Trefferliste "West African History" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

R. Charles Weller

Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in Transatlantic Slave History

This book engages the way Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular-progressivist actors used Mosaic and Islamic law and ethics in relation to slavery in American, West African and transatlantic history from …

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African per…

Grant Farred, Sophia Jahadhmy, Alex van Biema

Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi

This book uses Édouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi's distinctive relationships to French colonialism.Both the transfer and the transpl…

Babayo Sule, Usman Sambo

Election Administration and Reforms in Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo analyse the recent Nigerian election reforms and their impact on the outcome of elections.This book provides a comprehensive analysis of electoral administration in the Fourth …

Miranda Kaufmann

Heiresses

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses---and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and ear…

Jamaica Kincaid

Putting Myself Together

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW STATESMAN AND THETLS A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid. 'Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable' - Zadie Smith 'An unaffectedly sumptuous,…

Jamaica Kincaid

Putting Myself Together

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW STATESMAN AND THETLS A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid. 'Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable' - Zadie Smith 'An unaffectedly sumptuous,…

Terra X: Welten-Saga

Die »Welten-Saga« stellt in sechs Folgen einige der faszinierendsten Orte der Erde vor. Historiker Sir Christopher Clark reist einmal um den Globus und besucht UNESCO-Welterbestätten: Sein Weg führt ihn v…

Sarah M. S. Pearsall,

Freiheit

Die Amerikanische Revolution war ein Epochenereignis: Ohne die Unabhängigkeitserklärung von 1776 wären die Französische Revolution und der Wandel des 'alten Kontinents' nicht denkbar gewesen. Sarah M. S. …

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation recasts the liberation of post-Second World War colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visionary Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)…

Toby Green

The Heretic of Cacheu

'A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation' Ana Lucia Araujo, author of Human…

Imani Perry

Black in Blues

A "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, …

Brooke N Newman

The Crown's Silence

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family's centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy---from Eliza…

Sandra T. Barnes

People in Motion

Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New Worl…

Adeyanju Apejoye, Andrew Danjuma Dewan, Seamus Simpson

Nigerian Journalism and the Digital Age

In Nigerian Journalism and the Digital Age, Adeyanju Apejoye, Andrew Danjuma Dewan, and Seamus Simpson explore the extent to which a globally accessible online communication environment may be poised to p…

Johnny Cash

American IV: The Man Comes Around (180g)

Die lange Karriere des wahren Man In Black hat erstaunliche Resultate produziert. Hätten Sie z. B. gedacht, dass Johnny Cash bisher ebenso viele US-Pop-Chart-Singles (48) hatte wie die Stones und die Beac…

Jason Allen-Paisant

The Possibility of Tenderness

Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect." --Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary boo…

Lauren Michele Jackson

Back

Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back---and the conflicting ideas we load upon it.Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and …