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African Literature as Political Philosophy
The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent’s literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself…
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Bipolar Orders
North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines – one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success…
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China in Africa
1. China’s New Foreign Policy Towards Africa 2. The Chinese in Africa: Capitalist, Comrades and Carpetbaggers 3. Africa Turns East 4. The Chinese Challenge: African Hopes and Western Interests 5….
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God Dies by the Nile
Nawal El Saadawi is the 2007 recipient of the African Literature Association’s Fonlon-Nichols Award! “People have become corrupt everywhere. You can search in vain for justice or true morality….
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North Korea
This reissue of Paul French’s acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events….
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On The Move
The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a ‘place without history’, a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle…
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Poverty
This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers,…
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Tanzania’s Land Rush
After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors’ rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This ‘land rush’ was a marker…
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Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is…
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Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is…
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The Hidden Face of Eve
This powerful account of brutality against women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. It…
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The Hidden Face of Eve
This powerful account of brutality against women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. It…