19,985円 African women’s history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50 countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. Africa is a predominantly agricultural continent, and a major factor in African agriculture is the central role ...

1,185円 An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa’s past. ‘The most enthralling account out of Africa for years.’ Daily Mail. ‘“Livingstone’s Tribe” is excellent…Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion.’ Financial Times ‘At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livi...

2,652円 Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared abo...

166円 Poucas personalidades da história têm despertado tamanha fascinação quanto Nzinga Mbandi Ngola (1582-1663) ou Rainha Nzinga, soberana quilombola e heroína nacional de Angola. Em razão da resistência audaciosa e coroada de sucesso que Nzinga moveu em quarenta anos de lutas contra os colonialistas ...

9,450円 In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Alfred Chester during the end of the colonial era and the earliest days of post-independen...

1,925円 n den Jahren vor dem ersten Weltkrieg waren große Teile Nord- und Westafrikas französische Kolonien. Dazu zählten Länder wie Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien aber auch Syrien. Die Aufnahmen aus diesem Bildband stammen von Fotografen, die in der Zeit von 1870 bis 1914 diesen Teil der Welt bereisten. Di...

996円 Avaliando a sucessão de agravos cometidos pelo colonialismo em África, seria possível alinhavar extenso prontuário de estratégias criadas para impor a hegemonia europeia aos povos do continente. Nessa averbação, o amordaçamento da memória popular constituiu uma das práticas mais recorrentes. Toda...

4,637円 Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies ...

11,772円 The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the r...

34,824円 The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political instability have made the causes of failed states and intra-state political conflicts a major issue, both academic and practical. Using Harry Eckstein...

4,244円 For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical musi...

5,898円 Few societies have faced the difficulties of identity building experienced by Rwanda. This book’s introduction reviews literature on the concepts of myth and trauma, and then introduces basic information on Rwanda and how it has been viewed by the outside world. Chapter One describes early Rwanda...