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Free Download Carole Rakodi, "Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia "
English | ISBN: 113833085X | 2024 | 310 pages | EPUB | 626 KB
This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Building on the author’s previous analysis of how religious beliefs, practices and values influence social behaviour and relationships, especially within families, this book focuses on the organisational characteristics of religions and societies.

Free Download Kevin C. Dunn, "Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1848139977, 1848139969 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.7 mb
In this revealing new book, Bøås and Dunn explore the phenomenon of ‘autochthony’ – literally ‘son of the soil’ – in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the politics of place, belonging, identity and contested citizenship. Thus, land claims and autochthony disputes are the hallmark of political crises in many places on the African continent.

Free Download Marie-Soleil Frère, "Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities"
English | ISBN: 3030994015 | 2022 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different from what they are in neighboring English-speaking African countries, and in the rest of the world. The approach of the media in French-speaking Africa has not only to be "de-Westernized", but also to step out of general overviews considering "African media." This project shows the historical, political, economic and sociological characteristics of the media systems of seventeen French-speaking countries of Africa.

Free Download Perspectives on Africa-China Infrastructural and Industrial Cooperation: Empirical Findings and Conceptual Implications
by Bhaso Ndzendze and David Monyae
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303138394X | 249 Pages | True PDF | 9.25 MB

Free Download Emma Charlene Lubaale, "National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa"
English | ISBN: 3030880435 | 2022 | 678 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute’s complementarity principle. The focus lies on the primacy of African states to prosecute alleged perpetrators of international crimes in their respective jurisdictions. The chapters explore states’ international and domestic obligations to hold perpetrators of international crimes to account before the national courts, and demonstrate the complexity of enforcing national accountability of alleged perpetrators of international crimes while also ensuring that post-conflict African states achieve national healing, reconciliation, and sustainable peace. The contributions reject impunity for international crimes whilst also considering these complexities. Emphasis further lies on the meaning of accountability in the context of the politics of selective international criminal justice for crimes committed before the establishment of the International Criminal Court.

Free Download Lonely Planet East Africa, 12th Edition by Trent Holden, Shawn Duthie, Mark Eveleigh, Mary Fitzpatrick, Neema Githere, Anthony Ham, Nasibu Mahinya, Mwende Mutuli Musau, Nanjala Nyabola, Julie Olum, Alia Pathan, Helena Smith, Katherina Thomas
English | December 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 1787018229 | 560 pages | True EPUB | 132.01 MB
Lonely Planet’s East Africa is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Feel the pounding of hooves as wildebeest stampede across the Serengeti; all with your trusted travel companion.

Free Download Jörg Haustein, "Islam in German East Africa, 1885-1918: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion "
English | ISBN: 3031274229 | 2023 | 451 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.

Free Download Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999 By Mary Getui, Knut Holter, Victor Zinkuratire
2001 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0820449784 | PDF | 8 MB
This book is a collection of papers read at the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Thirty biblical scholars and theologians – mainly from Eastern Africa, but some also from South Africa and Europe – came together to discuss what it means to interpret the Old Testament in Africa today. Their contributions fall in five parts: (i) a mapping of the social, historical, and academic context of Old Testament studies in Africa; (ii) exegetical studies of how Africa is portrayed by the Old Testament; (iii) examples of how the African socio-religious experience can serve as comparative material for interpretation of the Old Testament; (iv) examples of how Old Testament texts are experienced as relevant to contemporary African readers; and (v) various aspects of the efforts of translating the Old Testament in Africa today.

Free Download Cush Ngonzo Luwesi, "Innovative Water Finance in Africa: Economics and Principles of Financial Innovations for Water Managers"
English | ISBN: 3031382331 | 2023 | 233 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Water has become increasingly central to addressing multiple development and environmental objectives in the course of climate change. Exploring the multiple dimensions of water governance, policy and management in a holistic way is thus imperative for financial innovations to take place in the water sector. This book constitutes, first of all, a reference document allowing African managers and policymakers to broaden their knowledge of financing strategies and tactics in order to raise funds for water services provision and water resources development. Additionally, the book reviews the agenda on water and sanitation services in order to ensure water resources development has a place in funding structures.

Free Download R. Sooryamoorthy, "Independent Africa, Dependent Science: Scientific Research in Africa "
English | ISBN: 9819955769 | 2023 | 331 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book offers an examination of Africa’s scientific landscape based on extensive empirical data encompassing fifty-four African countries. It traces the evolution of science on the continent, highlighting research areas, global partnerships, funding sources, research capacity, and the impact of science policies. Acknowledging that Africa relies heavily on external sources, particularly from the Global North, for scientific research, the book identifies and addresses obstacles hindering self-reliance and underscores the urgent need for revitalized partnerships and cooperation to bolster Africa’s scientific autonomy. It offers valuable recommendations to promote self-reliance, making it an indispensable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.