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  • Postcolonial Politics in Sierra Leone, 1961-2001

    Arrested Democracy and the Rise of Autocracy

    by Gibril R. Cole ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates the historical trajectory of postcolonial Sierra Leone, especially the persistence of a culture of political violence and autocratic tendencies.Regarded as a litmus test for the consolidation of democracy in postwar Sierra Leone, the 2023 national polls instead became a stark reminder of the persistence of élite bickering, electoral malfeasance, autocratic political ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Krio of West Africa

    Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century

    by Gibril R. Cole ...
    Series Book 22 - New African Histories
    Sierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s. Much of the scholarship produced in subsequent decades has focused on the “Krio,” descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America, England, and other areas of West Africa, who settled ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

    by Arthur Abraham, Lansana Gberie, Gibril Cole, Nemata Blyden, Festus Cole, Yusuf Bangura, Tamba M'bayo, Ibrahim Abdullah ...
    This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and, ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue

    by John Allembillah Azumah ...
    Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and ... Read more

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  • The Case for Civility

    And Why Our Future Depends on It

    by Os Guinness ...
    In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness ... Read more

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  • What's So Great About America

    by Dinesh D'Souza ...
    With What's So Great About America, Dinesh D'Souza is not asking a question, but making a statement. The former White House policy analyst and bestselling author argues that in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, American ideals and patriotism should not be things we shy away from. Instead he offers the grounds for a solid, well-considered pride in the Western pillars of "science, democracy and ... Read more

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  • Transformations in Slavery

    A History of Slavery in Africa

    by Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Series Book 117 - African Studies
    This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Islam, Black Nationalism and Slavery

    A Detailed History

    by Adib Rashad ...
    Beginning with the origins of Islam in Arabia and continuing to the African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, Mr. Rashad examines the influence the religion had on the peoples of that continent and the impact of slavery on African Muslims brought to the Americas. He offers several biographical sketches of pre-Civil War Muslim slaves and how Islam was reintroduced into the United States at the ... Read more

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  • Secularism

    Politics, Religion, and Freedom

    by Andrew Copson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. Not religion, but the ... Read more

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  • Blood, Dreams and Gold

    The Changing Face of Burma

    by Richard Cockett ...
    Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually ended up as one of the poorest countries in Asia, a byword for repression and ethnic violence. Richard Cockett spent years in the region as a correspondent for The Economist and witnessed firsthand the vicious sectarian politics of the Burmese ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Preambles

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Wim Voermans, Maarten Stremler, Paul Cliteur ...
    Series series Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law
    While their use and significance have increased in recent decades, constitutional preambles have received only scant attention in academic literature. This book presents a uniquely quantitative and qualitative analysis of all the preambles currently in force around the world and addresses fascinating questions concerning their occurrence, content, style, function and legal status. Studying ... Read more

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  • African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods

    Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein ...
    What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume ... Read more

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