Histoire générale du Congo
Histoire générale du Congo

Author: Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem

Publisher: De Boeck Supérieur

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 955

ISBN-13: 9782801111741

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Vaste pays au cœur de l'Afrique, le Congo représente aussi trois mille ans d'aventures humaines. Un cheminement qui a eu ses longues durées et ses accélérations, ses continuités et ses ruptures, ses dynamiques et ses récurrences, au travers d'une évolution globale qui se lit dans les trois étapes successives de la précolonisation, de la colonisation et de la postcolonisation. Cette trajectoire des Congolais, trop facilement maquillée par le théâtre des convulsions contemporaines, apparaît, à la lecture, comme une intelligence nouvelle de cette crise de maturation d'un pays qui demeure malgré tout, la pierre d'angle du décollage économique de l'ensemble de la région. Cette Histoire générale du Congo est une édition revue, complétée et actualisée à la lumière des événements récents en Afrique centrale d'une première Histoire du Zaïre.

Making Nations, Creating Strangers
Making Nations, Creating Strangers

Author: Sarah Rich Dorman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9004157905

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This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.

V. Y. Mudimbe
V. Y. Mudimbe

Author: Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1846318947

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V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture charts the intellectual history of the Congolese thinker, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. He highlights Mudimbe's trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, Pan-Africansim, neo-colonialism, negritude, pedagogy, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and a variety of other subjects, using these as contexts for close readings of many of Mudimbe's texts, both influential and lesser-known. A cutting-edge, interdisciplinary book, V. Y. Mudimbe elucidates the complex work of one of the most significant African thinkers working today.

Society, State, and Identity in African History
Society, State, and Identity in African History

Author: Bahru Zewde

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9994450255

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The Fourth Congress of the Association of African historians was held in Addis Ababa in May 2007. These 21 papers are a key selection of the papers presented there, with an introduction by the distinguished historian Bahru Zewde. Given the contemporary salience and the historical depth of the issue of identity, the congress was devoted to that global phenomenon within Africa. The papers explore and analyse the issue of identity in its diverse temporal settings, from its pre-colonial roots to its cotemporary manifestations. The papers are divided into six parts: Pre-Colonial Identities; Colonialism and Identity; Conceptions of the Nation-State and Identity; Identity-Based Conflicts; Migration and Acculturation; and Memory, History and Identity. The authors are scholars from Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, and Vice-President of the Association of African Historians. He was formerly Chairperson of the Department of History and Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. Amongst his publication is A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855-1991.

Europe after Empire
Europe after Empire

Author: Elizabeth Buettner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 0521113865

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A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.

The Invention of Race
The Invention of Race

Author: Nicolas Bancel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1317801164

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This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.

Global Leadership Perspectives
Global Leadership Perspectives

Author: Simon Western

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1526449005

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A critical, global counterpoint to more western-centric texts that will appeal to critical leadership scholars, those teaching leadership from a critical perspective and those teaching leadership with an international focus. Split into two parts; its first part presents the local and regional variations in leadership from across the globe, with each of the twenty individual authors presenting the histories, cultures, tensions and social changes that shape the practice of everyday leadership in their respective region. Regions and countries included are: the Arab Middle East, Argentina, ASEAN, Australia, Brazil, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, South Africa, Turkey, UK, USA. In the second part, the editors then critically analyse these chapters and identify the key themes and specific issues, enabling the reader to challenge their own leadership perceptions and move beyond the normative, uncritical approach to leadership. Suitable reading for leadership students, researchers and practitioners looking to enhance their knowledge of global leadership.

In the Shadow of Violence
In the Shadow of Violence

Author: Douglass C. North

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1107014212

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This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.

On the Fault Line
On the Fault Line

Author: Jeffrey Herbst

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 184765813X

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Societies in all countries are split by major divisions - or 'faultlines' - caused by differences in race, religion, ethnicity, wealth, class or power. Like geological faultlines, some are plainly evident, whereas others are more concealed and can erupt with little warning. Violence along faultlines within states, from Sudan to Iraq to the Congo, is the spark of much contemporary conflict. It has cost millions of lives in the past twenty years alone. In extreme cases, this violence threatens to tear states apart. Yet some countries such as Canada, South Africa and Northern Ireland, have largely succeeded in managing their faultlines. On the Faultline is based on a unique year-long project by some of the world's leading experts to examine the nature of conflict around these divisions. In a world facing acute environmental, migration and resource challenges that can only exacerbate differences, it is an essential guide to understanding a phenomenon that all countries must grapple with in the 21st century.