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  • Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

    Edited by Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet ...
    Series series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
    In recent years, anthropologists, historians, and others have been drawn to study the profuse and creative usages of digital media by religious movements. At the same time, scholars of Christian Africa have long been concerned with the history of textual culture, the politics of Bible translation, and the status of the vernacular in Christianity. Students of Islam in Africa have similarly examined ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Politics of Poverty

    Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania

    by Felicitas Becker ...
    Series Book 143 - African Studies
    How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Born in Africa

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  • Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa

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  • A Saharan Caravan 1890, Illustrated

    by A F Jaccaci ...
    In the 1890's, with the slave trade coming to and end and the market for ostrich feathers drying up,  the era of the great caravan was coming to and end. This short piece follows a Caravan from Tripoli across the Sahara to Central Africa. ... Read more

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  • Visiting Rwanda

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    This critical account of Lecky's life, writings and ideals opens up a neglected area of nineteenth-century Irish and continental historiography, documents the parts he played in the unfolding drama of Anglo-Irish relations and the emergence of Irish nationalism, and deepens our understanding of the nature of culture and politics in modern Ireland. ... Read more

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  • Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, both volumes

    by Richard Burton ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he ... Read more

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  • The Black Madonna and Christ

    What The Da Vinci Code Did Not Say

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    This is a powerful presentation of the astonishing fact that amongst White European nations their most sacred icons of the Madonna and Christ are black in colour. This comprehensive book shows you the images in full glorious technicolour. It is the only place where the profound national historical significance of these black images is discussed. They are so little known in comparison to their ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic Sound

    by Caryl Phillips ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade.Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From an West African businessman's interactions with white ... Read more

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    Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century

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