This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy.
The Making of a Pariah State takes the reader behind the flamboyance and apparent irrationality of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to expose his attempt to impose national cohesion on the Arab, Muslim, and Third World elements under his leadership.
This book explores Malawi's recent history in light of longer-term historical developments, contributing important new insights to debates about migration, citizenship, chieftaincy, language, cultural practice, anti-colonialism and nationalism.
This book examines African Latin Christianity from the fifth to the thirteenth century, exploring the complex interactions between local Christian communities and Vandals, Byzantines, and Arabs.
In 1962 when Algeria finally obtained its independence from France after an eight-year guerilla war, it immediately embarked upon a second revolution aimed at destroying the colonial economic and social order.
An insider's account of the negotiations which ended the Rhodesia conflict and of the British role in South Africa in the period leading up to the release of Nelson Mandela.
Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora.
Over the past two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world.
On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said.
On 1 October 1990, hundreds of Banyarawanda militants that served with the Ugandan Army deserted their posts to form the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invade Rwanda.
In "Nofretete: Herrscherin im Namen des Aton" bringt Yasmin Abdel-Rahman die faszinierende Geschichte einer der berühmtesten Königinnen des alten Ägyptens zum Leben.
El primer libro editado por Panenka habla sobre Africa y su futbol, intentando iluminar el relato desbordante, feroz y profundo de un continente demasiadas veces eclipsado.
Este ensayo nos traslada al África Subsahariana, en un principio con un hecho de la etapa colonial americana prácticamente desconocido donde Buenos Aires, por entonces capital del Virreinato del Río de la Plata, debía administrar e incorporar bajo su jurisdicción esos territorios del continente africano.
Gebrochene SchicksaleBritische Konzentrationslager und das Leiden der Buren während des Zweiten BurenkriegsElisabeth KrugerKlappentext:In den dunklen Schatten des Zweiten Burenkriegs (1899-1902) verbirgt sich eine der erschreckendsten und am wenigsten bekannten Episoden der britischen Kolonialgeschichte: die Einrichtung von Konzentrationslagern.
An incisive look into the lives, politics, and horrible deeds of fifty-six of history's most notorious world leaders-and how they shaped our world for the worst.
Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures.
Throughout the 1990s, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.
Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the European Commission.
A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens.
While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves.
The Republic of Sudan's former Culture Minister and a leading architect in the movement to gain independence for South Sudan, Bona Malwal, provides a factual and personal account of the break up of Sudan.