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This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizin……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Africa–Asia Relations is the first handbook aimed at studying the interactions between countries across Africa and Asia in a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive way. Provi……続きを見る

Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of c……続きを見る

The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticid……続きを見る

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with peopl……続きを見る

The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars……続きを見る

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." ー Christian Science Monitor “As Hochschild’s brilliant bo……続きを見る

As discussed on Coast To Coast AM! What if there were a place on earth that matched Plato's description of Atlantis to a scientifically proven 99.32% accuracy? What if multiple historical documents ……続きを見る

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a par……続きを見る

La science peut se réapproprier l'hypothèse atlantide car depuis les années 1880, la théosophie puis le channelling surfent sur le sujet et atteignent des niveaux d'égarement confondants. Dans un pr……続きを見る

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. ……続きを見る

The Complete African Novels of Edgar Wallace is a captivating collection of thrilling and adventurous stories set in exotic African landscapes. Wallace's writing style is characterized by fast-paced……続きを見る

Decolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collide……続きを見る

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a v……続きを見る

A short account of how British officials at the consulates in Tripoli, and Alexandria in 1826-7 tried to exploit their chance contact with Jafar, the son of the Sultan of Wadai (in Chad) to open up ……続きを見る

This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically soun……続きを見る

This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects withi……続きを見る

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for p……続きを見る

Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clémence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racismーextreme eth……続きを見る

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible pro……続きを見る

Guardians of Eden (Vol. II of God’s Country) identifies what is wrong in the chiefdoms and Zambia as a whole and provides a plan for the future. It is a legal, policy and organizational aid, a refer……続きを見る

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended……続きを見る

First published in 1904, "Fetichism in West Africa" (full name: "Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions") is a book by missionary Reverend Robert Hami……続きを見る

"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament" contains a unique contemporary account of the abolition movement in the Great……続きを見る

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to th……続きを見る

Who are we? Here in America, we have been called Negro, Colored, Black, African-American, and now POC (People of Color). But these are not nations, or peoples, or Cultures, or Countries. These are n……続きを見る

Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationsh……続きを見る

This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the of……続きを見る

Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after……続きを見る

En RD Congo, rares sont les personnes encore en vie et qui avaient vécu, de manière active, les tumultes des premières années de l’indépendance. Une époque marquée par Tshombe et Sendwe, par les mor……続きを見る