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What was the fight for Africa's independence all about? Was it just about majority rule? Was it to replace foreign economic and political systems with home-grown African systems or for Africa to remain with and/or adopt foreign systems? In "African Nationalism", the late African freedom fighter Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole presents a compelling account of why Africans sought their independence and his vision of a system that would be ideal for Africa's...
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When Mike Burton became the principal of All Saints College in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, little did he know about the journey on which he was embarking. Very soon after taking up the position, Mike realised that the vision of the founding organisation was becoming irrelevant as education and politics converged, reaching a crisis point in the second half of the 1980s. Mike found himself walking the tightrope between the expectations...
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For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical transformation with capturing state power. The collapse of these statist projects from the 1970s led to a global crisis of left and working-class politics. But crisis has also opened space for rediscovering alternative society-centered, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state. These have registered important successes in practice,...
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On February 12th, I received an email from the Author Academy Awards, signed by "The Author Academy Awards Committee" saying that submissions for my books were received and that they were being reviewed.Later that day, I received another email stating, "Hello Alice. First the best news. You're IN! The Author Academy Awards selection committee has approved your submission. Your book will be listed on the Author Academy Awards site when voting officially...
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A gripping social history of South Africa's past and future and beautifully narrated by one of Africa's most esteemed journalists, From Struggle to Liberation sheds light on the future of the nation under a new regime. With unprecedented access to Thabo Mbeki and the top brass in the African National Congress, Mark Gevisser weaves a nuanced portrait of the black experience under apartheid. Revelations about the current president and the politics that...
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Ce pamphlet a pour but de lever toutes équivoques entre l'autonomie et l'autochtonie
L'autochtonie est propice, dans sa définition comme du point de vue de sa finalité, à des dérives de type ethnique, xénophobe ou raciste. L'auteur cherche en effet à clarifier sa vision autonomiste ou fédéraliste pour le Sénégal, en tant qu'une formidable alternative à la logique de l'indépendance pure et simple de la Casamance, en proie à une rébellion...
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Un recueil de textes sur le printemps arabe.
Si la démocratie est, entre autres caractéristiques, un "gouvernement par la discussion", elle fut le fil directeur de ces rencontres, créant ce que l'on peut appeler "une atmosphère" de débat public, du village situé à la périphérie de Marrakech aux grandes villes que sont Rabat, Fès, Paris, ou des villes de moyenne taille comme Essaouira ou Tétouan.
Cet ensemble de textes fait une large part...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el apartheid, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Comprender el contexto en el que se produjo la segregación racial en Sudáfrica, marcada por una profunda rivalidad entre las poblaciones
• Profundizar en las biografías y acciones de los principales protagonistas de la lucha contra el apartheid,...
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The works collected in The Lure of Authoritarianism consider the normative appeal of authoritarianism in light of the 2011 popular uprisings in the Middle East. Despite what seemed to be a popular revolution in favor of more democratic politics, there has instead been a slide back toward authoritarian regimes that merely gesture toward notions of democracy. In the chaos that followed the Arab Spring, societies were lured by the prospect of strong...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur l'apartheid en moins d'une heure!
1948. Alors que le Parti national des Afrikaners accède au pouvoir, c'est toute la communauté noire de l'Afrique du Sud qui tremble. Les nouvelles réglementations se multiplient, contraignant la majeure partie de la population à tenter de survivre dans un climat de ségrégation raciale.
Véritable crime contre l'humanité contre lequel s'est érigé celui qui symbolise...
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"One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018" Alexander Thurston is visiting assistant professor of African studies at Georgetown University and the author of Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics.
A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups
Boko 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...
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Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition groups to "sell out," offering them benefits if they set aside their antiauthoritarian aspirations and become part of the system. However, co-optation does not always neutralize former adversaries, and even seemingly domesticated opponents can turn on their rulers. Co-optation does weaken opposition-but it is...
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When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three simultaneous counterinsurgency campaigns to preserve its hegemony of Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique. While other European states were falling over themselves in granting independence to their African...
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By the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets are building a grand mausoleum in honour of the Comrade President. Granmas are whispering: houses, they say, will be dexploded, and everyone will have to leave. With the help of his friends Charlita and Pi (whom everyone calls 3. 14), and with assistance from Dr. Rafael KnockKnock, the Comrade Gas Jockey, the amorous Gudafterov, crazy Sea Foam, and a ghost, our young hero must decide exactly how much trouble he's...
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One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children died in one of Africas first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. It certainly was not because the Biafran War is still the most expansive tribal conflagration that the continent has experienced barring perhaps the ongoing Great...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of apartheid in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of apartheid in South Africa. For over 40 years, South Africa maintained a white supremacist regime which denied black citizens the same rights and opportunities as their white counterparts. The regime, which was established and maintained by a series of laws codifying racial...
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The works collected in The Lure of Authoritarianism consider the normative appeal of authoritarianism in light of the 2011 popular uprisings in the Middle East. Despite what seemed to be a popular revolution in favor of more democratic politics, there has instead been a slide back toward authoritarian regimes that merely gesture toward notions of democracy. In the chaos that followed the Arab Spring, societies were lured by the prospect of strong...
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