Tous les livres numériques de la collection "African Histories and Modernities" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Women's Representation in African Politics Zainab Monisola Olaitan Does the election of more and more women into political offices mean that women’s interests will be better protected? This question forms the background upon which this book is written as it forms a timely intervention concerning the clamour for increased women’s... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2024-12-11 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn Dawne Y. Curry This book, which examines the role of African women in the conversation on nationalism during South Africa’s era of segregation, excavates female voices and brings them to the provocative fore. From 1910 to 1948, African women contributed to political thought as... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-04-11 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony William J. Mpofu This book is a philosopher’s view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabe’s Will to Power. The Will to Power refers to a spirited desire for power and overwhelming fear of powerlessness that Mugabe artfully concealed behind performances of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-03-04 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Visions of African Unity Frank Gerits , Matteo Grilli This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-02-09 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart' Désiré Baloubi , Christina R. Pinkston This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-12-10 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature Christopher E. W. Ouma This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-02-27 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 60,12 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sudan’s “Southern Problem” Sebabatso C. Manoeli The book offers a history of the discourses and diplomacies of Sudan’s civil wars. It explores the battle for legitimacy between the Sudanese state and Southern rebels. In particular, it examines how racial thought and rhetoric were used in international debates about... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-12-04 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891 Femi J. Kolapo In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-11-28 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982 Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-09-25 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 63,29 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa Jeff Schauer This book traces the emergence of wildlife policy in colonial eastern and central Africa over the course of a century. Spanning from imperial conquest through the consolidation of colonial rule, the rise of nationalism, and the emergence of neocolonial and neoliberal... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-12-04 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Nkrumaism and African Nationalism Matteo Grilli This book examines Ghana’s Pan-African foreign policy during Nkrumah’s rule, investigating how Ghanaians sought to influence the ideologies of African liberation movements through the Bureau of African Affairs, the African Affairs Centre and the Kwame Nkrumah... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-08-06 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa Kenneth Kalu During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-05-22 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Whitehall and the Black Republic Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri This book examines the history of the relationship between Liberia and Britain—the world’s first black republic, founded by former slaves, and the world’s strongest colonial power. Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri excavates a wealth of archival sources to reconstruct a turbulent... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-04-02 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Remapping African Literature Olabode Ibironke This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-02-12 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria Adeoye O. Akinola The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians. Adeoye O. Akinola tackles this “vexed” oil question by examining the political economy of efforts to deregulate the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-01-26 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Human Trafficking and Security in Southern Africa Richard Obinna Iroanya This book investigates the links between human trafficking and national security in Southern Africa. Human trafficking violates borders, supports organised crime and corrupts border officials, and yet policymakers rarely view the persistence of human trafficking as a... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-01-17 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Conceiving Mozambique John A. Marcum This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed this work... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-22 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Contemporary Issues in African Society George Klay Kieh, Jr. This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them. The book covers topics such as the expansive role of non-governmental organizations, the growing... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-16 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Xenophobia in South Africa Hashi Kenneth Tafira This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-18 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 58,01 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Kenyatta and Britain W. O. Maloba This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta’s formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-09-15 Collection : African Histories and Modernities PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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