The modernity of witchcraft : politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa 9780813917023, 0813917026, 9780813917030, 0813917034

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa 0415258677, 9780415258678

'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Afr

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Politics And The Occult 9780835608572

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State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa 9780253029980

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The Politics of AIDs in Africa 9781685857851

Why do some African states commit more effectively than others to the fight against AIDS? How do power inequalities and

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Bondage of Boundaries and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Africa : The �Northern Problem� and Ethno-Futures [1 ed.] 9780798304061, 9780798303910

What has confounded African efforts to create cohesive, prosperous and just states in postcolonial Africa? What has been

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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 1501767917, 9781501767913

In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anti

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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 9781501767920

In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anti

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Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa 1009286188, 9781009286183

Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? Looking at variatio

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Winds of Change: The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa 0863563880, 9780863563881

Recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa have radically destabilised the region, which is beset with risi

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Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation 9780773576322

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states str

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