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South Africa's Gold Mines & the Politics of Silicosis
ISBN: 9781847010599 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest...
South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the m...
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121,15 |
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From the Pit to the Market: Politics & the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9781847010605 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and marginalising it from the club of wealthier nations, and causing it to continue to rely on international aid.
This volume argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excludin...
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121,15 |
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Approaching African History
ISBN: 9781847010636 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years.
Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years.
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557,51 |
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China's Aid & Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Education & Training
ISBN: 9781847010650 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does China run one of the world's largest short-term training programmes, with plans to bring 30,000 Africans to China between 2013 and 2015? Why does it give generous support to 31 Confucius Institutes teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture at many of Africa's top universities from the Cape to Cairo? Why is China one of the very few countries to increase the number of full scholarships for Africans to study in its universities, a total of 18,000 anticipated between 2013 and 2015? China claims to have been involved for 60 years in South-South cooperation of mutual benefit to China and...
Why does China run one of the world's largest short-term training programmes, with plans to bring 30,000 Africans to China between 2013 and 2015? Why ...
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121,15 |
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Liberation Movements in Power: Party & State in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781847010667 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by...
The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish demo...
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266,64 |
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Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy & Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa
ISBN: 9781847010728 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the Ugandan police discovered a series of mass graves containing over 400 bodies on various other properties belonging to the sect. Was this mass suicide or mass murder? Based on eight years of historical and ethnographic research, Ghosts of Kanungu provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the MRTC and of the events leading up to the inferno....
On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burn...
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121,15 |
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Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers
ISBN: 9781847010742 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfolds and the changes of direction it takes under different regimes, as well as a standard for assessing its progress and shortcomings at each stage. Over a century old, the process is still far from completion...
Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis present...
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159,93 |
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Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC - Ad 1300
ISBN: 9781847010889 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to the general reader, but its comprehensive references and guidance to controversies and research needs will render it invaluable to specialists and students. It considers how the region's literate communities arose and flourished during the last millennium BC, giving rise to the Aksumite civilisation whose achievements and intercontinental significance are increasingly recognised, and which formed an integral but often neglected component...
This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessib...
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130,84 |
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John Solilo: Umoya Wembongi Collected Poems (1922-1935)
ISBN: 9781869143121 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 40 years, between 1900 and 1939, John Solilo (1864-1940) was a prolific contributor to Xhosa-language newspapers under his own name and under the pseudonyms Mde-ngelimi (Master Wordsmith) and Kwanguye (It's Still Him). He submitted letters and articles on a variety of issues, local news reports from Cradock and Uitenhage, and a considerable body of poetry. Solilo's major literary contribution was his collection of poems entitled Izala, published in 1925, the earliest volume of poetry by a single author in the history of Xhosa literature. His poetry was inspired by umoya wembongi, the...
For 40 years, between 1900 and 1939, John Solilo (1864-1940) was a prolific contributor to Xhosa-language newspapers under his own name and under the ...
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72,67 |
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Khano
ISBN: 9781533077325 / Venda / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Khano or Harvest Where Gelevhende and Rosina will end? "After saying all these, Gelevhende pulled up his gun." Vho-Muraga and Thidziambi's love is sparking. Or is that a lead to misery? Death is ghost. Makumba was left in the mud. Malonga Crossroad and Jommbe. Golf 7 said "Vruuum Porrrrrrrr ," and its parts were left flying on the air, that is on "Arrive alive." And Many more. This is reaping, the time called harvest time. Read to learn and find more.
Khano or Harvest Where Gelevhende and Rosina will end? "After saying all these, Gelevhende pulled up his gun." Vho-Muraga and Thidziambi's love is spa...
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28,01 |
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Bantu Tales: When Aminals Talked: and Fetish Tales Facts Based
ISBN: 9781533071880 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The typical native African story or legend is marked by many repetitions of certain portions of the account. The same incidents occur to a succession of individuals; monotony being prevented by a variation in the conduct of those individuals, as they reveal their weakness or stupidity, artifice or treachery. The Narrators, while preserving the original plot and characters of a Tale, make variations, and graphic by introducing objects known and familiar to their audience. These inconsistencies do not interfere with belief or offend the taste of a people with whom even the impossible is not a...
The typical native African story or legend is marked by many repetitions of certain portions of the account. The same incidents occur to a succession ...
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72,04 |
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My African Dream: Raising Visionary Leaders For The Future Of Africa
ISBN: 9780620590617 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "My African dream" This is more than a book. It's a diagnosis of the great sickness that Africa suffers from and a prescription for its cure - lack of visionary leadership. The time has come for the youth; the next generation of leaders of the African continent to turn the tide and become solutions to the problems that Africa is faced with. It all must begin with a dream; a vision; a new perspective of a new Africa. My African dream is a must have for all who desire to become leaders in any sphere of society; politics, business, entertainment etc.
"My African dream" This is more than a book. It's a diagnosis of the great sickness that Africa suffers from and a prescription for its cure - lack of...
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59,99 |
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Unknown Destination
ISBN: 9783980808415 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Unknown Destination" is a succinct account of the ordeals that many African students encounter in the quest for tertiary education. Based on real life-experiences of the author, the book examines a wide spectrum of challenges that confronted African students in the aftermath of the structural adjustments of the 1980s and the concomitant hardship it left across Africa. This unique memoir of the author's academic pursuits examines a nightmare of transformed campus life at Fourah Bay College (University of Sierra Leone), to the socio-cultural rigours of student life in China in the 1980s, a...
"Unknown Destination" is a succinct account of the ordeals that many African students encounter in the quest for tertiary education. Based on real lif...
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60,03 |
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
ISBN: 9781603867382 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Unabridged Edition to include a Foreword by the Author and all Eighteen Chapters with Appendix: The Seat of the Trouble - How We Missed the Mark - How We Drifted Away from the Truth - Education under Outside Control - The Failure to Learn to Make a Living - The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses - Dissension and Weakness - Professional Educated Discouraged - Political Education Neglected - The Loss of Vision - The Need for Service Rather than Leadership - Hirelings in the Places of Public Servants - Understand the Negro - The New Program - Vocational Guidance - The New Type of Professional...
An Unabridged Edition to include a Foreword by the Author and all Eighteen Chapters with Appendix: The Seat of the Trouble - How We Missed the Mark - ...
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34,02 |
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Amharic Poems
ISBN: 9781517373733 / Amharic / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthology of satirical Amharic Poems on topics ranging from domestic life, to public services, to politics, to international affairs.
Anthology of satirical Amharic Poems on topics ranging from domestic life, to public services, to politics, to international affairs.
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39,98 |
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The Water Trap: Water Scarcity & Local Government Challenges... Narrating an experience
ISBN: 9781516892105 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Synopsis The Water Trap - At the Scotland G7/8 conference 2005 a select African Head of States were invited by the conference host Prime Minister Tony Blair as observers. Many of the issues discussed in that conference concerning Africa: Aspects of mitigation of the MDGs Millennium Development Goal, Human rights and Good Governance, Infrastructure transformation and several of the conditions G8 had towards the end of the conference packaged for African Head of States - these were the background factors that had strengthened the theme of this book. Though the writing of this book was community...
Synopsis The Water Trap - At the Scotland G7/8 conference 2005 a select African Head of States were invited by the conference host Prime Minister Tony...
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27,22 |
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Zimbabwean Family Therapy: Perspectives in Multiple Sclerosis
ISBN: 9781493780990 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a therapeutic tool for (PwMS), their families, care/counsellors and health service providers to use when addressing the psychosocial issues that affect (PwMS). It also benefits the general populace who have a special interest in MS related volunteer work as well as issues pertaining to disability in general. Reflections of the strengths and limitations of (PwMS) including those of the local Society are also outlined, inclusive of other real life compounding issues. You'll find an overview of social networks, cultural issues, stigma and discrimination amongst others which are...
This book is a therapeutic tool for (PwMS), their families, care/counsellors and health service providers to use when addressing the psychosocial issu...
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43,83 |
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Writings from the Sand, Volume 2: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt
ISBN: 9780803217553 / Angielski / Miękka / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoking in public, and otherwise scandalizing Genevan society. Already multilingual, she studied the Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam. Eberhardt traveled throughout North Africa, wrote about her experiences, and married an Algerian. Her legendary, short, and stormy life included subversive political anarchism, the mysticism of Islam, numerous love affairs, and, most importantly, writing unmatched...
Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas forbidde...
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232,70 |
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Due Season: To Whom It May Concern
ISBN: 9781936739325 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encounters with wide socio-economic inequalities on the author's travels through Africa, Europe and North America remind him that sustained awareness and uncomplicated actionable plans are fundamental to individual success and national development. Fola is an accomplished professional engineer who is drawn more and more to literary affairs and charity work in Africa
Encounters with wide socio-economic inequalities on the author's travels through Africa, Europe and North America remind him that sustained awareness ...
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80,00 |
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Noumia: La part du destin
ISBN: 9782363311061 / Francuski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. De son Afrique natale jusqu'au somptueux harem du cheikh Mocktar el Altair, Noumia passera soudainement d'un monde dans lequel elle vivait en toute liberte a celui de la captivite. Au long chemin harassant et humiliant qui la conduira sur le marche des esclaves s'ajoutera celui d'une existence quasi privilegiee au sein du gynecee de son nouveau maitre. Mais sa presence engendrera rapidement un violent choc des cultures et maintes passions se dechaineront inevitablement autour de sa desirable personne. L'etrangere devra des lors lutter pour sa survie, car etre une favorite noire aupres du...
De son Afrique natale jusqu'au somptueux harem du cheikh Mocktar el Altair, Noumia passera soudainement d'un monde dans lequel elle vivait en toute li...
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50,02 |
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