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Paperback. Examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics and by extension research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing insights into the circumstances that led to the current hegemony of neoliberalism in South Africa. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; JFSL3; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414779
- ISBN
- 9781137414779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.89
€ 72.89
Hardcover. The study presents archival evidence to show how President Kaunda raised political and economic exclusivity in Zambia in the early years of Zambia's independence, and how this retarded capital investment. Despite formal reforms and a new government, this institutional mechanism still dominates and constrains Zambia's political economy today. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white tables, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; KCG; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390974
- ISBN
- 9781137390974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
The Economics of Faith-Based Service Delivery. Education and Health in...
Wodon, Quentin; Lomas, Kathryn
Hardback. The book provides the first ever comprehensive empirical assessment of the role that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) play in the supply of health care and education services in sub-Saharan Africa. Series: Perspectives from Social Economics. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HF; JKSN1; JN; KCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381507
- ISBN
- 9781137381507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardback. Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HF; JFFA; KCB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381491
- ISBN
- 9781137381491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardback. This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBTB; HRCC93; JFSP1; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380937
- ISBN
- 9781137380937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes. Series: Africa Connects. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380166
- ISBN
- 9781137380166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This collection focuses on performance work that engages with Cape Town, at the foot of the African continent, as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379337
- ISBN
- 9781137379337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.11
€ 68.11
Paperback. Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is a pioneering study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3H; HBJH; HBLC; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347213
- ISBN
- 9781137347213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.69
€ 71.69
Hardcover. Virtually all countries in the world are struggling to provide the necessary resources to Higher Education. The challenges are particularly complex for economically poor countries in Africa, which have recorded massive expansion in the past decade. This book analyzes the state of funding and financing higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Num Pages: 396 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HF; JNKG; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345776
- ISBN
- 9781137345776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.48
€ 128.48
Hardcover. Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMW; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326560
- ISBN
- 9781137326560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique window into popular formations of AIDS and gender conflict in Africa. The first book on the subject to draw primarily on such narratives, this book shows how they provide rich insights into the struggles of people living in an era of social upheaval. Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; JFFH2; JFSJ1; JHBK5; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322449
- ISBN
- 9781137322449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another. The focus on cultural actors reveals the contested nature of local agency and its potential to challenge institutional policies. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; 1DVWYB; 1HFMS; 1QFE; JPS; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307187
- ISBN
- 9781137307187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism. Editor(s): Vleuten, Anna van der (Radbound University Nijmegen, The Netherlands); Van Eerdewijk, Anouka; Roggeband, Conny. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 1KLS; 1QFE; JFFJ; JFSJ; JPB; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301444
- ISBN
- 9781137301444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple worlds, suspended between their original home and an imagined future elsewhere. Series: Africa Connects. Num Pages: 196 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299963
- ISBN
- 9781137299963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.92
€ 115.92
Hardcover. In this book, Parent puts together a history of representations of the 1944 mutiny in Senegal. Combining firsthand analysis of the works and their intertextual interactions as well an external perspective, Parent engages with history, literature, film, poetics, and politics and highlights the importance of remembering the past. Num Pages: 222 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFDS; DSB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274960
- ISBN
- 9781137274960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137264404
- ISBN
- 9781137264404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. A pioneering study of American Jewish involvement in the fight against racial injustice in South Africa. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; JFSR1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029713
- ISBN
- 9781137029713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardback. A pioneering study of American Jewish involvement in the fight against racial injustice in South Africa. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; JFSR1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029706
- ISBN
- 9781137029706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Through a rigorous critique of the dominant narrative of the Rwandan genocide, Collins provides an alternative argument to the debate situating the killings within a historically-specific context and drawing out a dynamic interplay between national and international actors. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; HBTZ; JFM; JPS; JPVH; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022318
- ISBN
- 9781137022318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardback. Food security is defined as the ability of countries, regions, or households to meet their required levels of food consumption at all times. This book addresses the roles of trade, policy development, and economic cooperation in creating sustainable food security in the West African region. Editor(s): Okyere, W. Asenso; Benneh, E. Y.; Tims, W. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; KCN; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792399193
- ISBN
- 9780792399193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.26
€ 200.26