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  • - Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
    af Mukoma Wa Ngugi
    941,95 kr.

    Situates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.

  • - Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg
    af Martin Murray
    464,95 - 999,95 kr.

  • - Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper MInes
    af Patience Mususa
    299,95 kr.

    Examines social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate. Based on three years of ethnographic research, the book examines life for those living in difficult economic circumstances, and considers the tension between the life they live and the nature of an 'extractive area'.

  • af Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward & Jendele Hungbo
    333,95 kr.

  • - Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa
    af Joshua D. Rubin
    976,95 kr.

  • af Wale Adebanwi & Rogers Orock
    941,95 kr.

    Examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.

  • - Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa
    af Charles Okechukwu "Okey" Nwafor
    850,95 kr.

    The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice.

  • - Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century
     
    409,95 kr.

    Features the work of new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneity of African newspapers published from 1880 to the present. The contributors highlight the actual practices of newspaper production at different regional sites and historical junctures, while also developing a set of methodologies and theories of wider relevance to social historians and literary scholars.

  • - Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa
    af Carolyn Holmes
    321,95 - 915,95 kr.

  • - Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century
     
    1.236,95 kr.

    Features the work of new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneity of African newspapers published from 1880 to the present. The contributors highlight the actual practices of newspaper production at different regional sites and historical junctures, while also developing a set of methodologies and theories of wider relevance to social historians and literary scholars.

  • - Selected Writings
    af Frieda Ekotto
    947,95 kr.

    The Chadian writer Nimrod is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod's writing has been translated into English until now. Frieda Ekotto provides context for Nimrod's work and demonstrates the urgency of making it available beyond Francophone Africa.

  • - African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
    af Evan Maina Mwangi
    453,95 - 1.169,95 kr.

    Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. This book demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies.

  • af Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue
    398,95 kr.

    Illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence. The book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic.

  • - Service Delivery and Political Participation in Zambia
    af Erin Accampo Hern
    343,95 - 1.029,95 kr.

    Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can hope to gain from political action. These interactions influence not only formal political behaviours, but also collective behaviour, political engagement, and subversive behaviours like tax evasion.

  • af Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue
    1.057,95 kr.

    Examines how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women's everyday behaviour.

  • - Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics
    af Lily Saint
    947,95 kr.

    Under apartheid, black South Africans engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their responses to this period of ethical crisis. Marshalling forms of historical evidence, this book considers the importance of popular genres and audiences in the relationship between ethical consciousness and aesthetic engagement.

  • - In and Out of Africa
    af Judith G. Miller
    341,95 kr.

    The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahule: In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone audience some of his best and most representative plays.

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