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Download this eBook Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe
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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe


Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni


This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his...

Publication date: 2017-08-17
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Download this eBook Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016
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Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1979 to 2016


Ogenga Otunnu


This book, the second of two parts, demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in...

Publication date: 2017-08-07
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Download this eBook African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona
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African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona


Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu


This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of...

Publication date: 2017-08-06
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Download this eBook Africa and its Global Diaspora
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Africa and its Global Diaspora


Jack Mangala


The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political...

Publication date: 2017-07-12
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Download this eBook Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
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Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa


Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois


This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist...

Publication date: 2017-03-22
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Download this eBook Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
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Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria


Bonny Ibhawoh , Uyilawa Usuanlele


This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the...

Publication date: 2017-03-18
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Download this eBook Popular Media in Kenyan History
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Popular Media in Kenyan History


George Ogola


The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics.The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage...

Publication date: 2017-02-17
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Download this eBook Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I
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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I


Mario J. Azevedo


This book examines the historical and current state of health and the health of the African people, including the Arab North, impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements, cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and traditional systems....

Publication date: 2017-01-30
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Download this eBook Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II
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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II


Mario J. Azevedo


This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health...

Publication date: 2017-01-24
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Download this eBook Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890 to 1979
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Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890 to 1979


Ogenga Otunnu


This book demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in Uganda is the severe crisis...

Publication date: 2016-12-26
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Download this eBook Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War


Joseph Kaifala


This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free...

Publication date: 2016-11-22
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Download this eBook The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations
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The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations


Walter E.A. Van Beek


This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In...

Publication date: 2016-11-03
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Download this eBook The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
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The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015


Paul Tiyambe Zeleza


This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015.This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also...

Publication date: 2016-09-01
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Download this eBook The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland
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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland


Augustine Agwuele


This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a...

Publication date: 2016-08-13
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Download this eBook Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa
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Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa


Hashi Kenneth Tafira


This book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in 1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial modernity and coloniality of power and...

Publication date: 2016-07-18
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Download this eBook Kenya After 50
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Kenya After 50


Michael Mwenda Kithinji , Mickie Mwanzia Koster , Jerono P. Rotich


This book explores the key milestones in education, gender, and policy that Kenya has achieved since independence, the challenges of this experience, and the future prospects.This edited collection of chapters also aims to illuminate the lessons learned from the...

Publication date: 2016-04-08
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Download this eBook Kenya After 50
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Kenya After 50


Michael Mwenda Kithinji , Mickie Mwanzia Koster , Jerono P. Rotich


This book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963. It seeks to advance understanding of the country's major milestones in the postcolonial period, the challenges and the lessons that can be learned from this...

Publication date: 2016-04-08
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Download this eBook Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
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Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa


Wale Adebanwi , Ebenezer Obadare


This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the conditions under which political leadership has been produced, and how...

Publication date: 2016-02-09
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Download this eBook Mugabeism?
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Mugabeism?


Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni


What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial...

Publication date: 2015-12-26
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Download this eBook Regionalism and Integration in Africa
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Regionalism and Integration in Africa


Samuel O. Oloruntoba


The resurgence of regionalism is borne out of the current political logjams that have characterized the governance and operations of multilateral trading system  over the past one decade and a half. Oloruntoba critically examines Euro-Nigeria relations within the...

Publication date: 2015-11-10
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