Allen - Africa 1

Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an o……続きを見る

A "well-researched" account of the nineteenth-century Sudanese cleric who led a bloody holy war, from a New York Times-bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly). Before bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, or Ayato……続きを見る

A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country’s political history from 1000 to 1800 and……続きを見る

This book explores the experiences of ‘Indo-Mozambicans,’ citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms dur……続きを見る

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda. There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a m……続きを見る

Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there. 続きを見る

“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.” - Dorothea Dix Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts: Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen. N……続きを見る

The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against ext……続きを見る

Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhoodーespecially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” ーhas become very influential in African philosophy. Menkit……続きを見る

Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? In taking a fresh and innovative look at the anci……続きを見る

A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southweste……続きを見る

Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of……続きを見る