Social Science
Social Science
Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial: Political and Socio-Cultural Identities
The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within...
$95.00
Africa Before Colonialism: A Comprehensive Study of Precolonial Societies, Culture, and Civilization
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Africa Before Colonialism: A Comprehensive Study of Precolonial Societies, Culture, and Civilization
What if the greatest civilizations the world has ever known existed long before colonialism — right here in Africa? AFRICA BEFORE COLONIALISM: A Comprehensive Study of Precolonial Societies, Culture, and Civilization unveils a world of kingdoms, scholars, builders, and innovators who...
$21.00
Africa at the Tropenmuseum
Africa at the Tropenmuseum is not meant to be a general book on art from Africa, but rather a treatise on the formation and development of a specific Africa collection, which started at the beginning of the 20th cetnury with the...
$59.00
After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa
Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model...
$39.00
After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa?
Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model...
$67.00
Afropolitanism and the Novel
The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most...
$75.00
Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-Realizing Africa
The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most...
$260.00
Afromodernism: Six Turning Points
Across the twentieth century, Black artists transformed the visual meanings of Blackness under modernity. Introducing a fresh approach, Kobena Mercer shows how such changes were driven by the creative friction of cross-cultural dialogue. In Afromodernism, Mercer examines dialogic aesthetics of ambiguation,...
$52.00
Afromodernism: Six Turning Points
Across the twentieth century, Black artists transformed the visual meanings of Blackness under modernity. Introducing a fresh approach, Kobena Mercer shows how such changes were driven by the creative friction of cross-cultural dialogue. In Afromodernism, Mercer examines dialogic aesthetics of ambiguation,...
$188.00
Afro-Americans and Africa: Black Nationalism at the Crossroads
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Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa
In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians desire South African citizenship in the fullest sense of the word, a longing for inclusion that is asserted through an “Afrindian” identity. Afrindian Fictions:...
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Afrikology: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Knowledge and Value in Africa
During the twentieth century, global politics and economics have been marked by two politically, economically, and intellectually divi - sive rather than culturally and psychologically integrative forces. This has been reflected in the "East/West" mutually antagonistic divide of communism/capitalism and...
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Afrikaners of South Africa
First Published in 1991. This monograph holds a collection of Afrikaner texts which few of were written in English. The choice was deliberate as the author wanted to see what was really said in the language which is such a...
$86.00
The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa
Apartheid as legislated racial separation substantially changed the South African urban scene. Race group areas' remodelled the cities, while the creation of homelands', mini-states and the pass laws' controlling population migration constrained urbanization itself. In the mid-1980s the old system...
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Africa And The American Negro: Addresses And Proceedings Of The Congress On Africa
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available...
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Africa And The American Negro: Addresses And Proceedings Of The Congress On Africa
""Africa And The American Negro: Addresses And Proceedings Of The Congress On Africa"" is a book written by J.W.E. Bowen. The book is a compilation of speeches and discussions that took place during the Congress on Africa. The Congress was...
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Africa And The American Negro: Addresses And Proceedings Of The Congress On Africa
""Africa and the American Negro: Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa"" is a book edited by J.W.E. Bowen. The book contains a collection of speeches and discussions from the Congress on Africa, which took place in 1895 in...
$42.00
The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa
Apartheid as legislated racial separation substantially changed the South African urban scene. Race group areas' remodelled the cities, while the creation of homelands', mini-states and the pass laws' controlling population migration constrained urbanization itself. In the mid-1980s the old system...
$345.00
Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa: Life Goes on
Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa examines protest movements through the lens of Apartheid Studies, the first general theory of apartheid which explores how oppression, harm, injustice, poverty, loss, and inequality persist. The book argues that apartheid, which breaks...
$260.00
Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains (2021)
This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability. This is particularly pertinent given the asymmetrical power distribution between the global buyer...
$143.00
Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms...
$234.00
Analise do fenomeno das consultas de sexologia em Africa
A sexualidade em África é muito complexa, marcada por desafios e avanços, sobretudo com o advento da colonização. É difícil identificar as culturas negro-africanas e o que foi importado ou emprestado. Este estudo analisa os factores socioculturais que influenciam as...
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Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence
Primary source documents are valuable learning resources preferred by many teachers because they give student the chance to decipher and interpret the history themselves. Africa and the West presents a range of hard-to-find primary source documents on Africa from the slave trade...
$130.00
Africa and the War on Drugs
Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed...
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Africa and the War on Drugs
Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed...
$156.00
Africa and Navigating the Current Global Crisis
In 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres established the UN Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance (GCRG) to respond to the unprecedented and interconnected food, energy and finance crises in the world. Africa and Navigating the Current Global Crisis is...
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Afrikaners in the New South Africa: Identity Politics in a Globalised Economy
How has the position of Afrikaners changed since the end of the Apartheid regime in South Africa? While the links between Afrikaner nationalist identity and the apartheid regime have been irrevocably altered, it is evident that this newly disempowered minority...
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Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wide-reaching social change as social, cultural, spatial and racial boundaries...
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Antiguo Mediterraneo Reinos Olvidados de Africa: Cartago, Numidia, Mauritania y las civilizaciones perdidas del norte de Africa
historia, estudiante de estudios africanos o simplemente un explorador curioso del pasado, encontrarás un viaje que desafía mitos antiguos y reaviva el orgullo por un legado olvidado. Por qué este libro importa:Descubre una historia que el mundo casi olvidó —...
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Anti-Corruption Tabloid Journalism in Africa (2019)
This book studies the role of tabloid newspapers in exposing corruption and embezzlement in Africa. It makes a timeless, original contribution to the field by examining tabloid journalism practices and anti-corruption forces that have not yet been introduced to Afrocentric...
$110.00