In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent.
On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley.
El Nuevo Reino de Granada, donde existió un franco desinterés por condados y marquesados, fue el escenario de la mayor expedición naturalista del imperio español.
Groß sind die Schwierigkeiten für den Durchforscher vergangener Zeiten, wo es gilt, zu den Quellen hindurchzudringen, Wahrheit und Irrtum zu scheiden und die unentstellten Tatsachen zu ergründen.
This book provides an extensive examination of the major conflicts in the extremely volatile region of sub-Saharan Africa and their ramifications throughout the continent and beyond.
This book provides an overview of contemporary issues in Sudan, Africa's largest nation, examining the country's history and current scene to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how much Sudan matters in today's world.
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.
Paulos Mar Gregorios (1922–1996) war ein Protagonist der ökumenischen Bewegung und zugleich eine zentrale Figur des indischen Thomaschristentums im 20.
Der Krieg in Guinea-Bissau von 1963 bis 1974 war der bewaffnete Kampf der nationalen Bewegung PAIGC gegen die Vorherrschaft der portugiesischen Kolonialregierung im Land.
More than 1100 Human Remains from the former German colony in East Africa exist in the anthropological collection of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin.
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.
This book highlights the pioneering roles of African women as leaders and role models in Kenya, providing examples taken from across education, health, business, and a range of other sectors.
During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists.
First published in 1932, Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan is a general conspectus of the people, traditions, culture, and ways of thought in southern Sudan.
First published in 1932, Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan is a general conspectus of the people, traditions, culture, and ways of thought in southern Sudan.
Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean explores multiple aesthetic relations constantly in flux, which construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the Indian Ocean.
The astute politician Muhammad Ali Pasha realized that any threat to the sources of the Nile in Africa meant a threat to the existence of Egypt itself, especially with the increasing international ambitions in those lands.
In ›Die Erfindung der Namen‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Bedeutung von Namen nicht nur eine kulturelle Nuance ist, sondern eine grundlegende Rolle im menschlichen Dasein spielt.
This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africa's democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining a number of themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation, higher education, media, racism, trade unionism, women's rights, and global climate change, to name only a few.
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Normally dealt with in a rather limited way, through the examination of a particular activity or geographical zone, the artisans of ancient North Africa are here, for the first time, the subject of an entire book.
No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa is an exploration of the ongoing struggles faced by families whose lives have been upended by the relentless expansion of coal mining operations in the Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
