Author : Emizet Francois Kisangani
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0810863251
The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo looks back at the nearly 48 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and even earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the territory. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on civil wars, mutinies, notable people, places, events, and cultural practices.
Author : F. Scott Bobb
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Entries explain important concepts, events, figures, and contributing factors to the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They look at 30 years of dictatorship, almost 40 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and earlier groups and kingdoms that shared the territory. Includes a guide to name changes, a chronology, a political map, and a map of mines and infrastructure, plus tables on trade, production, and the economy.
Author : John Frank Clark
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0810849194
Previously published as: Historical dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / by Emizet Franocois Kisangani and F. Scott Bobb. 2010.
Author : Emizet F. Kisangani
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Bibliographies
ISBN : 9781442273153
"Examines the country's 55 years of independence, more than eight decades of colonial rule, and earlier kingdoms that controlled the Congolese territory. The updated edition highlights new developments and the increasing importance of the DRC in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, as well as its important international role. This fourth edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as political, economic, foreign-relation, religious, and cultural issues."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Mark Dike DeLancey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0810873990
Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
Author : Jason Stearns
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1610391594
A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Author : Guy Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1474291015
With nuclear stalemate holding the superpowers in check during the Cold War, violence proliferated in the Third World. Sometimes this took the form of colonial liberation wars as the old European empires disintegrated after the Second World War (Algeria 1954-1962 or Kenya 1952-1959); sometimes the violence was between Third World countries such as the Iran-Iraq War, and sometimes it involved the major powers directly: the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Certain regions – Central America, Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa or the Middle East – have been in more or less perpetual turmoil for thirty years and more. But whatever form the violence has taken –protracted guerrilla activity against the central government or short, sharp border war – the big powers have always been involved. They have provided arms to one or both sides, they have supported their ideological protégés and, more generally, have manipulated such wars to their own advantage. This book examines five broad categories of war: colonial liberation wars, big power intervention wars, wars between Third World countries, the special area of Israel and its neighbours, and civil wars.
Author : Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1793649251
In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach purporting that Africans were passive recipients of colonial programs. Contrary to this understanding, the author insists that African viewers were active participants in the discourse of cinema in Kenya. Employing unorthodox means to protest mediocre films devoid of basic elements of film production, African spectators forced the colonial government to reconsider the way it produced films. The author frames the reconsideration as bidirectional approach. Instructional cinema first emerged as a tool to “educate” and “modernize” Africans, but it transformed into a contestable space of cultural and political power, a space that both sides appropriated to negotiate power and actualize their abstract ideas.
Author : Harold E. Raugh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0810874679
The Anglo-Zulu War was one of many colonial campaigns in which the British Army served as the instrument of British imperialism. The conflict, fought against a native adversary the British initially under-estimated, is remarkable for battles that included perhaps the most humiliating defeat in British military history-the Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879-and one of its most heroic feats of martial arms-the defense of Rorke's Drift, January 22-23, 1879. While lasting only six months, it is one of the most examined, studied, and debated conflicts in Victorian military history. Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography is a research guide and tool for identifying obscure publications and source materials in order to encourage continued original and thought-provoking contributions to this popular field of historical study. From the student or neophyte to the study of the Anglo-Zulu War, its battles, and its opponents to the more experienced historian or scholar, this selected bibliography is a must for anyone interested in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.
Author : Terry M. Mays
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442250186
The Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Africa and the Middle East focuses on international organizations in Africa. And the Middle East. This makes sense for political, cultural, and geographical reasons. North African countries, and many located in the Sahel region, are members of not only African but also Middle Eastern international organizations due to their cultural and religious heritage as well as geographic location between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. A limited number of global organizations are also included in this book when they have major programs focusing on Africa and/or the Middle East. This volume emphasizes intergovernmental organizations but many non-governmental organizations are also included. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, thematic topics, and major international issues affecting the region. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.
