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Author |
: Tim Kelsall |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 784 |
Release |
: 2022-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197667408 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197667406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa by : Tim Kelsall
When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. Given the scale and uniqueness of his contribution, it is perhaps surprising that a collection of his writings did not appear during his lifetime. It is now possible to bring such a volume to the public. With an introduction by Tim Kelsall and an afterword by Jean-François Bayart, this collection aims to provide scholars and students with an introduction to the main themes in Ellis' work. These revolved around the roles of religion, criminality and violence in African society and politics--preoccupations that also informed his interpretation of African rebellions and resistance movements. The volume spans more than three decades of scholarship; case studies from six countries; highly-cited and lesser-known articles; and a sampling of works intended for public engagement as well as an academic audience. It will serve as a reader for African Politics and History, and as an invitation to students to delve deeper into Stephen Ellis' oeuvre.
Author |
: Stephen Ellis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197664520 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197664520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa by : Stephen Ellis
When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. Given the scale and uniqueness of his contribution, it is perhaps surprising that a collection of his writings did not appear during his lifetime. It is now possible to bring such a volume to the public. With an introduction by Tim Kelsall and an afterword by Jean-Francois Bayart, this collection aims to provide scholars and students with an introduction to the main themes in Ellis' work.
Author |
: Catherine Gegout |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190845162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190845163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Europe Intervenes in Africa by : Catherine Gegout
Gegout's book offers a sharp rebuke to those who believe that altruism is the guiding principle of Western intervention in Africa.
Author |
: Stephen Ellis |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190494315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019049431X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Present Darkness by : Stephen Ellis
Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.
Author |
: Stephen Ellis |
Publisher |
: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1850654174 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781850654179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mask of Anarchy by : Stephen Ellis
The Mask of Anarchy traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in recent years and looks at its roots in the way governments have been established in West Africa during the 20th century.
Author |
: Solofo Randrianja |
Publisher |
: C Hurst |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1850658927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781850658924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Madagascar by : Solofo Randrianja
The island of Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa, is home to some of the worlds most celebrated plant and animal species, including the baobab and lemur. But few know the history of this environmentally strategic place.
Author |
: Michael A. Gomez |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814731659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814731651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Diasporic Africa by : Michael A. Gomez
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas, underscoring the fact that much of the movement of people of African descent took place in Old World contexts. This broader view allows for a more comprehensive approach to the study of the African diaspora. The volume provides an overview of African diaspora studies and features as a major concern a rigorous interrogation of "identity." Other primary themes include contributions to western civilization, from religion, music, and sports to agricultural production and medicine, as well as the way in which our understanding of the African diaspora fits into larger studies of transnational phenomena.
Author |
: Stephen D. Behrendt |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2010-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199704446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199704449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader by : Stephen D. Behrendt
In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, is a candid account of daily life in an African community at the height of Calabar's overseas commerce. It provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade for slaves, produce, and provisions. This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns that comprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's original trade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it.
Author |
: Murindwa Rutanga |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9782869784925 |
ISBN-13 |
: 2869784929 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics, Religion, and Power in the Great Lakes Region by : Murindwa Rutanga
"This book ... focuses on the European invasion of the GLR. It analyses the factors that underlay the invasion, the demarcation process that followed and the indigenous people’s responses to it. What is worth noting is that most of the anti-colonial struggles in the GLR were anchored in religion. Reference is made to the Maji Maji Rebellion, the Nyabingi Movement, the Lamogi Movement, Dini Ya Misambwa and the different independent churches that arose in the GLR during colonialism. Even the more secular Mau Mau Movement integrated religious cultural practices in its bondings through oath taking. The most pronounced was the Nyabingi Movement, which covered almost the whole region – Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and Uganda ... This work investigates why [the groups] resisted, the nature of their resistance and the reasons why they were defeated. It explains why and how the European colonisation of this region created material conditions and seeds for thesubsequent recurrent conflicts in the GLR."--Page 6.
Author |
: Arthur Conan Doyle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1443813362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781443813365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our African Winter by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Our African Winter is one of Conan Doyle's late memoirs, of a trip to South Africa and bordering countries to the north, chiefly in order to lecture upon Spritualism, in 1929.