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Africa in stereo : modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity / by Jaji, Tsitsi

Table of Contents: “…Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- N�egritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post-)pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.…”
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Queer African Cinemas / by Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Registering Resistance: The Pluralities and Possibilities of Queer African Cinemas -- Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema -- Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer Cinema's Destiny (a view from 2020).…”
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Queer African Cinemas / by Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Registering Resistance: The Pluralities and Possibilities of Queer African Cinemas -- Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema -- Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer Cinema's Destiny (a view from 2020).…”
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In search of brightest Africa reimagining the dark continent in American culture, 1884-1936 / by Jones, Jeannette Eileen, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: in search of brightest Africa -- A cry from Africa : Victorians, new women, new Negroes, and moderns confront the dark continent -- To Bunco a Yankee : America and the Congo question -- Written on the wall : pan-African dreams of African empires and republics -- To capture a vanishing world : naturalist-environmentalist discourses and displays of Africa -- Reel Africa : American filmmaking and criticism in defense of Africa -- Conclusion: the wonders of Africa brought to America.…”
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Re-imagining development communication in Africa

Table of Contents: “…Transcultural social change and development : a critical review of paradigm shifts / Daniel Awodiya -- Africa, development and communication : the day after / Chuka Onwumechili and Ikechukwu Ndolo -- Speaking of African women's agency, activism and complementary gender roles : a look at African feminism / Annie Duru -- Going back to basics : shifting research focus to indigenous knowledge systems and their role in development / Matt Mogekwu. …”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Slavery by any other name African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique / by Allina, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization" -- From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity" -- The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.…”
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Africa and World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Mobilizing communities and resources for the war effort -- Women, rice and war: political and economic crisis in war-time Abeokuta (Nigeria) / Judith A. …”
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Observing Protest from a Place : The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering to study populations "in a situation of militancy" in an international event3.4 Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, composition of groups of participants, and "bringing real people back in" through paragons -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar -- 4.1 Transnational, but not only: the actors of women's issues in Dakar -- 4.2 Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women's issues in Dakar…”
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Observing Protest from a Place : The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering to study populations "in a situation of militancy" in an international event3.4 Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, composition of groups of participants, and "bringing real people back in" through paragons -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar -- 4.1 Transnational, but not only: the actors of women's issues in Dakar -- 4.2 Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women's issues in Dakar…”
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International human rights and their enforcement in Africa / by Mbondenyi, Morris Kiwinda

Table of Contents: “…A review of the concept and philosophy of human rights -- Human rights in Africa -- Historical dimensions of the African system on human and people's rights -- The Consultative Act of the African Union -- The African Charter on Human and People's Rights -- The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peopl'es Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa -- The African Union and its organ -- The African Commission on Human and People's Rights -- The African Court on Human and People's Rights -- African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- Normative challenges and reforms to Africa's regional human rights system -- Institutional challenges and reforms under the African human rights system -- Mainstreaming and rationalising the African human rights system.…”
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Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / by Dowden, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Somalia -- Forward to the past: Zimbabwe -- Breaking apart: Sudan -- A tick bigger than the dog: Angola -- Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda -- God, trust and trade: Senegal -- Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone -- The positive women: AIDS in Africa -- Copying King Leopold: Congo -- Not just another country: South Africa -- Meat and money: eating in Kenya -- Look out world: Nigeria -- New colonists or old friends? …”

Towards a People-Driven African Union : Current Obstacles and New Opportunities / by Kane, Ibrahima

Table of Contents: “…THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION: OUTREACH TO CIVIL SOCIETY; The African Citizens' Directorate; The African Union-Civil Society Organisation Forum; The Women, Gender and Development Directorate and the Women's Forum; 7. …”
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Towards a People-Driven African Union : Current Obstacles and New Opportunities / by Kane, Ibrahima

Table of Contents: “…THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION: OUTREACH TO CIVIL SOCIETY; The African Citizens' Directorate; The African Union-Civil Society Organisation Forum; The Women, Gender and Development Directorate and the Women's Forum; 7. …”
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India in Africa, Africa in India Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms /

Table of Contents: “…Hawley -- Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world / by Gwyn Campbell -- India in Africa -- The indentured experience : Indian women in Colonial Natal / by Devarakshanam Govinden -- Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa / by Savita Nair -- Bhangra remixes / by Anjali Gera Roy -- "Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other / by Gwenda Vander Steene -- The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought / by Dana Rush -- Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès, Mauritius / by Thangam Ravindranathan -- Africa in India -- Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India / by Rahul C. …”
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African indigenous knowledges in a postcolonial world : essays in honour of Toyin Falola /

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Movers and shakers social movements in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…/ Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel -- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans -- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah -- African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie -- The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink -- Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest -- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani -- Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem -- An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares -- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? …”
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Routledge handbook of African politics /

Table of Contents: “…Suberu -- The rule of law and the courts / Peter VonDoepp -- Security and the privatization of force and violence / Rita Abrahamsen -- Neopatrimonialism and political regimes / Gero Erdmann -- The informal practices of civil servants / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- Class politics / Bill Freund -- The politics of ethnicity / Gabrielle Lynch -- Autochthony and the politics of belonging / Peter Geschiere -- Religion and politics / Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar -- Muslim politics in West Africa / Leonardo A. Villalón -- Women in politics / Amina Mama -- Civil war / Philip Roessler -- Oil politics / Ricardo Soares de Oliveira -- Power-sharing / Andreas Mehler -- Post-conflict peacebuilding / Devon Curtis -- Transitional justice after atrocity / Phil Clark -- Electoral authoritarianism and multi-party politics / Nicolas van de Walle -- The power of elections / Staffan I. …”

Refugee rights ethics, advocacy, and Africa /

Table of Contents: “…There is more than one way of dying : an Ethiopian perspective on long term stays in refugee camps / Abebe Feyissa with Rebecca Horn -- What we owe to refugees and IDPs : an inquiry into the rights of the forcibly displaced / William O'Neill -- Burundian refugees in western Tanzania : responsibilities for advocacy / Joint Commission for Refugees of the Burundi and Tanzania Episcopal Conferences -- The right to freedom of movement for refugees in Uganda / Lucy Hovil and Moses Chrispus Okello -- The plight of urban refugees in Nairobi, Kenya / John Burton Wagacha and John Guiney -- Protection as capability expansion : practical ethics for assisting urban refugees / Loren Landau -- Sexual violence, gender roles, and displacement / Binaifer Nowrojee -- Justice, women's rights, and forced migration / Susan Martin -- Human rights, the use of force, and displacement in the Great Lakes region : Reflections on a troubling trend / Khoti Kamanga -- Internally displaced people, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect / David Hollenbach -- Internally displaced persons in northern Uganda : a challenge for peace and reconciliation / Lam Oryem Cosmas -- Justice and peace : reintegration and reconciliation of returning displaced persons in post-conflict situations / Stephen J. …”
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