Africa 39

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Extrait: Il n'y a pas bien longtemps que nous connaissons les nègres, et encore ne les connaissons-nous qu'assez mal. Les quelques phrases que l'o……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Extrait: L'objet de ce petit livre est d'établir une sorte de synthèse de ce qui est commun à l'ensemble des civilisations négro-africaines, consi……続きを見る

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam--in the Lobéké forest reg……続きを見る

Le Maroc, pays du soleil couchant, Maghrib al-'aqsa, offre, dans l'ensemble de l'Afrique du Nord, une histoire originale. Il la doit sans doute à la puissante personnalité de ses peuples restés tout……続きを見る

The story of the bravest battle ever fought. On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over ……続きを見る

1950's Bordeaux. Even now, the Second World War is never far from people's memories, particularly in a city where the scars of collaboration and resistance are more keenly felt than ever. But anothe……続きを見る

The play is based on an old practice from East Africa where aging women without children or male heirs were allowed to marry. There is too much hullabaloo about same-sex marriage and this seems to b……続きを見る

The book “An Abolition Reader,” contains five complete manuscripts that are essential to understanding the abolitionist movement in the United States and in England: “Abolition Fanaticism in New Yo……続きを見る

Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the……続きを見る

Higher education has recently been recognized as a key driver for societal growth in the Global South and capacity building of African universities is now widely included in donor policies. The ques……続きを見る

Una obra fundamental. Tombuctú, una de las ciudades más fascinantes y deseadas, descubre sus secretos históricos y su intensa relación con Al Ándalus gracias a los manuscritos que custodian sus bibl……続きを見る

Ibadan market women were active in political mobilization and they engaged in eclectic political actions during the decolonization process. Their leaders significantly swayed the electorate both in ……続きを見る

Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75. Inaugurated shortly after independe……続きを見る

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the popul……続きを見る

In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned r……続きを見る

Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Suzanne Gauch illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of t……続きを見る

Revealing personal trajectories, Giulia Bonacci shows that Rastafari were not the first black settlers in Ethiopia. She tracks the history of return over the decades, demonstrating that the utopian……続きを見る

A Harmadik Birodalom a véres 1941–43-as oroszországi hadjárat során diadalt aratott, és egyúttal gyökeresen megváltoztatta a történelem menetét. Azonban ennek ára volt: a háború kimerítette Adolf Hi……続きを見る

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Guardian First Book award 'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the……続きを見る

First published in 1990. This collection of essays examines the position of immigrants and minorities in Caribbean creóle society which, as M.G. Smith and Edward Brathwaite have pointed out, origina……続きを見る

Regards croisés sur un phénomène récent et inquiétant, en Afrique centrale en particulier Depuis vingt ans, une violence inouïe frappe cette région. Si toute guerre fait des ravages parmi les popula……続きを見る

Ez a könyv egy okos és gyönyörű libanoni fiatalasszony, Jazmína története, aki az I. Öböl-háború idején került egy kuvaiti börtönbe. Jazmína megrendítő életútja a háborús téboly, a káoszban elburján……続きを見る

The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France’s colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and ……続きを見る

Dennis Hawkes went to Malawi, Central Africa, as a volunteer with Voluntary Service Overseas in 1965. The normal period abroad with VSO at that time was one year but he stayed for eighteen months te……続きを見る

Nel gennaio 1936, la Divisione 28 Ottobre si spinse sino a Passo Uarieu. I guerrieri abissini, mal valutando la possibilità di resistenza della difesa di Passo Uarieu, si gettarono in massa c……続きを見る

This work examines the history of colonial administration and economic development policy in Kenya during the early colonial period of 1909-1912. Abdullahi Sara provides analysis of the existing adm……続きを見る

North Africa differs from the Middle East in several significant ways. It was subject to a uniform colonial experience as part of the French empire; its populations are far more culturally homogeneo……続きを見る

Originally published in 1927, this text contains a translation of Adolf Erman’s work into English. Erman’s original intention was to bring the songs, stories and poems that have survived from ancien……続きを見る

This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro. 続きを見る

This book by a group of international scholars, both Arab and Western, was first published in 1985, and considers the state of contemporary North Africa and its position both in the Arab world and w……続きを見る