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  • African Politics
    Toyin Falola
    African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad-ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends. This book is perfect for an undergraduate student starting out in their studies of African politics, or for any reader who wants to learn more about African governance. ...
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    75,72 €

  • African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
    Toyin Falola
    Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs, social practices, oral, linguistic, and values that define an individual’s way of life. In other words, in memoir writing, the emphasis is often to propagate a unilateral need or embrace of self-identity. However, the dominant narrative and method of analysis in this study holds the notion and privileg...
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    50,26 €

  • Decolonizing African Knowledge
    Toyin Falola
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    44,86 €

  • Understanding Colonial Nigeria
    Toyin Falola
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    58,13 €

  • Milestones in African Literature
    Toyin Falola
    Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes. This book is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. ...
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    68,87 €

  • Writing the History of the African Diaspora
    Toyin Falola
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    29,81 €

  • Decolonizing African History
    Toyin Falola
    Decolonizing African history involves efforts toward ending European intellectual hegemony over Africa’s political, economic, historical, and cultural ways, the reverse of its effects, and the pursuit of absolute liberation and self-determination for Africa. As an intellectual under-taking, decolonizing African history emphasizes the study of African history from an African per...
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    22,94 €

  • A History of West Africa
    Toyin Falola
    This book introduces readers to the fascinating history of West Africa, all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day. This book will serve as an excellent textbook for entry-level History and African Studies courses. ...
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    81,66 €

  • African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems
    Toyin Falola
    Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. 'Sacred words' are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engag...
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    50,82 €

  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
    Adeshina Afolayan / Toyin Falola
    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subte...
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    50,82 €

  • Decolonizing African Studies
    Toyin Falola
    This book examines the most significant aspects of decolonization and decoloniality, the voices that articulate them, and how they are represented in the disciplines. From the anticolonial intellectual insurgency to the contemporary conception of Afro-futurism, the book argues that alternative thought processes are informed by radical and contentious ideas. The knowledge produc...
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    42,89 €

  • Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
    Toyin Falola
    This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal authentic perceptions of Nigeria’s history and culture today. Many of the lessons in these works of literature ...
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    146,13 €

  • Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa
    Nicole Griffin / Toyin Falola
    The book connects the logic and histories of religion, ideology and indigenous beliefs to understand knowledge systems in Africa. ...
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    54,54 €

  • Memories of Africa
    Toyin Falola
    Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of African migrants over time through political, social, and cultural spheres. In reading African dias...
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    50,12 €

  • Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa
    Charles G Thomas / Toyin Falola
    Wars fought for political separation have become omnipresent in post-colonial Africa. From the division of Sudan, to the continued fragmentation of Somalia, and the protracted struggles of Cabinda and Azawad, conflict over seccession and separation continues to the present day.This is the first single volume to examine the historical arc of secession and secessionist conflict a...
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    47,43 €

  • The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
    Aribidesi Usman / Toyin Falola
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    59,07 €

  • The Power of African Cultures
    Toyin Falola
    This book focuses on the modern cultures of Africa, from the consequences of the imposition of Western rule to the current struggles to define national identities in the context of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization. The book argues that it is against the backdrop of foreign influences that Africa has defined for itself notions of identity and development. African ...
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    35,14 €

  • A History of Nigeria
    Matthew M. Heaton / Matthew MHeaton / Toyin Falola
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    41,34 €

  • Nationalism and African Intellectuals
    Toyin Falola
    This book is about how African intellectuals, influenced primarily by nationalism, have addressed the inter-related issues of power, identity politics, self-assertion and autonomy for themselves and their continent, from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Their major goal was to create a ’better Africa’ by connecting nationalism to knowledge. The results have been mixed, from t...
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    40,56 €

  • Violence in Nigeria
    Toyin Falola
    Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. After an analysis of the links between religion and politics, the book elaborates on all the major cases of violence in the 1980s and 90s, including the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots...
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    40,74 €

  • The Interracial Experience
    Toyin Falola / Ursula M. Brown / Ursula MBrown
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    44,99 €

  • Culture and Customs of Nigeria
    Toyin Falola
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    30,28 €

  • The Politics of the Global Oil Industry
    Ann Genova / Kurt Link / Toyin Falola
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    44,47 €

  • Key Events in African History
    Toyin Falola
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    38,77 €