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Book Synopsis The Story of an African Famine by : Megan Vaughan
Download or read book The Story of an African Famine written by Megan Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification, changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule.
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Malawi by : John McCracken
Download or read book Twentieth Century Malawi written by John McCracken and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History by : Dickson Eyoh
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History written by Dickson Eyoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 1115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in which the peoples of Africa and their politics, states, societies, economies, environments, cultures and arts were transformed during the course of that Janus-faced century. Overseen by a diverse and distinguished international team of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of the global and local forces that shaped the changes that the continent underwent. Combining essential factual description with evaluation and analysis, the entries tease out patterns from across the continent as a whole, as well as within particular regions and countries: it is the first work of its kind to present such a comprehensive overview of twentieth-century African history. With full indexes and a thematic entry list, together with ample cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading, the Encyclopedia will be welcomed as an essential work of reference by both scholar and student of twentieth-century African history. Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2004
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Africa by : Ruth Nora Cyr
Download or read book Twentieth Century Africa written by Ruth Nora Cyr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Century Africa resembles a moving-picture travelogue in conveying pertinent information to the reader about the 53 countries of Africa, a continent that is getting much attention these days. The writer offers a thorough description of each country, including the languages spoken, religious beliefs, resources, political ideologies, average incomes, relationships with the United States, and specific attributes and problems. Readers will learn that many of the countries contain valuable resources such as gold, copper, uranium, and various minerals; and they will become more familiar with countries that have been prominent in the news—Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, the Sudan, and Rwanda. Furthermore, the author discusses the wildlife habitat of each country. This is a very readable book that includes material that is fascinating and sometimes disheartening, but always appealing. The book also contains maps associated with each country and a reference map of all of Africa, including the six off-shore countries.
Book Synopsis Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa by : Jean-Germa Gros
Download or read book Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa written by Jean-Germa Gros and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few would disagree that since 1990 Sub-Saharan Africa has undergone a process of political transformation. Where one-party systems once stood, multi-parties are now dominant; where heads of state once ruled autocratically, open elections have emerged. In this study, both African and non-African scholars take a critical look at the evolution and contradictions of democratization in seven African nations: Malawi, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, and Gabon, each at a different stage in the democratization process. Some of these countries historically have not received much attention in North America. For example, little is known about Malawi, and Gabon has escaped notice outside the Francophone world. While other works have focused primarily upon the role that institutions have played in the democratization process, this study looks at individual leaders. Some of the authors were themselves participants in the reform movements in their home countries, and they examine the role that the military and the church played in the process. This volume also includes a discussion of why democratization has stagnated or been reversed in some nations.
Book Synopsis A History of Malawi, 1859-1966 by : John McCracken
Download or read book A History of Malawi, 1859-1966 written by John McCracken and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title features a general history of Malawi, focusing mainly on the colonial period, when it was know as Nyassaland, but placing that period in the context of the pre-colonial past.
Book Synopsis Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-Century Africa by : Terence Ranger
Download or read book Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-Century Africa written by Terence Ranger and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects. Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but the three sections of the book deal with colonial legitimacy, the question of legitimation in the transition from colonialism to majority rule, and the contemporary debate about accountability.
Book Synopsis Women in Twentieth-Century Africa by : Iris Berger
Download or read book Women in Twentieth-Century Africa written by Iris Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
Download or read book No More to Spend written by Luke Messac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine? In many countries, officials speak of proper health care as a luxury, and convincing politicians to ensure citizens have access to quality health services is a constant struggle. Yet, in many of the poorest nations, health care has long received a tiny share of public spending. Colonial and postcolonial governments alike have used political, rhetorical, and even martial campaigns to rebuff demands by patients and health professionals for improved medical provision, even when more funds were available. No More to Spend challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi. Using the stories of doctors, patients, and political leaders, Luke Messac demonstrates how both colonial and postcolonial administrations in this nation used claims of scarcity to justify the poor state of health care. During periods of burgeoning global discourse on welfare and social protection, forestalling improvements in health care required varied forms of rationalization and denial. Calls for better medical care compelled governments, like that of Malawi, to either increase public health spending or offer reasons for their inaction. Because medical care is still sparse in many regions in Africa, the recurring tactics for prolonged neglect have important implications for global health today.
Book Synopsis Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century by : Janet Topp Fargion
Download or read book Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century written by Janet Topp Fargion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical practices. In Taarab, Music in Zanzibar, Janet Topp Fargion traces the development of the genre in Zanzibar, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Of special interest is the role of women. Although men play the main role in the composition and performance of the genre, Topp Fargion argues that the modernization of the genre owes a debt to the participation of women - as audiences and primary consumers, but also as poets and innovators of musical concepts. The book weaves together the historical, social, economic, religious and political dynamics involved in the development of the genre, and investigates how these are played out in the performance of taarab music on Zanzibar.
Book Synopsis Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry by : Alan Parker
Download or read book Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry written by Alan Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biographical guide to poetry throughout the world in the twentieth century and the only book of its kind to look at non-English language poets in such detail. Written in lively prose, with over 900 entries by over 75 international contributors, it brings a uniquely global perspective to bear on modern verse, encapsulating the lives and works of a vast array of poets in precise, compact detail alongside expert critical comment. Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry is a scholarly and hugely enjoyable guide through the diverse arena of modern international poetry.
Book Synopsis Twentieth-Century South Africa by : Bill Freund
Download or read book Twentieth-Century South Africa written by Bill Freund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.
Book Synopsis A Modern Economic History of Africa: The nineteenth century by : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Download or read book A Modern Economic History of Africa: The nineteenth century written by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the slave trade, mass migrations and an influx of new settlers characterized the century. Regional trade links grew stronger and spread further. The century also saw the beginnings of the ruthless and bloody quest for foreign dominion.
Book Synopsis Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900-2000 by : Rory Pilossof
Download or read book Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900-2000 written by Rory Pilossof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All three were drawn into the British Empire at a similar time and the formation of the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formally linked these countries together for a decade in the mid-twentieth century. This formal political relationship created dynamics that resulted in yet closer economic and social links. After Federation, the economic realities of industry, transport and labour supplies meant that these three countries continued to be intricately interconnected. Yet despite these connected pasts, comparative work on the economic histories of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and how these change over time, is rare. This book addresses the gap by providing the first comprehensive collection of labour and census data across the twentieth century for these three countries. The different economic models and performances of these states offer good comparison, allowing researchers to look at different models of development, and how these played out over the long-term. The book provides data on population growth and change, industrial and occupational structure, and the various shifts in what the economically active population did. It will be useful for historians, economists, development studies scholars and non-governmental organisations working on twentieth-century and contemporary southern Africa.
Book Synopsis African Leadership in the Twentieth Century by : Jacob U. Gordon
Download or read book African Leadership in the Twentieth Century written by Jacob U. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bulk of this work consists of profiles of 30 African leaders of varying political ideologies from the 20th century. While most of the profiles are of those that have served or are serving as heads of state of African nations, notable exceptions, such as Steve Biko, are included. Introductory material explores the relationship between colonialism and African leadership. The author also looks at emerging concepts in the study and practice of African leadership. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis The Making of Modern Africa: The twentieth century by : Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
Download or read book The Making of Modern Africa: The twentieth century written by Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very popular text has been thoroughly revised to include the most up-to-date developments in research and historiography. Five distinguished historians of Africa interpret the major historical themes region by region. They provide a clear and comprehensive survey of the period, complemented by valuable maps and photographs.
Book Synopsis Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi by : Joey Power
Download or read book Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi written by Joey Power and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the events leading up to the overthrow of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda's Life Presidency, this book explores the deep logic of Malawi's political culture as it emerged in the colonial and early post-colonial periods. It draws on archival sources from three continents and oral testimonies gathered over a ten-year period provided by those who lived these events. Power narrates how anti-colonial protest was made relevant to the African majority through the painstaking engagement of politicians in local grievances and struggles, which they then linked to the fight against white settler domination in the guise of the Central African Federation. She also explores how Dr. Banda (leader of independent Malawi for thirty years), the Nyasaland African Congress, and its successor, the Malawi Congress Party, functioned within this political culture, and how the MCP became a formidable political machine. Central to this process was the deployment of women and youth to cut across parochial politics and consolidate a broad base of support. No less important was the deliberate manipulation of history and the use of rumor and innuendo, symbol and pageantry, persecution and reward. It was this mix that made people both accept and reject the MCP regime, sometimes simultaneously. Joey Power is Professor of History at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario.
