Author : Robert Massie
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In the aftermath of World War II, South Africa's white government decreed a brutal system of segregation at the very moment when the United states began wresting with the civil rights movement. In "Loosing the Bonds", Robert Massie recreates the passions and struggles of these years, deftly exposing the way politics and personalities, money and morality interact in modern America. 40 photos. National print ads, media.
Author : Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 146963113X
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan's survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan's transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of African descent.
Author : Owen Letcher
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Bond
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2006-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781842778111
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Author : Lee Wengraf
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608468763
Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
Author : Herman L. Bennett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 025321775X
From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects.
Author : George Brandon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1997-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253211149
"On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." —American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues, such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. In addition, he offers a fresh and cogent assessment of the production and reproduction of African beliefs and practices in new contexts. Brandon's exemplary archival research is supplemented by skillful participant observation." —Choice The Yoruba religious tradition arose in West Africa, but its influence has spread beyond Africa to millions of adherents in the Americas as well. Santeria from Africa to the New World retraces one path taken by this tradition—a path from Africa to Cuba and to New York City. George Brandon examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism. In following the historical and anthropological evolution of the Yoruba religion, Brandon discusses broader questions of power, multiculturalism, cultural change, and the production and reproduction of African retentions.
Author : Mr.Mauro Mecagni
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475523106
This African Department Paper examines the rise in international sovereign bonds issued by African frontier economies and recommends policies for potential first-time issuers.
Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0374139563
Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.
Author : Mr.Yibin Mu
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475535848
African bond markets have been steadily growing in recent years, but nonetheless remain undeveloped. African countries would benefit from greater access to financing and deeper financial markets. This paper compiles a unique set of data on corporate bond markets in Africa. It then applies an econometric model to analyze the key determinants of African government securities market and corporate bond market capitalization. Government securities market capitalization is directly related to better institutions and interest rate volatility, and inversely related to the fiscal balance, higher interest rate spreads, exchange rate volatility, and current and capital account openness. Corporate bond market capitalization is directly linked to economic size, the level of development of the economy and financial markets, better institutions, and interest rate volatility, and inversely related to higher interest rate spreads and current account openness. Policy implications follow.
