Senegal Abroad

Maya Angela Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the exper... Lees meer

Nachituti's Gift

David M Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Nachituti's Gift challenges conventional theories of economic development with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and C... Lees meer

Whispering Truth to Power

Susan Thomson

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for... Lees meer

Education as Politics

Kelly M Duke Bryant

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In 1914, Blaise Diagne was elected as Senegal's first black African representative to the National Assembly in France. Education as Politics reinterpr... Lees meer

Whose Agency

Megan Hershey

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local efforts to improv... Lees meer

Spirit Children

Aaron R Denham

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Some babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered spirit children-nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the fam... Lees meer

Postcolonial State in Africa

Crawford Young

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In The Postcolonial State in Africa , Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence,... Lees meer

Cubans in Angola

Christine Hatzky

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Angola, a former Portuguese colony in southern central Africa, gained independence in 1975 and almost immediately plunged into more than two decades o... Lees meer

Early African Entertainments Abroad

Bernth Lindfors

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. App... Lees meer

Health in a Fragile State

John M Janzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• 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 ... Lees meer

Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant wa... Lees meer

Postcolonial Paris

Laila Amine

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisi... Lees meer

Power in Colonial Africa

Elizabeth Eldredge

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dis... Lees meer

Defeat Is the Only Bad News

Alison Des Forges

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• A Rwandan proverb says "Defeat is the only bad news." For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but al... Lees meer

Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963

Sean Redding

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not inher... Lees meer

Spirit Children

Aaron R Denham

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Some babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered spirit children - non-humans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the ... Lees meer

Religious Entanglements

David Maxwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missio... Lees meer

The Names of the Python

David L Schoenbrun

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in ... Lees meer

Spirit, Structure, and Flesh

Deidre Helen Crumbley

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Although popularized in Africa by Western missionaries, the Christian faith as practiced by Africans has acquired unique traits over time. Some of the... Lees meer

Entrepreneurial Goals

Itamar Dubinsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• The idea that the African private sector will generate economic prosperity and social wealth attracts attention in business and policy circles. Dubins... Lees meer

Senegal Abroad

Maya Angela Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the exper... Lees meer