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Darfur Allegory

Mustafa Abusharaf Rogaia

ISBN: PB: 9780226761725, ISBN: HB: 9780226761695, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's pol...

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Africa

Sahel A Short History of Mali, Niger and the Lands in Between

Miles Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044738, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Sahel, where the southern edge of the Sahara meets the land in between it and the savannah, is alternatively ignored and misunderstood. In the 1970s it was synonymous with drought and famine, yet crops and herds flourish al...

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Africa

Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa

Melber Henning

ISBN: HB: 9781787380042, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1953 Dag Hammarskjold became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations – the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used hi...

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Political Science

Africa

Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage

Mills Greg, Obasanjo Olusegun, Biti Tendai, Herbst Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...

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Africa

First Raise a Flag How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace

Martell Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849049597, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country spli...

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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Anthropology

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Matatu A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Mutongi Kenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226471396, ISBN: HB: 9780226130866, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus – colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed o...

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Africa

Making Africa Work A Handbook

Mills Greg, Obasanjo Olusegun, Herbst Jeffrey, Davis Dickie

ISBN: PB: 9781849048736, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the next generation, Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big, inter-related challenges. Its population will double to 2 billion by 2045. By then, more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly you...

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Political Science

Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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General

Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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