"Soixante ans après son lever, le "soleil des indépendances peine à percer les brumes tenaces du despotisme. Au fil des décennies, la cohorte des autocrates plus ou moins élus, adeptes du pouvoir absolu et de la régression clanique, se sera échinée à dévoyer une souveraineté ina…
Thomas Sankara was one of the most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late twentieth century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabè Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprisin…
"A biography of senior Egyptian official Ahmed Hussein, Amy J. Johnson's book provides the untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies." "Johnson provides an in-depth look at how western ideas of social science entered into …
"A biography of senior Egyptian official Ahmed Hussein, Amy J. Johnson's book provides the untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies." "Johnson provides an in-depth look at how western ideas of social science entered into …
The author attempts to understand his father, a popular Nigerian author who was executed in 1995 for leading the campaign for human rights against Shell Oil and the Nigerian government.
"In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiance across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventually made their way to Tanzania. There, Mukwahepo became the first woman to undergo military training with SWAPO. For nine years she was the …
"Hannah Arendt argued that the 'political' is best understood as a power relation between private and public realms, and that storytelling is a vital bridge between these realms - a site where individualised passions and shared views are contested and interwoven. In his new book…
