A comprehensive history of African Americans in the mass media--music, film, radio, television, advertising, and print and broadcast news--makes this volume a unique contribution to communications studies.
Critiquing the neoliberal economics formulated and imposed by the World Bank and IMF on developing countries generally, and Africa specifically, this book details the consequences of these policies. Demonstrated are the extraordinary economic and human damage these practices have wrought over the past decade, and how they have displaced the originally radical and pro-people orientation of the A…
To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Greetz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the postcolonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa.
In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics. The authors begin by exploring the unexpected strengths, as well as the shortcomings, of extant records. They proceed to discuss how various social science disciplines can contribute to our…
Contents: 1. Arms and daggers in the heart of Africa : An introduction 2. Crucible of civilization and conflicts : Ethiopia 3. The ties that will not bind : Conflict and racial cleavage in Sudan 4. Under Siege : Blood, power, and the somali state 5. Conflicting fingers within the iron fist of national unity : Uganda, etc.
This book chronicles the extraordinary events in South Africas recent history, from the 76 Soweto riots, the euphoria of Nelson Mandelas release, to the 1994 elections and the final shattering of the reviled apartheid system
This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of the African-Guyanese people from the time of their arrival in what were then the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Berbice in the first half of the seventeenth century, to the present day. Most African-Guyanese today are descendants of enslaved Africans who were victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade – the forced migration…
The performance of Asian and African economies over recent decades has clearly shown that engagement with the global economy can play a key role in advancing development. Researchers and policymakers have paid particular attention to the marked divergence in growth in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. One of the most obvious differences in their performance and economic structure has been …
This contents of this book: 1. Emerging powers: Between BRIC and non-BRIC 2. Pivot state and analytic eclectism 3. Background for the case studies 4. Indonesia as a pivot? An analysis of three case studies
Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its old civilizations and their links with Asia, Europe …