National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile
EAN: 9780821426654
Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Letter writing was a dominant form of communication for Western-educated elites in colonial...
EAN: 9780299344504
Spirit Wives and Church Mothers
Explores how the growth of Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique occurred alongside a...
EAN: 9780299343804
Equals in Learning and Piety
An intellectual history of the Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational...
EAN: 9780299342609
Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
The concept of autochthony - that a true, original people are born of a land and belong to it...
EAN: 9780299345709
Names of the Python
Building on an amazing array of sources, David Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative...
EAN: 9780299332549
After Genocide
Investigates the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors decades after mass...
EAN: 9780299332242
Bold Profession
In rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Leslie Anne Hadfield...
EAN: 9780299331245
In the Realms of Gold
This is the author's account of his life and work as a dedicated specialist in the post-colonial...
EAN: 9780299156541
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of...
EAN: 9780299309701
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
EAN: 9780299219543
Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger and...
EAN: 9780299130244
Kings and Clans
Questions the assumption that ""clans"" are static structures that hamper political...
EAN: 9780299128944
Peasant Intellectuals
Based on ethnographic research conducted from 1966, this book includes interviews with people...
EAN: 9780299125240
Wombs and Alien Spirits
Adherents to the ""zar"" cult in northern Sudan encounter spirits that are parallels of...
EAN: 9780299123147