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  • Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

    par Percy Hintzen, Andrew Apter, Rosaleen Smyth, Aaron Windel, Mhoze Chikowero, Julia Tischler, Gabrielle Hecht, Jean Allman, Nathan Plageman, Christina McMahon, Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Aida Mbowa ...
    For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global ... En savoir plus

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  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    par Reni Eddo-Lodge, Alake Olarewaju Ltd ...
    'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'*Updated edition featuring a new afterword*The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for ... En savoir plus

    $15.69 CAD

  • The Strength of Bone

    par Lucie Wilk ...
    An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' PickA gorgeous debut.”-JOSEPH BOYDEN, author of Through Black Spruce and The OrendaAt the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He’ll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings, the rashes with dimpled centres, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

    par Mae Ngai ...
    This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience ( Publishers Weekly).In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Oil, Politics and Violence

    par Max Siollun ...
    An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the “Giant of Africa,” Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa’s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • Echoes of the Ashanti Empire Part 1

    par Dennis Mensah ...
    This interesting research publication traces the origins of the Ashanti people, their historical links to the mining and trading of the precious mineral of gold and their migration into the Southern Forests of what is now the modern-day country of Ghana. This publication reveals the origins of trade relations with the European nations in the 15th Century, the truth about the role played by the ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Intimate Partner Violence: A Culturally Competent Approach to Clinical Training and Treatment

    par Bill Johnson II ...
    Spousal violence, or domestic violence as it is commonly referred to, is a social problem that occurs among people of all cultures, religious affiliations, sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses. Although males and females are both reported as the perpetrators of domestic violence, males are most often the identified client in batterer intervention programs. The etiologies and causes of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Boko Haram

    The History of an African Jihadist Movement

    par Alexander Thurston ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. This is the first book to tell the full story of this West African affiliate of ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Guinea Conakry Democratic Governance, a History

    par Sekou Traore ...
    Guinea Conakry Democratic Governance, A History. Guinea Political Book. With an area of almost 246,000 square kilometers Guinea forms a rough crescent from its western border on the Atlantic Ocean curving towards the east and south. It shares its northern border with Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Mali, and a southern border with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. Until France colonized it in ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • African Culture and Melville's Art

    The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

    par Sterling Stuckey ...
    Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, the impact of African culture on these works has received surprisingly little critical attention. Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • Speculative Blackness

    The Future of Race in Science Fiction

    par André M. Carrington ...
    In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination.Carrington’s argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Yaya's Story

    The Quest for Well-Being in the World

    par Paul Stoller ...
    Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna*,* a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illness—cancer—those ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD