The modernity of witchcraft : politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa 9780813917023, 0813917026, 9780813917030, 0813917034

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa 0415258677, 9780415258678

'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Afr

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Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation 9780822374138

Antoinette Burton challenges nostalgic narratives of the Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung confer

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20 Answers - Witchcraft & The Occult 9781683570431, 9781683570448, 9781683570455

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Occultism: The Ultimate Guide to the Occult, Including Magic, Divination, Astrology, Witchcraft, and Alchemy 9780822325727

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The Politics of AIDs in Africa 9781685857851

Why do some African states commit more effectively than others to the fight against AIDS? How do power inequalities and

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The Politics of History in South Africa

"This paper, prepared by Mr. Bernard Magubane, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, is publi

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State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa 9780253029980

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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 1501767917, 9781501767913

In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anti

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Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa 1009286188, 9781009286183

Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? Looking at variatio

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Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation 9780773576322

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states str

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