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![Chiefs Know Their Boundaries](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/37281700/chiefs-know-their-boundaries.jpg)
Chiefs Know Their Boundaries
Relates issues of land tenure and entitlement to the history of power in the region. This text explores the changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised …
![A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/4180730/a-history-of-modern-ethiopia-1855-1991.jpg)
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Updated and revised edition. Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991. 'The new chapter enhances the value of the …
![The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/26616046/the-root-causes-of-sudans-civil-wars.jpg)
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in …
![A Pastoral Democracy](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/11440516/a-pastoral-democracy.jpg)
A Pastoral Democracy
With a new Introduction by Said S. Samatar and an Afterword by the author This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which …
![Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/37346067/spirit-possession-modernity-and-power-in-africa.jpg)
Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa
Focuses on questions of power, the history and inner dynamics of cults, and images of the other. The articles in this book make valuable contributions to the literature of African …
![Competing Catholicisms](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/67739017/competing-catholicisms.jpg)
Competing Catholicisms
Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within …
![Religious Plurality in Africa](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/68999187/religious-plurality-in-africa.jpg)
Religious Plurality in Africa
Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and …
![The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/63234111/the-struggle-for-land-and-justice-in-kenya.jpg)
The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya
Finalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal land relations in Kenya. Why, despite the introduction of new …
![ALT 11 Myth & History: African Literature Today](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/15351951/alt-11-myth-history-african-literature-today.jpg)
ALT 11 Myth & History: African Literature Today
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its …
![Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/15495009/ngugi-wa-thiongo-speaks.jpg)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Speaks
Ngugi's words lead to a deeper understanding of colonial and postcolonial history. These interviews, edited with the assistance of Lynette Cintron, chart Ngugi's political and …
![Becoming Somaliland](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/8299236/becoming-somaliland.jpg)
Becoming Somaliland
Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'? When does a country become a state? On 18 May 1991, the leaders of the Somali National Movement and the elders of …
![Hinduism and Hierarchy in Bali](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/12002056/hinduism-and-hierarchy-in-bali.jpg)
Hinduism and Hierarchy in Bali
The book looks at how conflict and competition between various forms of Hinduism undermines and sustains relations of hierarchy. In the context of Dutch colonialism, world war, the …