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ACTING IN HOPE
: African Churches & HIV / AIDS II
[Ezra Chitando]
In this book, Ezra Chitando calls upon African churches to train their voices in speaking out and challenging systems of oppression so that AIDS competent churches work towards the transformation of death-dealing practices while strengthening life-enhancing ones. He argues that the response of African churches to the HIV epidemic will be determined by the quality of their theological education and the ability of the current generation of Africans to question the culture it inherited, amongst other contextual issues. Chitando insists that not only must churches with quick feet, long arms, warm hearts and loud voices necessarily have sharp minds but that a critical analysis o African cultural beliefs and practices must occur. This openness to new idea and modes of thinking means that that African traditionalists, Africa Christians, African Muslims, followers of other religions and ideologies an secularists all need to engage in an open re-evaluation of African cultures in the context of HIV. Chitando courageously demands that the contemporary generation has the mandate to actively critique what the previous generation bequeathed to it by deciding whether or not to uphold, transform or reject previously held beliefs and practices. This is the second of two books dealing with the response of African Churches to the HIV/AID epidemic.
{
93pp,
120x210mm,
March 2008;
PB,
£10.00,
2825415243:9782825415245
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: 4th Edition
[Hennie Swanepoel & Frik de Beer]
Now in its fourth edition, the extremely successful "Community Development" continues to be a definitive guide for community development workers. This useful, practical book contextualises poverty and explains the process of community development, with specific reference to the community development worker's role. Apart from context and process, it details the kinds of skills required by a community development worker, with particular attention being paid to the importance of communication. The book focuses on enabling the development worker to train others, thereby building capacity in the community and working towards breaking the poverty cycle. The authors have been involved in research projects locally and internationally. These projects have included rural development, housing, energy use, local government, training, and culture and medicine.
{
317pp,
170x245mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£20.50,
0702171581:9780702171581
, Juta Publishing (Academic)
} |
 |
LIVING WITH HOPE
: African Chuches & HIV/AIDS I
[Ezra Chitando]
Addressing the need for an in-depth understanding and analysis of how Churches in Africa are living with the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, Ezra Chitando's book insists that the church must accompany people and communities living with HIV and AIDS on their journeys of faith. He argues that the church in Africa must be one with friendly feet, which ministers to every need, thus repenting its negative attitudes as well as the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. As it works with and among those living with HIV, it must also interrogate its theology, its attitude to sexuality and its gender insensitivity and awaken to the realisation that it must become an all-embracing community. Chitando insists that a church with friendly feet does not pose questions about the moral standing of those with whom it is journeying. African churches need friendly feet to journey with individuals and communities living with HIV and AIDS, warm hearts to demonstrate compassion and anointed hands to effect healing. Reflecting on these themes, Living with Hope is the first of two books.
{
89pp,
120x210mm,
March 2008;
PB,
£10.00,
2825415235:9782825415238
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFRICAN EDUCATION
: Challenges & Possibilities
[S Nombuso Dlamini (ed). With assistance from Maryszka Clovis]
It has been said that education in post-colonial Africa is in a state of crisis. Policies & practices from Eurocentric colonial regimes have carried over, intertwining with new challenges inherent in the new political & economic climate. Leaders have done little to remedy the malfunctioning education system, & even where attempts have been made, they have overwhelmingly been shaped by commercial & capitalist interests. Nombuso Dlamini has assembled essays from continental African scholars who, before pursuing graduate studies in North America, had first-hand experience with the education system in post-colonial Africa. Their cross-cultural perspective has provided a unique opportunity to critically examine education in the African context & to present possible courses of action to reinvent its future. These authors are in search of a new model for African education -- a model that embraces indigenous knowledge, helps cultivate a greater sense of pride in people of African descent, and, most importantly, serves local needs.
{
253pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
PB,
£23.50,
1552382125:9781552382127
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
SIDE EFFECTS
: The Story of AIDS in South Africa
[Lesley Lawson]
Why does South Africa have one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world, and why have all attempts to deal with it led to deepening controversy and strife? "Side Effects" is a historical account that gets to grip with these vexing questions. It explains how, and why, AIDS conquered one of the richest countries on the African continent. Written in fast-moving journalistic style, it is a tale of the failures of presidents and people; of the legacy of apartheid; of bureaucratic indifference and corporate greed. It lays bare the lost opportunities and fateful decisions that led to mass death at a time when medical and social science had cleared the way to the prevention and treatment of the worst disease ever to have afflicted humankind. Above all, it is the biography of an extraordinary virus. A virus that enters a society, just as it enters the body, at its weakest point: an opportunistic virus that has triumphed over the vulnerabilities of a country in transition. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with key players, the book provides the background to current political controversies about the government's AIDS programme. It also gives the first credible explanation for President Mbeki's flirtation with the AIDS denialists -- a departure that reopened the scientific debate on AIDS at a global level, and has set back South Africa's AIDS response by many years.
{
352pp,
135x210mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£18.99,
1770130675:9781770130678
, Juta Publishing (General)
} |
 |
TRADE BARRIERS IN AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST
[Russell V Blaine (ed)]
A trade barrier is a general term that describes any government policy or regulation that restricts international trade. The barriers can take many forms, including: Import duties, Import licenses, Export licenses, Import quotas, Tariffs, Subsidies. Non-tariff barriers to trade, Voluntary Export Restraints, and Local Content Requirements. Most trade barriers work on the same principle: the imposition of some sort of cost on trade that raises the price of the traded products. If two or more nations repeatedly use trade barriers against each other, then a trade war results.
Economists generally agree that trade barriers are detrimental and decrease overall economic efficiency, this can be explained by the theory of comparative advantage. In theory, free trade involves the removal of all such barriers, except perhaps those considered necessary for health or national security. In practice, however, even those countries promoting free trade heavily subsidise certain industries, such as agriculture and steel. Examples of free trade areas are: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), South Asia Free Trade Agreement(SAFTA), European Free Trade Association, European Union (EU), Union of South American Nations. Other trade barriers include differences in culture, customs, traditions, laws, language and currency. This book which is based on information from the The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR).
{
167pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£65.50,
1600219543:9781600219542
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
AND THEY DIDN'T DIE
: A Novel
[Laurette Ngcobo]
This powerful political novel pays homage to the unsung heroism of rural women who opposed apartheid in South Africa. Set in the barren Sabelweni valley from the 1950s to the 1980s, And They Didn't Die follows a community of women who care for their children, the land, and the cattle, through periods of drought, famine, while their husbands labour in the distant mines and cities. The story centres around Jezile, whose struggles culminate in a dramatic act of redemption and revenge. And They Didn't Die forms a moving chronicle of resistance by women who -- despite poverty and political persecution -- rise up to fight for their land, their autonomy, and their children's future.
{
282pp,
140x215mm,
April 1999;
HB,
£27.99,
1558612122:9781558612129
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
HORSES LIKE THE WIND
: and Other Stories of Africa
[Baker H Morrow]
Set in Somalia just after its independence in the 1960s, this book is a collection of nine short stories that paint vivid portraits of the many different lives that intertwine along the Horn of Africa. A ruthless horse dealer comes up against the best tracker in the Somali army; transplanted Italian farmers look to a future of stark disintegration as they struggle to hold on to their lands and their families; gutsy American women attempt to establish lives of their own in the remote East African desert; and a beggar and an idealist meet in a chance encounter on the steps of a Mogadishu bank, with mind-numbing consequences. Based on the author's own time spent in East Africa, this is an evocative collection for the reader interested in Somalia's birth as a nation.
{
102pp,
155x230mm,
February 2002;
HB,
£23.50,
0870816268:9780870816260
, University Press of Colorado
} |
 |
PRESENT MOMENT
[Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye]
This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, this group of old women is divided by ethnicity, language, class and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age home they share in Nairobi, they uncover the hidden personal histories that connect them as women: stories of their struggles for self-determination; of conflict, violence, and loss, but also of survival. Wairimu, the oldest resident of the Refuge, remembers the young man she met on a forest path one morning, who opened her eyes to a new world of choices that drove her from her village and an arranged marriage to seek the opportunities of Nairobi. And Rahel, from a family of proud military men and fisherwomen, dreams that her son, an army deserter during the Emergency, will return; she clings to life on the chance that she may see him again. Nekesa attempts to talk a young woman on their street out of prostitution, and in so doing, has to reveal her younger self. The Present Moment brings together many strands of Kenyan life and character in this fierce, poignant and compelling story.
{
192pp,
155x230mm,
December 2000;
PB,
£10.99,
1558612483:9781558612488
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
SUNJATA
: A West African Epic of the Mande People
[Translated, with Introduction & Notes, by David Conrad]
A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kanté, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire of Mali. David Conrad conveys the strong narrative thrust of the Sunjata epic in his presentation of substantial excerpts from his translation of a performance by Djanka Tassey Condé. Readers approaching the epic for the first time will appreciate the translation's highly readable, poetic English as well as Conrad's informative Introduction and notes. Scholars will find the familiar heroes and heroines taking on new dimensions, secondary characters gaining increased prominence, and previously unknown figures emerging from obscurity.
REVIEW: "This is an important resource for college teachers who would like their students to read a text which more fully resembles an oral poem and which communicates a richer, more complex, and more compelling version of the Sunjata story... (This) version... is much more worthy to be placed among the great epics of world literature. It is eminently readable for students and instructors who are willing to give it the same kind of attention they give to Homer translations..." -- Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University. "Conrad offers a great deal for students and instructors, with a solid Introduction which provides the context and history of the epic, a note on Mande nomenclature, maps, an epilogue, and a glossary of important names and terms. This is truly one-stop shopping for the Sunjata epic. I think Conrad's book will be a classic..." -- Konrad Tuchscherer, St John's University. "The most easily teachable of the versions I have read... (an) important new version of a major literary achievement..." -- Paula Berggren, Baruch College, CUNY.
{
206pp,
140x215mm,
October 2004;
PB,
£8.50,
0872206971:9780872206977
/
HB,
£27.95,
087220698X:9780872206984
, Hackett Publishing
} |
 |
AFRICAPRAYING
: A Handbook on HIV & AIDS -- Sensitive Sermon Guidelines & Liturgy
[Musa W Dube (ed)]
How should the church and its leaders deal with the origin and meaning of HIV/AIDS, and with the stigma it engenders? How should they address the needs of those affected, and minister to the infected? This resource book is designed for all who have to handle situations created by this relatively new epidemic -- church leaders/workers, Sunday school teachers, youth leaders, the laity. It seeks to “equip the church leader/worker with strategies to break the silence and stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS, creating a compassionate and healing church”. And it seeks to “help [them] by underlining how the Christian faith calls us to serve and to heal God’s world and people”. The five sections give sermon guidelines and worship outlines for services ranging from weddings to funerals; such key moments of the church’s year as Christmas and Easter; attitudes of compassion or discrimination; congregations peopled by youth or grandparents; and social realities like poverty and gender inequality.
{
270pp,
June 2004;
PB,
£15.30,
2825414077:9782825414071
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
ANGELS HAVE LEFT US
: The Rwanda Tragedy & the Churches
[Hugh McCullum; Foreword by Desmond Tutu]
Following the massacres that decimated Rwanda in 1994, the author carried out hundreds of interviews in the country and elsewhere with government, military and United Nations officials, pastors and church leaders, survivors, refugees and displaced people. This book focuses on the part played in these events by churches in Rwanda, throughout Africa and around the world -- sometimes a story of heroism and self-sacrifice, but too often one of cowardice, ethnocentrism and corruption. The author analyses the roots of the tragedy, looks at the future of a shattered church in a shattered country, and poses hard questions about what the church and the ecumenical family should do in a world where poverty, oppression and hatred are creating many potential Rwandas. On the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, this book has been reissued, with a new preface and Afterword.
{
132pp,
120x210mm,
November 2004;
PB,
£8.95,
282541154X:9782825411544
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
FOR A NEW AFRICA
: With Hope & Dignity
In 1998, the eighth assembly of the World Council of Churches made a special pledge to accompany Africa on a 'Journey of Hope'. The overall aim of the ecumenical focus on Africa is to provide a space in which the churches, together with the national councils of churches, sub-regional fellowships and the All Africa Conference of Churches may become fully involved in Africa's re-awakening. This book records the visit of the general secretary and WCC officers to Kenya and Rwanda in April 2004. It is intended to provide institutional memory of the messages of hope delivered at various venues in both countries, a witness that reached its climax at the national stadium in Kigali on 18 April 2004.
{
96pp,
160x240mm,
November 2004;
PB,
£7.95,
2825414131:9782825414132
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
ON THE WAY TO WHITENESS
: Christianization, Conflict & Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910-1965
[Kari Miettinen]
The spread of the Christian faith is often said to have marked the greatest change in twentieth-century Africa. Kari Miettinen’s dissertation analyses the processes of this change in Ovamboland of northern Namibia, where it was initiated and guided by the Finnish missionaries. By using socio-historical approach this research presents an interesting analysis, which suggests that conversion to Christianity was often a multi-causal chain of events where the primary motives of the converts often were quite practical. The study brings out new information concerning the relationship between the Ovambo and the Finnish missionaries, and by so doing also particularises or corrects some of the earlier views on the social and cultural effects of Ovambo christianisation.
{
370pp,
180x260mm,
May 2005;
PB,
£22.50,
9517466943:9789517466943
, Finnish Literature Society
} |
 |
WORLD WITH A HUMAN FACE
: A Voice from Africa
[N Ndungane]
Njongonkulu Ndungane shared in that fight for freedom. Here, he tells of his youth under apartheid and of his imprisonment on Robben Island, where he was made to build the prison that would later house Nelson Mandela. During his captivity, he came to realise that apartheid's end would not bring a perfect society and that new South Africa would need heroes of a different kind -- those willing to challenge poverty. This book is a call to South Africans and the international community to work together to overcome social injustice, adverse economic forces and the weight of history to build a just society fit for all. The first section is autobiographical, tracing the author's development from a political activist in the anti-apartheid movement to an archbishop of the church. The second deals with specific issues in the world today that Ndungane believes it essential for the church to address: poverty and the international financial system, the lessons learned in the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and practical advice for addressing injustice, locally and globally. The third section deals with church unity, and African identity and Christianity, ending with a discussion of central issues before the Anglican communion today.
{
160pp,
155x230mm,
January 2003;
HB,
£11.99,
2825413763:9782825413760
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
WORLDS OF MEMORY & WISDOM
: Encounters of Jews & African Christians
[Jean Halpérin & Hans Ucko (eds)]
This book reflects a fascinating chapter in a genuinely intercultural dialogue, conducted on an equal footing, at the highest level of intellectual integrity. The texts come out of three Jewish-Christian consultations held in Africa, all aiming at focusing on subjects pointing to a commonality of concerns and purpose. Any topic that could hint at suspicion of superiority, precedence or domination was carefully avoided, and the dialogue was shaped along different lines than those usually followed in similar Jewish-Christian consultations held in Europe and America over the past half-century. In Nairobi, discussions were devoted to ancient wisdom in both cultures and its value for contemporary life; the understanding of scripture; and creation in both cultures. In Johannesburg debate centred on family, community and tradition as a way to the future and dealt with fundamental questions common to both cultures: the encounter with the age of modernity; preserving traditional family life; sustaining a sense of community; maintaining and reinforcing religious heritage and cultural tradition in the face of disintegration and dissipation. The third consultation, in Yaoundé, looked at shalom and ubuntu, memory and experiences of violence, and the challenge of peace-building. The texts included in this book provide ample food for thought. They will remain of lasting value as a source of inspiration and sound reflection.
{
161pp,
130x215mm,
May 2005;
PB,
£11.00,
2825414298:9782825414293
, World Council of Churches
} |
 |
AIDS IN AFRICA
: A Pandemic on the Move
[Garson J Claton (ed))]
Sub-Saharan Africa has been more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. The United Nations reports that 25.4 million adults and children are infected with the HIV virus in the region, which has about 10% of the world’s population but nearly 64% of the world-wide total of infected people. The overall rate of infection among adults in sub-Saharan Africa is 7.4%, compared with 1.1% world-wide. Ten countries in southern Africa have infection rates above 10% and account for 30% of infected adults world-wide. By the end of 2004, an estimated 25.3 million Africans will have died of AIDS, including a 2004 estimate of 2.3 million deaths. AIDS has surpassed malaria as the leading cause of death in Africa, and it kills many times more Africans than war. In Africa, 57% of those infected are women. Experts relate the severity of the African AIDS epidemic to the region’s poverty, the relative lack of empowerment among women, high numbers of men living as migrant workers, and other factors. Health systems are ill-equipped for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. AIDS’ severe social and economic consequences are depriving Africa of skilled workers and teachers while reducing life expectancy by decades in some countries. An estimated 12.3 million AIDS orphans are currently living in Africa, facing increased risk of malnutrition and reduced prospects for education. AIDS is being blamed for declines in agricultural production in some countries, and is regarded as a major contributor to hunger and famine. Donor governments, non-governmental organisations, and African governments have responded through prevention programs intended to reduce the number of new infections and by trying to ameliorate the damage done by AIDS to families, societies, and economies. The adequacy of this response is the subject of much debate. An estimated 310,000 Africa AIDS patients were being treated with antiretroviral drugs at the end of 2004, up from 150,000 six months earlier. However, an estimated 4 million are in need of the therapy. US and other initiatives are expected to sharply expand the availability of treatment in the near future. Advocates see expanded treatment as an affordable means of reducing the impact of the pandemic. Sceptics question whether treatment can be widely provided without costly improvements in health infrastructure. US concern over AIDS in Africa grew during the 1980s, as the severity of the epidemic became apparent. Legislation enacted in the 106th and the 107th Congresses increased funding for world-wide HIV/AIDS programs. H.R. 1298, signed into law (P.L. 108-25) on May 27, 2003, authorised $15 billion over five years for international AIDS programs. President Bush announced his Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in the 2003 State of the Union message. Twelve of the 15 focus countries are in sub-Saharan Africa. Under the FY2006 budget request, they would receive a 54% boost in aid, to $1.2 billion, through the State Department’s Global HIV/AIDS Initiative. Nonetheless, activists and others urge that more be done in view of the scale of the African pandemic. This new books presents a nutshell analysis of this desperate situation.
{
206pp,
135x210mm,
August 2005;
PB,
£25.99,
1594545960:9781594545962
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
|
SIDE EFFECTS
: The Story of AIDS in South Africa
[Lesley Lawson]
Why does South Africa have one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world, and why have all attempts to deal with it led to deepening controversy and strife? "Side Effects" is a historical account that gets to grip with these vexing questions. It explains how, and why, AIDS conquered one of the richest countries on the African continent. Written in fast-moving journalistic style, it is a tale of the failures of presidents and people; of the legacy of apartheid; of bureaucratic indifference and corporate greed. It lays bare the lost opportunities and fateful decisions that led to mass death at a time when medical and social science had cleared the way to the prevention and treatment of the worst disease ever to have afflicted humankind. Above all, it is the biography of an extraordinary virus. A virus that enters a society, just as it enters the body, at its weakest point: an opportunistic virus that has triumphed over the vulnerabilities of a country in transition. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with key players, the book provides the background to current political controversies about the government's AIDS programme. It also gives the first credible explanation for President Mbeki's flirtation with the AIDS denialists -- a departure that reopened the scientific debate on AIDS at a global level, and has set back South Africa's AIDS response by many years.
{
352pp,
135x210mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£18.99,
1770130675:9781770130678
, Juta Publishing (General)
} |
 |
AIDS IN AFRICA
: Help the Victims or Ignore Them?
[V Lovell (ed)]
This book examines the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, poses questions about the practical and ethical possibilities of making HIV cocktails available on a wide scale, and provides an up-to-date bibliography on AIDS in Africa.
{
170pp,
155x230mm,
July 2002;
PB,
£27.99,
1590330501:9781590330500
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
SOCIO-POLITICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTH AFRICA
[Christopher R Stones]
South Africa is a society that, sadly, has been divided against itself even at the best of times. Beginning with the initial advent of colonialism on the southern tip of the African continent, through to the later spawning of apartheid as well as in its nascent democracy, divisions have continually been manifest in varying form and content, along racial, ethnic, class, religious, language, political or other socio-economic and cultural lines. Unlike most societies, South Africa is a natural laboratory for psycho-social research yet it has been foreign researchers who have conducted most of the behavioural studies on the human condition in the country. South African psychologists seem to have steered clear of involvement in researching any major policy impact, especially in recent times when the re-shaping of South African society has been at its height. Each of the authors in this book is South African and, appropriately, has lived through the transition in South Africa and has attempted to understand the changes at both professional and personal levels. The contributors were each asked to write a chapter that would ‘explore the South African socio-political terrain from within their fields of expertise and so help others navigate the uncharted future with less trepidation.'
{
299pp,
155x230mm,
September 2001;
HB,
£55.50,
1590330382:9781590330388
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
URBANIZATION OVERSPEED IN TROPICAL AFRICA 1970-2000
[Guy Ankerl; Series Editor Dr Dirk Pereboom]
{
117pp,
140x210mm,
December 1986;
PB,
£19.99,
2881550002:9782881550003
, INU Press
} |
 |
CULTURES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
: Challenge to Growing Up African
[A Bame Nsamenang]
The core objective of this book is to explore, with the aim of stimulating awareness and illuminating the extent to which Africa is equipping her next generations with responsible values and the right techno-cognitive orientation to cope with and make progress in a competitive, knowledge-driven world in continuous transition. The focal issue revolves on the strategy Africa can adopt to raise children to be African in the light of global trends and requirements. Of course, African children cannot be anything else, but African. Given today’s masked hegemonies, can Africa 'be allowed' to develop in its own terms? Can Africans even notice covert hegemonies and pretensions of mutual collaboration? Thus, the book is prepared from awareness that understanding African life journeys and developmental pathways and educational praxis and needs constitute essential foreknowledge for future prospects and progress. The book attempts to enrich the fields of psychology, education, development work and cultural studies with alternative lines and models of theorisation and reinterpretation of existing evidence.
{
192pp,
180x260mm,
February 2005;
HB,
£73.50,
1594541876:9781594541872
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
EDHINA EKOGIDHO -- NAMES AS LINKS
: The Encounter Between African & European Anthroponymic Systems Among the Ambo People in Namibia
[Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa]
What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the long independence struggle affect personal naming, and what are the latest name-giving trends in Namibia? This study analyses the changes in the personal naming system of the Ambo people in Namibia over the last 120 years, starting from the year 1883 when the first Ambos received biblical and European names at baptism. The central factors in this process were the German and South African colonisation and European missionary work on the one hand, and the rise of African nationalism on the other hand. Eventually, this clash between African and European naming practices led to a new and dynamic naming system which includes elements of both African and European origin.
{
373pp,
175x250mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£24.99,
9517465297:9789517465298
, Finnish Literature Society
} |
 |
GRASSROOTS GOVERNANCE?
: Chiefs in Africa & the Afro-Caribbean
[Donald I Ray & P S Reddy (eds)]
Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa -- this volume addresses it head-on. Case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, & Commonwealth countries in West, East, & Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica are included. An interdisciplinary & intercontinental collection that addresses this gap in dialogue about African politics. The book brings new perspectives on the integration, or reconciliation, of traditional leadership with democratic systems of local government. Features articles from the fields of political studies, law, postcolonial studies, anthropology, cultural studies, & policy & administration studies.
{
313pp,
155x230mm,
December 2002;
HB,
£29.50,
1552380807:9781552380802
, University of Calgary Press
} |
 |
RACE, RACISM, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION & PSYCHOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICA
[Norman Duncan et al]
{
176pp,
180x260mm,
June 2001;
HB,
£47.50,
156072921X:9781560729211
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
RE-IMAGINING AFRICA
: New Critical Perspectives
[Sue Kossew et al (eds)]
This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa.
{
228pp,
155x230mm,
February 2002;
HB,
£59.50,
1590331001:9781590331002
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
THINK AFRICAN
: The Changing African Mind & Personality Today
[Jack Sislian]
This collection of short essays attempts to depict life, thought and actions indigenous to Black Africa and what has been happening there especially as a result of the White Man's penetration into the Black Man's life and institutions. This penetration was gradual at first, as in colonial times, but since the end of the Second World War it has become massive. Each essay looks at an African concept, attitude or person, or a combination of these, and hopes to stimulate further reading and reflection on the reader's part. The author believes that lack of real knowledge about Africans, their beliefs, values, traditions as well as their general outlook on life, is a constant source of unnecessary mistrust, friction and recurrently enervating misunderstandings. These essays make an attempt to look into the minds and attitudes of Africans contending with difficulties not of African origin in our contemporary world.
{
96pp,
155x235mm,
December 2000;
HB,
£45.99,
1560728159:9781560728153
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
AFRICA IN WAR & PEACE
[Eric S Packham]
For three decades, since the sixties, military coups became a ritual of African politics. They consist of self-perpetuating incidents, which spilled into the 1990's, though on a much smaller scale. This book is a chronological sequence of these events in West Africa. The focus is on the coups in sub-Saharan Africa during these turbulent decades, and what can be done to stop them in Africa's quest for democracy. The author chronicles his service with the God Coast Regiment in World War Two as well as in the Civil Service of the Gold Coast and Ghana.
{
237pp,
180x260mm,
December 2001;
HB,
£36.99,
1560729392:9781560729396
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
AFRICA
: The Other Protagonist of the 21st Century
[Mary Taioglou]
The purpose of this book is to focus attention on the urgent need for accurate, comprehensive and pertinent information for businessmen, managers, politicians, diplomats, financial institutions, academics, students and journalists about the rapidly changing place of the African Continent of the 21st century, which today more than ever is a 'must' for investment. The book begins with five main chapters of a macro-historical and economic nature on the basis of the author’s many years of experience working in Africa with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on various types of economic Aid projects.
{
284pp,
215x290mm,
May 2005;
HB,
£43.99,
9608798965:9789608798960
, Kafkas Publications
} |
 |
AFRICAN LEADERS
: A Bibliography with Indexes
[Steven Colamery (ed)]
Unknown to much of the world, many of the nations of Africa are undergoing revolutions as the 20th century mercifully ends. These revolutions may have far-reaching consequences not only for Africa but for the rest of the world. This book gathers together citations, including abstracts, from the journal literature, books, government reports and edited collections.
{
250pp,
160x235mm,
October 1999;
HB,
£55.50,
1560727217:9781560727217
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
AFRICAN STUDIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
[Jacob U Gordon (ed)]
African Studies as a field of inquiry has had to combat the insidious interpretations of racist theories used to justify the domination and colonisation of the continent for the past five hundred years. While this has not been the complete history of the field, it has yielded numerous historians who have either misunderstood or deliberately distorted the idea of African agency. Now Jacob Gordon has brought together some of the finest minds in the field to establish the parameters for the future. There have been two general movements in the past one hundred years that have reflected the ideas of Africans toward the doctrine of white supremacy in African Studies and other fields: Negritude and Afrocentricity. Both of these movements have attendants, variances, and oppositions. Nevertheless they may be said to speak to the same problem confronting the African people in a global way and African Studies specifically. This book represents an advance in the conceptualisation of African leadership and political direction. There have always been models of leadership, rooted deeply in the culture, responsive to the historical contexts of the people themselves, that have been used by African leaders. However, what the authors in this volume are committed to is the development of ideas and ideals that will lend continuity to the best traditions of the African people.
{
187pp,
180x260mm,
December 2004;
HB,
£36.99,
1594541035:9781594541032
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
COMRADE MINISTER
: The South African Communist Party & the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy
[Simon Adams]
This is something of a historical anomaly. In an era when communist organisations have crumbled, the SACP emerged in 1990 from years of exile to build an organisation of some 75,000 members by 1995. Some of its leading cadre entered South Africa's first democratically elected government as members of the African National Congress and the SACP is arguably one of the most influential and powerful Communist Parties in the western world. This book analyses social and political contradictions unique to South Africa, which have given rise to such a situation and attempts to explain the historical role of the SACP within the South African liberation movement. Specifically, the book looks at the role of the SACP in the transition from apartheid to democracy and from exile to government. While theoretically rigorous, Comrade Minister is also accessible to members of the general public with an interest in South Africa's much celebrated democratic transition.
{
247pp,
180x260mm,
February 2001;
HB,
£49.99,
1560728949:9781560728948
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
CULTURE, ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
: In Search of Equity
[Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels (eds)]
South Africa is celebrating its first decade of democratic freedom. It therefore seems appropriate to examine in more detail how South Africa has tried to restore some of the many social injustices caused by the former apartheid regime. This book offers a view into the world of organisation and management from a cultural perspective. The authors investigate how initiatives and policies with the aim of generating more employment equity have been developed, implemented and have worked out in various sectors of the South African economy. The various chapters present in-depth case studies that deal with the South African government, local NGOs, universities and tourism. The book reveals in detail the local struggles of the historically disadvantaged and the 'powers-that-be', to try and live up to the ideals of the New South Africa.
{
145pp,
180x260mm,
September 2004;
HB,
£73.50,
159454185X:9781594541858
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
DEMOCRACY IN BURKINA FASO
: Assessment Mission Report, Dialogue for Democratic Development
This report was written following extensive consultations with leading democratic actors in Burkina Faso and regional experts. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of the political system in Burkina Faso, and identifies key stumbling-blocks to political development, including the monopoly of power by the majority party, the administration of the judicial system, the organisation of elections, and the lack of a strong opposition. The report recommends change in six areas such as state reform, including decentralisation of government authority; consolidation of the rule of law, particularly in the constitution and the administration of the judicial system; and expansion of the democratic culture in civil society, especially among women. The report also gives an analysis and makes recommendations about the electoral system.
{
168pp,
175x245mm,
January 1998;
PB,
£30.00,
9189098242:9789189098244
, International IDEA
} |
 |
DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
: Continuing Dialogue(s) For Nation-Building
This report is the product of an elaborate consultative process conducted by 42 Nigerian resource persons representing the diverse texture of Nigerian society in hundreds of meetings throughout the country. The assessment is the outcome of this consultative process and contains concrete recommendations to strengthen the process towards establishing lasting democracy in Nigeria. The report is the first comprehensive publication on the current transition process to democracy in Nigeria. It is an attempt to capture and contribute to the ongoing debates, discussions and overall search for solutions that can heal and build a nation, and thereby deepen and consolidate democracy in Nigeria. Nigeria is at a crossroad. The country faces an opportunity -- more than at any other time in its history -- to build a society that can guarantee justice, human dignity and civil liberties to all Nigerians.
{
379pp,
175x245mm,
March 2001;
PB,
£30.00,
9189098447:9789189098442
, International IDEA
} |
 |
EDWARD SAID & THE POST-COLONIAL
[Bill Ashcroft & Hussein Kadhim (eds)]
{
196pp,
155x230mm,
February 2002;
HB,
£69.99,
1590331575:9781590331576
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
ETHNIC POLITICS IN KENYA & NIGERIA
: A Comparative Study
[Godfrey Mwakikagile]
This book is more than just a study of ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. The two countries are a microcosm of the entire continent: the problems it faces, its successes and failures, and the hope and despair of hundreds of millions of its people whose aspirations have been frustrated by decades of corrupt leadership that has skilfully exploited one of Africa's biggest weaknesses -- tribalism. But the people themselves are also responsible for that. They have allowed tribalism to flourish and destroy the countries. And they have allowed unscrupulous politicians to use and abuse them -- without storming the Bastille. What they are not responsible for is dictatorship African leaders instituted to perpetuate themselves in office by exploiting tribalism. These despots have been so good at it, and have done it for so long since independence, that many African countries are now on the brink of collapse, with the people at war against themselves.
{
237pp,
180x260mm,
October 2001;
HB,
£73.50,
1560729678:9781560729679
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
FREEDOM & ANARCHY
[Eric S Packham]
As the uncertain peace following the end of the Cold War dawns upon the world, the role of the United Nations in becoming a major factor in solving conflict and bringing stability is moving to the forefront of world attention. This book, in great detail, describes the intervention of the United Nations in the Congo (now Zaire). At the time, this intervention was the largest in the history of the United Nations. As the threats to international peace seem to mushroom, this superb book details the players, the actions, the emotions and the accomplishments of this crucially significant historical achievement.
{
187pp,
155x230mm,
January 1996;
HB,
£43.50,
1560722320:9781560722328
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
HORN OF AFRICA AS COMMON HOMELAND
: The State & Self-determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization
[Leenco Lata]
A significant analysis of the complicated and conflicting goals of the countries located in the Horn of Africa. Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata demonstrates that conflicts within and between states tend to connect seamlessly in the region. When these conflicts are seen in the context of pressures on the state in an era of heightened globalisation, it becomes obvious that the Horn needs to adopt multi-dimensional self-determination. Leenco Lata discusses the history of conflicts within and between Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and the Sudan, and investigates local and global contributory factors. He assesses the effectiveness of the nation-state model to forge a positive relationship between these governments and the people. Part 1 summarises the history of self-determination and the state from the French Revolution to the post-Cold War period. Part 2 shows how the states of the Horn of Africa emerged in a highly interactive way, and how these developments continue to reverberate throughout the region, underscoring the necessity of simultaneous regional integration and the decentralisation of power as an approach to conflict resolution. Motivated by a search for practical answers rather than a strict adherence to any particular theory, this significant work by a political activist provides a thorough analysis of the region's complicated and conflicting goals.
{
220pp,
155x230mm,
September 2004;
PB,
£19.50,
088920456X:9780889204560
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
 |
HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA
[James T Lawrence (ed)]
The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. The book surveys the countries of Africa and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.
{
252pp,
180x260mm,
April 2004;
HB,
£59.99,
1590339320:9781590339329
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE NEAR EAST & NORTH AFRICA
[James T Lawrence (ed)]
The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Near East and North Africa, and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.
{
120pp,
180x260mm,
June 2004;
HB,
£59.50,
1590339339:9781590339336
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
IMPLEMENTATION OF QUOTAS
: African Experiences
[Julie Ballington (ed)]
Increasing women's representation and participation in decision-making bodies requires well-developed strategies and information about which measures have worked successfully in different countries with different political systems. This report examines, through comparing the use and under what conditions, quotas can be successfully implemented. It aims to raise awareness about the use of gender quotas as an instrument to increase women's political representation and to show that they can and are being applied successfully. This workshop report, the third in a series of reports on regional experiences with quota implementation, examines quotas used in 17 African countries.
{
133pp,
210x300mm,
January 2005;
PB,
£10.00,
9185391174:9789185391172
, International IDEA
} |
 |
LIBYA
: Current Issues & Historical Background
[Steven Bianci (ed)]
The United Nations Security Council passed three resolutions that placed sanctions on Libya until Libya surrendered for trial two men suspected of bombing Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 and French flight UTA 772 in 1989. Libya surrendered the two men on April 5, 1999, and the UN suspended the sanctions the same day. US sanctions against Libya remain in place. Libyan-US relations have been plagued by a series of incidents between US and Libyan armed forces, Libyan policies of supporting terrorism, Libya's search for chemical and nuclear weapons, and Libyan meddling in other nations' internal affairs. Al-Quadhafi has proposed bilateral and multilateral unions with his neighbours and several other countries, and envisions himself as carrying on for Egypt's Nasir in unifying the Arab, Islamic and African worlds. Libyan leader Muammar al-Quadhafi implemented a form of participatory democracy in Libya, where villages elect Peoples' Congresses, which in turn elect Peoples' Congresses for geographic regions and the central government. In addition, there are Peoples' Congresses representing industries or institutions, such as education, medicine or broadcasting. Despite the presence and apparent activity of the Peoples' Congresses, it is clear that members of the Revolutionary Command Council, created after the 1969 coup, and their cohorts continue to exercise great influence, perhaps dictatorial authority over Libya. Libya enjoys a favourable balance of trade and payments and runs a small budget deficit. Al-Quadhafi has used his military in a 1977 border dispute with Egypt; in 1972 and 1978 he attempts to buttress Idi Amin in Uganda, in several attempts to influence events in Chad, and aid in a token deployment in Lebanon.
{
192pp,
180x260mm,
March 2003;
HB,
£55.50,
1590335724:9781590335727
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
MILITARY COUPS IN WEST AFRICA SINCE THE SIXTIES
[Godfrey Mwakikagile]
For three decades, since the sixties, military coups became a ritual of African politics. They consist of self-perpetuating incidents which spilled into the 1990's, through on a much smaller scale. This book is a chronological sequence of these events in West Africa. The focus is on the coups in sub-Saharan Africa during these turbulent decades, and what can be done to stop them in Africa's quest for democracy.
{
247pp,
175x260mm,
October 2001;
HB,
£47.50,
1560729457:9781560729457
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
MODERN AFRICAN STATE
: Quest for Transformation
[Godfrey Mwakikagile]
This book examines the modern African State as a fragile institution because of its structural flaws. It focuses on a number of African countries whose combined analyses provide a focal point for looking at the whole continent as one giant place with crumbling state institutions whose fragility threatens the very existence of several African countries. Even in rich African countries, peace and stability is threatened and rampant corruption and dictatorship. Nothing better demonstrates the weakness and cruelty of the modern African State than its willingness to instigate tribal violence in a number of African countries and its inability to contain such hostilities in many others. In an attempt to put such weakness in proper perspective, the author focuses on analyses of case studies, as the context for a better understanding of the modern African State, as the most dominant institution on the African continent.
{
251pp,
155x235mm,
July 2001;
HB,
£39.50,
1560729368:9781560729365
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
NARRATIVES OF NATION MEDIA, MEMORY & REPRESENTATION IN THE MAKING OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
[Charmaine McEachern]
{
166pp,
180x260mm,
October 2002;
HB,
£69.99,
1590332334:9781590332337
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
NIGERIA
: Current Issues & Historical Background
[Martin P Mathews]
Nigeria seems to be in the news all of the time for something, be it regime changes, co-operation, internal strife or oil policies. The most populous country in Africa and the largest in area in the West African state, Nigeria was an early twentieth century colony that became an independent nation in 1960. A country of great diversity because of the many ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups that live within it borders, Nigeria is also a country with a long past. This book brings together current issues and a detailed historical background.
{
206pp,
180x260mm,
April 2002;
HB,
£59.50,
1590333160:9781590333167
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
NIGERIA'S THIRD REPUBLIC
: The Problems & Prospects of Political Transition to Civil Rule
[Bamidele A Ojo (ed)]
This is a timely book on political transition to civil rule in Nigeria. The socio-political and economic ramifications of the transfer of power to an elected civilian administration and the political chaos resulting from the continued uncertainties surrounding the transition program are examined. Some of the topics which are touched upon are the relationship between the state, capital accumulation, democratic forces, the characteristic political manipulation by the military and the attempt to hold on to power despite demand for civilian democratic rule, the problem of military intervention to the question of national integration, and the core problems of Nigerian economic management and the alternatives for effective management of the Nigerian economy in the Third Republic.
{
177pp,
155x235mm,
December 1998;
HB,
£63.50,
156072580X:9781560725800
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
PLANNING RULES IN POST-COLONIAL STATES
: The Political Economy of Urban & Regional Planning in Cameroon
[Ambe J Njoh]
{
208pp,
180x260mm,
October 2001;
HB,
£47.50,
1560729708:9781560729709
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
POLITICS & ECONOMICS OF AFRICA, VOLUME 4
[Frank Columbus (ed)]
A continent of vast diversity, stretching from the deserts of the north through the equatorial tropics into the more temperate south, Africa brims with challenges and issues. This book collects a series of papers examining a number of these topics and how they impact African nations, the United States and the global community. The analyses also present possible solutions to some of the continent's most vexing problems as many of its nations chart a course of political and economic development.
{
184pp,
180x260mm,
March 2003;
HB,
£56.99,
1590335805:9781590335802
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
POST-COLONIAL CONDITION
: Contemporary Politics in Africa
[D Pal Ahluwalia & Paul Nursey-Bray (eds)]
{
252pp,
155x230mm,
August 1997;
HB,
£73.50,
1560724854:9781560724858
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
PROBLEMS & PROSPECTS OF SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
: Voices of a Generation
[Bamidele A Ojo]
The past few years have been very traumatic ones for many Nigerians. With the exception of those in power or close to the seat of power, the changes of 1998 were a welcome relief given the tyranny and repression that the country had suffered under General Abacha. With many people in prison and more in exile, the death of Abacha was received with a sigh of relief. Many observers have seen the resilience that has come to signify the strength and potential of this once 'giant of Africa', as well as the destruction and the socio-political and economic decay of the past decades. The Nigerian people have endured the exploitation of their rights due to the lack of democratic leadership, and with this in mind, they have been called to attention to fight for their country.
{
241pp,
180x260mm,
July 2001;
HB,
£47.50,
156072949X:9781560729495
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AFRICA
[Edward P Lipton (ed)]
Human rights, of which the freedom of religion is a central component, are promised by most governments on planet Earth. But promises are promises, are promises. In real life, religious liberty is far from a universal fact. This book surveys the countries of Africa based on U S State Department reports and is augmented by a current bibliography and a useful index.
{
182pp,
180x260mm,
July 2002;
HB,
£52.99,
1590333896:9781590333891
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
 |
SACRED TRUST
: The League of Nations & Africa, 1929-1946
[Michael D Callahan]
This book completes a two-volume history of the impact of the mandates system on Anglo-French colonialism in Africa from 1914 to 1946. This second volume explains how the League of Nations mandates system fused two of the predominant and compelling global forces of the twentieth century: imperialism and Wilsonian internationalism. After the First World War, Britain and France administered most of Germany's former tropical African colonies as 'mandates' under the supervision of the League as 'a sacred trust of civilisation. This system of international trusteeship changed British and French rule in Africa. In short, 'mandates' were not 'colonies'. Mandates meant less militarism, more commercial equality, a greater emphasis on the interests of Africans, and an end to the extension of European national sovereignty over colonized peoples. Accountability to the League also required the British and French to reconsider traditional economic, strategic, and ideological assumptions about their empires. In the process, the "sacred trust" sowed the seeds of self-doubt about the very purpose and future of European imperialism. The mandates system continued to represent a genuine internationalisation and reformation of colonialism and had long-term economic, political, and cultural consequences for Africans and Europeans within the mandated territories. Despite the Depression, repeated Anglo-French foreign policy failures, growing humiliations for Geneva, and war in Africa and Europe, the principles and practices of international trusteeship proved persistent. Mandates demonstrated the relevance of international law, the importance of the League of Nations, and the impact of Wilsonian principles on international relations and European imperialism.
{
308pp,
152x229mm,
September 2004;
HB,
£55.00,
1845190165:9781845190163
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
 |
SIERRA LEONE
: Current Issues & Background
[Brett Sillinger (ed)]
The small, underdeveloped countries of Africa, seem to harbour all the flammable elements necessary to ignite civil wars and revolutions. Since 1991, the small West African country of Sierra Leone has been besieged by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a guerrilla group-cum-political party, that implored a radical-populist political agenda. The cause of this conflict was the growth of systemic government corruption in the decades following the 1961 independence, which ultimately led to a severe deterioration of the state governing capacity. The contention over the control of the country's vast mineral wealth, which includes diamonds, as well as foreign interference -- notably from the Liberian government, with which the RUF reportedly traded diamonds for arms -- further fuelled the struggle. The 1999 Lomé Peace Accord brought about an end to the conflict. RUF leadership changes and a cease-fire agreement in 2000 followed by conflict resolution meetings between government, RUF and UN officials also contributed to a more peaceful situation in Sierra Leone. This book explores the struggle facing the people of Sierra Leone in adopting to these new changes as well as the UN's sponsored disarmament efforts and electoral support for the new government. The hand that the United States has had in delivering humanitarian assistance to this country will be examined as well as the efforts made to try those guilty of crimes against humanity.
{
160pp,
180x260mm,
April 2003;
HB,
£52.99,
1590336623:9781590336625
, Nova Science Publishers
} |
