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Narrating War and Peace in Africa

Author : Solimar Otero
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463304
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Narrating War and Peace in Africa written by Solimar Otero and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.

Narrating War and Peace in Africa

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Narrating War and Peace in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives - across disciplinary boundaries - that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory." -- Jacket.

Africa in War and Peace

Author : Eric S. Packham
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560729396
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Africa in War and Peace written by Eric S. Packham and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author served in the Gold Coast Regiment of the British Army during World War II and as a colonial administrator in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), later staying on to work the incoming Nkrumah government after independence. He combines memoir and history in this examination of these years, describing World War II battles in Ethiopia, the demise of colonial rule, and Nkrumah's rise and fall. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Africa's Wars and Prospects for Peace

Author : Raymond W. Copson
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563243004
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Africa's Wars and Prospects for Peace written by Raymond W. Copson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Costs of Africa's Wars -- 2 Africa's Wars since 1980: A Survey -- 3 Domestic Causes and Contributing Factors -- 4 The International Factor in Africa's Wars -- 5 Africa's Wars in the 1990s: A Changing Africa in a Changing World -- 6 Easing Africa's Burden of War: The Role of the International Community -- Suggested Readings -- Index

War and Peace in Africa

Author :
Publisher : Carolina Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781785992803
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (928 download)

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Essays on War and Peace in Africa

Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908571611
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Essays on War and Peace in Africa written by Jan Knappert and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Consequences of War

Author : David Wilson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499050496
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Consequences of War written by David Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consequences of War is an American warrior's story of unrelenting combat against terrorism in the Far East. It recounts the author's early life that gave him a warrior's soul, unrelenting drive, and fearlessness to fight, and it follows him as he describes grueling military preparation and combat, narrating mission after mission. Observe as he tries rescuing wounded US Spec Ops forces still engaged with the enemy, resulting in a fierce firefight against those trying to overrun his position. With American conflicts never seeming to end, he eventually resigned his commission and went to Africa in search of peace. In his work as a wildlife scientist he describes shooting hundreds of animals--including elephants, buffalo, and antelope--for population control. He narrates being knocked down and gored by Cape buffalo, encounters with deadly snakes, and attacks and deaths from lions and elephants. After undergoing 22 surgeries and military disability, the author describes the consequences of war resulting from prolonged and excessive numbers of American wars, the severe impact on our military, and the devastation to the US economy. He deeply honors those who fight for this nation.

Women and Peacebuilding in Africa

Author : Anna Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000222829
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Women and Peacebuilding in Africa written by Anna Chitando and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume re-centres African women scholars in the discourse on African women and peacebuilding, combining theoretical reflections with case studies in a range of African countries. The chapters outline the history of African women’s engagement in peacebuilding, introducing new and neglected themes such as youth, disability, and religious peacebuilding, and laying the foundations for new theoretical insights. Providing case studies from across Africa, the contributors highlights the achievements and challenges characterising women’s contributions to peacebuilding on the continent. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of peacebuilding, African security and gender.

Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies

Author : A. Bangura
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492708
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies written by A. Bangura and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be useful as a textbook. I develop clearly articulated rubrics and overarching concepts as the foundational basis for analyzing Falola's work.

Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict

Author : Norita Mdege
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000990524
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict written by Norita Mdege and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict. The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict, and the main characters often also become signifiers of wider social, political and economic ideas, at both global and local levels. Drawing on fictional and biographical cinematic representations, this book considers films covering a range of different regions, experiences, historical periods and other contexts, to draw a nuanced picture of African women and girls who participate in or are affected by African political conflicts. The films are analysed using a decolonial feminist cultural approach, which combines cultural approaches, African feminisms and the contrapuntal method to ensure an inter-textual, intersectional and decolonial examination. The book engages with multiple themes and topics, including nationalism, nation-building, neocolonialism, memory, history, women’s and girls’ agency and activism. Through these themes and topics, the book explores how the films represent African women’s and girls’ agency in relation to their participation in social, economic and political activities. This book will make a significant contribution to literature focused on African women and girls within politics, conflict studies and film studies.

The Great Upheaval

Author : Judith A. Byfield
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446908
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Great Upheaval written by Judith A. Byfield and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social and intellectual history of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’s Union and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, the Nigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became central to a new political vision, a way for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making that not only tells a story of women’s postwar activism but also grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the “upheaval.” Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in Nigeria’s postwar period and illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges readers to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960.

Navigating Socialist Encounters

Author : Eric Burton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311062382X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Socialist Encounters written by Eric Burton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.

Ending Africa's Wars

Author : Roy May
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317143795
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Ending Africa's Wars written by Roy May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-colonial Africa has seemingly been in an intractable state of conflict and war for a considerable period of time. This volume explores the process by which these wars were ended, discusses the lessons learnt, and examines the sustainability of recently reconciled conflicts to see how far peace solutions are permanent in this region. Ending Africa's Wars is an important and timely book for all those interested in conflict, democracy, international organizations, civil society, refugees, gender and the economic reconstruction of Africa.

Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora

Author : Kenneth Kalu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429015143
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora written by Kenneth Kalu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century where European countries conquered and subsequently balkanized Africa and shared the continent to European powers; and to the postcolonial era where many African leaders have maintained several instruments of exploitation, the continent has seen different forms of encounters, exploitations and oppressions. These encounters and exploitations have equally been met with resistance in different forms and at different times. The mode of Africa’s encounters with the rest of the world have in several ways, shaped and continue to shape the continent’s social, political and economic development trajectories. Essays in this volume have addressed different aspects of these phases of encounters and resistance by Africa and the African Diaspora. While the volume document different phases of oppression and conflict, it also contains some accounts of Africa’s resistance to external and internal oppressions and exploitations. From the physical guerilla resistance of the Mau Mau group against British colonial exploitation in Kenya and its aftermath, to efforts of the Kayble group to preserve their language and culture in modern Algeria; and from the innovative ways in which the Tuareg are using guitar and music as forms of expression and resistance, to the modern ways in which contemporary African immigrants in North America are coping with oppressive structures and racism, the chapters in this volume have examined different phases of oppressions and suppressions of Africa and its people, as well as acts of resistance put up by Africans.

Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict

Author : Philipp Kastner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395553
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict written by Philipp Kastner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an estimated ninety-five percent of the world's armed conflicts occurring within individual states, resolution and prevention of internal conflicts represent a main driver of global peace. Peace negotiations stand outside the traditional formalism of lawmaking and represent a uniquely privileged moment to observe the rise or adjustment of the legal framework of a given state. Based in a socio-legal and pluralistic understanding of law, this book explores the normative dynamics of peace negotiations. It argues that the role of law in the peaceful resolution of internal armed conflicts has been greatly underestimated and that legal theory can and should contribute to a better comprehension of these processes. Including thematic case studies from Darfur, North-South Sudan, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Bosnia and Israel-Palestine, this volume will be of use to scholars, students and affiliates of international organizations and non-governmental organizations.

African Activists in a Decolonising World

Author : Ismay Milford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009276999
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book African Activists in a Decolonising World written by Ismay Milford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. Through the perspective of these activists, Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to Delhi, Cairo, London, Accra and beyond. Forming committees and publishing pamphlets, these activists worked with pan-African and Afro-Asian solidarity projects, Cold War student internationals, spiritual internationalists and diverse pressure groups. Milford argues that a focus on their everyday labour and knowledge production highlights certain limits of transnational and international activism, opening up a critical - albeit less heroic - perspective on the global history of anticolonial work and thought.

Global Perspectives on Motherhood, Mothering and Masculinities

Author : Andrea Moraes
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772583375
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Motherhood, Mothering and Masculinities written by Andrea Moraes and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two phenomena highlighted in this edited volume 'motherhood/mothering and masculinities' are each recent areas of development in critical Feminist and Men's Studies. In contributing to these areas of gender studies, this book draws attention to the fact that much can also be gained when we explore relationships between them, an idea that may not readily come to mind. While femininities and masculinities are co-constructed, motherhood and mothering bring additional perspectives to the study of femininity that affect the construction of masculinity in complex ways. The 12 chapters in this volume allow readers to ponder some of these complexities and may suggest other issues that require investigation. Spanning many continents, the essays have both a global and historical reach emphasising cultural differences and historical changes. Of import is the idea that mothers have agency and are active in constructions affecting their lives. They are able to bring motherhood out of the shadows as they strive to build, re-evaluate, or alter their roles within families and communities. These have an impact on developments in masculinities. The book is divided into three parts and the chapters investigate a wide range of issues including cultural constructs, gender in parent/child, relationships, non-binary developments, the impact of war on mothering, decolonisation struggles, and much more.