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Socio-economic Transformation in South Africa
This chapter analyses social and economic development since 1994, starting with looking at various social and economic indicators which point to a...
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Macroeconomic Resilience: South Africa and Selected Emerging Market Economies
The chapter examines the macroeconomic resilience to shocks of South Africa and other emerging economies that the book compares South Africa with...
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Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and Finance
According to the Ghanaian historian Albert Adu Boahen, by as late as 1880, as much as 80% of the continent of ‘Africa was ruled by her own kings,...
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Slavery in Islamic West Africa
This chapter examines the issues of enslavement, slavery, and pathways to freedom in the nineteenth-century West African states established through...
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The World of Africa
This chapter highlights the African world, focusing on East Africa, the Horn of Africa, Arabia and their links with Mediterranean societies and with...
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From Diamonds to Gold: The Rise of Share Dealing in South Africa
The JSE was not the first stock market in sub-Saharan Africa. Public and private financial intermediaries had become a key aspect of settler...
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Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South
That violence has invariably informed the organisation of society is indisputable. What seems to be contested, in some societies, however, is how...
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Slavery in Francophone West Africa
Multiple forms of labor coercion were common in West Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. This chapter focuses on two of them: one,...
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Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa
In the early 1840s and following the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade by several European nations and the United States, European...
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Introduction: Studying Islam in German East Africa
This introductory chapter begins lays out the book’s main research problem in dialogue with previous scholarship and offers. In doing so, it...
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British ‘Cultural Manifestations’ in South Africa, 1960 to 1994
This chapter will show that despite the efforts of some British policymakers to deploy cultural diplomacy in South Africa, there were many barriers...
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Government and the Market: State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa
Governments have roles to play in economies. The debate is more about the extent to which governments play roles in economies. This chapter argues...
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Inequalities, Exclusion, and Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, there is growing interest to understand how social inequalities, discrimination, and inclusion are related...
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Fusion Cooking: Nutrition Education in Britain and British Africa
Domestic sciencedomestic science programs in Britain and Africa, exemplified by Berridge HouseBerridge House in LondonLondon and Queen’s...
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The Reinvention of Africa or the Counter-Discourse of an Identity Assignation
The topic raises the problem of the ways and voices of resilience that constitute counterpoints to the persistence of an image of Africa, for a long...
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Covid-19 in Africa: Social and Economic Ramifications
This book is a collection of chapters detailing the social and economic ramifications of Covid-19 in Africa. Written amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, it...
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Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 A View from the Stock Exchange
This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of...
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Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa
For many years, collective memory has been appropriated and used by social actors for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces. However, the dominant...
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The Vietnam War in Africa
This chapter explores the transnational history of the Vietnam War in Africa. It argues that, while the conflict in Southeast Asia did not influence...
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British Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa, 1960–1994
This book analyses the British government’s use of cultural diplomacy in South Africa from 1960 to 1994. Previously, scholarship on UK-South African...