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The Roots of Violence
Examining conflict and warfare in Chad from both historic and contemporary perspectives, Mario Azevedo explores not only how violence has permeated and become almost an intrinsic part of the fabric of the central-eastern Sudanic societies, but how foreign interference from centuries ago to the present-day have exacerbated rather than suppressed the violence. Although the main objective of the volume is to understand present Chad, it provides comprehensive and analytical discussion of Chad's violent past. This strategy goes beyond putting the blame on the unwise and ethnic policies at Francois Tombalbaye or Felix Malloum; instead, Roots of Violence clarifies the role of violence in both pre- and post-colonial Chad and, thus, demythologizes many of the assumptions held by scholars and non-scholars alike.
The Origins of War in Mozambique
The book focuses on an area called Maúa, not because I believe Maúa represents the whole of Mozambique as such, but because highlighting a specific area and people helps to understand the Mozambican history more deeply and comprehensively. In any case, it would be impossible to study the experience of all Mozambicans. I am not attempting to write a history textbook of Mozambique, or a glorious history of the liberation struggle, but rather trying to fill a gap in the descriptions of contemporary Mozambican history by delving into matters that have not been written about before.
High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber –the stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially challenging. Resource-rich post-conflict countries face both unique problems and opportunities. They enter peacebuilding with an advantage that distinguishes them from other war-torn societies: access to natural resources that can yield substantial revenues for alleviating poverty, compensating victims, creating jobs, and rebuilding the country and the economy. Evidence shows, however, that this opportunity is often wasted. Resource-rich countries do n...
1000 Doctoral Theses by Mozambicans or about Mozambique
The books presents in historical order information (author, year, title, university, country) about 535 doctoral theses written by Mozambicans and about 544 doctoral theses about Mozambique written by foreigners. Universities of 33 countries have awarded these doctoral degrees. Includes alphabetic and thematic indices, and various tables (2013, 236 pp.)
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X
"Africa for the Africans" was the name given to the extraordinary movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the United States during the 1920s. Now, the long-awaited African volumes of this edition demonstrate clearly the central role Africans played in the development of the Garvey phenomenon. The African volumes provide the first authoritative account of how Africans transformed Garveyism into an African social movement. The most extensive collection of documents ever gathered on the early African nationalism of the interwar period, Volume X provides a detailed chronicle of the spread of Garvey's call for African redemption throughout Africa.
African Population and Capitalism
A collection of 17 essays on the colonial era in Africa designed to demonstrate to demographers the importance of historical and social contexts in thinking about African populations, and to historians the importance and complex role played by population changes in social and economic changes. Two essays are in French. The 1987 edition sold out quickly and was rarely seen and little known; the wider distribution and lower price of the paper should prevent that fate overtaking the second. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Competing Catholicisms
At a time when most African countries were moving towards independence and African nationalism was on the rise, the Vatican speeded up the Church's indigenization agenda in an effort to secure its survival in sub-Saharan Africa. Following the collapse of its colonial empire, France was also attempting to reassert its influence on the continent. This book reveals how different Catholicities (the Vatican and different Jesuit missions) and different Christianities (Roman Catholicism and different Protestant missions) competed for the evangelization of French Africa during the mid-20th century. They shared a common aim: to conver African Traditional Religionists and different groups of Muslims to Christ, and to contain the spread of Communism and other areligious ideologies. Showing how this competition for faith helped build the Church in French West Africa and Africanize the church alongside missionary Christianity in a postcolonial Africa, Enyegue also explores the reaction of a rising African clergy and leadership to this diverse and competing global agenda of Christianization, especially after Chad and Cameroon became members of the Jesuit Vice-Province of West Aftrica in 1973.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
World and Its Peoples
An eleven-volume guide to the geography, history, economy, government, culture and daily life of countries of the Middle East, western Asia and northern Africa.
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East is a two-volume A-to-Z reference to the history and culture of the peoples of Africa and the Middle East.
