Africa
The Best of Gowanus: New Writing from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean
Short stories and essays from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
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Better Together: Crossing the divide in South Africa
For centuries the story of South Africa could not be told without reference to race, along with its two cousins of tribe and class. The colonial history of our nation, followed in 1948 by Apartheid as a system of ordering...
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Between Boer And Briton: Or Two Boys' Adventures In South Africa (1900)
Between Boer and Briton: Or Two Boys' Adventures in South Africa is a historical fiction novel written by Edward Stratemeyer and published in 1900. The story follows two teenage boys, Jack and Bob, who are sent to South Africa by...
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Between Homeland and Motherland: Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America
In Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr. considers the history of political engagement with Africa on the part of African Americans, beginning with the birth of Paul Cuffe's back-to-Africa movement in the Federal Period to the Congressional Black...
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Between Railhead, River, and Mountain: Journeys Through Kenya's Changing Frontiers
This book records a short journey through Kenya, made without haste and without design. It begins in Nairobi, at the Norfolk, where travel once followed rules and arrival carried formality. From there, the road moves north, thinning into distance, passing...
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Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa
For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000–mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to flee...
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Between the Lines: Africa in Western Spirituality, Philosophy, and Literary Theory
Africa’s history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity...
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Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing...
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Beyond Africa's Democratic Experiments
The human society is witnessing an unprecedented upsurge in violence, wars, poverty, corruption, abuse of power and office, and many other inhuman conditions. This is a great concern for many minds especially in putting an end to it; and also...
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Beyond Displacement: Reclaiming Human Dignity - Human Rights Realities and Pathways to Recovery Among IDPs in Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa
Overview - A World on the MoveImagine a world where millions of people are uprooted from their homes, not by choice, but by the relentless forces of conflict, violent crime, and disaster. This is the reality for at least 124...
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Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950-1975
In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work. This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and practices of regionalism, their remarkable...
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Beyond History: African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Moving beyond a self-indulgent attitude about Africa’s historical victimhood, the book seeks to capture how African states individually and Africa’s collective institutions (the AU) are providing agency in Africa’s international relations. While African states have been trailblazers in such ideas...
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Beyond History: African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Moving beyond a self-indulgent attitude about Africa’s historical victimhood, the book seeks to capture how African states individually and Africa’s collective institutions (the AU) are providing agency in Africa’s international relations. While African states have been trailblazers in such ideas...
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Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
As anyone who lived through that decade knows, the 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of grassroots organizations--including trade unions, civic associations in the black townships,...
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Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
As anyone who lived through that decade knows, the 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of grassroots organizations--including trade unions, civic associations in the black townships,...
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Beyond the Malachite Hills A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa
What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and,...
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Beyond the Silk Road: A New Economic History of the Ancient World from Eurasia to Africa
A global history of economic exchange across ancient AfroeurasiaBeyond the Silk Road presents a new economic history of ancient empires from East Asia to the Mediterranean and North Africa during a period of intense empire building, transformation, and interaction. Leaving behind...
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Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of...
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