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  • A Tapestry of African Histories

    With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics

    de Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo, Opolot Okia, Peter Waweru, Paul Chiudza Banda, Gift Wasambo Kayira, John M. Lonsdale, Anne Kisaka Nangulu, Peter Odhiambo Ndege, Joseph M. Snyder, Nicholas K. Githuku, Robert M. Maxon1, George L. Simpson2, Betty Wambui3 ...
    In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Mau Mau Crucible of War

    Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya

    de Nicholas K. Githuku ...
    Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalité of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Kenya

    de Thomas P. Ofcansky, Robert M. Maxon ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago. Indeed, some archaeologists contend that the country was the "cradle of mankind" or, at the very least, one of the places that was home to the earliest hominids. In later centuries, Kenya's strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreign peoples, some of the most significant ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Kenya's Independence Constitution

    Constitution-Making and End of Empire

    de Robert M. Maxon ...
    Kenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a colonial possession came to an end. It details the attempts of the colony's political elite and the British Colonial Office to find a constitutional means to move Kenya to the status of independent state. As this process moved ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Issues in African Society

    Historical Analysis and Perspective

    Edición de George Klay Kieh, Jr. ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them. The book covers topics such as the expansive role of non-governmental organizations, the growing influence of charismatic Pentecostalism, ethnic conflicts in East Africa, the failure of the African Union’s peacekeeping efforts in ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Heart Of Darkness (Illustrated)

    de Joseph Conrad ...
    Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the ... Leer más

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  • The Queen of Katwe

    A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster

    de Tim Crothers ...
    The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and inspirational true story of Phiona Mutesi—a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Katwe, **Uganda—also a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’**o and David Oyelowo.One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende ... Leer más

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  • The Idealist

    Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

    de Nina Munk ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYBloomberg • Forbes • The SpectatorRecipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    de Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Oil Curse

    How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

    de Michael L. Ross ...
    Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    de Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    de Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD