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Free Download The African Mood Perspective on God and the Problem of Evil
by Ada Agada
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009452665 | 76 Pages | True PDF | 1.18 MB

Free Download Fanie Herman, "China’s African Peacekeeping Decision-making in the Hu Jintao Era"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9384464856 | EPUB | pages: 238 | 0.8 mb
China’s role in international peacekeeping has greatly expanded during the leadership of Hu Jintao, and China has since become a significant contributor to peacekeeping operations (PKOs) in Africa. The importance of the book is expressed in the view that peacekeeping intervention is a tool that strengthens or fulfills policy goals in the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and the UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). China has considerable interests at stake in Africa, in terms of promoting economic cooperation or gaining access to natural resources. In order to maintain these efforts, it is imperative that a secure and stable environment is created, not only to maintain diplomatic relations with its African partners, but also to express the harmonious worldview and peaceful development concepts, which rose to prominence under the presidency of Hu Jintao. The purpose of this book is therefore to examine the extent to which peacekeeping intervention contributes to China’s relations with these countries. Two models are employed to shed light on this thesis. The rational actor model (RAM) developed by Graham Allison is used in the first instance to explain the goals for each country, the options considered to reach the goals, the consequences or outcomes of choice that will ensure whether a particular option is chosen, and then selecting the option that has the consequences that rank the highest in the leadership’s payoff function. However, the leadership in policy formulation does not always act in a unitary fashion and often needs the input of governmental actors to produce results in decision making. Therefore, the bureaucratic politics model (BPM) of Allison is used in the second instance to indicate the bargaining, influencing and compromising positions of the bureaucracy that has reinforced the rational decisions of the leadership. The main findings are that peacekeeping interventions serve as a mechanism to facilitate cooperation, is significant to China’s goals in the mission countries, and influence and shape bargaining that occur between bureaucratic actors regarding peacekeeping.

Free Download Vershawn Ashanti Young, "The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Longue Duree of Black Voices "
English | ISBN: 0415731062 | 2018 | 868 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric is a comprehensive compendium of primary texts that is designed for use by students, teachers, and scholars of rhetoric and for the general public interested in the history of African American communication. The volume and its companion website include dialogues, creative works, essays, folklore, music, interviews, news stories, raps, videos, and speeches that are performed or written by African Americans. Both the book as a whole and the various selections in it speak directly to the artistic, cultural, economic, gendered, social, and political condition of African Americans from the enslavement period in America to the present, as well as to the Black Diaspora.

Free Download Tim Murithi, "The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1788311507, 1788311493 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 1.0 mb
The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions. Previously seen as the panacea to Africa’s continuing problems with violence and corruption in society, under the slogan "African Solutions to African Problems", the African Union, this book argues, seems to have run its course.

Free Download Lone Lindholt, "Questioning the Universality of Human Rights: African Charter on Human and People’s Rights in Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367000423, 0367000474 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.8 mb
First published in 1997, this volume analyses the material provisions of the African charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights from 1981, discussing the issues this raises both with respect to the theoretical aspects of human rights law, and in relation to its implementation in various African member states. Illustrating the first aspect, in particular the question of universality of human rights is discussed; with respect to the national implementation the Southern African states are the main focal points, in particular Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique.

Free Download Brian E. Ward, "Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0813020743 | PDF | pages: 336 | 17.5 mb
"A dazzling array of essays that vastly expands our understanding of the role of the media and popular culture in the politics of race. From Andy Griffith to Amiri Baraka, from Leadbelly’s blues to "Sweet Sweetback’s Baaadassss Song," this is a brilliant and irreplaceable collection."-Timothy B. Tyson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

Free Download Julien Atchoua, Jean-Jacques Maomra Bogui, Saikou Diallo, "Digital Technologies and African Societies: Challenges and Opportunities"
English | 2020 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1786304511 | PDF | 1,2 mb
The integration and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in African countries is increasingly observable in various sectors of activity (banking, education, trade, etc.) despite a digital divide still relevant. ICT has become a major sector of the recent growth of a new informal economy in African cities (Chéneau-Loquay, 2008). This question has been at the heart of various international meetings. An overall positive and even utopian momentum is generally heard about the contribution of digital technologies to the development of African states. The adoption or appropriation of digital technologies by Africans is presented in many speeches by politicians or institutions involved in the field of cooperation and international development as an important issue for the development of this continent. These different considerations give rise to reflections on the following themes. – Social Media and Public Space in Africa – Challenges of the digital economy in Africa – ICT and modernization of higher education in Africa

Free Download Rachel Kranz, "African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs"
English | 2004 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 0816051011 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Profiles more than 155 African American business leaders and entrepreneurs, including Don Barden, Emma Chappell, Mel Farr, Vera Moore, and Oprah Winfrey.

Free Download Arndt Graf, "African-Asian Encounters: New Cooperations and New Dependencies "
English | ISBN: 946298428X | 2017 | 248 pages | PDF | 1181 KB
In recent decades, ties between Africa and Asia have greatly increased. And while most of the scholarly attention to the phenomenon has focused on China, often with an emphasis on asymmetric power relations in both politics and economics, this book takes a much broader view, looking at various small and medium-sized actors in Asia and Africa in a wide range of fields. It will be essential for scholars working on Asian-African studies and will also offer insights for policymakers working in this fast-changing field.

Free Download Michael Stancliff, "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State"
English | 2010 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0415997631, 1138868094 | PDF | 1,6 mb
A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and didactic motifs of the previous decades of African-American reform politics, but far exceeded her predecessors in crafting lessons of rhetoric for women. Focusing on the way in which Harper brought her readers a critical training for the rhetorical action of a life commitment to social reform, this book reconsiders her practice as explicitly and primarily a project of teaching. This study also places Harper’s work firmly in black-nationalist lineages from which she is routinely excluded, establishes Harper as an architect of a collective African-American identity that constitutes a political and theoretical bridge between early abolitionism and 20th-century civil rights activism, and contributes to the contemporary portrayal of Harper as an important theorist of African-American feminism whose radical egalitarian ethic has lasting relevance for civil rights and human rights workers.