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Evidence, ethos and experiment the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Patrick Kachur -- Remember Bambali: evidence, ethics and the co-production of truth / Ann Kelly -- Foetuses, facts and frictions: insights from ultrasound research in Tanzania / Babette M�uller-Rockstroh -- Healers and scientists: the epistemological politics of research about medicinal plants in Tanzania, or 'moving away from traditional medicine' / Stacey A. …”
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Class formations and inequality structures in contemporary African migration : evidence from Ghana / by Arthur, John A., 1958-

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Health promoting schools in Africa : evidence, strategies, challenges and prospects /

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The new scramble for Africa / by Carmody, Pádraig Risteard

Table of Contents: “…The Asian scramble for investment and markets: evidence and impacts in Zambia…”

Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

Table of Contents: “…Male circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process /…”
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Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia : challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 3 China’s investment in African hydropower: How to govern the water–energy nexus? Evidence from the Bui Dam in Ghana /…”
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Origins of African plant domestication

Table of Contents: “…Regional archaeological evidence -- section 5. Botanical and ethnographic evidence.…”
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Women's economic empowerment : insights from Africa and South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra -- Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama -- The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham.…”

Pastoralism in Africa : past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Specialisation and diversification among African pastoral societies / Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg -- Herders before pastoralism : prehistoric prelude in the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer -- 'I hope your cattle are well' : archaeological evidence for early cattle-centred behaviour in the eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad / Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja P�ollath -- Trajectories to pastoralism in northern and central Kenya : an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence / Paul Lane -- From first stock keepers to specialised pastoralists in the West African savanna / Veerle Linseele -- A short history of early herding in Southern Africa / Karim Sadr -- Establishing a pre-colonial 'modern' cattle and gun society : (re-)pastoralisation, mercantile capitalism and power amongst Herero in nineteenth century central Namibia / Dag Henrichsen -- The emergence of commercial ranching under state control and the encapsulation of pastoralism in African reserves / Christo Botha -- Land, boreholes and fences : the development of commercial livestock farming in the Outjo district, Namibia / Ute Dieckmann -- The political ecology of specialisation and diversification : long-term dynamics of pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias �Osterle -- Social-ecological change and institutional development in a pastoral community in north-western Namibia / Michael Bollig -- Pastoral belonging : causes and consequences of part-time pastoralism in north-western Namibia / Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner -- State, conflict and pastoralism in contemporary eastern Chad : the case of Zaghawa-Tama relationships / Babett J�anszky and Grit Jungstand -- Unofficial trade when states are weak : the case of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa / Peter D. …”
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Citizenship Law in Africa: 3rd Edition / by Manby, Bronwyn

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the third edition -- Summary and recommendations -- International norms on nationality -- Nationality under colonial rule and the transition to independence -- The basis of nationality law today -- The right to a nationality in national law -- Nationality based on birth in the territory -- Nationality based on descent -- Adopted children -- Racial and ethnic discrimination -- Gender discrimination -- Dual nationality -- Naturalisation -- Nationality requirements for public office -- Rights for the African diaspora -- Loss and deprivation of nationality -- Renunciation and reacquisition -- Evidence and documentation -- State successions since independence -- Naturalisation as a "durable solution" for refugees -- Appendix : legal sources.…”
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Research Universities in Africa / by Cloete, Nico, Bailey, Tracy, Amito, Helen, Van Schalkwyk, François, Bunting, Ian, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…The role of the research university -- Tensions between functions in the research university -- Incentivising research performance at African universities -- Evidence-based planning and governance -- Knowledge and networks -- part 3. …”
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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. …”
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Natural resources management in African agriculture understanding and improving current practices /

Table of Contents: “…Liquidity and Soil Management: Evidence from Madagascar and Niger 129 -- TI Wyatt -- 11. …”
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Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaëlle Branche.…”
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Extending the frontiers essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database /

Table of Contents: “…Map of the transatlantic slave trade, 1501-1867 -- A new assessment of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson -- Origins and destinations -- The foundations of the system: a reassessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes -- The slave trade to Pernambuco, 1561-1851 / Daniel Barros Domingues da Silva and David Eltis -- The transatlantic slave trade to Bahia, 1582-1851 / Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro -- The origins of slaves leaving the Upper Guinea coast in the nineteenth century / Philip Misevich -- The African origins of slaves arriving in Cuba, 1789-1865 / Oscar Grandío Moráguez -- National slave trades -- The significance of the French slave trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716 / James Pritchard, David Eltis, and David Richardson -- The Dutch in the Atlantic world: new perspectives from the slave trade with particular reference to the African origins of the traffic / Jelmer Vos, David Eltis, and David Richardson -- The slave trade of northern Germany from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Andrea Weindl -- Some wider consequences and implications of the new data -- The slave trade, colonial markets, and slave families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1790-ca. 1830 / Manolo Florentino -- The suppression of the slave trade and slave departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- The demographic decline of Caribbean slave populations: new evidence from the transatlantic and intra-American slave trades / David Eltis and Paul Lachance.…”
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Positive tourism in Africa / by Mkono, Mucha (Muchazondida)

Table of Contents: “…-- Tourism progress in the SADC region : post-colonial era milestones -- Tourism and economic wellbeing in Africa -- The positive interaction between tourism development and human development : evidence from Mauritius -- Tourism governance and organizational infrastructure in the East African community : a baseline analysis -- The contribution of the law to tourism : the case of Mauritius -- Crises, controversies, and the future Terrorism and tourism recovery cases : a study of Tunisia and Egypt -- The trophy hunting controversy : how hunters rationalise their pastime in social media -- Management of a mature destination : Kruger National Park, South Africa -- The future of tourism in Africa : optimism in a changing environment.…”
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Africa's Lions : Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies /

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Bioactive compounds of medicinal plants : properties and potential for human health /

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Freedom, justice, and decolonization by Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-

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