This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.
In the 1980s, the arrests of a group of teachers, doctors, and other professionals triggered a wave of protests - the first open resistance against Siad Barre's regime in northern Somalia - helping to pave the way for Somaliland's self-declaration in 1991.
The only comprehensive history of this popular travel destinationBeginning with Morocco's incorporation into the Roman Empire, this book charts the country's uneasy passage to the 21st century and reflects on the nation of citizens that is emerging from a diverse population of Arabs, Berbers, and Africans.
Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking The Case for Colonialism demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished.
This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.
Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' over time, and the rules governing the conversation.
Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared.
Since the Spanish withdrawal from their Saharan colonies in 1975, a determined guerrilla war was fought against the Moroccans by the Polisario who claimed the territory as their rightful country.
Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future.
Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared.
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.
Since the Spanish withdrawal from their Saharan colonies in 1975, a determined guerrilla war was fought against the Moroccans by the Polisario who claimed the territory as their rightful country.
Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future.
Dans la seconde moitie du XIXe siecle, le khedive Ismail met en uvre une large politique de modernisation du Caire qui repose notamment sur l'implantation d'un reseau d'infrastructures hydrauliques, constitue de conduites, de pompes et de machines a vapeur, sur un modele europeen.
The collection delves into crucial themes and debates in South African literature, addressing the innovative aesthetics of Black poetry, the political complexities of "e;white writing,"e; non-fiction's significance, and the role of geography in South Africa's regional fiction.
160 millions de personnes arrachees a l'Afrique, plus de 2 200 milliards de dollars de dettes impayees envers ce continent : nul autre peuple n'a soutenu un tribut aussi accablant a la rencontre des civilisations, marque par la violence et la domination de l'homme sur l'homme.
"e;Les vrais Suisses sont noirs"e; vous demontrera que la Suisse appartient aux populations noires qui l'ont peuplee et en ont pris soin, bien avant l'arrivee des Blancs.
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.
Le Rwanda, un parcours paradoxal evoque l'experience personnelle d'Alphonse Rurangirwa Mihayo et d'Adolphe Shyaka Bazatoha, qui decrivent deux epoques radicalement differentes de leur pays.
"e;Migrations d'Africains blancs et noirs durant l'Antiquite"e; remet en question les idees conventionnelles sur l'emergence des civilisations anciennes.
L'impunite qui gangrene la Republique Democratique du Congo puise ses racines bien avant les derives contemporaines de l'Etat, s'enracinant dans les heures sombres de la colonisation.
Die Bedeutung des Nils und seiner technischen Umgestaltung in einen Bewässerungskanal wird für die Entstehung eines modernen Staates Ägypten bis heute unterschätzt.
For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states.
