Author: Edith Holt Whetham
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Hilary Sunman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950. Weaving together a human and family story, she combines her father's work with her own experience as a development economist to discuss colonial policy. Focusing on themes such as All the the 'White Highlands', race, colonial leadership, and the rise of the Mau Mau, she looks at the academic training in agricultural science offered as preparation for the colonial service as well as the attraction of Africa and the idealism felt by many young officers. Using her family as a case study, she examines the realities of life in Kenya for the wives and children of colonial officers, as well as for the officers themselves.

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Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835213301
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1424

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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: George Ayittey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732587304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A university level economics textbook by Dr. George B. N. Ayittey that provides instruction in both micro and macro, all with a focus on African institutions and illustrated with African examples.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1308

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Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521224093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1052

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The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

Author: Henry S. Bienen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042971873X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Nigeria has not evolved political formulas that explicitly allow religion or religious authorities to define legitimacy. There have, however, been struggles carried out in religious terms over constitutional mechanisms for adjudicating conflict. Religion also has been an element in the conflict between ethnic-language groups. Finally, religion provides a language, a set of values, and institutions through which groups struggle and over which groups contend, both within and between religious communities. It has been necessary for northern leaders to stress Islam in order to maintain northern unity. However, Islam itself has worked to intensify fissures opened up by social and economic change in Nigeria. Islam in Nigeria continues to be contentious in both domestic and foreign policy.

Author: Lee R. Martin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452901791
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1073

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