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Books on: africa woman politics

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Africa: The Politics of Independence and Unity

Book by Immanuel Wallerstein; University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Subjects:

Africa--History--1960-, Africa--Politics And Government, Nationalism--Africa, Pan-Africanism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...usually the first. The uneducated urban dweller-the market woman, the small artisan, the house servant-rapidly acquired the...football, or rather soccer, rapidly became the mass sport in African towns-also arose. One key element of almost all these organizations...
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Africa in World Politics: Post-Cold War Challenges

Book by John W. Harbeson, Donald Rothchild; Westview Press, 1995

Subjects:

Africa--Politics And Government--1960---Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

Africa in World Politics SECOND EDITION AFRICA IN WORLD POLITICS Post-Cold War Challenges edited by JOHN...0-8133-2102-6. -- ISBN 0-8133-2103-4 pbk. 1. Africa--Politics and government--1960- --Congresses. 2. World politics...
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Africa in International Politics: External Involvement on the Continent

Book by Ian Taylor; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Africa--Foreign Relations--1960-

Collections: History, Entire Library

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers ...
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Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.
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Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa

Book by Naomi Chazan, Peter Lewis, Robert Mortimer, Donald Rothchild, Stephen Stedman; Lynne Rienner, 1999

Subjects:

Africa--Economic Conditions--1960-, Africa--Foreign Relations--1960-, Africa--Politics And Government--1960-, Africa--Social Conditions--1960-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...that they desire. The average African woman will bear seven children. Population...economic role in contemporary African politics. It also relies unabashedly...Dehomogenising the Study of African Politics-The Case of Inter-State Influence...
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Power and Politics in Africa

Book by Henry L Bretton; Aldine Pub. Co., 1973

Subjects:

Africa--Politics And Government--1960-, Power (Social Sciences)

Collections: Entire Library

POWER AND POLITICS IN AFRICA . HENRY L BRETTONIf social...the student and the expert in African politics. Brettons able treatment of the principles that govern power and politics in Africa and in the Third World in general...

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Journal Articles on: africa woman politics

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The Institution of Woman-Marriage in Africa: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Journal article by Beth Greene; Ethnology, Vol. 37, 1998

Subjects:

Africa--Social aspects, Igbo (African people)--Social aspects, Same-sex marriage--Africa, Women--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...S. 1980. Is the Female Husband a Man? Woman/Woman Marriage among the Nandi of Kenya. Ethnology...System in Operation: Igbo Women and Community Politics in Midwestern Nigeria. Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change, eds...
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Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa

Journal article by Nancy Scheper-Hughes; Social Justice, Vol. 25, 1998

Subjects:

Remorse--Social aspects, South Africa--Social aspects, Suffering--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Africa and South Africans are to get safely...first step in the politics of reconciliation...who that man or woman was who typed my...Witchcraft, Power, and Politics: An Ethnographic Study of the South African Lowveld. Johannesburg...
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Doing Politics in Bushbuckridge: Work, Welfare and the South African Elections of 2004

Journal article by Isak A. Niehaus; Africa, Vol. 76, 2006

Subjects:

African National Congress--Political activity, African National Congress--Public opinion, Electioneering--Analysis, Mandela, Nelson--Political activity, Political campaigns--Analysis, South Africa--Political aspects, Voting--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library
...1993. The State in Africa: the politics of the belly. London...eds), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa. London: Zed Books...witchcraft, cosmology, politics and masculinity in rural South Africa.
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The Power to Name the Real: The Politics of the Worker Testimony in South Africa

Journal article by Judith Lütge Coullie; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, 1997

Subjects:

Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Real: The Politics of the Worker...Testimony in South Africa Judith Lutge...Call Me Woman or Don Matteras...difficulties as a woman among men in...because we African women are taught...shift in the politics of literary...Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta, 1993...Call Me Woman . Johannesburg...
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Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960

Journal article by Robert Aldrich; French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, 2001

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960 (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...because of his marriage to a Vietnamese woman; he subsequently became involved in organizing...identifiable and key group in colonial society in Africa, Verges tries to develop a theory about...part of the basic dynamics of Reunionnais politics and culture. Both see metissage as a paradox...

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Magazine Articles on: africa woman politics

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Not Redundant after All: Politics in the New South Africa Galvanises Liberal Writers Just as Much as It Did under Apartheid, as the Award-Winning Playwright Athol Fugard (Right) Tells Richard Brooks

Magazine article by Richard Brooks; New Statesman, Vol. 135, March 20, 2006

Subjects:

Dramatists--Behavior, Dramatists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Dramatists--Works, Fugard, Athol--Behavior, Fugard, Athol--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Fugard, Athol--Works, Playwrights--Behavior, Playwrights--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Playwrights--Works, South Africa--Political aspects, South Africa--Social aspects, South Africans--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...film from its original setting in the late 1950s to the South Africa of today, is the contrast and conflict between poor and well-off...him and back to his home, before handing the child over to a woman to care for. Eventually guilt gets the better of him. "So we...
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Notebook: As We Fly to Joburg, I Familiarise Myself with the Politics of Holidaying in the New South Africa

Magazine article by Rosie Millard; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 21, 2005

Subjects:

Hotels and motels--South Africa, South Africa--Description and travel, Vacations

Collections: Entire Library

...Familiarise Myself with the Politics of Holidaying in the New South Africa. by Rosie...grandparent. Why? The woman told me her mother...holidaying in South Africa. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...flight from South Africa has become so familiar...
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U.S. Oil Politics in the 'Kuwait of Africa'

Magazine article by Ken Silverstein; The Nation, Vol. 274, April 22, 2002

Subjects:

Equatorial Guinea--Natural resources, Equatorial Guinean foreign relations--United States, Gas industry--Discovery and exploration, Mbasogo, Teodoro Obiang Nguema--Political activity, Petroleum industry--Discovery and exploration, Triton Energy Ltd.--Discovery and exploration, United States, United States foreign relations--Equatorial Guinea

Collections: Entire Library

...overthrow a corrupt African regime.) Rich Guineans...replied one 25-year-old woman sitting on a stool...get out," says the woman, who hopes to join...left for neighboring African states or, better...including a pregnant woman--though some were...Corporate Council on Africa fete. It was a definite...
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The Sex Trade in Colonial West Africa (Part 2): In the Second of Her Three-Part Series, Carina Ray Continues to Uncover the Racial Politics That Underpinned the Gold Coast Colony's Unusually Lenient Laws on Prostitution

Magazine article by Carina Ray; New African, January 2007

Subjects:

Prostitution--Laws, regulations and rules, Sex oriented businesses--Forecasts and trends, Sex oriented businesses--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Entire Library

...one hardly ever sees a Kaffir woman at Cape Town". This, he argued...spectre of Black Peril in South Africa, he boasted that "in the Gold...be established ... that any woman, belonging to a native community...safe as it is at present". West African prostitutes were therefore positioned...
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The Iron Lady Takes Over: Barring Unforeseeable Circumstances, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Has Been Elected as the First Female Head of State in Africa. but, as Neil Ford Points out in His Report, Her Victory in the Liberian Elections Owed Nothing to Gender and Everything to Politics

Magazine article by Neil Ford; African Business, December 2005

Subjects:

Women--Political aspects, Women--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...political track record. Unlike some other Africans who have held high office with multilateral...organisations before moving into domestic politics, Johnson-Sirleaf brings a great deal of...ethnic group. Some critics believe that a woman cannot have the strength to pull together...

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Newspaper Articles on: africa woman politics

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Violence Besets Rural South Africa; Attacks Drive out White Farmers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 21, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...wheelchair-bound elderly woman was scalded...thousands. South Africas crime wave...racial hatred or politics. "The farm...there were no politics involved...of a white woman "too weak to...whites in South Africa: Why is Mr...house." One woman said that she...that South Africans fear automobile...
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A Home in AFRICA; an English Gentleman and the African Estate He Loved

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1927, became adept at helping him run the estate. However, his African dream was not so easily shared, and the pair gradually grew...Browne began to spend more time away from Shiwa engaged in politics and Lorna spent more and more time in England with the couples...
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Brown's Hollow Plan for Africa

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 13, 2005

Subjects:

Brown, Gordon

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...amounts to barely 50p for each Africa man, woman and child. Money goes a long way in Africa - but does not stretch as far as all that...It would be unforgivable if he were to play politics with the lives of starving Africans. Yorks...
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Rosa's Equality Stance Still Relevant in Africa

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), November 3, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...become the first woman ever to lie...women in South Africa, after years...rape. So, from politics to tribal traditions...disease - in Africa there is a...paid for a woman entering marriage...rape in South Africa (it is estimated that a woman TURN TO PAGE...
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Black Leaders Praise Bush for Outreach; Cite Africa Spending, Powell and Rice

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 26, 2005

Subjects:

Rice, Condoleezza

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...thankful about is that a black woman was put in as secretary...He is trying to keep the politics out of it, but in this town...billions fighting disease in Africa. "Im convinced that youre genuinely committed to Africa," Leonard H. Robinson Jr...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: africa woman politics

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Liberia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...been free and fair, and Weah subseqently dropped his challenge of the vote. Sirleaf became the first woman to be elected president of an African nation. At the same time a new national legislature was also elected, with no party securing a controlling...
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Germany

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as chancellor. Merkel became the first woman as well as the first East German after...Wollach and G. K. Romoser, West German Politics in the Mid-Eighties (1985); L. J. Edinger, West German Politics (1986); M. Dennis, German Democratic...
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France

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...police, nighttime riots by persons of African and Arab descent occurred in suburbs of...nominated Segolene Royal , the first woman to be a major party candidate for the...and J. Connell, ed., France in World Politics (1989); E. Weber, The Hollow Years...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as his running mate; she was the first woman to gain a major partys vice presidential...including Sandra Day OConnor , the first woman to serve on the high court. Bush, Clinton...after the severe police beating of an African American, one of the worst race riots...
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Mitterrand, FranÇois Maurice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...policy in the Middle East and Africa. When the Socialists lost the...followed Mitterrands centrist politics, but in 1991 Mitterrand replaced...who became Frances first woman premier. After a poor showing...legacy, however, may lie not in politics but in the multifaceted revitalization...

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