Spirit Children

Aaron R Denham

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In parts of West Africa, some babies and toddlers are considered spirit children-nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the fa... Lees meer

Cubans in Angola

Christine Hatzky

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Angola, a former Portuguese colony in southern central Africa, gained independence in 1975 and almost immediately plunged into more than two decades o... Lees meer

Naming Colonialism

Osumaka Likaka

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the h... Lees meer

Health in a Fragile State

John M Janzen

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health ... Lees meer

Mau Mauas Children

David P Sandgren

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times ... Lees meer

Senegal Abroad

Maya Angela Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the exper... Lees meer

Antecedents to Modern Rwanda

Jan Vansina

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provid... Lees meer

Being Colonized

Jan Vansina

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Af... Lees meer

Whispering Truth to Power

Susan Thomson

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for... Lees meer

Religious Entanglements

David Maxwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 ... Lees meer

Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant wa... Lees meer

Education as Politics

Kelly M Duke Bryant

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In 1914, Blaise Diagne was elected as Senegal's first black African representative to the National Assembly in France. Education as Politics reinterpr... Lees meer

The Names of the Python

David L Schoenbrun

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in ... Lees meer

Spirit Children

Aaron R Denham

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In parts of West Africa, some babies and toddlers are considered spirit children-nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the fa... Lees meer

Senegal Abroad

Maya Angela Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the exper... Lees meer

Early African Entertainments Abroad

Bernth Lindfors

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. App... Lees meer

Health in a Fragile State

John M Janzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health ... Lees meer

Spirit, Structure, and Flesh

Deidre Helen Crumbley

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Although popularized in Africa by Western missionaries, the Christian faith as practiced by Africans has acquired unique traits over time. Some of the... Lees meer

Whose Agency

Megan Hershey

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local efforts to improv... Lees meer

Postcolonial Paris

Laila Amine

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisi... Lees meer

Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963

Sean Redding

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not inher... Lees meer

Entrepreneurial Goals

Itamar Dubinsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• The idea that the African private sector will generate economic prosperity and social wealth-an objective many governments and foreign charitable orga... Lees meer

Nachituti's Gift

David M Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Nachituti's Gift challenges conventional theories of economic development with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and C... Lees meer

Farming and Famine

Donald Crummey

• Hardcover | Engels | Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• In modern times, Ethiopia has suffered three grievous famines, two of which-in 1973-74 and in 1984-85-caught the world's attention. It is often assume... Lees meer