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Author : Arthur Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mende Government and Politics Under Colonial Rule written by Arthur Abraham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mende Government and Politics Under Colonial Rule written by Arthur Abraham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Abraham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Precolonial History of the Mende of Sierra Leone written by Arthur Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Mende, the largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone, uncovers Mende origins, ending at the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing from documentary, oral, anthropological, linguistic and other evidence, the work argues that Mende originated as a lingua franca sometime in the late 16th century and spread fairly quickly. State formation began in the 17th century, gathering momentum in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Three case studies form the focus of the rest of the book.
Author : Cassandra Rachel Veney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739175491
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book African Democracy and Development written by Cassandra Rachel Veney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular countries that have faced conflict (civil wars and genocide) and are now in the process of rebuilding their political, economic, social, and educational institutions. The countries that are addressed in the book include: Rwanda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, there is a chapter that addresses the role of the African Diaspora in conflict and post-conflict countries that include Eritrea, Liberia, and Somalia. The book includes an examination of the various actors who are involved in post-conflict rebuilding and reconstruction that involves internal and external participants. For example, it is clear that the internal actors involve Africans themselves as ordinary citizens, members of local and national governments, and members of non-governmental organizations. This allows the reader to understand the agency and empowerment of Africans in post-conflict reconstruction. Various institutions are addressed within the context of the roles they play in establishing governance organizations such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone, the African Union, chiefs in Liberia, and non-governmental organizations. Furthermore, the external actors who are involved in post-conflict reconstruction are examined such as international non-governmental organizations and the African Diaspora. They both have their own constituents and agendas and can and do play a positive and negative role in post-conflict reconstruction. It is obvious that countries that are addressed in the book are in dire need of financial assistant to rebuild much needed infrastructure that was destroyed during the conflict. All of the countries covered in the book need schools, medical facilities, roads, bridges, airports, ports, and the government does not have the money to provide these. This is where the international non-governmental organizations and the African Diaspora play an important role. The chapters that address these issues are cognizant of their importance and at the same time, the authors realize that sovereignty can be undermined if Africans are not in the forefront of policy and decision making that will determine their future. There are chapters that provide a gendered analysis of post-conflict when it is appropriate. For example, it is clear that women, men, boys, and girls experienced conflict in different ways because of their gender. They all participated in the conflict in various ways. Consequently, the efforts at peace building are given a gendered analysis in terms of what has happened to women and girls in the demobilization and rehabilitation period including an excellent analysis of land reform in Rwanda and how that affects women and members of a certain ethnic group that are often overlooked in the examination of the 1994 genocide. This book provides a very good contribution to the literature on conflict and post-conflict African countries because of its depth and the vast topics it embraces. It provides an analysis of the internal and external actors, the role of gender in post-conflict decision making, and it provides the voices of ordinary Africans who were affected by the conflict, and who are determined to live productive lives.
Author : L. Day
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230337929
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Gender and Power in Sierra Leone written by L. Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.
Author : Magbaily C. Fyle
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810865041
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone written by Magbaily C. Fyle and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone was founded, albeit under British control, with the highest hopes of being a refuge for liberated Africans and freed slaves. When the country received its independence, hopes for the future grew even stronger. Alas, its expectations came crashing down when the country's situation grew steadily worse after repeated military interventions and a devastating ten-year civil war that raged throughout the 1990s. Now that the war is over, there is once again renewed cause for optimism about the country's future, as Sierra Leone becomes an active participant in African and world affairs. This new edition is based primarily on recent research on the country, but covers the earliest known inhabitants, the colonial era, and the period of independence including the very confusing turmoil of the recent past. The chronology briefly traces its history and the introduction provides an essential overview of all the recent developments in the country. Hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries describe significant leaders, events, political parties and movements, ethnic groups, and related political, economic, and social aspects. A bibliography is included to facilitate further research.
Author : John Idriss Lahai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319907492
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States written by John Idriss Lahai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. It presents the stories of resilience in the political adaptation to Western liberal conceptions of governance. In addition to singular or comparative country case studies, this project also examines the interplay of culture, identities, and politics in the creation of people-centric governance reforms. Towards these ends, this volume sheds light on weak states’ often constructive engagement in the promotion of state governance with a variety of political conditions, adverse or otherwise; and their ability to remain resilient despite the complex political, sociocultural, and economic challenges affecting them. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the authors aim to counter the noticeable shortcomings in the discursive representations of fragility, and to contribute a more balanced examination of the narratives about and impact of political adaption and governance in people’s lives and experiences.
Author : Tom Young
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253343598
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Readings in African Politics written by Tom Young and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Fima Lifshitz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438934505
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book An African Journey Through Its Art written by Fima Lifshitz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were five. They came together for reasons that no one is even sure of anymore and cut a swath through the universe. Everyone knew their name, and the lined up to follow them. They knew their symbol, the snarling wolf. The warlords formed a following, an almost religion. And then it was over. Years later, and the followings of each of the original warriors have become clans. The clans have grown and trained new warriors over time, creating the driving force in all the universe. Here are four people now, training to follow in the ways of one particular wolf. The wolf that ended it all in the first place, the Blackwolf. This is the start of their journey, the beginning of their training. Gregor Holden, a Prince, who's sense of duty is equaled only by his lust for adventure. Candace Orthon, a legacy who's father is a Blackwolf, who's gradfather was a Blackwolf, and who will be a Blackwolf if it kills her. Ran Grastle, already an accomplished warrior in his own right. He's on the run for a committing a crime to exact justice and cares very little for the clan or anyone else. Xesca, a child of the last planet that the Blackwolf attacked. She has come to learn his ways, his style, so that no one can ever attack her planet again. "These four. If no one else, let these four progress."
Author : Ulrich van der Heyden
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515084239
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen written by Ulrich van der Heyden and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Verhaltnis christlicher Missionare und Missionsgesellschaften gegenuber den politischen Machthabern und Bewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert steht im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes. Die Beitrage analysieren sowohl die wechselseitigen Beziehungen der Leitungen von Missionsgesellschaften zu den jeweiligen Regierungen in Europa als auch das Verhaltnis ihrer Missionare - Manner und Frauen - auf den Arbeitsfeldern in Asien und Afrika zu den lokal bzw. regional maageblichen politischen Kraften (Kolonialmachte eigener oder fremder Nationalitat, souverane Staaten, lokale politische Systeme und Unabhangigkeitsbewegungen) in den einzelnen Facetten. Aus dem Inhalt C. Auffarth: aWeltreligiono als ein Leitbegriff der Religionswissenschaft im Imperialismus T. de Souza: D. Jose da Costa Nunes - a Patriarch who Cared for More than Souls: a Case of Caesaro-papism in Portuguese India, 1942-1953 R. Elphick: Dutch Reformed Missions and the Roots of the Apartheid Ideology W. Ustorf: Kairos 1933 - Occidentosis, Christofascism, and Mission K. Poewe: Liberalism, German Missionaries, and National Socialism u.a.
Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164475
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective written by Crawford Young and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history. Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history. Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent.
Author : Elisabeth Croll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134919557
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Bush Base, Forest Farm written by Elisabeth Croll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human settlement and natual environment (farm or camp, forest or bush), and argue that development programmes should place at their centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandings.
Author : John L. Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651093X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Custom written by John L. Comaroff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180037
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone written by Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and, on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences since independence they remained, until recently, heavily sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing frameworks that have informed the different practices—professional as well as popular–of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the story of the making and unmaking of an African “nation” and its constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline. The contributors to this volume, who consist of different generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the last fifty years of independence.
Author : Jacqueline Knörr
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004191402
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Powerful Presence of the Past written by Jacqueline Knörr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction, social relationships and alliances, identifications and identity constructions within society at large. In order to reach an in-depth understanding of integrative and violent forms of interaction in the region of the Upper Guinea Coast, authors take into account the impact and repercussions of specific historical experiences as well as the continuities and changes of social patterns affected by the interaction of local and globalized values, institutions, and models of social organization. Rather than providing an(other) analysis of wars and violence as such, contributors aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms that affect both the processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.
Author : Eliphas G. Mukonoweshuro
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819182838
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Colonialism, Class Formation, and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone written by Eliphas G. Mukonoweshuro and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines from a materialist perspective the socio-economic, historical and political factors contributing to the political instability and underdevelopment of Sierra Leone. Tools of analysis from different methodological perspectives such as class and ethnicity are critically reviewed and utilized in the analysis and identification of colonial class formation, the behavior of political groups and their economic bases. The emphasis is on the dominant colonial social forces that shaped the evolution and development of the decolonization process, including the formation of colonial social classes, colonial state and the political relation that developed.
Author : Paul Basu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135085218
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Museums, Heritage and International Development written by Paul Basu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of development intervention. In an agenda-setting introduction, the editors explore the seemingly oppositional temporalities and values represented by these "past-making" and "future-making" projects, arguing that these provide a framework for mutual critique. Contributors to the volume bring insights from a wide range of academic and practitioner perspectives on a series of international case studies, which each raise challenging questions that reach beyond merely cultural concerns and fully engage with both the legacies of colonial power inequalities and the shifting geopolitical dynamics of contemporary international relations. Cultural heritage embodies different values and can be instrumentalized to serve different economic, social and political objectives within development contexts, but the past is also intrinsic to the present and is foundational to people’s aspirations for the future. Museums, Heritage and International Development explores the problematics as well as potentials, the politics as well as possibilities, in this fascinating nexus.
