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From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000
ISBN: 9781107119055 / Angielski / Twarda / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel. Benedetta Rossi traces the historical transformations that turned a society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one governed by the goals and methods of aid . Over an impressive sweep of time - from the pre-colonial power of the Caliphate of Sokoto to the aid-driven governments of the present - this study explores the problem that has...
From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and ...
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510,00 |
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Liberians Merit a Better Future.: Serious Scrutiny of the Society.
ISBN: 9781512232004 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the author daringly brings up the shortcomings of the Liberian society and suggests possible solutions for them. In so doing, he brings up the processes of education systems, the law, human relations, the political system, the utilization of logical reasoning, cooperation, teamwork, competition and etc. the author is finally bringing on the table important proposal on how the Liberian society be organized.
In this book, the author daringly brings up the shortcomings of the Liberian society and suggests possible solutions for them. In so doing, he brings ...
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30,02 |
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Routledge Library Editions: International Relations
ISBN: 9781138940062 / Angielski / Twarda / 1662 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 10 volumes in this set, originally published between 1959 and 1986, analyze the process of radical foreign policy change, explore Marxist-Leninist models of international relations, describe the significance of cultural relations in international affairs, highlight the changing nature of political communities and changing patterns of government and examine the interaction between the realms of ethics and international relations.
The 10 volumes in this set, originally published between 1959 and 1986, analyze the process of radical foreign policy change, explore Marxist-Lenin... |
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3170,56 |
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A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State
ISBN: 9781849044745 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'.
As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is... Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, b...
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379,94 |
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Africa: Mission Work in Sierra Leone, West Africa
ISBN: 9781515139829 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,03 |
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Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
ISBN: 9780822360773 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as...
Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars...
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565,82 |
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Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
ISBN: 9780822360919 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as...
Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars...
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136,53 |
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The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780822361510 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatan imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatan, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual archives not for their descriptive content, but for how they unsettle and recast liberal forms of freedom within global systems of...
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Libe...
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565,82 |
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The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780822361701 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatan imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatan, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual archives not for their descriptive content, but for how they unsettle and recast liberal forms of freedom within global systems of...
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Libe...
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136,53 |
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Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
ISBN: 9780674050822 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Beyond Timbuktu charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day, examining the shifting contexts that have influenced the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge--and shaped the sometimes conflicting interpretations of Muslim intellectuals--over the course of... Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam's Golden Age... |
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185,12 |
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Undesirable Practices: Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972
ISBN: 9780803286801 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of imperial feminism and British colonial interventions in undesirable cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision, nudity, prostitution, and illicit adoption as well as the hesitation to impose severe punishments for the slave dealing of females, particularly female children. She examines the gendered power relations and colonial attitudes that targeted women and children spanning pre- and postcolonial periods, the...
Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of imperial feminism and British colonial interventions in und...
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224,37 |
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Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk
ISBN: 9781781790403 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye in eastern Senegal, this book explores social life in medieval Bambuk from the standpoint of a village occupied over several centuries (1000-1400 CE).
Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye in eastern Senegal, this book explores social life in medieval Bambuk from the stand...
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582,97 |
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Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning
ISBN: 9781580465557 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of nationhood. Using the typical postcolonial state of Nigeria as a template and engaging with disciplines ranging from media studies, political science, and social theory to historical sociology and hermeneutics, Wale Adebanwi examines how the nation as grand narrative provides a critical interpretive lens through which competition among ethnic, ethnoregional, and ethnoreligious groups can be analyzed. Adebanwi illustrates how meaning is connected to...
Nation as Grand Narrative offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of natio...
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121,89 |
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Historical Dictionary of Cote d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast)
ISBN: 9780810871861 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cote d'Ivoire remains one of the most intriguing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It appeared well on its way to becoming a model of development under its single political party and charismatic founding father, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, when it fell on hard economic times in the 1980s. Poor management of the socio-economic challenges by Houphouet-Boigny's successors produced disastrous political consequences, including unprecedented political violence, the first-ever successful military coup, and two civil wars, culminating in former President Laurent Gbagbo being sent to the International...
Cote d'Ivoire remains one of the most intriguing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It appeared well on its way to becoming a model of development under...
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770,69 |
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West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850
ISBN: 9781138174474 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting...
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707,28 |
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Historical Dictionary of the Gambia
ISBN: 9781442265226 / Angielski / Twarda / 614 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When The Gambia achieved its independence from Great Britain on 18 February 1965, as mainland Africa's smallest state, its future seemed uncertain. It retained this status for nearly 30 years, An attempted coup d'etat in July 1981 was put down, but, ironically, when other African states were returning to democratic government, Gambian democracy finally succumbed to a military coup on 22 July 1994. While civilian rule was restored in 1996, full democracy was not and a number of subsequent presidential and parliamentary elections have been far from free and fair, while The Gambia's human rights...
When The Gambia achieved its independence from Great Britain on 18 February 1965, as mainland Africa's smallest state, its future seemed uncertain. It...
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692,64 |
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The Nigeria Civil War: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781519390035 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You cannot imagine the depth of my feelings, Pete... but... I cannot see any future for us. We are almost cut off from the rest of the country. Everyone is bitter. There is no money to pay workers and jobs are few. Recently, all those who left their jobs..." She went on and on. In fact, in the weeks that they had not met, a lot had been happening. But while she was saying all this, -a deep frown was gathering again on Peter's face. He was a bit surprised at her logic but said, "My dear, what has all this got to do with marrying me? Will you marry me? Will you marry me Vivian?" he repeated his...
You cannot imagine the depth of my feelings, Pete... but... I cannot see any future for us. We are almost cut off from the rest of the country. Everyo...
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47,99 |
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If You Throw a Bird Up in the Air, You Are Not the One Who Taught the Bird to Fly: 100 More African Proverbs by Yella Quay-Quay Explained
ISBN: 9781499603712 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African tribal cultures before Western Colonial influences were preserved in isolated provinces of Liberia. Mr. Yella Quay-Quay wrote stories of village life to explain the Loma proverbs. These proverbs and news stories from those villages appeared in the Loma Weekly Paper, now collected in this book. The pictures by Wozi artist Fokpa Dolo illustrate Loma village life.
African tribal cultures before Western Colonial influences were preserved in isolated provinces of Liberia. Mr. Yella Quay-Quay wrote stories of villa...
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50,02 |
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Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation
ISBN: 9780253022776 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices... As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social ... |
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346,32 |
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Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation
ISBN: 9780253023070 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices... As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social ... |
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136,53 |
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