Africa as She Was as She Is and as She Shall Be Her Curse and Her Cure 1
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Forgotten Books Histoire des Berbres Et des Dynasties Musulmanes de lAfrique Septentrionale Vol 2 Classic Reprint
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Hardpress Publishing Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa Including an Account of the Native Tribes and Their Intercourse With Europeans 1
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Hardpress Publishing La Conqute De Lalgrie 84857 1
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Editorial Gustavo Gili La Escultura Negra Y Otros Escritos
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Edhasa La reina Ginga
Book SynopsisGinga was an unforgettable queen in Angola during the 17th century; determined warrior, lucid and cunning ruler; she rebuilt her kingdom several times, commanded armies, negotiated and battled the great powers and other African rulers. She had a fiery and voracious private life and until her final days she was the owner of her destiny. In this novel, Jose Eduardo Agualusa reclaims such an unknown and unforgettable character with the hand of a born priest in Pernambuco, narrating the history of Ginga. Going inside a hidden territory and captivated by a form of life that he never imagined, through his eyes we discover a sensual world, vital and raw, where despite the cruelty, the greed and relentless rules of power, hides the possibility for love and beauty.
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Ediciones Rodeno Etosha, Namibia: Drawing African Nature /
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Oxford University Press Saving Nelson Mandela
Book SynopsisWhen South Africa''s apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its overthrow in 1963, most observers feared that he would be sentenced to death. But the support he and his fellow activists in the African National Congress received during his trial not only saved his life, but also enabled him to save his country. In Saving Nelson Mandela, South African law expert Kenneth S. Broun recreates the trial--called the Rivonia Trial after the Johannesburg suburb where police seized Mandela. Based upon interviews with many of the case''s primary figures and portions of the trial transcript, Broun situates readers inside the courtroom at the imposing Palace of Justice in Pretoria. Here, the trial unfolds through a dramatic narrative that captures the courage of the accused and their defense team, as well as the personal prejudices that colored the entire trial. The Rivonia trial had no jury and only a superficial aura of due process, combined with heavy security that symbolized Trade ReviewFascinating account, full of fresh, eye-opening material * Sunday Times {Culture} *[a] meticulous reconstruction * Stephen Robinson, The Sunday Times {Culture} *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Trial Begins ; 2. Arrests and Escapes ; 3. The Lawyers and the Judge ; 4. South Africa and the World React ; 5. Preparing for Trial ; 6. A Pyrrhic Victory ; 7. The Case for the Prosecution ; 8. Mandela Speaks to the Court ; 9. The Other Defendants Make Their Case ; 10. Arguments ; 11. Pressures from Outside the Courtroom ; 12. Judgment and Sentencing ; 13. South Africa and the World React ; 14. Thinking about the Judgment and Sentence ; 15. Life After the Rivonia Trial ; 16. What Rivonia Meant for South Africa and the World ; Primary Sources ; Other Sources ; Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Economic History of West Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Economic History of West Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonization And Dependence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Photography in and out of Africa
Book SynopsisThis book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics. Table of ContentsPart I 1. Introduction – Stereoscopic visions: reading colonial and contemporary African photography 2. Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, 1890–1907 3. Of bodies captured: the visual representation of the Paarl march and Poqo in apartheid South Africa 4. Post-abolition Angola in a post-colonial mission archive: a preliminary contextualisation of a photograph from the Spiritans’ mission in Malange, northern Angola, 1904 5. Forward, Ever Forward: a reading of Robert Harris, Photographic Album of South African Scenery, Port Elizabeth, c.1880–1886 6. From salons to the native reserve: reformulating the ‘‘native question’’ through pictorial photography in 1950s South Africa 7. Mining photographs: David Goldblatt’s On the Mines 8. One hundred years of suffering? ‘‘Humanitarian crisis photography’’ and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 9. Social documentary and personal investigations in contemporary South African photography: Tracey Derrick’s ‘‘One in Nine’’ series 10. Re-covered: Wangechi Mutu, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and the postcolonial potentiality of black women in colonial(ist) photographs 11. An interview with George Hallett 12. ‘‘I never didn’t take a picture’’: on photojournalism and conflict – an interview with Greg Marinovich Part II 13. Introduction - A density of texture: reading photography from South, North and West Africa 14. Fractured compounds: photographing post-apartheid compounds and hostels 15. Photographic portraits of migrants in South Africa: framed between identity photographs and (self-)presentation 16. Remembrance: the Essop brothers, formative realism and contemporary African photography 17. The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945–1954 18. A lightness of vision: the poetics of Relation in Malian art photography 19. In search of African history: the re-appropriation of photographic archives by contemporary visual artists 20. From myth to history: Ethiopia and Eritrea’s transformations in four photographic works 21. The aesthetic and practical fields of excrementality of L’boulevard festival 22. The aftermath of oppression: in search of resolution through family photographs of the forcibly removed of District Six, Cape Town
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Taylor & Francis The Decolonisation of Zimbabwe
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