Themes in West Africa's History
ISBN: 9780821416402 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa s history. In "Themes in West Africa s History," editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines.
The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first... There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa s history. In "Themes in West Africa s History," editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his...
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Themes in West Africa's History
ISBN: 9780821416419 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa's prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The...
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong an...
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145,47 zł |
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958
ISBN: 9780821417638 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the African Politics Conference Group s Best Book Award
In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote No. Orchestrating the No vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and Equatorial Africa and the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. Although Guinea s stance vis-a-vis the 1958 constitution has been... Winner of the African Politics Conference Group s Best Book Award
In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constituti... |
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363,79 zł |
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958
ISBN: 9780821417645 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the African Politics Conference Group s Best Book Award
In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote No. Orchestrating the No vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and Equatorial Africa and the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. Although Guinea s stance vis-a-vis the 1958 constitution has been... Winner of the African Politics Conference Group s Best Book Award
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Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913
ISBN: 9780821417669 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad offers an astute analysis of the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke. In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the natio... |
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Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity
ISBN: 9781403965493 / Angielski / Twarda / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. How could this have happened? Through the scope of the 1960's, the first decade of African independence, Peter Schwab presents a compelling and provocative answer to this question. Designing West Africa tells the story of a pivotal decade in African history, when the fate of the continent was decided. Focusing on the six most visible leaders of the period - painting detailed portraits of them both as leaders and as people - Schwab looks at how Africa served as a ground to play out larger...
Many African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. How could this have happened? Through the sco...
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192,74 zł |
Coups from Below: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa
ISBN: 9781403967152 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coups from Below represents the first major effort at studying coups carried out by the lumpen section or the subalterns of the armed forces of African states. No previous study has attempted to examine coup making by those in the bottom ranks of the military as a distinct pattern of intervention in African studies. Kandeh examines this pattern as broadly symptomatic of state failure, especially the inability of political leaders to institutionalize power, eradicate mass poverty and promote socioeconomic development.
Coups from Below represents the first major effort at studying coups carried out by the lumpen section or the subalterns of the armed forces of Africa...
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Hadija's Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
ISBN: 9780253023759 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O'Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija's story, O'Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial... In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the... |
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The Forgotten Liberian: History of Indigenous Tribes
ISBN: 9781418479695 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Forgotten Liberian, a brief history of the ethnic groups of the Liberian Lintenland. The book resurrects some historical facts and demonstrates how Liberian ethnic groups were considered part of African through of as some of the original humans who million years ago were the promulgators of civilization. Most references to Liberia as a country usually begins with the landing or refuge for Free American slaves with no regards to its original ethnic population. This work focuses on three historical facts: The Method employed by Free America Slaves to impose arrogant rule; the criticism from...
The Forgotten Liberian, a brief history of the ethnic groups of the Liberian Lintenland. The book resurrects some historical facts and demonstrates ho...
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119,01 zł |
The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950
ISBN: 9781580462426 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from approximately 1885 on, to abolish the internal slave trade in the Bight of Biafra and its hinterland, a region also known as Eastern Nigeria, Southeastern Nigeria, the Eastern Provinces, or the trans-Niger Provinces. It treats the internal slave trade and the war against it in this region and period as themes separate from the institution of slavery in the same area and the campaign to root it out generally known as emancipation. For this reason,...
The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from appr...
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415,76 zł |
Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885
ISBN: 9781597400381 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800
ISBN: 9781597402538 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ghana: One Decade of the Liberal State
ISBN: 9781842778296 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government in an era of globalization and liberal triumphalism has brought with it new demands. How has Ghana faced up to the problems of institution-building, state-market relations and democratic leadership? Can it deal with the challenges posed by security, human rights and foreign policy in the twenty-first century? This unique collection interrogates all these issues and assesses the future of the democratic experiment in one of sub-Saharan...
Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic go...
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Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau): La mémoire des Mandinka et des Sòoninkee du Kaabu
ISBN: 9789004147249 / Francuski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce tome presente le Ta: rikh Mandinka, un manuscrit redige en Arabe et en Mandinka, originaire du village de Bijini en Guinee-Bissau. Inedit jusqu'a present, le manuscrit consiste en une compilation structuree et tres originale sur le Kaabu, reunissant divers recits et chroniques focalisant les debuts mythiques et la chute de cet empire paien au milieu du 19ieme siecle. Deux versions du manuscrit et plusieurs interpretations (lectures) du Ta: rikh sont reproduites, transcrites, traduites et analysees en tenant compte de questions philologiques, historiques et anthropologiques. L'analyse...
Ce tome presente le Ta: rikh Mandinka, un manuscrit redige en Arabe et en Mandinka, originaire du village de Bijini en Guinee-Bissau. Inedit jusqu'a p...
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History, The Historian and The Nation. The Voice of a Nigerian Historian
ISBN: 9789781297229 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of fifteen lectures and seminar papers delivered between 1979 and 2002 by a leading historian and educationist. It addresses inter-group relations in the context of the importance of history to a Nigeria still engaged in the task of nation-building and national development; and against the background of a national educational policy which, since the 1980s, has marginalised history. Included are eight lectures delivered when the author was teaching at the University of Ibadan, and seven thereafter. Whilst together the papers look at Nigeria as a whole, specific...
This volume is a collection of fifteen lectures and seminar papers delivered between 1979 and 2002 by a leading historian and educationist. It address...
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467,88 zł |
Faith, Politics and Challenges: a Christian's First-hand Account
ISBN: 9789781298301 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author is a committed Christian, a member of the Chapel of the Resurrection in Nigeria. He was born into a pagan home, his parents worshipping the gods of ogun and osanyin. His grandmother was a priestess of the osanyin deity and his mother inherited her shrine. As a boy he was taken to an ifa preist. From early in his youth and his time as a student at the University of Ibadan, he has been a committed Christian, and this is his account of the Christian story of his time as a student and member of faculty at the University. He was the first President of Ibadan Varsity Christian Union, and...
The author is a committed Christian, a member of the Chapel of the Resurrection in Nigeria. He was born into a pagan home, his parents worshipping the...
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310,05 zł |
Archaeology and Culture History in the C
ISBN: 9789783612204 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a new contribution to existing archaeological research relevant to the cultural and anthropological history of Central Ijland, situated in the Central Niger Delta. It draws primarily on oral traditions, local and internal histories in the reconstruction of the past. By tracing patterns of migration and dispersals within and from the region and examining material cultural items, the author attempts to reconstruct phases, settlements and ways of life. The work considers both the saltwater mangrove swamps sub-zone in the eastern region, and the freshwater swamp and forest sub-zone...
This book is a new contribution to existing archaeological research relevant to the cultural and anthropological history of Central Ijland, situated i...
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338,22 zł |
Peace without Power: Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957-1966
ISBN: 9789964303006 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the foreign policy of Ghana's first independent government and this momentous early period in the postcolonial history of Ghana, under the stewardship of Kwame Nkrumah. At this time, Nkrumah had a place on the world stage and Ghana was the driving force of Africa in global diplomacy. The book explores how Ghana was able to pursue an activist foreign policy with few resources and little strategic importance. The author elucidates several areas of foreign policy in which Ghana punched above its weight such as the formation of the OAU, the restructuring of the Commonwealth,...
This book discusses the foreign policy of Ghana's first independent government and this momentous early period in the postcolonial history of Ghana, u...
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264,96 zł |
History of Indigenous Slavery In, a (P)
ISBN: 9789988550325 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have not received attention commensurate with the importance of the phenomenon: the history of indigenous slavery, which existed long before the trans-Atlantic slave trade, has been a marginal topic in documented historical studies on Ghana. Yet its weighty historical, and contemporary relevance inside and outside Africa is undisputed. This book begins to redress this neglect. Drawing on sources including oral data from so-called slave descendants, cultural sites and trade routes, court records and...
Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have not received attention commensurate with the importanc...
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253,68 zł |
The Evolution of Parliament in Ghana
ISBN: 9789988550769 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study provides an overview of the development of Ghana's parliament from 1844 when it was under British colonial jurisdiction, through transition to sovereign rule in the 1950s. It further covers the period post the 2000 elections, the third successive multiparty elections, and consolidation of multi-party democratic governance. Some of the topics covered include: the various post-independence constitutions, the committee system, the introduction of women to parliament, and parliament and the media. An essay analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the parliamentary system and snapshot...
This study provides an overview of the development of Ghana's parliament from 1844 when it was under British colonial jurisdiction, through transition...
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253,68 zł |