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  • Boko Haram

    The Past of the Present Upheaval

    by Moses E. Ochonu ...
    For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable. For others, Boko Haram’s self-declared jihad resonates within a long, local, contested historical memory of religious militancy. This book makes sense of these two seemingly contradictory ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Emirs in London

    Subaltern Travel and Nigeria's Modernity

    by Moses E. Ochonu ...
    Emirs in London recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience to the Northern Nigerian people.Moses E. Ochonu shows how rather than simply serving as puppets and mouthpieces of the British Empire, these aristocrats leveraged their travel to the heart of the empire to reinforce their positions as ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Africa in Fragments

    Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity

    by Moses E. Ochonu ...
    Africa in Fragments is one of a few texts to tackle many topics on the position and challenges of Africa, its peoples, and its diaspora in the world today. It is part of a new genre that makes old and new academic debates on the problems and predicaments of Africanness accessible 
to a broad spectrum of audiences while outlining and defending the author's own compelling arguments. This book is ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Colonialism by Proxy

    Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria

    by Moses E. Ochonu ...
    Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim civilization rather than carriers of the white man's burden. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nationalism and Intra-State Conflicts in the Postcolonial World

    by Carlson Anyangwe, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Ofra Bengio, Chipamong Chowdhury, Michael Gunter, Hassan Khannenje, J. P. Linstroth, Solomon Losha, Jacob Mundy, Klaus-Jurgen Nagel0, Margaret Power1, Ozum Yesiltas2, Ali R. Abootalebi3, Daniel Njoroge Karanja4, Marie Olson Lounsbery5, Michael T. Ndemanu6, Donald O. Omagu7, Tatah Mentan8, Fonkem Achankeng9, Lowell Gustafson1 ...
    Series series Conflict and Security in the Developing World
    This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what happened to the worldly and radical visions of freedom, liberty, and equality that animated intellectual activists and policy makers from Woodrow Wilson in the 1920s? This book analyzes the outcome of lumping ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

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  • Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

    Ethics in a World of Strangers

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
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    “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the ... Read more

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  • The Great Theft

    Wrestling Islam from the Extremists

    by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl ...
    Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists and far too many Westerners remain convinced that Muslims and terrorists are synonymous. In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the recent bombings in London, an unprecedented amount of attention has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
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    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam

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    Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events - the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debates throughout Europe over Islamic dress, and many others - have raised new questions in the minds of policymakers and the general public. This newly updated editionof What Everyone Needs to Know ... Read more

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  • Where We Are

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    WINNER OF THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDAddressing one of the most politically turbulent periods in modern British history, philosopher Roger Scruton asks how, in these circumstances, we can come to define our identity, and what in the coming years will hold us together. To what are our duties owed and why? How do we respond to the pull of globalisation and mass migration, to the rise of Islam and ... Read more

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