World History
World History
Between Rhetoric and Reality. The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
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Between Rhetoric and Reality. The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment...
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The Betrayed Town and Other Poems
Roselyne M. Jua has taught English and American Literature and Creative Writing at the Universities of Yaounde (1986-1993) and Buea (1993-2012). At the University of Buea, she served as Dean of Faculty of Arts from 2010 to 2012. She is...
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Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons
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Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons
There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write...
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Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonization of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of...
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Art and Museum in Africa: A decolonial perspective
This book is a collection of essays on the history of museums and art in Africa. The publication addresses the decolonization of African museums before analyzing forms and encounter, a major aspect in the African artistic creation. The issue of...
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Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes: Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Pasts
Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continent's past are not rooted on the continent's value system and philosophy. This creates knowledge that does not make sense especially to...
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The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century
In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed...
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Anthropo-logiques de la Communication Pour Une Approche Anthropologique De La Communication Et Des Changements Sociaux (French Edition)
The author carried out work 1994 to 2013 in three fields of communication and societal change namely: media communication of health-related policies; the use and appropriation of the internet and ICTs; and the media, politics and public space in a...
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The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament
This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalization struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and...
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The Akroma File
Faced with debts at home and threatened by poverty, Akroma a brilliant and well-educated Ghanaian, using unorthodox means, successfully gets into Cameroon. He is bent on making a fortune. Drawing on his tremendous presence of mind and, capitalising on the...
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Ako-Aya: A Cameroorian Pioneer in Daring Journalism and Social Commentary
Patrick Tataw Obenson, alias Ako-Aya, the rabid critic, social crusader and witty journalist, all rolled up in one, was indeed a popular and widely admired pioneer in daring journalism and social commentary in Cameroon. Little wonder that when he died,...
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Africa's Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon
Africa's Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result...
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Africa's Dependency Syndrome: Can Africa Still Turn Things around for the Better?
There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency. Africa needs...
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Africa Through Structuration Theory - ntu
Despite all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and...
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The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization: The Writings of Emmanuel Fru Doh
The Cameroons is in the grips of a perpetual tailspin. The confusion and lack of clarity in the nation threaten everyone's sanity. The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization dissects these ills and tries to isolate what has caused...
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The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite: Choice or Betrayal
The United Nations-organized plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office...
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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek―a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat,...
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Why Soldiers Miss War: The Journey Home
What is it about war that soldiers miss? War correspondent Peterson explores this topic from the perspective of both a combatant and a witness in this moving book.Ask most combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and...
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Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam
A Military Book Club main selectionPeter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company....
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The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help
In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to share his last name. He and his wife, Viennese Jews, had found escape routes for their daughters. But now their...
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The Truth About Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess' flight to Britain in May 1941 stands out as one of the most intriguing and bizarre episodes of the Second World War.In The Truth About Rudolf Hess, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton explores many of the myths which still surround the...
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station the Helped Bring Peace to the Congo; A Memoir
One of Africa's largest radio stations operating in one of the continent's most politically unstable countries sets the stage for a touching and thought-provoking story that illustrates how peace is a process, and how the spectrum between war and peace...
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The Legacy of Anne Frank
From her secret hiding place in wartime Amsterdam, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote heart-wrenchingly about the terrors of a captivity that would ultimately end with her death at the hands of the Nazis. In her world-famous diaries, she described...
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Hitler’s Paratrooper: The Life and Battles of Rudolf Witzig
Rudolf Witzig entered the history books as the heroic captor of Belgium’s supposedly impregnable fortress Eben Emael in May 1940 – the first time that glider-borne troops were used in the war. To many people, he is also known as...
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Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who...
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100 African religions before slavery & colonization (PAPERBACK)
This book list 100 African religions before slavery & colonization. These are the African systems that kept Africans at peace for over 100,000 years.
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Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts. The Kronos Collections
This splendidly illustrated publication features over 90 important paintings from the predominantly Hindu Rajput tradition of Indian painting, and are highlights from the Kronos Collection, one of the finest holdings of Indian art. These remarkable works—most of them published and...
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Nelson Mandela
The Compact Guide The gripping story of iconic statesmen and activist Nelson Mandela, now told in this succinct, condensed book that’s perfect for a wide audience. Nelson Mandela is perhaps the most iconic statesman and activist in history, and this is the...
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitor’s Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski.The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s...
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Woodstock: History of an American Town
Few small towns in America have as colorful a history as that of Woodstock in Ulster County, New York. Set in a countryside of exceptional natural beauty, Woodstock from the first embodied the most enduring characteristics of the Catskills and...
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