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Breakdown and Reconstitution analyzes the interplay between democratization, nation-state building, and ethnicity in Nigeria as well as the challenges of transforming a post-colonial multiethnic state into a stable democracy. This work draws attention to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498195065Author E D MorelFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540646354Author Simon StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515284031Author Hugo HinfelaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Ever since the end of World War II, and even more so since 1960, when 17 African colonies became independent of colonial rule, the African continent has been ravaged by a series of wars. These wars have ranged from liberation struggles against former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515313946Author Bernhard UdelhovenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498156363Author E D MorelFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 535g

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494491048Author Bryan Shiers OrfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469908182Author Robert P RobertsonFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

When the Chief of Staff of Rwanda's Army was assassinated after the invasion of the country, civil war and then genocide, his widow and their six children found ways to overcome the rupture of their family and their country. This is their story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776150571Author Estelle NeethlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Unisa PressPublisher Unisa Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685859527Author Samson Abebe BezabehFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers

South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally...

A Rwandan proverb says "Defeat is the only bad news." For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but also for a battle of wits-and not only with foreigners, but also with each other. In Defeat Is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951814185Author Karel ArnautFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Horniman Museum & GardensPublisher Horniman Museum & Gardens

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075198113Author Nicole LeibowichFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438644Author Alex De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144218Author Lieve JorisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

In From Plantations to University Campus, Woodville Marshall examines the evolution in the use of the space that surrounds the campus of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and identifies some of the individuals who played pivotal...

This study documents how William Hart Coleridge, the first Anglican bishop of Barbados and the Leewards, executed the new mandate of the Anglican church between 1824 and 1842. When the British Government turned to the Established Church for assistance in...

In 2012, the Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, a milestone it shared with the national and regional community, as both Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica...

This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference "Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007", a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the...

The collection Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship commemorates the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held in August 2010, and collects, for the first time, some of the main thinkers on Rastafari. It is an exciting and...

Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and...

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872142326Author Bob van der WindenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint WorldView PublicationsPublisher WorldView Publications

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the...

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage...

This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time that they are available in French with an English introduction. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels consists of official statements and memoranda, proceedings of conferences, etc. In French, with an English...

Responsibility is political. As the international community has called for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities has become more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through the new rhetoric of...

For three decades, since the sixties, military coups became a ritual of African politics. They consist of self-perpetuating incidents, which spilled into the 1990's, though on a much smaller scale. This book is a chronological sequence of these events in...

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "happy are those who sing and dance," and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During...

Breakdown and Reconstitution analyzes the interplay between democratization, nation-state building, and ethnicity in Nigeria as well as the challenges of transforming a post-colonial multiethnic state into a stable democracy. This work draws attention to...

Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872142333Author Bob van der WindenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint WorldView PublicationsPublisher WorldView PublicationsWeight(grams) 236g

Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems, but also...

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at...

In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David-whom locals called...