Catálogo de libros Historia De África

Andrew Kaufman

The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet’s observations and encounters during months spent in post-genocide Rwanda, but on his numerous extensive interviews with survivors, all of whom lost most if not all of t...

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15,63 €

Filhos De Cã, Filhos Do Cão

Mário Maestri

Iniciei meu estudo sistemático da África Negra Pré-colonial e do escravismo brasileiro há pouco mais de 45 anos, ainda jovem historiando, na Université Catholique de Louvain, na Bélgica. Naquele então, a escravidão era preocupação mais do que marginal na historiografia brasileira. E a história da África era tema praticamente inexistente.Minha opção pelo marxismo é anterior ao i...

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29,02 €

Evoking Speech in the Deaf

Vita Mumba

In 1969 the Brothers of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary (FIC Brothers) set out to teach deaf children so that they could take their rightful place in society. This book shows the history of the Training of Teachers for the Hearing Impaired, its recognition and growth, and the changing educational concepts employed. It seems that the concept of inclusive ’educa...

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37,56 €

Democracy and Human Rights in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

One of the challenges Nigeria has faced since independence in 1960 has been its human rights record. Under military rule, the problem was attributed to the undemocratic nature of military regimes. When the military handed over power to civilians after an election in 1999, it was expected that democratic governance would lead to improved respect for human rights. But human right...

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141,08 €

Chiwaya War Echoes

Melvin E. Page

The King’s African Rifles War Memorial in Zomba has long been a focal point of Malawi memories of the First World War. Now, Chiwaya War Echoes offers a fuller view of how Malawi was involved in both twentieth century world wars. These transcripts of askari memories from a Second World War complete a picture of the Malawian role in the British military. ...

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38,38 €

Class, work and whiteness

Nicola Ginsburgh

This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. ...

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44,13 €

Tungo Zetu

Ibrahim Noor Shariff

Wataalamu wa lugha na fasihi na mila za watu mbalimbali wametuzindua juu ya utajiri wa fasihi ya Waswahili. Katika fasihi hiyo, tungo za Kiswahili ndilo jambo lililojitokeza mbele kwa mwanga wenye kunawiri sana. Profesa Ibrahim Noor Shariff amefanya utafiti mkubwa kabla ya kukiandika kitabu hiki. Natija yake ni kuwa yaliyoelezwa humu yametufunulia mengi yaliyokuwa dafina. Tokea...

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20,11 €

Otters On A Plane - The India/Africa Expedition

William Thacker

From William Thacker’s long-kept field journals comes a fascinating but true story of a remarkable expedition. Thacker and his closest friend, Dr. Richard Ross, set out on a twenty-thousand-mile odyssey across India and Africa to observe and collect wildlife. But they found far more than just animals – danger seemed to await them at nearly every turn.The first of the series The...

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16,24 €

Mythos

D. Baxter Todd

Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as 'Pre-History' were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the 'Age of Man'. Throughout the ages, through myth, allegory, parables, iconography and symbolism, the fragmented remains of ancient beliefs have...

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26,85 €

The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa

Dr Sibtain Akberali Panjwani

The Khojas were generally regarded as part of the Indian Gujarati mercantile castes known as Lohanas and Bhatias who due to famine, as well as trading opportunities, migrated to Zanzibar in the 1830s and then to other parts of East Africa. They found themselves questioning their socio-religious identity amidst major struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries; living under British...

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48,95 €

African Nights

Kuki Gallmann

Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in AfricaAfrica evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge...

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12,50 €

Resolving the African Leadership Challenge

Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah

Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa’s leadership challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership effectiveness. ...

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143,01 €

África moderna

Captivating History

El África moderna está inextricablemente unida a una larga historia dominada por las luchas, el dolor y la fuerza de un pueblo cuya historia está poco difundida.Los africanos, aunque fascinantemente diversos, comparten una evolución común, toda ella caracterizada por los poderosos pasos de muchos nombres grabados en la memoria de sus pueblos.Este libro presenta estos recuerdos ...

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13,22 €

Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in dis...

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49,57 €

Africa’s Hair

Kofi Piesie

This book will walk the reader step by step through how important hair was and what roles hair played in Africa, during the slave trade, and during the African emancipation. The book will discuss the purpose of the invention of the comb, the prehistory of hair, hair in artwork, what Africans drew from in nature for their hair care, the statement the Afro made in 60s, threading ...

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31,12 €

Catholics, Peasants, and Chewa Resistance in Nyasaland 1889-1939

Ian Linden / Jane Linden

The 1960s saw the first flowering of African Studies-in History led by the University of Dar-es-Salaam and in Malawi by George Shepperson and Tom Price’s biography of John Chilembwe. This study relied partly on the archives of the White Fathers trained to record their observations. It also benefited from the pioneering anthropological research of the Montfort Father Matthew Sch...

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49,05 €

Trade in the Senegambia Region

Patience Sonko-Godwin Sonko-Godwin

Trade in the Senegambia Region deals with the local and trans-continental trading activities in the Senegambia Region. In this exposition, Patience Sonko-Godwin depicts trade as an agent of change and transposition of culture from one state to another and from one continent to another. She delves into aspects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade during which time millions of peopl...

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64,15 €

Land of Strangers

Paul Hubbard

This guide focuses on four of the more spectacular and interesting of the stone-built ruins found in the Midlands province in Zimbabwe. Collectively, these and several others in the area formed a network of towns ruled first by the Torwa and then the Rozvi peoples from the late 16th to 19th centuries, when they were conquered by the Ndebele people during the mfecane upheavals, ...

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25,17 €

An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century

Caroline Jeannerat

Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. Reduced to an experience occurring within a person, faith was deemed unapproachable by scientific methods. This has, in effect, con...

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43,41 €

A Leading Pioneer in the Development of The Gambia

Patience Sonko-Godwin

This work, A Leading Pioneer in the Development of The Gambia: The Very Reverend John Colley Faye, offers inspiration to upcoming generations along the axes of the clarity of vision, commitment, effort and sacrifice, orientations that could help The Gambia chart a beneficial path forward. Patience Sonko-Godwin is a renowned and erudite Gambian historian. She continues to retain...

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56,02 €

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess

Andrea Emily Stumpf

Sayyida Salme lived a remarkable life in remarkable times and told the tale more than a century ago in her Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, the first book commercially published by an Arab woman. She was born in 1844 as a princess on the island of Zanzibar, daughter of the great Omani Sayyid Said bin Sultan and his Circassian slave Djilfidan. By the time she published her Memoir...

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19,57 €

Muslim Organisations in South Africa

Isaac Mutelo

The historical development of the relationship between Muslims and Politics in South Africa indicates that Islam has played an important role in the political sphere since the dawn of the apartheid political dispensation in 1948. Thus, there has been a need to comprehensively and systematically explore the political involvement of Muslim organisations, the various ways in which...

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40,61 €

Listening to Colonial History

Anette Hoffmann

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these recordings reverberate with the polyphonic echoes of colonial knowledge production, to date, acoustic collections have rarely been consulted as sources of colonial history. In this book Anette Hoffmann engage...

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31,49 €

Trek

Petrus Johannes van der Merwe / Roger B Beck

This work on the pioneering history of the Boers in the Cape Colony (South Africa) before the Great Trek (1835-1846) is primarily based on research in various archives and libraries. However, the author PJ van der Merwe (1912-1979) found it desirable to personally visit different areas mentioned in the book to get to know the country and the people better and to gather oral tra...

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18,54 €

A guide to the Helderberg & Hottentots Holland Mountain Rim

Steve Chadwick

The culmination of eight years of research into the mountains surrounding Somerset West, South Africa. Detailing out its mountains, it’s many hiking trails, as well as carefully researched narratives of the history and legends of the mountains, including the most detailed yet story of the old ’Gantouw’ wagon pass. The book also describes caves where you may find shelter in the ...

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20,22 €

Poverty and Wealth in East Africa

Rhiannon Stephens

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that ev...

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35,13 €

Poverty and Wealth in East Africa

Rhiannon Stephens

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that ev...

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134,37 €

Britain’s Empires

James Heartfield

A history of the many different British Empires - the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention. ...

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215,65 €

Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia

Tichaona Mazarire

This study draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped former SWAPO exiles’ economic reintegration in post-colonial Namibia from 1989 through 2018. The book advances three arguments, each of which pushes beyond existing scholarship on Namibia and/or economic reintegration broadly. Collectively, these arguments challenge dominant narrative...

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76,62 €

Historia de África

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