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Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

Author : Erin Pettigrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009224574

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Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara by Erin Pettigrew Pdf

In this innovative new history, Erin Pettigrew utilizes invisible forces and entities - esoteric knowledge and spirits - to show how these forms of knowledge and unseen forces have shaped social structures, religious norms, and political power in the Saharan West. Situating this ethnographic history in what became la Mauritanie under French colonial rule and, later the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Pettigrew traces the changing roles of Muslim spiritual mediators and their Islamic esoteric sciences - known locally as l'ḥjāb - over the long-term history of the region. By exploring the impact of the immaterial in the material world and demonstrating the importance of Islamic esoteric sciences in Saharan societies, she illuminates peoples' enduring reliance upon these sciences in their daily lives and argues for a new approach to historical research that takes the immaterial seriously.

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army

Author : M. T. Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009348416

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Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army by M. T. Howard Pdf

During Zimbabwe's war of liberation (1965–80), fought between Zimbabwean nationalists and the minority-white Rhodesian settler-colonial regime, thousands of black soldiers volunteered for and served in the Rhodesian Army. This seeming paradox has often been noted by scholars and military researchers, yet little has been heard from black Rhodesian veterans themselves. Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive archival research, M. T. Howard tackles the question of why so many black soldiers fought steadfastly and effectively for the Rhodesian Army, demonstrating that they felt loyalty to their comrades and regiments and not the Smith regime. Howard also shows that units in which black soldiers served – particularly the Rhodesian African Rifles – were fundamental to the Rhodesian counter-insurgency campaign. Highlighting the pivotal role black Rhodesian veterans played during both the war and the tumultuous early years of independence, this is a crucial contribution to the study of Zimbabwean decolonisation.

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

Author : Bernard Moitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009296458

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Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal by Bernard Moitt Pdf

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.

Qayrawān

Author : William Gallois
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096162

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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

Author : Mariana P. Candido
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009059954

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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola by Mariana P. Candido Pdf

Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history.

Plunder for Profit

Author : Elijah Doro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009098397

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Plunder for Profit by Elijah Doro Pdf

"Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability"--

Navigating Local Transitional Justice

Author : Laura S. Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009281034

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Navigating Local Transitional Justice by Laura S. Martin Pdf

In post-war Sierra Leone, a range of transitional justice mechanisms were implemented to address experiences of conflict, violence, and human rights violations. Much of the research on local transitional justice processes has focused on the work of organisations, failing to acknowledge how individual and communal dynamics shape and are shaped by these programs. Drawing on original fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Laura S. Martin moves beyond discussions measuring effectiveness and considers how people navigate their circumstances in conflict and post-conflict societies. Developing the idea of recognised and unrecognised transitional justice processes, Martin uses Fambul Tok as an example of a recognised local transitional justice program and shows how ordinary Sierra Leoneans appropriated Fambul Tok's agenda for their own purposes. Ultimately, this book highlights the crucial role of agency and the diverse range of actors involved in transitional justice processes. Justice, as Martin powerfully argues, is not something that happens to or for people, but is enacted by individuals and communities.

Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda

Author : Marie-Eve Desrosiers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009224734

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Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda by Marie-Eve Desrosiers Pdf

Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962–1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.

African Military Politics in the Sahel

Author : Katharina P. W. Döring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009362252

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African Military Politics in the Sahel by Katharina P. W. Döring Pdf

Based on extensive empirical research, Katharina P.W. Döring analyses the politics surrounding military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 and stresses the agency of regional organizations in African-led military interventions. Drawing on insights from critical geography, she considers the role that space plays in the power dynamics of the region.

Arming Black Consciousness

Author : Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson Asheeke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009346672

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Arming Black Consciousness by Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson Asheeke Pdf

Since 1994, as the ruling party in South Africa, the ANC have become synonymous with and indivisible from the fight against apartheid rule. This has left little space for competing accounts, visions, and political projects to find their appropriate place in the historical narrative. In this innovative book, Toivo Asheeke moves beyond these well-trodden histories, to tell the previously neglected story of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial struggle. Using archival sources from four countries and interviews with former veterans of the movement, Asheeke explores the BCM's engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black Internationalism. Uncovering the personal and political histories of those who have previously received scant scholarly attention, Asheeke both illuminates the history of Africa's decolonization struggle and that of the wider Cold War.

Invisible Beasts

Author : Sharona Muir
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934137819

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Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir Pdf

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist Orion Book Award Finalist O, The Oprah Magazine “Title to Pick Up Now” “An amazing feat of imagination.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It’s wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.” —ANTHONY DOERR, author of All the Light We Cannot See and The Shell Collector Sophie is an amateur naturalist with a rare genetic gift: the ability to see a marvelous kingdom of invisible, sentient creatures that share a vital relationship with humankind. To record her observations, Sophie creates a personal bestiary and, as she relates the strange abilities of these endangered beings, her tales become extraordinary meditations on love, sex, evolution, extinction, truth, and self-knowledge. In the tradition of E.O. Wilson’s Anthill, Invisible Beasts is inspiring, philosophical, and richly detailed fiction grounded by scientific fact and a profound insight into nature. The fantastic creations within its pages—an ancient animal that uses natural cold fusion for energy, a species of vampire bat that can hear when their human host is lying, a continent-sized sponge living under the ice of Antarctica—illuminate the role that all living creatures play in the environment and remind us of what we stand to lose if we fail to recognize our entwined destinies. Sharona Muir is the author of The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father’s Lives. The recipient of a Hodder Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, her writing has appeared in Granta, Orion magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of Creative Writing and English at Bowling Green State University. Invisible Beasts is her first novel.

Rashtriya Sahara

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015066173025

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Research, Reference Service, and Resources for the Study of Africa

Author : Deborah Lafond,Gretchen Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135797072

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Research, Reference Service, and Resources for the Study of Africa by Deborah Lafond,Gretchen Walsh Pdf

Experts present proven methods and techniques for studying about or in Africa! Research, Reference Services, and Resources for the Study of Africa helps you steer clear of washouts, cave-ins, and dead ends on the road to successful research on—or in—Africa. This one-of-a-kind research guide presents practical solutions to frequently occurring problems in the study of Africa, including Internet accessibility problems, errors that will affect a “known item” search, the imposition of colonial legacy, and dealing with gender and class bias. Unlike most references on Africa that concentrate on collection development, this unique book focuses on the study of Africa, making it a must-have for academic librarians, Africanist scholars, and Africana librarians. Specialists, generalist librarians, and end users all depend on tools designed to provide access to information in libraries and on the web including OPACs databases, and search engines. In this book, these tools, research methods, and the accessibility of information on Africa are examined, offering students and professionals a thorough guide to the most successful researching route. Research, Reference Services, and Resources for the Study of Africa provides assistance in the research process according to a variety of categories including: evaluating OPACs and similar databases for known-item searching using keywords, subject headings, bias, indexing, full-text searching, terminology, cataloguing, user-centered information services, and other search strategies to find what you are looking for using Internet resources to your advantage using the partnerships between the U.S. and African libraries and scholarly institutions to help improve information access using techniques for reference librarians to act as a force increasing women’s roles in the study of Africa and much more! Research, Reference Services, and Resources for the Study of Africa offers all the information necessary to avoid research hang-ups that affect the study of Africa, and the necessary information to pass these skills on to students.

Decolonizing Heritage

Author : Ferdinand De Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514535

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Decolonizing Heritage by Ferdinand De Jong Pdf

An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Author : D. J. Mattingly,V. Leitch,C. N. Duckworth,A. Cuénod,M. Sterry,F. Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107196995

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Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond by D. J. Mattingly,V. Leitch,C. N. Duckworth,A. Cuénod,M. Sterry,F. Cole Pdf

Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.