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The Sea of Zanj has been a place of myth and mystery since time immemorial, and its islands have captured countless imaginations. Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues, the Seychelles and Madagascar – Thomas Victor Bulpin recounts their stories and histories; stories of strange animals and exotic places, of pirates and runaway slaves, of forgotten kingdoms and deadly welcomes.
Much has changed in the islands since Islands in a forgotten sea first appeared in the 1950s, and the author has left an invaluable account of an enchanting and often brutal world far removed from the air-conditioned resorts and package tours so familiar to tourists today.
Electoral violence is a persistent problem in Zambia. This book is
a case study of the usage, importance and impact of Public
Diplomacy (PD) and Smart Power (SP) by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID/Zambia) and Friedrich-Ebert
Stiftung (FES) in Zambia by means of collaborating with local NGOs
- the Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) and the Southern
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
(SACCORD) to help elections take place among poor, uneducated
voters without resorting to violence. General and by-election
periods have for more than five decades generated an increased
intensity of electoral violence by hired impoverished youth
political cadres who are increasingly becoming more daring and
lethal, capable of damaging property, inflicting injuries on
victims or causing death. There is a growing urgent need for
special-tailored programmes that target instigators and
perpetrators of electoral violence - more definitely needs to be
done besides efforts by international organisations. It is up to
citizens, local NGOs and especially political parties and
responsible public institutions to act in order to limit electoral
violence in Zambia.
The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and
problematically applied by peace and development scholars and
researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular
ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and
investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms,
processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify.
Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment
is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of
governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This
focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in
rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to
internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional
insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important
analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are
believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic
reading of governmentality enables researchers to study
hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical
dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in
the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government
intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.
Enjoy a rich collection of folktales, myths and legends from all
over Africa and the Caribbean, re-told for young readers. From the
trickster tales of Anansi the spider, to the story of how the
leopard got his spots; from the tale of the king who wanted to
touch the moon, to Aunt Misery's magical starfruit tree. This book
includes traditional favourites and classic folktales and
mythology.
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Ideal for high school students and undergraduates, this volume
explores contemporary life and culture in Libya. Libya is one of
Africa's largest nations, but its topography is dominated by a huge
southern desert with some of the hottest temperatures recorded
anywhere in the world. Culture and Customs of Libya explores the
daily lives of the 90 million men, women, and children who struggle
to get by in this authoritarian state, where only a fraction of the
land is arable and 90 percent of the people live in less than 10
percent of the area, primarily along the Mediterranean coast. In
this comprehensive overview of modern Libyan life, readers can
explore topics such as religion, contemporary literature, media,
art, housing, music, and dance. They will learn about education and
employment and will see how traditions and customs of the
past-including those from Libya's long domination by the Ottoman
Empire and 40 years as an Italian colony-are kept alive or have
evolved to fit into today's modern age. Two dozen black-and-white
images A glossary of terms
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