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African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective (Paperback): Steven Steven Salm, Toyin Falola African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
Steven Steven Salm, Toyin Falola; Contributions by Corinne Sandwith, Doug T. Feremenga, Eric Ross, …
R1,454 R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Save R321 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build. Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich,Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.

Spontaneous or Premiditated? Post-Election Violence in Kenya (Paperback): Godwin R. Murunga Spontaneous or Premiditated? Post-Election Violence in Kenya (Paperback)
Godwin R. Murunga
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kenya - The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order (Paperback): Godwin R. Murunga, Duncan Okello, Anders Sjogren Kenya - The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order (Paperback)
Godwin R. Murunga, Duncan Okello, Anders Sjogren
R1,175 Discovery Miles 11 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve around constitutional reforms. Written by a gathering of eminent specialists, this highly original volume interrogates the roots and impact of the 2010 constitution. It explains why reforms were blocked in the past but were successful this time around, and explores the scope for their implementation in the face of continued resistance by powerful groups. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the Kenyan experience carries significance well past its borders, speaking to debates surrounding social justice and national cohesion across the African continent and beyond.

Kenya - The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order (Hardcover): Godwin R. Murunga, Duncan Okello, Anders Sjogren Kenya - The Struggle for a New Constitutional Order (Hardcover)
Godwin R. Murunga, Duncan Okello, Anders Sjogren
R3,413 Discovery Miles 34 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve around constitutional reforms. Written by a gathering of eminent specialists, this highly original volume interrogates the roots and impact of the 2010 constitution. It explains why reforms were blocked in the past but were successful this time around, and explores the scope for their implementation in the face of continued resistance by powerful groups. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the Kenyan experience carries significance well past its borders, speaking to debates surrounding social justice and national cohesion across the African continent and beyond.

Kenya - The Struggle for Democracy (Paperback): Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Godwin R. Murunga Kenya - The Struggle for Democracy (Paperback)
Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Godwin R. Murunga
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study of Kenya's political trajectory shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. It also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies. Thus, the authors argue, democratisation in Kenya is a laborious and non-linear process. Kenyans' recent electoral successes, the book concludes, have empowered them and reinvigorated the prospects for democracy, heralding a more autonomous and peaceful twenty-first century.

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