Africa – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 7, 2014|Africa|0 comments

Explaining Darfur : four lectures on the ongoing genocide / by Agnes van Ardenne-van der Hoeven … [et al.]. Zimbabwe : years of hope and despair / Philip Barclay. National strategic development plan, 2012/13 – 2016/17 : growth and development strategic framework / Ministry of Development Planning. Poverty & religious crisis in Africa : a study of Hausa-Fulani Muslim society / by Francis Nwaoha. The centenary book of South African

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Africa – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 30, 2014|Africa|0 comments

E-books African History : A Very Short Introduction / Huang, C. T. James China-Africa Development Relations / Dent, Christopher M. Formal Peace and Informal War : Security and Development in Congo / Marriage, Zoë Images and Empires : Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830–1914 / Vandervort, Bruce Books Abuja : the making of a capital city, 1976-2006 / edited by Alkasum Abba. Africa

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Africa – November and December 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 16, 2014|Africa|0 comments

333 saints : a life of scholarship in Timbuktu = 333 Saints : l’esprit du savoir à Tombouctou / Alexandra Huddleston. Africa’s health challenges : sovereignty, mobility of people and healthcare governance / edited by Andrew F. Cooper, John J. Kirton, Franklyn Lisk, Hany Besada. Agricultural input subsidies : the recent Malawi experience / Ephraim Chirwa and Andrew Dorward. Ancestors and antiretrovirals : the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South

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Africa – June 2013 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 8, 2014|Africa|0 comments

States of grace : Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration / Donald Martin Carter. Al-Shabaab in Somalia : the history and ideology of a militant Islamist group, 2005-2012 / Stig Jarle Hansen. Historia ya Kiswahili : 50 BK hadi 1500 BK / David P.B. Massamba. Healing a nation : a testimony : waging and winning a peaceful revolution to unite and heal a broken Rwanda / Dr Theogene

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Africa – September and October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 21, 2013|Africa|0 comments

Accented futures : language activism and the ending of apartheid / Carli Coetzee. The African presence : representations of Africa in the construction of Britishness / Graham Harrison. Americanah : a novel / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The economics of ethnic conflict : the case of Burkina Faso / Andreas Dafinger. Food security, safety nets and social protection in Ethiopia / edited by Dessalegn Rahmato, Alula Pankhurst and Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen.

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The Life and Afterlife of David Livingstone: exploring missionary archives

By dsw|October 19, 2013|Africa, Archival collections, Religions|0 comments

The Life and Afterlife of David Livingstone: exploring missionary archives Date: 22 October 2013Time: 10:30 AM Finishes: 22 March 2014Time: 5:00 PM Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: Foyle Special Collections Gallery Type of Event: Exhibition This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dr David Livingstone. He remains one of the best known British explorers and humanitarian campaigners of the nineteenth century, famed for his extensive travels through Africa, his

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Look How Far We’ve Come… Exploring African British Histories – Thursday October 24, 6.30pm-9.00pm

By dsw|October 18, 2013|Africa, History|0 comments

Look How Far We’ve Come… Exploring African British Histories Thursday October 24, 6.30pm-9.00pm Westminster Reference Library, 35 St Martin’s Street WC2H 7HP A free, inter-generational audio-visual presentation by history consultant Kwaku, in which he focuses on and beyond his work in progress* in order to highlight a narrative which maps out more than a millennium of African British histories. Includes a Q&A session. Light refreshments compliments of Jerk City. This

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FILM AFRICA 2013

By dsw|October 18, 2013|Africa, Films and Sound Recordings, Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Film Africa is the Royal African Society’s annual festival celebrating the best African cinema from across the continent. Launched in 2011, Film Africa is now the UK’s largest festival of African film and culture. Every year, Film Africa brings London audiences a core programme of fiction and documentary films alongside a vibrant series of accompanying events, including director Q&As, panel discussions, talks, workshops, master classes, family activities and Film Africa

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Selected African Economics articles available for free

By Victoria Bird|September 26, 2013|Africa, Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

To celebrate the start of the new academic term, Wiley have kindly provided free access to a selection of articles on African Economics from across our social science and humanities journals. All articles are freely available until 31 December 2013. Access the full list of articles are on Wiley’s website. A total of 50 have been made available for use, and can be read online, downloaded, printed and saved. Examples of available

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