Social Sciences
Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa
Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over...
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Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America...
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Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America...
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Being and Becoming. Gender, Culture and Shifting Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women...
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Behind Prison Walls: Unlocking a Safer South Africa
"Mass incarceration has not just brought us nowhere. It has taken us backwards." Edwin Cameron takes an unflinching look at what it will take to fix South Africa's broken prison system and build a safer society. As inspector of prisons,...
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Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa: Incest Survivors Tell Their Stories (1997)
The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of this heinous form of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors. Each...
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Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513-26 (Revised)
On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and cloth; by early October the ship was back in Portugal with a very different...
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Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513-26
On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and cloth; by early October the ship was back in Portugal with a very different...
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Becoming Middle Class: Young People's Migration Between Urban Centres in Ethiopia (2021)
This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination of the intersections and tensions between physical movement and social mobility, it considers how young Tigrayan people’s migration between urban centres...
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Becoming Middle Class: Young People's Migration Between Urban Centres in Ethiopia (2021)
This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination of the intersections and tensions between physical movement and social mobility, it considers how young Tigrayan people’s migration between urban centres...
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Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness...
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The Bbc's Legacy in Africa: Continuities and Change
This book critically examines the historical and ongoing influence of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on African broadcasting, tracing its colonial roots through to its post-colonial legacy. The book details how in the 1930s the BBC established radio transmitter sites...
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Bauxite Mining in Africa: Transnational Corporate Governance and Development (2018)
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...
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Ahobobo: On the Sacramental Imagination in West Africa, Benin, 2006-2008
"Les écoles Catholiques? C'est une bonne chose. . . . Beaucoup de cadres de ce pays sont passés par la. . . . Nous voulons aussi que l'école des vodunsi connaisse le jour." We hear a dignitary of Vodou confirm...
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The Agudas of West Africa: Afro-Brazilian Returnees and State Formation
Brazil had by far the largest number of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade and after liberation, many returned to Africa, leveraging their experiences of emancipation and resistance to support decolonization and state formation efforts. This book argues that...
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The Azande and Related Peoples of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Belgian Congo: East Central Africa Part IX
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports...
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The Azande and Related Peoples of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Belgian Congo: East Central Africa Part IX
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports...
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Avaliacao do significado do financiamento externo em Africa
O estudo avaliou o impacto do financiamento externo na CDR de Mbire através da avaliação dos projectos que estão a ser implementados. O objetivo deste projeto baseia-se no facto de que, apesar da presença de agências doadoras, Mbire RDC continua...
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Avaliacao Das Relacoes Publicas E Da Prestacao de Cuidados de Saude Em Africa
Este livro explora a intersecção entre as relações públicas e a prestação de cuidados de saúde em África, realçando o papel da comunicação eficaz na formação da perceção pública e na melhoria dos serviços. Avalia as estratégias de relações públicas...
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Atlas of Mammal Distribution Through Africa from the Lgm ( 18 Ka) to Modern Times: The Zooarchaeological Record
This work provides the first overview of mammal species distributions in Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 18 ky) to modern time. It is derived from data published mainly in the zooarchaeological literature until 2009. During a post-doctoral project...
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