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Coups from Below Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa
Coups from Below represents the first major effort at studying coups carried out by the lumpen section or the subalterns of the armed forces of...
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Designing West Africa Prelude to 21st Century Calamity
Many African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. How could this have happened? Through the...
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AIDS and South Africa: The Social Expression of a Pandemic
The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions. More people are living with AIDS in South Africa than in any other country in...
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Beyond Structural Adjustment The Institutional Context of African Development
As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a...
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Symbolic Confrontations Muslims Imagining the State in Africa
Donal Cruise O'Brien is a leading authority on Islam in Africa. This is a collection of his writing over the last 30 years, some significantly...
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Impact of the South African War
This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more...
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Women and Work in Northern Nigeria Transcending Boundaries
Women and Work in Northern Nigeria is a study of the social and economic opportunities open to and seized upon by Muslim Hausa women, primarily in...
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South Africa's Foreign Policy Dilemmas of a New Democracy
This edited collection provides a timely assessment of the foreign policy dilemmas faced by the 'new' South Africa as it reemerges into the community...
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The Origins of the Angolan Civil War Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict, 1961-76
An investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76. By looking at the interaction between internal and external factors, it reveals...
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The Fall of Apartheid The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki
The Fall of Apartheid tells the extraordinary story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed...
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South Africa's Brittle Peace The Problem of Post-Settlement Violence
South Africa has succeeded in establishing a democracy, but has yet to eliminate public violence from society. This book takes up the issue of...
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The Colour of Disease Syphilis and Racism in South Africa, 1880-1950
Today AIDS dominates the headlines. A century ago it was fears of syphilis epidemics. This book looks at how the spread of syphilis was linked to...
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African Military History and Politics Coups and Ideological Incursions, 1900-Present
Africa's former colonial masters, including Great Britain; France, Portugal and Spain, trained members and leaders of the various colonial Armed...
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War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean
By examining Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, this unique synthesis of imperial and naval/military history, reveals the depths of colonial involvement...
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The South African Truth Commission
Over the last thirty years, many political transitions from authoritarian regimes and dictatorial political systems have been accompanied by Truth...
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Mozambique The Tortuous Road to Democracy
Mozambique's civil war was inevitable given the tradition of conflict that has always characterized Frelimo, first as an independence movement, and...