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Making Sense of the Central African Republic

Author : Tatiana Carayannis
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783603828
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Book Synopsis Making Sense of the Central African Republic by : Tatiana Carayannis

Download or read book Making Sense of the Central African Republic written by Tatiana Carayannis and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding initiatives, hosting a two-decade-long succession of UN and regional peacekeeping, peacebuilding and special political missions. Drawing together the foremost experts on the Central African Republic, this much-needed volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the country’s recent history of rebellion, instability, and international and regional intervention.

From Iron Age to Independence

Author : D. E. Needham
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582651111
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis From Iron Age to Independence by : D. E. Needham

Download or read book From Iron Age to Independence written by D. E. Needham and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the popular school history book has been thoroughly revised to bring it fully up to date. It provides a stimulating account of Central African history from the Iron Age to the liberation struggle and the successful achievement of Zimbabwe's national independence.

Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002783
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora by : Linda M. Heywood

Download or read book Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora written by Linda M. Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Roadblock Politics

Author : Peer Schouten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108494014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Roadblock Politics written by Peer Schouten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are so many roadblocks in Central Africa that it is hard to find a road that does not have one. Based on research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR), Peer Schouten maps more than a thousand of these roadblocks to show how communities, rebels and state security forces forge resistance and power out of control over these narrow points of passage. Schouten reveals the connections between these roadblocks in Central Africa and global supply chains, tracking the flow of multinational corporations and UN agencies alike through them, to show how they encapsulate a form of power, which thrives under conditions of supply chain capitalism. In doing so, he develops a new lens through which to understand what drives state formation and conflict in the region, offering a radical alternative to explanations that foreground control over minerals, territory or population as key drivers of Central Africa's violent history.

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521770653
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 by : Linda M. Heywood

Download or read book Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 written by Linda M. Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.

The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867

Author : Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107176263
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 by : Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

Download or read book The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 written by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

How Societies Are Born

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934181
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book How Societies Are Born written by Jan Vansina and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years? Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In this complement to his previous study Paths in the Rainforests, Vansina employs a provocative combination of archaeology and historical linguistics to turn his scholarly focus to governance, studying the creation of relatively large societies extending beyond the foraging groups that characterized west central Africa from the beginning of human habitation to around 500 BCE, and the institutions that bridged their constituent local communities and made large-scale cooperation possible. The increasing reliance on cereal crops, iron tools, large herds of cattle, and overarching institutions such as corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans lead up to the developments treated in the second part of the book. From about 900 BCE until European contact, different societies chose different developmental paths. Interestingly, these proceeded well beyond environmental constraints and were characterized by "major differences in the subjects which enthralled people," whether these were cattle, initiations and social position, or "the splendors of sacralized leaders and the possibilities of participating in them."

State of Rebellion

Author : Louisa Lombard
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783608870
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book State of Rebellion written by Louisa Lombard and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins. In this first comprehensive account of the country’s recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – that the violence has been due to a religious divide, or politicians’ manipulations, or profiteering. Instead, she shows that conflict has long been useful to Central African politics, a tendency that has been exacerbated by the international community’s method of engagement with so-called fragile states. Furthermore, changing this state of affairs will require rethinking the relationships of all those present – rebel groups and politicians, as well as international interveners and diplomats. An urgent insight into this little-understood country and the problems with peacebuilding more broadly.

A History of West Central Africa to 1850

Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107127157
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A History of West Central Africa to 1850 written by John K. Thornton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.

The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

Author : Erik Kennes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021502
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa by : Erik Kennes

Download or read book The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa written by Erik Kennes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the 1960s unrecognized state’s army and their role in Central Africa’s political and military conflicts. Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today’s Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence, and the gendarmes fought as the unrecognized state’s army during the Congo crisis. Kennes and Larmer explain how the ex-gendarmes, then exiled in Angola, struggled to maintain their national identity and return “home.” They take readers through the complex history of the Katangese and their engagement in regional conflicts and Africa’s Cold War. Kennes and Larmer show how the paths not taken at Africa’s independence persist in contemporary political and military movements and bring new understandings to the challenges that personal and collective identities pose to the relationship between African nation-states and their citizens and subjects. “A fascinating story which is tied to the colonial development of Katanga province, cold war politics in Central Africa, the crisis of the postcolonial state in the Congo, and the interregional politics in the Great Lakes area.” —Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, University of North Carolina “A major contribution to our understanding of postcolonial politics in Africa more broadly and sheds light on the survival of militias over time and forms of subnationalism emerging from regional consciousness.” —M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author : Heinrich Barth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa written by Heinrich Barth and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674771918
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa by : Robert I. Rotberg

Download or read book The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa written by Robert I. Rotberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Professor Rotberg has given students of African history a detailed and thoroughly documented study of the creation of Malawi and Zambia and much information on the formation and collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. No other scholar has written so full and reliable an account of this recent and complex history. Rotberg had access to hitherto unused official archives and to private correspondence, sources that he supplemented by interviews with many of the European and African participants in the events of the last decades of a century of history. No one can read this story without being impressed by the dizzy speed of change in Africa.'-American Historical Review

The Land/Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone of West and Central Africa

Author : Salif Diop
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319063874
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book The Land/Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone of West and Central Africa written by Salif Diop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the main focus of this book is on the estuaries, its scope goes well beyond this particular coastal feature. Indeed, the estuary can only be considered as part of the life cycle of the entire river and the marine area it feeds into: an area particularly subject to human and natural pressures. The main estuaries and deltas of West and Central Africa region provide a variety of goods and services to its coastal population. The most important of them are related to critical fish habitat, wood and charcoal from mangroves, as well as space for agriculture, aquaculture, urban development, tourism and transport. Particular emphasis has been made in this book on mangroves that play a significant role in terms of flood control, groundwater replenishment, coastline stabilization and protection against storms. They also retain sediments and nutrients, purify water, and provide critical carbon storage. Such hydrological and ecological functions explain the focus on serving mangrove ecosystems and the nearby communities, which draw significant income from fishing, rice production, tourism, salt extraction and other activities such as harvesting honey and medicinal plants, hence the need for preserving mangrove ecosystems to ensure sustainability of the estuaries and deltas of West and Central Africa region. The book has a foreword by Mr. Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNEP who is stating that credible and up-to-date information is essential for the public at large but more specifically for scientists, researchers, managers, decision-makers all working together in order to safeguard, protect and sustainably manage estuaries, deltas and lagoons, and the coastal and ocean waters of Western and Central Africa.

Kings and Queens of Central Africa

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531165331
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Kings and Queens of Central Africa written by Sylviane A. Diouf and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the historical regions and kingdoms of Central Africa including biographies of Afonso I, King of the Kongo (1456-1493); Shamba Bolongongo, King of the Bakuba (17th century); and Njoya, King of the Bamun (1867-1933).

Central Africa in the Caribbean

Author : Maureen Warner-Lewis
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766401184
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Central Africa in the Caribbean by : Maureen Warner-Lewis

Download or read book Central Africa in the Caribbean written by Maureen Warner-Lewis and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean. This long-awaited study is based on more than three decades of research and analysis. Scholars will be fascinated with the transatlantic comparative data. The author identifies Central African cultural forms in those areas settled in Africa by the Koongo, Mbundu, and Ovimbunde. (The modern-day locations of these three ethnic groups are present-day Congo, Zaire and Angola.) The book illuminates Caribbean thought and practice by comparison with Central African worldview and custom. The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs and songs. In its multidisciplinary approach and depth, it highlights the debate concerning the origin and transformation of cultural forms in the Caribbean against a larger background of African culture, economy, colonialism, slavery, emancipation and independence. With its Central African focus, the book is a pioneering perspective on Caribbean cultural forms. A noted linguist, the author uses her knowledge of the most functional languages

The Modern Sovereign

Author : Joseph Tonda
Publisher : Africa List
ISBN 13 : 9780857426888
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Sovereign written by Joseph Tonda and published by Africa List. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Modern Sovereign," a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, responsible for the multiform violence exerted on bodies and imaginations. Joseph Tonda contends that in Central Africa--and particularly in Gabon and the Congo--the body is at the heart of political, religious, sexual, economic, and ritual power. This, he argues, is confirmed by the strong link between corporeal and political matters, and by the ostentatious display of bodies in African life. The body of power asserts itself as both matter and spirit, and it incorporates the seductive force of money, commodities, sex, and knowledge. Tonda's incisive analysis reveals how this sovereign power is a social relation, historically constituted by the violence of the African cultural Imaginary and the realities of State, Market, and Church. It is to be understood, he asserts, through a generalized theory economic, political, and religious fetishism. By introducing this crucial critical voice from contemporary Africa into the English language, The Modern Sovereign makes a significant contribution to field of anthropology, political science, and African studies.

The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa

Author : Marie-Soleil Frère
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588264657
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa written by Marie-Soleil Frère and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marie-Soleil Frère synthesises the interaction between the mass media and conflict in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, the Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.