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  • John Wesley Haley and Building the Indigenous Church: Reflections on Self-Determination in Twentieth Century Burundi by McCready, John
    John McCready

    John Wesley Haley and Building the Indigenous Church: Reflections on Self-Determination in Twentieth Century Burundi

    A relatively unknown Canadian Free Methodist minister, J. W. Haley (1878-1951) served, along with his family, as a church-planter and pastor in Saskatchewan and Ontario as well as a missionary in Mozambique and South Africa (1902-1934); finally initiating new ministry in Burundi and Rwanda...
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  • Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic by Lombard, Louisa
    Louisa Lombard

    Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic

    Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate freely. In this first ethnographic and historical study of Central African raiding, Louisa Lombard...
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  • Prisoner without a Crime. Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon by Mukong, Albert
    Albert Mukong

    Prisoner without a Crime. Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon

    Doughty human rights crusader, Albert Mukong was incarcerated for six years in some of Cameroon's worst detention centres under the despotic regime of late President Amadou Ahidjo. This book details his personal account of the discipline and punishment that the Cameroonian state has systematically...
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  • Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt by Larmer, Miles
    Miles Larmer

    Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt

    Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the...
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  • Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience by Močnik, Nena
    Nena Močnik

    Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience

    This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective 'experiential learning' strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination. All chapters revolve...
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  • Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo by Janzen, John M.
    John M. Janzen

    Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

    Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into...
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  • Congo Etiquette: Traditional Food In The Congo: Baptist Mission Schools by McNuh, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel McNuh

    Congo Etiquette: Traditional Food In The Congo: Baptist Mission Schools

    The book presents knowledge of the Congolese traditions.Th book is the beautifully told story of the young son of a Congolese Bambole Chief growing up in the Congo of the 1930s and 40s. Born into Bambole Tradition but drawn to the incoming Baptist Mission,...
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  • A Far-Away War: Angola, 1975-1989 by Liebenberg, Ian
    Ian Liebenberg

    A Far-Away War: Angola, 1975-1989

    South Africa's armed forces invaded Angola in 1975, setting off a war that had consequences for the whole region that are still felt today.A Far-Away War contributes to a wider understanding of this war in Angola and Namibia. The book does not only look...
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  • Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War by Talmasse, Gaspard
    Gaspard Talmasse

    Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War

    The true odyssey of a young child, Alice Cyuzuzo, as she traverses the roads of Zaire to seek refuge from the civil war that has struck her native Rwanda. Gitarama, the Southern Province of Rwanda, 1994. Five-year-old Alice enjoys a peaceful childhood with her...
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  • Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by Cruvellier, Thierry
    Thierry Cruvellier

    Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

    When genocidal violence gripped Rwanda in 1994, the international community recoiled, hastily withdrawing its peacekeepers. Late that year, in an effort to redeem itself, the United Nations Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to seek accountability for some of the worst...
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  • The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding by Autesserre, Séverine
    S騅erine Autesserre

    The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding

    The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic...
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  • The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda by Newbury, David
    David Newbury

    The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda

    The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case studies presented in The Land Beyond the Mists illustrate...
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  • Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery by Besteman, Catherine
    Catherine Besteman

    Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

    In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight...
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  • The Black Madonna: Mysterious Soul Companion by Georgieff, Stephanie
    Stephanie Georgieff

    The Black Madonna: Mysterious Soul Companion

    The Black Madonna, Mysterious Soul Companion. . . Beginning as a research project for a graduate class in Spirituality and Culture, The Black Madonna and all that she represents became a mystical guide for Georgieff on her intimate journey of the human soul. Through...
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  • Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970 by Ardener, Edwin
    Edwin Ardener

    Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

    The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples,...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Mozambique by Darch, Colin
    Colin Darch

    Historical Dictionary of Mozambique

    The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the...
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  • Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place by Eichstaedt, Peter H.
    Peter H. Eichstaedt

    Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place

    Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. Rich in "conflict minerals"--valuable resources mined in the midst of armed...
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  • The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria by Matera, Marc
    Marc Matera

    The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria

    In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its...
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  • Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History by Gordon, David M.
    David M. Gordon

    Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History

    Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in...
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  • Revolution in Zanzibar by Petterson, Don
    Donald Petterson

    Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

    The Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a strange, messianic Ugandan, Cuban-trained factions headed the rebels, making Zanzibar (in the eyes of Washington) a potentially cancerous base for the communist subversion of...
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  • Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba by Gerard, Emmanuel
    Emmanuel Gerard

    Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba

    More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people--black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and...
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  • A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique by Finnegan, William
    William Finnegan

    A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

    Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique-a naturally rich country-into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African...
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  • Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta
    Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book...
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  • Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 by Ndanyi, Samson Kaunga
    Samson Kaunga Ndanyi

    Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963

    In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition by Idrissa, Rahmane
    Rahmane Idrissa

    Historical Dictionary of Niger

    Niger is a crossroad, the gate to the outside for West Africans, and the port of entry into West Africa for cross-Saharan tidings and travelers. It remained for centuries the largely uncontrolled periphery of the large empires of the western Sudan and the market...
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  • Operation Restore Hope: Us Military Intervention in Somalia and the Battle of Mogadishu, 1992-1994 by Baxter, Peter
    Peter Baxter

    Operation Restore Hope: Us Military Intervention in Somalia and the Battle of Mogadishu, 1992-1994

    The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the...
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  • Mozambique Mysteries by St Aubin de Teran, Lisa
    Lisa St Aubin de Teran

    Mozambique Mysteries

    MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Teran travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the...
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  • The Doctor Who Would Be King by Lachenal, Guillaume
    Guillaume Lachenal

    The Doctor Who Would Be King

    In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David--whom locals called "emperor"--dreamed of establishing a medical...
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  • Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics by Larres, Klaus
    Klaus Larres

    Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics

    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six...
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  • Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums: Black Skin, Black Masks by Mullins, P. a.
    P. a. Mullins

    Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums: Black Skin, Black Masks

    This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in American Museums explores black...
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  • Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future by Lee, Sabine
    Sabine Lee

    Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future

    This volume presents research from an international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral research project in which 15 doctoral researchers explored a range of issues related to the life-course experiences of children born of war in 20th-century conflicts. Children Born of War (CBOW), children fathered by foreign...
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  • Rhodes' Ghost by Clarke, Duncan
    Duncan Clarke

    Rhodes' Ghost

    Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, was the most-written about figure of the Victorian late 19th century. He funded Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University in his Last Will, from which over 8,000 scholars worldwide have been beneficiaries and many rose to prominence in world...
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  • Remembering Genocides in Central Africa by Lemarchand, Rene
    Rene Lemarchand

    Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

    Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research...
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  • Bible History of the Negro by Morrisey, Richard Alburtus
    Richard Alburtus Morrisey

    Bible History of the Negro

    Richard A. Morrisey was a first-rate African-American biblical scholar-a valedictorian of Livingston College and a Doctor of Divinity, president of the Greeneville College, and the pastor of a number of churches in the American South and in Pennsylvania.Morrisey published "Bible History of the Negro,"...
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  • Bible History of the Negro by Morrisey, Richard Alburtus
    Richard Alburtus Morrisey

    Bible History of the Negro

    Richard A. Morrisey was a first-rate African-American biblical scholar-a valedictorian of Livingston College and a Doctor of Divinity, president of the Greeneville College, and the pastor of a number of churches in the American South and in Pennsylvania.Morrisey published "Bible History of the Negro,"...
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  • The Power of Story: Global Myths on the Origins and Character of Black People by Muchiri, Mary Nyambura
    Mary Nyambura Muchiri

    The Power of Story: Global Myths on the Origins and Character of Black People

    My main purpose of writing was not to solve all the problems of racial discrimination, but rather to introduce some historical reasons why it came about, how it has been systematically perpetuated, and how we might find some solutions by honestly bursting the basic...
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  • The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: America, Britain and the United Nations During the Congo Crisis 1960-1964 by O'Malley, Alanna
    Alanna O'Malley

    The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: America, Britain and the United Nations During the Congo Crisis 1960-1964

    The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod...
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  • Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal by Mbacke, Khadim
    Khadim Mbacké

    Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal

    This book is a study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence it. Islam in Senegal is characterized by the strong intrenchment of a certain number of Sufi brotherhoods. In effect, the majority of Senegal's 7.6 million...
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  • Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History by Mbogoni, Lawrence E. y.
    Lawrence E. y. Mbogoni

    Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History

    Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania. Dr. Mbogoni examines a range of topics hitherto unexplored by scholars of...
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  • Cameroon Grassfields Civilization by Warnier, Jean-Pierre
    Jean-Pierre Warnier

    Cameroon Grassfields Civilization

    This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication of which are becoming...
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  • Fulani Hegemony in Yola (Old Adamawa) 1809-1902 by Njeuma, Martin Z.
    Martin Z. Njeuma

    Fulani Hegemony in Yola (Old Adamawa) 1809-1902

    Following the launching of jihad against Sarkin Gobir and other Hausa chiefs by Uthman dan Fodio, a renowned Muslim reformer, Yola became one of the focal points for Uthman's Movement south of the Lake Chad region. The leader was Modibbo Adama (1809-1847) and the...
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  • Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship by Niaah, Jahlani A. H.
    Jahlani A. H. Niaah

    Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship

    ​ The collection Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship commemorates the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held in August 2010, and collects, for the first time, some of the main thinkers on Rastafari. It is an exciting and wide-ranging text that provides...
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  • From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, Barbados by Marshall, Woodville
    Woodville Marshall

    From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, Barbados

    In From Plantations to University Campus, Woodville Marshall examines the evolution in the use of the space that surrounds the campus of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and identifies some of the individuals who played pivotal roles at different...
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  • Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960/Religion, Colonisation Et Décolonisation Au Congo, 1885-1960 by Viaene, Vincent
    Vincent Viaene

    Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960/Religion, Colonisation Et D馗olonisation Au Congo, 1885-1960

    The contributions in this book provide insight into the multifaceted history of the interaction between religion and colonization.Author: Vincent ViaeneISBN-10: 9462701423ISBN-13: 9789462701427Publisher: Leuven University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2020Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.70w x 0.90d
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  • A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State by Vertin, Zach
    Zach Vertin

    A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State

    The untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from europhric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world--a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most devastating wars. But the party...
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  • Kongo: Power and Majesty by Lagamma, Alisa
    Alisa Lagamma

    Kongo: Power and Majesty

    A compelling examination of one of the most artistically rich and creative African kingdoms Artists from the kingdom of Kongo--a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola--were responsible for outstanding creative achievements....
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  • Central and South African History by Collins, Robert O.
    Robert O. Collins

    Central and South African History

    Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th centuries, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portugese, the Catholic Church, and slave traders on these blossoming African states. Included are reports by Portugese and English...
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  • Misunderstanding Boko Haram: Understanding the historic and ethnic causes of Nigeria's fundamentalist terrorist group by Akaiso, Darlington
    Darlington Akaiso

    Misunderstanding Boko Haram: Understanding the historic and ethnic causes of Nigeria's fundamentalist terrorist group

    The history of Boko Haram is filled with bloodshed and death.40,000 people have been murdered by the terroristic organization. The atrocities label them as one of Africa's most lethal radical groups. Their jihad has led to one of the largest number of displaced persons...
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  • Fly Africa: How Aviation Can Generate Prosperity Across the Continent by El-Houry, Hassan
    Hassan El-Houry

    Fly Africa: How Aviation Can Generate Prosperity Across the Continent

    Africa is brimming with potential and enthusiasm. With foresight and commitment from industry leaders and support from governments, aviation could become one of the continent's great strengths. Yet today, Africa's aviation industry lags behind much of the world, the disparity visible in its run-down...
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  • Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Somerville, Keith
    Keith Somerville

    Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent

    Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems, but also progress. This new view of those histories...
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