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Sudan
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Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Alsir Sidahmed
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Stretching between the savannah and the equator, Sudan has one leg in the Arab world and the other in Africa. Political developments, however, have failed to reflect the differences within Sudan, resulting in political instability and a lack of national consensus - ultimately leading to long-term civil war. This useful book provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Sudan from a social science perspective, outlining the evolution of the state with emphasis on its post-independence experience. It includes chapters on the history, politics, international relations and economy of the country.
What makes people act against their own national identity?How real
are the concepts of nationalism and patriotism? In what ways does
the media control our perception of history in the making?This
ground-breaking work addresses these important questions through an
examination of the Algerian war of 1954-62 and the significant
French resistance to their own leaders during the bitter conflict.
Through the use of extensive interviews, it provides powerful
insights into the clash of values that accompanied the war. In
exploring the events and experiences that led a small minority of
French people to reject colonialism in the wake of the Algerian
conflict, Memories of Resistance focuses on the importance of
political allegiances and ideologies, and the motivations for
resisting them. The complex issues of identity and shared memory
are examined to provide an indispensable analysis of loyalty and
self-identity in the wider political context of the world. The book
also debates the changing ways in which the media influences
perceptions of, and attitudes towards, world events. Third World
liberation ideas, personal experiences of French colonialism,
memory and the significance of anti-Nazi resistance and political
allegiances are all discussed in this wide-ranging and illuminating
study.Memories of Resistance represents a major contribution to the
theory and practice of oral history, which is fast becoming one of
the most popular and dynamic areas of historical research and will
be essential reading for anyone studying French colonial history.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book evaluates the historical factors that produced the Boer
people, and the political, religious and economic forces that
maintain modern Afrikaner Nationalism. This last trek brings the
Afrikaner back into multi-racial integrating industrial society.
Originally published in 1957.
Focussing on the problems of change and resistance to change that
mark the African sub-continent, this book examines Africa's place
in the world from earliest times. It considers the nature of its
peoples in their prehistoric development, the ways in which their
cultures were oriented, and the ways in which these cultures guided
their reactions to European ideas. It also assesses the human
responses to industrial, technological and economic changes and the
re-discovery by the Africans of African culture. Originally
published in 1962.
The book traces the end of hostilities and the often acrimonious, sometimes naive, but always laboured negotiations towards peace and elections in Mozambique. There is careful examination of the many international factors involved from the covert intervention of South Africa, the reaction of one African state, the role of the United Nations and that of humanitarian and religious groups. The lessons for conflict resolution and peacekeeping for Africa and beyond are discussed.
This book explores the process, effects, and results of
codification of Egyptian personal status laws as seen through the
eyes of the 'ulama'. The codification process began in the
mid-1800s and continued until the abolishment of the Shari'a courts
in 1955 with the absorption of personal status statutes into the
newly drafted civil code and the national courts that administered
them.
Contents: Preface Introduction 1. The Maatian Ideal: A Conceptual Framework 2. The Maatian Ideal: From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom 3. The Maatian Ideal: From the New Kingdom to the Late Period 4. The Declarations of Innocence: Text and Moral Theology 5. Maatian Ontology 6. Maatian Anthropology 7. Maatian Social Practice I 8. Maatian Social Practice II 9. Summary
In this comprehensive examination of the one of the world's most
ancient societies, Talhami describes Egypt's quest for a sense of
national identity and the factors that have affected the Egyptian
identity. Generally polarized over the identity issue since the
nineteenth century, Egyptians debated the significance of Sudanese
bonds as a definer of Egypt's historic and national development
before they debated the significance of Arab, particularly
Palestinian, involvement. Nasser's rise to power, Talhami argues,
amounted to an inevitable swing in the direction of pan-Arabism
because of the strategic developments surrounding the rise of
Israel. The author also examines Egypt's foreign policy in light of
the identity question. The major conclusion of this study is that
Egypt is destined to face northwards and reject isolationism
because of strategic developments related to the rise of Israel.
Economic and Arab leadership considerations will always impel Egypt
to seek a larger role in the Arab world, but this cannot be done
without sponsorship of the Palestinian issue. These conclusions
challenge the accepted wisdom regarding the Camp David agreements.
Those who believe that Egypt can find safety and security by
linking itself with a great power while ignoring the
historically-proven strategic relevance of the northeast region
will find this book startling.
Although the identity debate often becomes a tool of the
practicing politician, the historian, the ideologue, and the
military strategist, its outcome is most likely to be determined by
historical events. Egypt was bound to search for a modern sense of
identity. What makes this book unique is its use of the work of
literary figures, historians and politicians to investigate the
cumulative impact of the changes which occurred during the Sadat
period. Talhami's work places the Camp David era against the
historical background of the identity debate. The fact that this
debate remains unresolved today is a measure of Egypt's uncertain
future as a nation and as a political community. While the majority
of Egyptians recognize the inevitability of Palestinian
involvement, they do not agree on the best course of action. The
Persian Gulf War and Egypt's decision to side with the United
States in this inter-Arab dispute constitute yet another onslaught
on the Palestinians and on Arab identity. Scholars focusing on the
Arab world and on Middle Eastern history and politics will find
this book provocative and essential reading.
The South African Truth Commission assesses different versions of the South African past, the complex negotiations leading to the establishment of the Commission and the complex politics of amnesty, justice, and nation building.
In the story of the The Golden Republic, Bulpin sets a stage on
which we meet some of the strangest characters that fate had ever
attached to the puppet strings of destiny. The grim Mzilikazi; the
hot-headed Hendrik Potgieter and his trekkers; prospectors like
Charlie the Reefer; gaudy rogues like Gunn of Gunn and his
Highlanders; bandits, highwaymen, rand lords, gold rushers, to name
just a few. He tells of leaders like Pretorius and Kruger, and many
others who each played a part in establishing the Republic of the
Transvaal – a seemingly impossible task considering all the small
wars and skirmishes on the veld and the rumble of arguments rising
out of each farmhouse. In his remarkably engaging style of writing
he sketches scenes of rough but beautiful land, which must have
been fascinating to explorers who roamed about the old Transvaal
with all its scenic novelties where every turn yielded some marvel
for the geologist, the botanist, or the zoologist. The Golden
Republic tells of the adventure that raised the Republic to its
peak and the complex intrigues that brought it down to the dust; of
misfortune and riches, and despair of such magnitude that the birth
of a Republic seemed inevitable considering the economic disaster
it at times experienced … Until gold poked out its shiny head and
gave hope again. The characters who crowded into diggers’ towns
were some of the wildest and most colourful ever known in the
Transvaal. From all over South Africa they flocked to the scene, in
the hope of finding fortune. Most of them were just opportunists,
who knew nothing about gold except how to spend it. This is a
brilliant book of the birth, life and death of the old Republic
written in the tell-tale style Bulpin does so well.
The Mayor of Mogadishu tells the story of one family's epic journey
through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its
spectacular unravelling.Mohamud 'Tarzan' Nur was born a nomad, and
became an orphan, then a street brawler in the cosmopolitan port
city of Mogadishu - a place famous for its cafes and open-air
cinemas. When Somalia collapsed into civil war, Tarzan and his
young family joined the exodus from Mogadishu, eventually spending
twenty years in North London. But in 2010 Tarzan returned to the
unrecognisable ruins of a city largely controlled by the Islamist
militants of Al-Shabaab. For some, the new Mayor was a galvanising
symbol of defiance. But others branded him a thug, mired in the
corruption and clan rivalries that continue to threaten Somalia's
revival.The Mayor of Mogadishu is an uplifting story of survival,
and a compelling examination of what it means to lose a country and
then to reclaim it.
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This
book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides;
rather it shifts the focus to the conflict itself, a perspective
assisted by the French republic's belated official admission in
1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war. Each
contributor made use of the increasingly liberalised French
archives of the war since the early 1990s. The book re-evaluates
counter-terrorism in the cities; the methods used in the "battle
for hearts and minds" in the villages of the interior; the hitherto
neglected roles of French air and naval power in supporting the
army's counter-insurgency offensives against the Armee de
Liberation Nationale; and the battles that France decisively lost
for both world opinion and for support from her major Western
allies.
For years, with few exceptions, writers have overwhelmingly
examined the Algerian crisis through the prism of French party
politics, personal testimony and more recently, memory. But, far
from being "a war with no name" the fighting in Algeria was on a
massive scale involving some two million French soldiers. This
collection, published for the 40th anniversary of the war's end,
firmly situates the battles they fought in strategy, operations and
diplomacy.
There is a broad consensus among those who are concerned with Africa that the plight of the continent is approaching the catastrophic. Partly the roots of the problem are historical, stemming from the exploitation and colonisation of the continent by European powers. An appreciation of the history of the relationship between Europe and Africa, a major episode of which this book examines, is indispensable to an understanding of the continent's present predicament. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries King Leopold II of the Belgians established a colony in Africa, which, as the Congo Free State, became a byword for unremitting exploitation and widespread atrocities. This book describes the creation, the development and the collapse both of this regime and of the Belgian colony that replaced it. Conclusions are drawn about the nature of European colonialism in Africa and the consequences for Europe itself.
Patrisiers & prinse is die eerste deel van 'n vyfdelige reeks
oor vroee blanke vestiging aan die Kaap. In die deel beskryf Karel
Schoeman die sewentiende-eeuse Europese wêreld waarin Jan van
Riebeeck en sy tydgenote grootgeword het. Hierdie wereld vorm die
agtergrond van die verversingspos wat die VOC in 1652 by Kaap die
Goeie Hoop sou stig. In die eerste twee hoofstukke en in hoofstuk 4
word die opkoms en hoogbloei van die Nederlandse Republiek
bespreek. Die Frankryk van Lodewyk XIV kry in hoofstuk 3 aandag,
met klem op die toenemende oorheersing van Europa deur die Franse
kultuur. Besonder boeiend is die dele wat gewy word aan die opkoms
van die hoe burgerstand in Nederland en die versamelaarsdrif wat
deur die stand se welvaart en die kontak met Nederland se kolonies
moontlik gemaak is. In die laaste twee hoofstukke wys Schoeman
daarop dat Europa in die sewentiende eeu nog besonder naby aan die
Middeleeue gestaan het en bespreek hy die soms skokkend primitiewe
lewenswyse wat maar geleidelik nader aan die moderne beweeg het.
Foregrounding African women's ingenuity and labor, this pioneering
case study shows how women in rural Mali have used technology to
ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental
crises, and postcolonial rule. By advocating for an understanding
of rural Malian women as engineers, Laura Ann Twagira rejects the
persistent image of African women as subjects without technological
knowledge or access and instead reveals a hidden history about
gender, development, and improvisation. In so doing, she also
significantly expands the scope of African science and technology
studies. Using the Office du Niger agricultural project as a case
study, Twagira argues that women used modest technologies (such as
a mortar and pestle or metal pots) and organized female labor to
create, maintain, and reengineer a complex and highly adaptive food
production system. While women often incorporated labor-saving
technologies into their work routines, they did not view their own
physical labor as the problem it is so often framed to be in
development narratives. Rather, women's embodied techniques and
knowledge were central to their ability to transform a development
project centered on export production into an environmental
resource that addressed local taste and consumption needs.
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This
book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides;
rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by
the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened
in Algeria was indeed a war.
"Egyptian Mummies" is regarded by egyptologists as the classic
account of mummification in ancient Egypt. Originally published in
1924, its re-issue in complete form will be welcomed by all those
who have sought rare second hand copies in vain. This book provides
the most comprehensive account available of the technical processes
and materials employed by the ancient Egyptian embalmers together
with a historical analysis of their modification throughout the
dynastic period. The authors draw on fully illustrated
archaeological and pathological evidence together with Egyptian and
Greek textual references to provide a thorough survey of the
mummification process and attendant funeral ceremonies, and to
offer clues to an understanding of the custom's significance and
the reasons for its adoption.
Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation,
Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic
order towards a modern democratic political order. Inspired by
Tocqueville's methodology, he identifies social equality, ethnic
and religious tolerance, popular participation in local affairs,
and freedom of association and the press as vital components of any
democratic system. He shows how centralized state structures and
monopoly of political power stifled local initiative and
perpetuated neo-patrimonial modes of governance.
During the 1980s, religion was widely assumed to have lost its
dominant position in Western culture and to be losing ground
throughout the world. This has not been the case. Today we see an
upsurge in religion worldwide, which has affected people's
spiritual, cultural, economic and political lives.
Much has been written about the expanded role of religion in the
socio-political arena of Islam in the Middle East, of the Catholic
Church in countries formerly under Communist control, and of the
rising neo-Pentecostalism in Latin America. Similary, much has also
been written about the colonial evangelism and the expansion on the
role of Christianity in post-colonial Africa. This book joins the
debate on the role of Christianity in coloniality, and more so, in
post-coloniality and neo-coloniality in Kenya. It traces the
process of transformation in which the church, state and society in
Kenya took part, and attempts to construct new understandings of
the relationships between the three. It demonstrates the crucial
role of the church in shaping Kenya's emerging civil society and in
developing an alternative politics.
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