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Free Download Paul Munro, "Colonial Seeds in African Soil: A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone "
English | ISBN: 1789206251 | 2020 | 212 pages | PDF | 1357 KB
"Empire forestry"―the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century―may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in twentieth-century colonial Sierra Leone. While giving careful attention to topics such as forest reservation and exploitation, the volume moves beyond conservation practices and discourses, attending to the overlapping social, economic, and political contexts that have shaped approaches to forest management over time.

Free Download Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America’s Wars by Eugene DeFriest Bétit
English | March 1, 2023 | ISBN: 0811772349 | 400 pages | EPUB | 13 Mb
It’s one of the last overlooked parts of American military history: the significant role African Americans played in the wars of America. Their story is more than just the 54th Massachusetts in the Civil War, more than just a tank battalion in World War II: African Americans contributed to every war in American history. Gene Bétit tells this important story with verve and gusto, as well as respect. By their brave deeds, African Americans have secured a place in American military history, and Bétit makes sure they receive their due.

Free Download Theodore Rueter, "The Politics of Race: African Americans and the Political System"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563245655, 1563245647 | EPUB | pages: 412 | 0.9 mb
A study of the relationship between race and American politics, organised around the institutions and processes of American government. It includes readings by individuals like Bill Clinton, Charles Hamilton, and Carol Swain, across a wide variety of ideological perspectives.

Free Download Helene Strauss, Sarah Olutola, Jessie Forsyth, "Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0367142376, 1138636398 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.9 mb
Across Africa, new collectivities are shifting the terms within which access to economic opportunity, social belonging, and political agency have historically been understood. Recent years have seen powerful waves of civic mobilization sweep across the continent. Less prominent articulations of contemporary political desire have also been percolating through the diffuse experiences of the African everyday. As differential access to global capitalism and its promises folds into modes of subjection―and escape―that are hard to predict, those who exercise power find ever more ways of guarding the borders and memberships of privileged groups. This book turns to the critically entangled terms of affect and access as a basis for exploring emergent orientations in the field of African cultural theorizing. It pays especial attention to scholarship engaging with the multifaceted coordinates of political and social participation, where complex assemblages of affective attachment, exchange, and realignment work in concert with demands for socio-political and economic forms of access. This book was originally published as a special issue of Safundi.

Free Download Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives
by Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Marita Rainsborough
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032683449 | 320 Pages | True PDF | 3.04 MB

Free Download Benno Ndulu, L. Chakraborti, L. Lijane, "Challenges of African Growth: Opportunities, Constraints, and Strategic Directions"
English | 2007 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0821368826 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of the world’s population but a staggering 30 percent of the world’s poor, the challenges it faces are enormous but NOT insurmountable. The message of this book is clear―poverty-eradicating development in Africa is possible. In fact, there are indications that Africa is at a turning point, and there is growing momentum among front-runner economies in the region toward higher and sustained growth. This study challenges African countries and their development partners to consolidate and continue this momentum and to exploit the advantages of the continent as a latecomer, particularly in innovation and in drawing lessons from successful export-led growth experiences in Asia and Latin America. ‘Challenges of African Growth’ identifies opportunities, constraints, and strategic choices that African countries face in their quest for achieving the growth necessary for poverty alleviation. More important, the study provides a broad menu of stategic options for ensuring not only that countries embark on a growth path, but also that the growth is shared and sustainable. The critical areas for action rest on four pillars: the investment climate; infrastructure; innovation for increasing productivity and competitiveness; and institutional capacity.

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.