Tag: African

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.

Free Download Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale, "The African Informal Economy: Structure, Dynamics, and Resilience "
English | ISBN: 9004692649 | 2024 | 308 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The informal sector is a vital sustainer of the African economy, employing more than 60% of sub-Saharan Africans. The book examines diverse segments of the informal sector, putting into consideration their structure, dynamics, resilience and gender issues.

Free Download The Dark Past: The US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015 by William M. Wiecek
English | November 4, 2024 | ISBN: 0197654436 | True EPUB | 552 pages | 0.8 MB
For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. During America’s first two centuries, slavery was the law of the land. The Court initially avoided challenging it, and in 1857, it seemed that the justices were committed to defending it with the disastrous Dred Scott decision, which denied that Black Americans could claim any rights under the Constitution. The Court also failed to sustain Congress’s effort to accord rights and status to Black Americans during Reconstruction, and it accepted white supremacy in the 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which ratified the doctrine of "separate but equal." It did better in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1972, but then again retreated in the face of political backlash.

Free Download Katherine Reece, "West African Kingdoms: Empires Of Gold and Trade (Ancient Civilizations)"
English | 2005 | pages: 48 | ISBN: 1595155082 | PDF | 7,5 mb
"The books in this series give in-depth coverage to four of the Ancient World’s most important civilizations. The books show how these civilizations began, how they developed and became large and important ones, and how they eventually died out. Trade, arts, education, and political and religious topics are all covered"-Provided by ✅Publisher.Describes the development of West African kingdoms from their early beginnings through the waning of their influence, and discusses trade, arts, education, politics and religion.