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Infinite Repertoire On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9780226781020, ISBN: HB: 9780226762845, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how d...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849048804, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! South Africa's transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime's counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyse...
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£20,00
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Ivory Power and Poaching in Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781849046763, Hurst Publishers, November 2016
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in n...
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Interlopers of Empire The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781849042970, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
452 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others h...
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£45,00
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I Say to You Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9780226498058, ISBN: HB: 9780226498041, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 14 tables
In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal pe...
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£28,00
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£74,50
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Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...
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£36,00
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