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Imaging Culture
Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the dynamic periods of colonialism, national independence, socialism, and democracy, its analysis focuses on the studio and documentary work of professional urban photographers, particularly in the capital city of Bamako and in smaller cities such as Mopti and Ségu. Featuring the work of more than twenty-five photographers, it concentrates on those who have been particularly influential for the local development and practice of the medium as well as its international popularization and active participation in the contemporary art market. Imaging Culture looks at how local aesthetic ideas are visually communicated in the photographers' art and argues that though these aesthetic arrangements have specific relevance for local consumers, they transcend geographical and cultural boundaries to have value for contemporary global audiences as well. Imaging Culture is an important and visually interesting book which will become a standard source for those who study African photography and its global impact.
Coordinating Revenue Incentive Policies in the Caribbean
The pervasive use of tax incentives is costly for the Caribbean countries, yet the benefits seem limited. Better policy coordination at the regional level is needed to help overcome the collective action problems and generate more revenue to support the much-needed infrastructure investment. Using the region's Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) programs as an example, we also show that a price-quantity coordination mechanism can help achieve an efficient outcome with greater CBI incomes for member countries.
What's the Point of School?
Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schools With their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today’s schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education’s key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners who will go on to thrive as adults in a swiftly-changing, dynamic world. Students must be encouraged to sharpen their wits, ask questions, and think for themselves - all without chucking out Shakespeare or the Periodic Table. Blending down-to-earth examples with the latest advances in brain science, and written with passion, wit, and authority, this brilliant book will inspire teachers, parents, and readers of all backgrounds to join a practical revolution and foster in the next generation a natural curiosity and the spirit of adventure.
Motherhood by Choice
   To honor the 40th anniversary of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, journalist Perdita Huston travelled the world to gather this remarkable collection of oral histories of and about the often unknown leaders of a worldwide movement to bring women their reproductive rights. Drawing on personal interviews, Huston delineates the motivations, strategies, and heartaches of twelve pioneers-eight women, four men-both from the developing world, before and after colonial rule, and from industrialized countries, who braved scorn and abuse to raise the issues of family planning, contraception, and sex education, and to fight for improved healthcare for women. These moving testimo...
La Compagnie générale des oléagineux tropicaux en Casamance de 1948 à 1962
A la veille du XXI siècle, le développement rural demeure encore, en Afrique noire, la pierre d'achoppement du développement rural postcolonial. C'est le cas de la Compagnie générale des oléagineux tropicaux (CGOT, implantée en Casamance, au Sénégal. Elle a constitué l'un des plus gros investissements de la puissance coloniale française dans le domaine agricole, en Afrique subsaharienne. Et pourtant, elle reste très largerment méconnue ; les représentations qu'on en a sont soit trompées, soit erronées. Cette monographie, en s'interrogeant sur la mise en valeur coloniale, sa finalité, ses objectifs et ses méthodes, tente donc d'apporter un éclairage de la mécanisation, la gestion de la main-d'oeuvre et la participation des populations aux projets de développement, les processus de prise de décision, le rôle de l'Etat dans le bassin arachidier permet de mieux cerner les tentatives volontaristes et modernistes des Etats coloniaux.
2013 Africa Cup of Nations: Complete Tournament Record
Nigeria's triumph over surprise finalists Burkina Faso in the Final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations brought to a close the 29th edition of the tournament, hosted by South Africa. The tournament began in January 2012 with the preliminary round of knock-out qualifying matches and finished with the 16 teams in the Finals competition. This book records every match played in both the qualifying and finals tournaments, line-ups in the 32 Finals matches, full statistics on each game, details of the national squads, top scorers, host stadiums plus an extended section on each of the previous 28 tournaments back to the first in 1957. 111 pages of facts and statistics covering all aspects of the competition.
The Revolution’s Echoes
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
