"Considering the ensuing conflicts, violence, and wars in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), the question staring us in the face is whether the world community has the will to change the current view of the untouchability of Westphalian sovereign states"--
The post-independence integration endeavor of the East African Community has been punctuated with challenges, culminating into the collapse of the 1967-1977 regional organization. The renaissance of the integration agenda since the re-establishment of the regional organization in 1999 has rekindled epistemological debate among scholars and ......
Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and managed and organized bands, concerts, and tours around the ......
Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and managed and organized bands, concerts, and tours around the ......
Against the background of a changing world order, former colonial powers frequently challenged Pan-Africanism and reasonable arguments voiced in Pan-African congress petitions and speeches. In this book, Mano Delea traces Pan-Africanism from its roots in a time dominated by the necessity to engage to a time in which it increasingly was able to ......
Benin, Mercenaries, and the Survival of a New State
Freshly out from under French colonial rule in 1960, the West African nation of Dahomey (now Benin) became home to the largest number of coups d'etat in history, earning the reputation of the "sick child of Africa." Country politics eventually aligned with Marxist and socialist ideologies stimulating French opposition that resulted in mercenary ......
Northern Ghanaian Women's Artistry: Visualizing Culture explores women's tradition of wall painting, or bambolse, in northern Ghana by delving into the history of bambolse and how it has changed over time. This book explores women artists' experiences, knowledge, and technical processes.
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims ......
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. This title presents the picture of three Third World Jewish communities, tracing their exposure to modernization and their relations with the Muslims and the European settlers.
