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Author |
: David Pratten |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2007-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748631001 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748631003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man-Leopard Murders by : David Pratten
This book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press and politicians was focused on a series of mysterious deaths in south-eastern Nigeria attributed to the 'man-leopard society'. These murder mysteries, reported as the 'biggest, strangest murder hunt in the world', were not just forensic but also related to the broad historical impact of commercial, Christian and colonial aid relations on Annang society.
Author |
: Jo Nesbo |
Publisher |
: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages |
: 635 |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307958778 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307958779 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Leopard by : Jo Nesbo
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Meaty, gripping, full of tantalizing twists” (Associated Press), this installment of the international bestselling series brings Inspector Harry Hole back from Hong Kong hot on the trail of a serial killer. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches a fever pitch. There are no clues, the police investigation is stalled, and Harry—the one man who might be able to help—can’t be found. After he returns to Oslo, the killer strikes again, Harry’s instincts take over, and nothing can keep him from the investigation, though there is little to go on. Worse, he will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath who will put him to the test, both professionally and personally, as never before. Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, Killing Moon!
Author |
: Benjamin N. Lawrance |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2006-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 029921950X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299219505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks by : Benjamin N. Lawrance
As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that “a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African.” Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society. By uncovering the role of such men (and a few women) in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule, the role of language and education, the production of knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class.
Author |
: Colin Murray |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2019-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474471220 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474471226 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho by : Colin Murray
This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'.
Author |
: Marlon James |
Publisher |
: Riverhead Books |
Total Pages |
: 706 |
Release |
: 2015-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781594633942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1594633940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Brief History of Seven Killings by : Marlon James
A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Author |
: Wale Adebanwi |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847011657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847011659 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa by : Wale Adebanwi
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press).
Author |
: Peter Matthiessen |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1860464173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781860464171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Killing Mister Watson by : Peter Matthiessen
By the author of The Snow Leopard, The Tree Where Man Was Born and On the River Styx, this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community in the Florida Everglades. It explores whether it was murder, exorcism or sacrifice.
Author |
: Stephen Ellis |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2016-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197547984 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197547982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 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 |
: Cornell Woolrich |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1613471467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781613471463 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Alibi by : Cornell Woolrich
Cornell Woolrich, along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, was one of the creators of the noir genre.
Author |
: Stacey Hynd |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2023-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350302655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350302651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperial Gallows by : Stacey Hynd
Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and 'civilization' could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions. In this book, Stacey Hynd follows the whole process of capital punishment from the identification of a murder victim to trial and conviction, through the process of mercy and sentencing onto death row and execution. The scandals that erupted over the death penalty, from botched executions and moral panics over ritual murder, to the hanging of anti-colonial rebels for 'terrorist' and emergency offences, provide significant insights into the shifting moral and political economies of colonial violence. This monograph contextualises the death penalty within the wider penal systems and coercive networks of British colonial Africa to highlight the shifting targets of the imperial gallows against rebels, robbers or domestic murderers. Imperial Gallows demonstrates that while hangings were key elements of colonial iconography in British Africa, symbolically loaded events that demonstrated imperial power and authority, they also reveal the limits of that power.