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  • The Bright Continent

    Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa

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    "For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start" (Reuters).Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges.She found what cable ... Leer más

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  • The Challenge for Africa

    In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution among Africans ... Leer más

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  • The Changing Face of Empire

    Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

    de Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear. ... Leer más

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  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    Series series Themes in Global Social Change
    Explores the role of women’s status, bodies, and sexuality in global conflicts.Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In Of Virgins and ... Leer más

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  • God's Century

    Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

    A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion’s political influence across the globe.Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite ... Leer más

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  • The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

    Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]

    Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide between Arabs and Africans, or to recent colonially constructed inequalities. This book attempts a more complex analysis, briefly examining the historical, political, economic and social factors which have ... Leer más

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  • Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

    War and Survival in South Sudan

    de Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    "[A] vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty, laced with rays of hope and courage and dignity amidst the horrors" (Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects).A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best.For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning ... Leer más

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  • Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century

    Edición de S. Cornelissen, F. Cheru, T. Shaw ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It challenges conventional IR precepts of authority, politics and society, which have proven to be so inadequate in explaining African processes. Rather, this edited collection analyses the significance of many of the uncharted ... Leer más

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  • Violent Non-State Actors in Africa

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    Edición de Caroline Varin, Dauda Abubakar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • Change

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  • Bauxite Mining in Africa

    Transnational Corporate Governance and Development

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book deals with the consequences of the inclusion of African states and communities in the global aluminium chain. The so-called “New Scramble for Africa” of the 2000s illustrated how seriously African living conditions are affected by continuous cycles of boom and bust, and how strongly the quality of life currently depends on the investment decisions and corporate social responsibility ... Leer más

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  • Globalization and Cyberculture

    An Afrocentric Perspective

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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