Africa
Africa
Africa's Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century (2024)
This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP. Diverging from existing works, it provides...
$208.00
Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches
Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most immediately by other local languages. As a result, the threat of...
$247.00
Africa's Dust in My Hair
Feisty Anne Cumberland moved with her British family to a tobacco farm her father had bought in Northern Rhodesia in 1949. But when she married the adventurous hunter, Rowland Morris, she did not know what she was letting herself in...
$30.00
Africa's Diamonds: Precious, Perilous Too?
The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging...
$23.00
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave...
$81.00
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave...
$248.00
Africa's Development. Challenges Confronting Africa to Implement NEPAD
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: Pass, course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: Through this paper, Africa accelerates an African Agenda by embracing the philosophy of African Renaissance premised on...
$88.00
Africa's Deadliest Conflict: Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997-2008
Africa’s Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history—a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions—and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain...
$55.00
Africa's Cry
THE ENSLAVEMENT AND DIASPORA OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE MANIFESTED LIGHT ON OUR PAINS, STRUGGLES, SUFFERINGS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. WE WERE BROUGHT AS SLAVES, STRIPPED OF AND STRIPPED FROM EVERYTHING WE KNEW. THE RESILIENCE OF OUR PEOPLE HAS EMPOWERED US TO...
$29.00
Africa's Critical Choices: A Call for a Pan-African Roadmap
This volume examines contemporary Africa, a vast continent which, while entering the era of globalization, is also confronted by a number of issues, including the environment and climate change, demographics, trade issues, internal and external migration, education, economic Issues, governance,...
$90.00
Africa's Contemporary Challenges: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals...
$101.00
Africa's Contemporary Challenges: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals...
$260.00
Africa's Choices: After Thirty Years of the World Bank
For thirty years, the World Bank has proposed policies that have produced few economic benefits but have eroded the traditional strengths of African society?even the Bank itself now admits this. But while African leaders, many propped up by the West,...
$165.00
Africa Time: Two Scholars' Seasons in Uganda
Africa Time depicts the experiences and observations of two scholars who spent two years teaching at Makerere University in Uganda from a literary, religious and political point of view. It assesses the cultural, political, and educational prospects of contemporary Uganda, often...
$24.00
Africa: A Photographic Safari
Ever since he was a teenager growing up in Houston, Texas, Carlyle Thompson wanted to visit Africa. In 2006, he got his chance. Thompson shares his incredible journey to one of the world's most mysterious countries in Africa: A Photographic Safari....
$19.00
Africa: A Photographic Safari
Ever since he was a teenager growing up in Houston, Texas, Carlyle Thompson wanted to visit Africa. In 2006, he got his chance. Thompson shares his incredible journey to one of the world's most mysterious countries in Africa: A Photographic...
$19.00
Africa's Choices: After Thirty Years Of The World Bank
This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank's structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all of which were designed to encourage export-led growth.
$71.00
Africa: A Modern History
The end of World War II signaled the end of the European African empires. In 1945, four African countries were independent; by 1963, 30 African states created the Organization of African Unity. The 1960s were a time of optimism as...
$78.00
Africa's Child
AFRICA’S CHILDShe was left at an orphanage in the mountains of East Africa when she was only a few days old.Her name was Mary. She had no mother, no father, no tribe, and no last name. She was barely five...
$45.00
Africa's Child
AFRICA’S CHILDShe was left at an orphanage in the mountains of East Africa when she was only a few days old.Her name was Mary. She had no mother, no father, no tribe, and no last name. She was barely five...
$32.00
Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory (2001)
Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. This collection breaks new ground in how we think...
$71.00
Africa: A Look Back
"Provides a history of the roots of African-American culture, going back to the period of the transatlantic slave trade and earlier. Much of the history is told through reminiscences of slaves or former slaves in their 'narratives'"--Provided by publisher.
$49.00
Africa Through the Eyes of a Patriot
General Olusegun Obasanjo was recently elected president in the first Nigerian free and popular elections held after fifteen years of military rule. Having voluntarily given over his power to civilians in 1979, Obasanjo has since dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism, conflict...
$234.00
Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage
A groundbreaking history of Africa’s looted architectural heritage—and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent’s stolen cultural artifactsBetween the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts to museums in...
$46.00
Africa's Big Three: Band 07/Turquoise
Another captivating title written and photographed by BBC Big Cat Diaries presenters, Jonathan and Angela Scott; authors of the Collins Big Cat titles Antartica: Land of the Penguins and Big Cat Babies. This time they look at the lives of...
$13.00
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of...
$55.00
Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition (Ls Edition)
This eBook introduces readers to the geography of Africa south of the Sahara, covering the culture region as a whole rather than individual countries. The volume emphasizes the region's people and their various ways of life, considering how they have...
$59.00
Africa Through the Eyes of a Patriot
General Olusegun Obasanjo was recently elected president in the first Nigerian free and popular elections held after fifteen years of military rule. Having voluntarily given over his power to civilians in 1979, Obasanjo has since dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism, conflict...
$144.29
Africa's Astronaut
Leo M. Cyr is the son of a career diplomat who represented the United States as a consular officer and U.S. ambassador during 20 years of service in post-independence Africa. The African Astronaut is centered on the years of 1956...
$12.00