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Strategies for meeting the millennium development goals in Africa
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00This paper reviews, assesses and evaluates the performance of sub-Saharan African countries towards achieving the international development goals and targets set by the United Nations, UN Millennium Development Goals and the Agenda for Action of the 2nd Tokyo International Conference on African Development. Africa?s recent economic performance is a... more...
Libya - Culture Smart!
Kuperard 2010;Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will... more...
Soldiers and Settlers in Africa, 1850-1918
BRILL 2009; US$ 191.00This book revisits some of the most significant guerrilla struggles of the late 19th century, all set in Africa, and remind readers, in light of current events, the difficulties involved in engaging in this type of conflict. more...
Modern African Wars (2)
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95Portugal was both the first and the last of the great European colonial powers. For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization and the establishment of independent states whose... more...
Modern African Wars (1)
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95The Rhodesian War of 1965–80 is the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe. The former British colony of Southern Rhodesia rejected British moves towards majority rule and on 11 November 1965 the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announced his country’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. That act sparked a series... more...
British Engineers and Africa, 18751914
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britains engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion. more...
Africa's Armies
Basic Books 2009; US$ 18.00The history of Africa?s armies, from the heroic units of the pre-colonial and colonial eras to the corrupt and inglorious forces of the years following independence more...
A History of Pan-African Revolt
PM Press 2012; US$ 9.99Originally published in England in 1938 and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Africans to resist oppression and the negative effects of imperialism and colonization as viewed in the 20th... more...
African Studies in Geography from Below
CODESRIA 2009; US$ 34.95The doctrine of international relations (inter-state, indeed), territorial ideologies, the logic of autochthony and its ramifications, ethnic cleansing, are all hinged at different levels upon the same pseudo-fact: to every society a closed and exclusive territory demarcated by fixed and linear borders. This way of thinking, totally foreign to African... more...
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