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Contested Politics in Tunisia - Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State (Hardcover): Edwige Fortier Contested Politics in Tunisia - Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State (Hardcover)
Edwige Fortier
R2,682 Discovery Miles 26 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010-11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office. These organisations had different visions for a new Tunisia, and divisive issues such as the status of women, homosexuality, and human rights became highly contested. For some actors, the transition from authoritarian rule allowed them to have a strong voice that was previously muted under the former regimes. For others, the conflicts that emerged between the different groups brought new repressions and exclusions - this time not from the regime, but from 'civil society'. Vulnerable populations and the organisations working with them soon found themselves operating on uncertain terrain, where providing support to marginalised and routinely criminalised communities brought unexpected challenges. Here, Edwige Fortier explores this remarkable period of transformation and the effects of opening up public space in this way.

Herlewing - Transvaal En Die Grensgebiede In Die Naoorlogsjare, 1902-1910 (Afrikaans, Paperback): Karel Schoeman Herlewing - Transvaal En Die Grensgebiede In Die Naoorlogsjare, 1902-1910 (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Karel Schoeman
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 6 - 10 working days

In die vierde deel van die reeks Imperiale somer word aan Marabastad, die separatistiese kerke, die opkoms van die Afrikaners in die naoorlogsjare, die emigrasie van blankes na Oos-Afrika ná die oorlog, en die veldtog ten behoewe van die Indiërbevolking onder leiding van Gandhi aandag gegee. Anekdotes en kameebeskrywings kleur die vertelling in.

Dié deel lewer 'n belangrike bydrae tot 'n voorheen minder bekende tydperk in die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis en sal 'n wye leespubliek en nie net vakkundiges nie boei.

Illustrated Black History - Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen (Hardcover): George McCalman Illustrated Black History - Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen (Hardcover)
George McCalman
R1,010 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R122 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers-famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more-with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer. Illustrated Black History is a breathtaking collection of original portraits depicting black heroes-both famous and unsung-who made their mark on activism, science, politics, business, medicine, technology, food, arts, entertainment, and more. Each entry includes a lush drawing or painting by artist George McCalman, along with an insightful essay summarizing the person's life story. The 145 entries range from the famous to the little-known, from literary luminary James Baldwin to documentarian Madeline Anderson, who produced "I Am Somebody" about the 1969 strike of mostly female hospital workers; from Aretha Franklin to James and Eloyce Gist, who had a traveling ministry in the early 1900s; from Colin Kaepernick to Guion S. Bluford, the first Black person to travel into space. Beautifully designed with over 300 unique four-color artworks and accessible to readers of all ages, this eye-opening, educational, dynamic, and timely compendium pays homage to Black Americans and their achievements, and showcases the depth and breadth of Black genius.

The Seven Names of Lamastu - A Journey through Mesopotamian Magick and Beyond (Hardcover, Case Laminate ed.): Jan Fries The Seven Names of Lamastu - A Journey through Mesopotamian Magick and Beyond (Hardcover, Case Laminate ed.)
Jan Fries
R1,751 Discovery Miles 17 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Knud Andresen, Sebastian Justke, Detlef Siegfried Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Knud Andresen, Sebastian Justke, Detlef Siegfried
R3,347 Discovery Miles 33 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This edited collection examines how Western European countries have responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in the importance of human rights in international politics. While previous studies have approached this question in the context of national histories, more or less detached from each other, this edited collection offers a broader insight into the transnational and entangled histories of Western European and South African societies. The contributors use exemplary case studies to trace the change of perception, covering a plurality of reactions in different societies and spheres: from the political and social, to the economic and cultural. At the same time, the collection emphasizes the interconnections of those reactions to what has been called the last 'overtly racist regime' (George Frederickson) of the twentieth century.

Introduction to African Civilizations Hardcover (Hardcover): John G. Jackson Introduction to African Civilizations Hardcover (Hardcover)
John G. Jackson
R801 R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Mobility Imperative - A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration (Hardcover): Augustin F.C. Holl The Mobility Imperative - A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration (Hardcover)
Augustin F.C. Holl
R3,023 Discovery Miles 30 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work explores the long-term evolutionary implications of the "Mobility Imperative:" the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and expansion of humans to cattle domestication and beyond.

Touts - Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea (Hardcover): Enrique Martino Touts - Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea (Hardcover)
Enrique Martino
R2,519 Discovery Miles 25 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa's largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today's Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters' own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.

The Colonial Reckoning - The End of Imperial Rule in Africa in the Light of British Experience (Hardcover, New edition):... The Colonial Reckoning - The End of Imperial Rule in Africa in the Light of British Experience (Hardcover, New edition)
Margery Perham
R2,208 Discovery Miles 22 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tracing the Jerusalem Code - Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536-ca. 1750)... Tracing the Jerusalem Code - Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536-ca. 1750) (Hardcover)
Eivor Andersen Oftestad, Joar Haga
R3,084 Discovery Miles 30 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image - or rather the imagination - of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536-ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750-ca. 1920)

Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin - The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940 (Hardcover): Assan Sarr Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin - The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940 (Hardcover)
Assan Sarr
R3,289 Discovery Miles 32 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa. Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin draws on new sources to offer an original approach to the study of land in African history. Documenting the impact of Islamization, the development of peanut production, and the institution of colonial rule on people living along the middle and lower Gambia River, the book shows how these waves of changes sweeping the region after 1850 altered local political and social arrangements, with important implications for the ability of elites to control land. Author Assan Sarr argues for a nuanced understanding of land and its historic value in Africa. Moving beyond a recognition of the material value of land, Sarr'sanalysis highlights its cultural and social worth, pointing out the spiritual associations the land generated and the ways that certain people gained privileged access to those spiritual powers. By emphasizing that the land aroundthe Gambia River both inspired and gave form to a cosmology of ritual and belief, the book points to what might be considered an indigenous tradition of ecological preservation and protection. Assan Sarr is assistant professor of history at Ohio University.

The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization (Hardcover): G. Smith The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization (Hardcover)
G. Smith
R3,129 Discovery Miles 31 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph, in its second, hard-to-locate edition, proposes a connection between prehistoric monumental European sites and those of the Pyramid Age in Egypt. Using ethnicity as a basis, Smith ties the ancient peoples of Egypt to those of Syria and discusses how Egyptian culture spread from its point of origin.

The Ends of European Colonial Empires - Cases and Comparisons (Hardcover): Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo, Antonio Costa Pinto The Ends of European Colonial Empires - Cases and Comparisons (Hardcover)
Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo, Antonio Costa Pinto
R3,335 Discovery Miles 33 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation (Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Dutch).

Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence - An International History (Hardcover): C Watts Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence - An International History (Hardcover)
C Watts
R2,683 Discovery Miles 26 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

On November 11, 1965 the colony of Southern Rhodesia unilaterally and illegally declared itself independent from Britain, the first and only time that this had happened since the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. After fifteen years of internat

Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980-1985 - The Politics of Personal Rule (Hardcover): Yekutiel Gershoni Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980-1985 - The Politics of Personal Rule (Hardcover)
Yekutiel Gershoni
R3,618 Discovery Miles 36 180 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

On April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe executed a bloody coup that put an end to the Americo-Liberian minority regime in Liberia, transforming Africa's first republic into a military dictatorship. In Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980-1985: The Politics of Personal Rule, Yekutiel Gershoni examines the evolution and effects of Samuel K. Doe's reign in Liberia. Gershoni shows Doe's path to absolute power, corruption, and dictatorship and the economic crises and political turmoil that ensued, even after his murder in 1990. Liberia under Samuel Doe also examines the role of the United States as Liberia's closest ally, detailing how Doe managed to attract American diplomatic and military support due to U.S. interests in the Cold War. Through in-depth research, primary sources, and interviews with diplomats, politicians, and activists, Gershoni carefully details the timeline of Doe's rise to power and the lasting effects of his dictatorial legacy.

The African Diaspora In The Educational Programs Of Central America (Paperback, UK ed.): Dario Euraque, Yesenia Martinez The African Diaspora In The Educational Programs Of Central America (Paperback, UK ed.)
Dario Euraque, Yesenia Martinez; Translated by Carolina Galdiz
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Forced Migration in Eastern Africa - Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Refugees (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): C. Veney Forced Migration in Eastern Africa - Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Refugees (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
C. Veney
R1,422 Discovery Miles 14 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Veney argues that the restrictive refugee policies that were adopted in Tanzania and Kenya were a direct product of liberalization and democratization, the result of two nations forced to clarify their refugee policies at a time of immense internal political and socioeconomic transformation.

Sufism, Mahdism and Nationalism - Limamou Laye and the Layennes of Senegal (Hardcover): Douglas H. Thomas Sufism, Mahdism and Nationalism - Limamou Laye and the Layennes of Senegal (Hardcover)
Douglas H. Thomas
R4,626 Discovery Miles 46 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Limamou Laye, an Islamic leader from present-day Senegal, has proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Muhammad, with his son later proclaiming himself to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Limamou Laye established a tariqa, or Sufi organization, based upon his claims and the miracles attributed to him. This study analyzes Limamou Laye's goals for his community, his theology; as well as the various elements --- both local and global - that created him and helped him to emerge as a religious leader of significance. This book also explores how the growth of Islamic communities in Senegambia stems from an evolving conflict between the traditional governments and the emerging Islamic communities. Douglas H. Thomas demonstrates that Sufism was the obvious vehicle for the growth of Islam among West Africans, striking a chord with indigenous cultures through an engagement with the spirit world which pre-Islamic Senegambian religions were primarily concerned with.

A Tapestry of African Histories - With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics (Hardcover): Nicholas K. Githuku A Tapestry of African Histories - With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics (Hardcover)
Nicholas K. Githuku; Contributions by Paul Chiudza Banda, Nicholas K. Githuku, Gift Wasambo Kayira, John M. Lonsdale, …
R3,688 Discovery Miles 36 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.

Isong Urua Adiakod - The Untold Story and the Politics of Bakassi Handover: A Compendium of Politics, Ekid History, and African... Isong Urua Adiakod - The Untold Story and the Politics of Bakassi Handover: A Compendium of Politics, Ekid History, and African Traditional Religion (Hardcover)
Prince Kofi Itiat
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020 - Bones, Rumours & Spirits (Hardcover): Joost Fontein The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020 - Bones, Rumours & Spirits (Hardcover)
Joost Fontein
R4,264 Discovery Miles 42 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics. In 1898, just before she was hanged for rebelling against colonial rule, Charwe Nyakasikana, spirit medium of the legendary ancestor Ambuya Nehanda, famously prophesised that "my bones will rise again". A century later bones, bodies and human remains have come to occupy an increasingly complex place in Zimbabwe's postcolonial milieu. From ancestral "bones" rising again in the struggle for independence, and later land, to resurfacing bones of unsettled wardead; and from the troubling decaying remains of post-independence gukurahundi massacres to the leaky, tortured bodies of recent election violence, human materials are intertwined in postcolonial politics in ways that go far beyond, yet necessarily implicate, contests over memory, commemoration and the representation of the past. In this book Joost Fontein examines the complexities of human remains in Zimbabwe's 'politics of the dead'. Challenging and innovative, he takes us beyond current scholarship on memory, commemoration and the changing significance of 'traditional' death practices, to examine the political implications of human remains as material substances, as duplicitous rumours, and as returning spirits. Linking the indeterminacy of human substances to the productive but precarious uncertainties of rumours and spirits, the book points to how the incompleteness of death is politically productive and ultimately derives from the problematic, entangled excessivities of human material and immaterial existence, and is deeply intertwined with the stylistics of postcolonial power and politics. Joost Fontein is Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg. He was previously Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging (James Currey, 2015), shortlisted for the African Studies Association 2016 Herskovits Prize.

United States and Britain in Diego Garcia - The Future of a Controversial Base (Hardcover): P. Sand United States and Britain in Diego Garcia - The Future of a Controversial Base (Hardcover)
P. Sand
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The coral atoll of Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory) today is a pivotal US naval and air base for all Middle East operations (Afghanistan, Iraq, and potentially, Iran). This book, largely based on hitherto unpublished source material, describes the build-up of the base - starting with a secret US-UK bilateral deal in 1966; the deportation of the native island population in the 1970s; the clouded new role of Diego Garcia as a destination for Guantanamo-style 'renditions'; and the impacts of military construction on the environment of the island - which because of its average elevation of 4 ft above sea-level is at direct risk from climate change

Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): William J. Mpofu Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
William J. Mpofu
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a philosopher's view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabe's Will to Power. The Will to Power refers to a spirited desire for power and overwhelming fear of powerlessness that Mugabe artfully concealed behind performances of invincibility. Nietzsche's philosophical concept of the Will to Power is interpreted and expanded in this book to explain how a tyrant is produced and enabled, and how he performs his tyranny. Achille Mbembe's novel concept of the African postcolony is mobilised to locate Zimbabwe under Mugabe as a domain of the madness of power. The book describes Mugabe's development from a vulnerable youth who was intoxicated with delusions of divine commission to a monstrous tyrant of the postcolony who mistook himself for a political messiah. This account exposes how post-political euphoria about independence from colonialism and the heroism of one leader can easily lead to the degeneration of leadership. However, this book is as much about bad leadership as it is about bad followership. Away from Eurocentric stereotypes where tyranny is isolated to African despots, this book shows how Mugabe is part of an extended family of tyrants of the world. He fought settler colonialism but failed to avoid being infected by it, and eventually became a native coloniser to his own people. The book concludes that Zimbabwe faces not only a simple struggle for democracy and human rights, but a Himalayan struggle for liberation from genocidal native colonialism that endures even after Robert Mugabe's dethronement and death.

Carl Peters and German Imperialism 1856-1918 - A Political Biography (Hardcover, New): Arne Perras Carl Peters and German Imperialism 1856-1918 - A Political Biography (Hardcover, New)
Arne Perras
R5,469 Discovery Miles 54 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the nineteenth century. He became known as the founder of Deutsch-Ostafrika, a region many Germans saw as the pearl of their overseas possessions, and his memory was revered in Nazi Germany. This biography reveals his role in Germany's colonial expansion.

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (Hardcover): Thomas Clarkson An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (Hardcover)
Thomas Clarkson
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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