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  • The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Warsby Douglas H. Johnson

    Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 21.86

    Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide between Arabs and Africans, or to recent colonially constructed inequalities. This book attempts a more complex analysis, briefly examining the historical, political,... more...

  • African Migrationsby Abdoulaye Kane; Todd H. Leedy

    Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 27.99

    Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes... more...

  • New African Diasporasby Khalid Koser

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 216.00

    The extensive literature relating to the African diaspora has tended to concentrate on the descendants of those who left Africa as part of the slave trade to North America. This important new book gathers together work on more recent waves of African migration from some of the most exciting thinkers on the contemporary diaspora. Concentrating particularly... more...

  • The War in Darfur: Reclaiming Sudanese Historyby Anders Hastrup

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00

    No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West during the past 10 years as the war in Darfur, yet the underlying complexities of the war and the background to the crisis remains poorly understood by scholars, activists and aid workers. This anthropological study of the war in Darfur explores the personal experience of war... more...

  • Genocide in Darfurby Samuel Totten; Eric Markusen

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95

    In response to the ongoing mass murder of Black Sudanese groups in the Darfur region of Sudan by Sudanese government troops and Arab militias, the US government sent the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team to various points along the Chad/Sudan in order to interview refugees from Darfur. Based on their investigation, US Secretary of State Colin Powell... more...

  • Violent Conflict and Peacebuildingby Johan Brosché; Daniel Rothbart

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00

    This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types. The crisis reached its peak in 2003?2004, when certain Arab militias joined forces with the Sudan armed forces in a campaign against insurgent resistance movements. Engulfed in the tumult, Darfurians... more...

  • War & Peace In The Sudanby Khalid

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 265.00

    Sudan has been at war with itself for the last forty years, except for a ten-year period of peace from 1972 to 1983. This book traces the root causes of the Sudanese conflict: the remnants of slave culture and the rift between North and South, exacerbated by a conflict of culture and religion. Despite past divisions, the author identifies new points... more...

  • The Boy Who Wouldn't Dieby David Nyuol Vincent; Carol Nader

    Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 24.99

    The inspiring story of David Nyuol Vincent , a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars, and fifteen years in camps to find a new life in Australia.   David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village, and his childhood and... more...

  • Legitimacy, Peace Operations and Global-Regional Securityby Linnéa Gelot

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00

    At the turn of the century the regional-global security partnership became a key element of peace and security policy-making. This book investigates the impact of the joint effort made by the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to keep the peace and protect civilians in Darfur. This book focuses on the collaboration that takes place... more...

  • Black Star, Crescent Moonby Sohail Daulatzai

    University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 68.00

    ?The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia,? Malcolm X declared in a 1962 speech, ?is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.? Four decades later, the hip-hop... more...