African Studies

This book examines the conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Africa, expanding it's frontiers beyond corporate reporting, voluntary corporate charity and community development projects.Taking a corporate law perspective on CSR, the...

This volume explores how the people of littoral East Africa imagined and reimagined their communities over two millennia of engagement with Indian Ocean transformations-from the settlement of Bantu speakers near the coast around the first century CE to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956553990Author Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-GyampahFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm)...

Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian Ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. Erik Gilbert argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social life of colonial Zanzibar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994281251Author Ruba El MelikFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint AndariyaPublisher AndariyaWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788888934730Author Rhoda Aideed RagehFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ponte Invisible (Redsea Cultural Foundation)Publisher Ponte Invisible (Redsea...

In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South...

In The Black Subaltern, Shauna Knox revolts against the construct of the decontextualized self, electing instead to foreground the complex and problematic lived experience of the Black subaltern. Knox offers an account in which Black humanity is...

This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye's constructive initiative to include African women's experiences and voices within Christian theological discourse. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a renowned Ghanaian Methodist theologian, has...

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956553174Author Charles PrempehFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Postcolonial Imperialism considers the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction as a key condition of contemporary life. If postcolonial theory has highlighted how white colonizers created images of racialized Others which project their own...

Comprising critical writings in civil-military relations theory and research, this book of essays integrates the ideas and insights drawn from political science, particularly its subfields of comparative politics, theory and methodology both normative...

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This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze.The book begins with an analysis of the philosophical context of African feminism, and a...

This book investigates the range of conflicts over land and other natural resources in contemporary Zimbabwe, considering the different forms these conflicts take, and the ensuing outcomes.Zimbabwe is a country rich in natural resources, including land,...

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies...

This book explores sport communication in Africa and the African diaspora. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, it deepens our understanding of the importance of sport in African society as well as the profound and growing influence of the African...

In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, the author argues that rugby is a form of...

A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz's innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956551941Author Artwell NhemachenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956551897Author John W ForjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956551804Author Rewai MakamaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 152g

In the 1970s and early 1980s, there was a lack of contemporary, readily available studies of the informal relationships between the sexes; their day to day activities and expectations and how these were altering; especially in contexts in which there...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779293305Author Paul HubbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Pigeon PressPublisher Pigeon PressWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987084371Author Mark J MwandosyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers Ltd.Publisher Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781664115385Author Maria Matshidiso KanjereFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint 1st Book LibraryPublisher 1st Book LibraryWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988307127Author Tony TalburtFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Woeli Publishing ServicesPublisher Woeli Publishing ServicesWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738702411Author Obiero Ong'ang'aFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Gianis PublishersPublisher Gianis PublishersWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779224002Author Rory PilossofFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928502739Author Mehita IqaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint African MindsPublisher CompressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920033804Author Kwesi YankahFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Nisc (Pty) LtdPublisher Nisc (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956552566Author Charles PrempehFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956552481Author Tatah MentanFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789786086903Author Otete Cecilia OkobiahFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906927701Author Saima Nakuti NdahangwapoFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869789975Author Paul Tiyambe ZelezaFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint CodesriaPublisher CodesriaWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887754208Author Abisai TembaFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 671g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988920227Author Alexis B TenganFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Woeli Publishing ServicesPublisher Woeli Publishing ServicesWeight(grams) 408g