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Free Download Carolyn Marie Wilkins, "Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0826218997 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.5 mb
Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair, she spent years struggling to convince others that she was black. Her family’s prominence set Carolyn’s experiences even further apart from those of the average African American. Her father and uncle were well-known lawyers who had graduated from Harvard Law School. Another uncle had been a child prodigy and protégé of Albert Einstein. And her grandfather had been America’s first black assistant secretary of labor.

Free Download Adrian Miller, "Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue "
English | ISBN: 1469662809 | 2021 | 328 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation’s most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren’t just eating it; they’re also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller-admitted ‘cuehead and longtime certified barbecue judge-that in today’s barbecue culture African Americans don’t get much love?

Free Download An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
English | April 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 0753560127 | 532 pages | True EPUB | 25.64 MB
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Free Download Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu, "African perspectives in international investment law "
English | ISBN: 1526182475 | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This volume explores trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) on the African continent, the benefits and challenges that FDI presents for African States, and Africa’s participation in the international investment law regime. Featuring contributions from leading African international lawyers, arbitrators, jurists, academics, and litigation experts, this landmark volume is the first of its kind of explore African perspectives in international investment law. Hodu and Mbengue bring together non-mainstream approaches to the debate on the nexus between foreign investment and development, addressing key conceptual issues that will define contemporary international investment law for decades to come. With insights and critical comments on the challenges of Africa’s foreign investment climate and international investment law, this timely collection is essential reading for academics, students, and practitioners alike.

Free Download Bruce E. Arlinghaus, "African Security Issues: Sovereignty, Stability, And Solidarity"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367166348 | EPUB | pages: 222 | 0.7 mb
This book examines issues of strategic access and resources, superpower and regional conflict, economic growth and internal stability, and the role of African nations as a significant bloc within the nonaligned world in light of three concepts: sovereignty, stability, and solidarity.

Free Download Jacob K. Olupona, "African Religions: A Very Short Introduction "
English | ISBN: 0199790582 | 2014 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 947 KB
What are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by examining primarily indigenous religious traditions on the African continent, as well as exploring Christianity and Islam. It focuses on the diversity of ethnic groups, languages, cultures, and worldviews, emphasizing the continent’s regional diversity. Olupona examines a wide range of African religious traditions on their own terms and in their social, cultural, and political contexts. For example, the book moves beyond ethnographic descriptions and interpretations of core beliefs and practices to look at how African religion has engaged issues of socioeconomic development and power relations.

Free Download Anne Flaspöler, "African Peacekeeping Training Centres: Socialisation as a Tool for Peace?"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367664895, 081534662X | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.8 mb
Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment. However, despite their popularity within the international community as a tool for achieving international security, development, and state-building objectives, they have not received a great deal of analysis or academic attention. This book provides an in-depth analysis of peacekeeping training in Africa, tracing how centres have adapted to the operational and normative changes of peace operations over time and raising questions about the expectations attached to these training efforts and their impact.

Free Download Catarina Antunes Gomes, Cesaltina Abreu, "African Citizenship Aspirations: As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367892669, 1138577979 | EPUB | pages: 108 | 0.5 mb
This collective work aims to critically reflect upon contemporary citizenship aspirations and practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on different realities, such as Angola, Mozambique and the Great Lakes region, it tries to unveil multiple historical commonalities, especially those arising from shared experiences of postcolonial violence and vulnerability. Thus, albeit the social realities under scrutiny cannot stand for the complexity of the Continent, the studies here gathered enlighten similar processes that can be identified in many other African contexts. That is certainly the case of the proliferation of religious manifestations and democratic demands that are currently being articulated in different countries such as Burundi, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Nigeria.

Free Download Tricia Redeker Hepner, "African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B00Y4I5CMK | PDF | pages: 287 | 1.1 mb
African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony.

Free Download Infinity Audio African Magic – Afro House Serum Presets Vol. 2 | 13 September 2024 | 7.10 MB
Delve deeper into the rhythmic heart of Africa with African Magic 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the acclaimed preset pack.