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  • - The Nyiginya Kingdom
    af J. Vansina
    658,95 kr.

    To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians.

  • - Confict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960
    af Elizabeth A. Eldredge
    873,95 kr.

    Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. This work analyzes a panoply of archival and oral resources, and public and private actions to show how power may be exercised not only by rulers but also by the ruled.

  • - History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960
    af Osumaka Likaka
    288,95 kr.

    Advances an approach that shows how a cultural process - the naming of Europeans - can provide a point of entry into economic and social histories. Drawing on archival documents and oral interviews, this book encounters and analyzes a welter of coded fragments.

  • - Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches Among the Yoruba of Nigeria
    af Deidre Helen Crumbley
    508,95 kr.

    How does having a female body affect one's experience of indigenized Christianity in Africa? This title addresses this question by exploring the ways ritual, symbol, and dogma circumscribe, constrain, and liberate women in AICs (variously, African Initiated, African Instituted, or African Independent Churches).

  • - Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
    af Maya Angela Smith
    298,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.

  • - African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa
     
    428,95 kr.

  • - Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914
    af Kelly M. Duke Bryant
    768,95 kr.

    In 1914, Blaise Diagne was elected as Senegal's first black African representative to the National Assembly in France. Education as Politics reinterprets the origins and significance of this momentous election, showing how colonial schools had helped reshape African power and politics during the preceding decades and how they prepared the way for Diagne's victory.

  • - Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
    af Aaron R. Denham
    898,95 kr.

    Refusing to generalize or oversimplify, Aaron R. Denham offers an ethnographic study of the spirit child phenomenon in Northern Ghana that considers medical, economic, religious, and political realities. He examines both the motivations of the families and the structural factors that lead to infanticide, framing these within the context of global public health.

  • - Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889-1991
    af Donald Crummey
    993,95 kr.

  • - The Politics and Practice of Kenya's HIV-Prevention NGOs
    af Megan Hershey
    943,95 kr.

    By focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan Hershey interrogates the ways NGOs achieve (or fail to achieve) their planned outcomes. Along the way, she examines the slippery slope that is often used to define ""success"".

  • - Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
    af John M. Janzen
    298,95 - 1.073,95 kr.

    Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • - Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
    af Laila Amine
    253,95 - 463,95 kr.

    Colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a significant presence in the Parisian landscape since the 1940s. Expanding the narrow script of what and who is Paris, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art of Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans in the City of Light.