Africa
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Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali [Hardback]
Dorothea E. Schulz(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781847012685
Published by : James Currey
Series: Western Africa Series
The 2012 coup d'état in Mali, and the political destabilization that followed, brought an abrupt end to the country's success story as a "donor darling" and as a model of successful democratization. In spite of signing a peace tre... .... Learn More -
Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity [Hardback]
Toyin Falola(Editor); Nic Hamel(Editor)
$135.00ISBN: 9781580469715
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 91
While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy c... .... Learn More -
Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts [Hardback]
Ousmane Oumar Kane(Editor)
$130.00ISBN: 9781847012319
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
The study of Islamic erudition in Africa is growing rapidly, transforming not just Islamic studies, but also African Studies. This interdisciplinary volume from leading international scholars fills a lacuna in presenting not only the history and s... .... Learn More -
Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda [Hardback]
Jonathon L. Earle(Author); J.J. Carney(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012401
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, and his legacy is still divisive. On the eve of independence, he led the Democratic P... .... Learn More -
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa [Hardback]
Franziska Rueedi(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012616
Published by : James Currey
On 3 September 1984 a bloody uprising set the African townships of the Vaal Triangle aflame. Triggered by dissatisfaction over rent increases and a local government that was failing to provide any meaningful political power or social transformatio... .... Learn More -
Ceramic Exchange and Indian Ocean Economy (AD 400–1275) [Paperback]
Seth M.N. Priestman(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592234
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 223
From AD 500–1000, the Indian Ocean emerged as a global commercial center, and by around 750–800 a sophisticated trade network had been established involving the movement of goods from Japan and China in the east, to southern Africa and... .... Learn More -
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle [Hardback]
Emily Bridger(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012630
Published by : James Currey
While there have been many books on South Africa's liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women has been all but missing. This book tells their story, analysing what life was l... .... Learn More -
African Theatre 19: Opera & Music Theatre [Hardback]
Christine Matzke(B12); Lena van der Hoven(B12); Christopher Odhiambo and Hilde Roos(B12); Christine Matzke(Guest editor); Lena van der Hoven(Guest editor); Christopher Odhiambo and Hilde Roos(Guest editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012579
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Theatre
Volume: Volume 19
Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the exceptions of a few noted genr... .... Learn More -
ALT 38 Environmental Transformations: African Literature Today [Hardback]
Ernest N. Emenyonu(Author); Cajetan Iheka(Author); Stephanie Newell(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012289
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Literature Today
Volume: Volume 38
This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of global environmental transformations. Does environmentalist literature offer new poss... .... Learn More -
African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880 [Paperback]
Mariana P. Candido(Editor); Adam Jones(Editor)
$25.95ISBN: 9781847012647
Published by : James Currey
Series: Western Africa Series
While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book... .... Learn More
