Social Science
Social Science
African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production....
$43.00
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away from a volcano, were preserved in the petrified surface of a mudpan over three million years ago. Out of...
$30.00
Africa on the Contemporary London Stage (2018)
This collection of essays investigates the way Africa has been portrayed on the London stage from the 1950s to the present. It focuses on whether — and, if so, to what extent — the Africa that emerges from the London...
$117.00
Africa on the Contemporary London Stage (2018)
This collection of essays investigates the way Africa has been portrayed on the London stage from the 1950s to the present. It focuses on whether ― and, if so, to what extent ― the Africa that emerges from the London...
$156.00
African Science Granting Councils: Towards Sustainable Development in Africa
This book delves into the research-policy nexus as it relates to development in Africa. It does so by examining four country-cases - Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya and Zambia - while referring to South Africa as a possible exemplar case. The...
$48.00
African Science Education: Gendering Indigenous Knowledge in Nigeria
Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered...
$293.00
Africa Now: People, Policies and Institutions
This overview of Africa is intended as an introduction for people who have a professional contact with the continent, such as workers in NGOs and international organizations, investors in emerging markets, bankers and people in business, diplomats, as well as...
$48.00
Africa Now!: Emerging Issues and Alternative Perspectives (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018)
This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa. It explores how Africa could be understood in the context of emerging global realities, providing alternative frameworks that will not...
$169.00
Africa Now!: Emerging Issues and Alternative Perspectives (2018)
This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa. It explores how Africa could be understood in the context of emerging global realities, providing alternative frameworks that will not...
$234.00
Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto
In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olúfémi Táíwò explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. What has to change for Africa to be able to respond to the challenges...
$98.00
Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto
In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olúfémi Táíwò explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. What has to change for Africa to be able to respond to the challenges...
$33.00
African Politics: An Introduction
African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad‑ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends, whilst also situating them in their historical context. Viewed from the outside, African politics are often said to be too...
$260.00
Africa: A Beginner's Guide
Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history and the factors...
$19.00
Africa: A 4D Book
Lions are called “king of beasts.” But a pride is made of mainly females. These mighty beasts hunt and bring back food for the whole pride. The group also depends on the females to care for young. Take a close...
$36.00
African Pilgrimage: Ritual Travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion
Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the bottom end of the social ladder to make sense...
$293.00
African Philosophy. The Compatibility of Africa and the Christian Practice: The Ichen People of North Eastern Nigeria
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 3.555, course: Christian Ethics, language: English, abstract: This study analyses how the philosophy of divorce in Ichen (Nigeria) is compatible with the...
$33.00
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities...
$75.00
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities...
$260.00
An African Perspective on Environmental Communication: Advocating for Sustainable Environmental Communication in Africa
This book delves into the intricate relationship between environmental challenges and communication strategies in Africa. It delves into the history of environmental communication, the factors that led to its emergency, the role of traditional and social media in disseminating information,...
$182.00
Africa in Europe: Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization: Volume 2
Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international relations, migrational studies, and globalization. In...
$97.00
Africa in Europe: Antiquity Into the Age of Global Exploration: Volume 1
Africa in Europe, in two volumes, is an interdisciplinary work about Europeans that demonstrates fluid boundaries and connections between them and Africans from antiquity until the present. Written by a scholar with expertise that includes anthropology, social history, and international...
$75.00
Africa in Europe and Europe in Africa: Reassessing the Cultural Legacy
This book studies the Afro-European and Euro-African past and present from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It addresses Africa as a whole, eschewing historical divisions between North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Its content exemplifies the extent to which the histories of...
$127.00
Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
The first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is invaluable reading for anyone interested in Africa.
$234.00
Africa in China's Global Strategy
China, in the past five years, has developed a proactive global policy and is emerging as a new global power with particular focus on developing countries in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. What is the role of...
$92.00
Africa In A Nutshell For The Million: Or Light On The Dark Continent (1886)
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...
$27.00
Africa: The Unknown: Resources and Gains
During the 2019-2020 Academic Year, Sinderesi School wanted to discover Africa as a continent of resources and gains. Without ignoring its well-known problems and limits, the articles and scientific studies collected here encourage all of us to have a different...
$45.00
Africa 2.0: Inside a Continent's Communications Revolution
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges...
$48.00
Africa 2.0: Inside a Continent's Communications Revolution
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges...
$156.00
Africa (1902)
Africa is a book written by Fanny Dorothea Herbertson and published in 1902. It is a comprehensive guide to the continent of Africa, providing information on its geography, history, people, and cultures. The book is divided into several sections, each...
$42.00
Africa: Geography and Development
First published in 1988, Africa examines the varied pattern of development in the continent, the progress and the disappointments experienced, and the prospects. This picture is set firmly within the frame of the continent’s geography. From a general synthesis, the books moves...
$234.00