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Tots els llibres, documents i revistes que formen aquesta biblioteca són d'accés públic i gratuït i es poden descarregar de manera íntegra. La selecció l'hem centrada en tot allò que tracta el continent africà i l'Islam. Només hi ha una secció i està ordenada alfabèticament.
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Todos los libros, documentos y revistas que forman esta biblioteca son de acceso público y gratuito y pueden descargarse de manera íntegra. La selección la centramos en todo aquello que trate el continente africano y el Islam. Sólo hay una sección y está ordenada alfabéticamente.
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Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley:
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind Options for the New South Africa.
University of California Press, 1993.

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For centuries, Western governments and business interests have viewed
the African continent as a source of natural resources ripe for
extraction. While states and other dominant actors in the global North
have made linking the exploitation of the region's unmatched natural
wealth to human development a public relations standard practice, the
economic benefits of mining and other resource industries still flow
overwhelmingly away from the African people. This study looks at oil in
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This booklet forms part of the pilot phase of a Social Observatory Project that will monitor the conduct and impact of foreign investors in Africa. In section 1 the introduction aims to set out what foreign direct investment (FDI) is and to define the two forms in which it occurs. The second section looks at why Africa perceives FDI as important and examine the initiatives undertaken by African governments in attracting FDI. Section 3 focuses on the factors that influence/determine FDI flows and why. Section 4 discusses the actual flows of FDI in terms of regions and sectors. The fifth section deals with the costs and benefits associated with FDI while the last section contains the conclusion and recommendations regarding African policies on FDI.

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The Bureau for the Development of African Musicology (BDAM) , is a
private independent, research-oriented outfit saddled with the responsibility of
filling necessary vacuum in African Music scholarship. It consists of interested
music scholars from different parts of Africa . It has been discovered that the
development of African Musicology needs to be shouldered by Africans in
whose blood and spirit ‘the music' is real. There have been so many
misconceptions, misrepresentations and over generalizations about what African
music is. Besides, myriad of problems in the study of African Musicology need
to be tackled at the grassroot levels by the ‘owners' of the music.





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Nos. 9&10, 2001-2002
Nos. 7&8, 1999-2000
Nos. 5, 1997 and 6, 1998

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Africultures

Le site et la revue de référence des cultures africaines

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Algarabía
Revista sobre la didáctica del árabe como lengua extranjera.

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The Centre for Contemporary Islam publishes this readable and accessible review of challenges facing Muslims in South Africa. It is compiled and edited by Aslam Farouk-Allie who invites people from all walks of life to write about their impressions on developments in religion, state, foreign affairs, crime, arts and medicine, to name but a few. The idea of ARISA is get South Africans to reflect on their experiences, and share this with others.

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Translated by A. J. Arberry

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Codesria, Karthala & IRD, 1998
712 pages

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2001, 196pp

This volume is the second in the series, "Identity? Theory, Politics, History". It includes Neville Alexander's important study of the link between language and identity in South Africa. The other nine papers include studies of the process of identity construction in the southern African and Great Lakes regions, the Congo, Sudan and Nigeria.

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African Minds, South Africa, 2006. 254 pp.

Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collective identities are deeply coloured by recent urban as well as international experience and are squarely located within identity politics where reconciliation is required between state nation-building strategies and sub-national affiliations. They are also fundamentally shaped by the growing inequality and the poverty found on this continent. These themes are explored by an international set of scholars in two South African and two Francophone cities. The relative importance to urban residents of race, class and ethnicity but also of work, space and language are compared in these cities

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2005, 240pp

This monograph outlines the origins and nature of the conflict in Burundi. It discusses the problems of establishing democracy in a region where ethnic conflict has occasioned genocide, traces the peace process in detail and assesses the prospects for the future.

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Mongo BETI: AFRICAINS SI VOUS PARLIEZ
Homnisphères, 2005

Quoi qu’en disent les radotages de vos théoriciens tiers-mondistes, Monsieur le Président de la République française, quoi qu’en disent les ethnologues d’un autre âge qui s’empressent autour de vous et assurent vous livrer l’âme noire toute nue, un peuple déshérité ne saurait transformer son présent ni conquérir son avenir sans élever la voix et même frapper du poing sur la table.

Dans les dispositions de l’Elysée à l’égard de l’Afrique, rien n’a changé ; c’est toujours le même choix, en faveur des dictateurs, contre les peuples. Les espérances politiques de nos peuples ont été le plus souvent soit trahies, soit mystifiées...

Les pouvoirs franco-africains organisent donc le vide, le silence morose, le côtoiement des individus, des groupes, des catégories, des ethnies, jamais leur dialogue et leur interpénétration, en un mot l’obscurantisme... Broyés par des institutions culturelles dont la fatalité est de nous aliéner, nous prétendons créer une littérature qui soit l’expression authentique de notre moi collectif.

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Hashim Ibrahim Cabrera: ISLAM Y ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO

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Zeynep Çelik: Displaying the Orient.
Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs
University of California Press, 1992.

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Zeynep Çelik: Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations. Algiers under French Rule
University of California Press, 1997.

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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2007

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A. Chéneau-Loquay (ed.): Mondialisation et technologie de la communication en Afrique
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Chimurenga
Who no know go know

Chimurenga, a publication, of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its Diasporas, has been in print since March 2002. South Africa based and started as a quarterly, Chimurenga now appears whenever.

On the main menu check the on-line section to read the articles and interviews.

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Consacrées à la péninsule Arabique et à la Corne de l'Afrique, les Chroniques yéménites sont une revue annuelle en langue française et arabe, éditée depuis 1993 par le Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Sanaa (Ministère des Affaires étrangères/CNRS).
Sous la supervision d'un comité de lecture y sont regroupés des contributions scientifiques originales, des traductions et des bibliographies thématiques, relevant de toutes les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales, de l'archéologie antique à la littérature contemporaine, en passant par l'économie, l'anthropologie ou la politique.

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We lived to Tell is a book by the Citizens For Justice, which documents experiences of Kenyans who went through the infamous Nyayo House Torture Chambers. They tell harrowing stories of scary hounding by security agents, arrests, torture, jail and detention. Their experiences reveal an intolerant, oppressive and paranoid government that could not stand criticism.

Index:
Chapter 1. The colonial Era / Chapter 2. Independent Kenya / Chapter 3. Following in the footsteps / Chapter 4. The Air Force coup attempt / Chapter 5. Mwakenya / Chapter 6. We lived to tell / Chapter 7. In the dungeons - Nyayo House / Chapter 8. Life in prison / Chapter 9. Exile / Chapter 10. The role of women / Chapter 11. Picking up the pieces / Chapter 12. Aluta Continua / Chapter 13. What next

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Dossier:
Anne HUGON: La contradiction missionnaire. Discours et pratique des missionnaires méthodistes à l'égard des femmes africaines de Côte de l'Or (1835-1874)
Estelle PAGNON: " Une œuvre inutile " ? La scolarisation des filles par les missionnaires catholiques dans le Sud-Est du Nigéria (1885-1930)
Dominique BOIS: Tamatave, la cité des femmes
Ch. Didier GONDOLA: Unies pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Femmes africaines et villes coloniales : une histoire du métissage
Odile GOERG: Femmes africaines et politique : les colonisées au féminin en Afrique occidentale
Fatou SOW: Les femmes, le sexe de l'État et les enjeux du politique : l'exemple de la régionalisation au Sénégal
Sophie DULUCQ: " Visages de femmes " au miroir du cinéma d'Afrique noire (des années 1960 aux années 1990)
Pascale BARTHÉLÉMY: La formation des institutrices africaines en A.O.F. : pour une lecture historique du roman de Mariama Bâ, Une si longue lettre



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Il s'agit ici de réfléchir sur l'extrême difficulté, qui semble particulière au champ français, à penser l'islam, depuis sa rencontre en Algérie, au début du XIXe siècle. L'hypothèse centrale de cette confrontation est que le statut singulier de la religion en France depuis la Révolution française, plus précisément les liens très complexes que la naissance des sciences sociales au XIXe siècle entretient avec elle, obscurcit la vision de l'islam depuis ce moment et jusqu'à aujourd'hui.





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Moving beyond the paradigmatic divides of area studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explores the shared concerns and histories of these regions, offers stimulating perspectives on interdisciplinary debates, and challenges established analytic models. CSSAAME publishes articles from around the world, providing a distinctive link between scholars living and working in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and their counterparts in Europe and the Americas.

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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008. 51 pp.

Young women are combatants in contemporary African wars. They also participate in a whole array of different roles. However, by and large, they remain invisible to us. In fact, our hackneyed 'Northern' views on women's innate non-participation in war prevent us from seeing the specific needs of young women during and in the aftermath of wars.
Issues of stigma, safe demobilization, and individual concerns about post-war marriage, health and education need to be addressed both in a more gendered way, and with an appropriate understanding
of young women's agency in both peace and war. In this Policy dialogue it is argued that to improve policy and programming efforts it is necessary to broaden the understanding of young women's roles and participation in armed conflict in Africa historically and today.

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Courrier de la Planète n. 79 (janvier-mars 2006):
"Afrique: (re)penser le politique"

Parole est donnée dans ce numéro à de nombreux chercheurs africains, notamment non francophones, afin d'exposer des idées trop peu relayées ici. Un choix délibéré qui, du coup, ouvre la voie à certaines critiques en règle de thèses développées par des chercheurs " africanistes " (sur l'" Etat criminel " par exemple).

Sommaire et quelques contributions en ligne

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2006, 304pp

Migration by the poor is a scorching issue in the world today - both inside their own countries and on the international scene, the world's poor are voting with their feet to escape poverty and make their bid for new lives in new places. Public anxiety is reaching fever pitch in the developed world, xenophobia is spreading, and governments everywhere are struggling to mobilize policies that will enable them to respond humanely and effectively to a rising human tide. How does Africa stand on migration?

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Depuis 1978, la position de Hegel à l'égard de l'Afrique noire est très discutée. Le philosophe de Berlin a été traité de raciste. C'est l'opinion qui domine chez la plupart des chercheurs européens et africains. Mais une telle affirmation mérite d'être révisée à la suite de la thèse d'Etat soutenue en 1990 à l'Université de Paris I par un philosophe africain, Pierre Franklin Tavarès. La lecture attentive de cette thèse devrait amener beaucoup de chercheurs à nuancer leur pensée sur l'attitude de Hegel sur l'Afrique noire. " La question Hegel " en Afrique ou ce que Guy Planty-Bonjour appelle " les question africaines de l'hégélianisme " n'est pas seulement d'ordre théorique, mais également pratique.
Des historiens, des hommes de lettres, des hommes politiques, des sociologues et quelquefois, même des philosophes africains se sont dépêchés de traiter Hegel de raciste à la suite de leur seule lecture des Leçons de la philosophie de l'histoire qui est une oeuvre posthume publiée sur la base des notes de ses étudiants.

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The Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review is an internationally refereed interdisciplinary journal that serves as a regional forum for critical reflection and discourse on the economic, political, and social aspects as well as development concerns of the countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. It is the major African
social science journal with a region-wide coverage that publishes scholarly articles, book reviews, research notes, and communications.
Edited by Alfred G. Nhema.

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Ethnohistory
Volume 46.4, Fall 1999. Duke University Press.

Ethnohistory emphasizes the joint use of documentary materials and ethnographic or archaeological data, as well as the combination of historical and anthropological approaches, in the study of social and cultural processes and history. The journal has established a strong reputation for its studies of the history of native peoples in the Americas and in recent years has expanded its focus to cultures and societies throughout the world.

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Naser I. Faruqui, Asit K. Biswas, and Murad J. Bino (eds.): Water management in Islam
IDRC/UNU Press 2001, 170 pp.

In the Middle East and North Africa, water is rapidly becoming the key development issue. In response, policymakers have proposed or tried to implement policies such as higher water tariffs or privatization, but have done so without considering local culture and values. Yet culture, including religion, clearly influences how people perceive and manage a resource such as water, and must be considered during policy development.

This book presents Islamic perspectives on a number of proposed water-management policies, including water demand management, wastewater reuse, and fair pricing. The book opens avenues for a wider dialogue amongst researchers working at identifying the most promising water management policies, adds to our knowledge of some of the influences on formal policy and informal practice, and makes these ideas available to a broader public. It dispels common misconceptions about the Islamic view on water-management practices, such as selling water and wastewater reuse, and serves as a concrete example of the benefit of examining development in the context of values and culture.

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Feminist Africa is a publication of the African Gender Institute and the continental Feminist Studies Network. Initiated in 2001, and currently hosted at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, it is produced by an editorial team in conjunction with an international editorial advisory group drawn from the feminist scholarly community.

Feminist Africa is a unique forum for progressive, cutting-edge feminist intellectual dialogue and gender research on the African continent. It offers a space for theoretical and strategic debates that challenge the prevailing technocratic approaches to global development, and the reductionism of economic and policy approaches that neglect the lived realities, ingenuity and cultural production of Africa's diverse and dynamic peoples. Feminist Africa challenges the shared continental history of exploitation and marginalisation by attending to the complex cultures of resistance and local strategy that characterise the postcolonial era, while at the same time remaining attentive to the shifting global geopolitical configurations of power.

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José Luis de la Flor: "Las políticas de lucha contra el VIH/sida en África Subsahariana como parte integrante del régimen internacional de cooperación a la salud"

Presentado en el VI CONGRESO DE ESTUDIOS AFRICANOS DEL MUNDO IBÉRICO

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2006, 536pp

In this fascinating collection, full of different textures, narratives and nuances, sixteen authors have begun to tackle the task of writing South Africa's history from an overtly feminist perspective, giving readers an opportunity to understand and reflect on debates about real women's power in completely new and fresh ways.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2004, 484pp

Drawing on one of the most comprehensive surveys of post-apartheid attitudes to date, and employing innovative conceptual and methodological tools, Gibson's analysis offers both encouraging and disheartening insights into the success of the truth and reconciliation process. This is a major contribution to the literature on transitional justice and conflict resolution.

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Jean-Paul Gouteux: Un génocide sans importance. La France et le Vatican au Rwanda
(Tahin Party, 2001)

Le génocide rwandais, plus d'un million de morts d'avril à juin 1994, reste environné de ce flou qui caractérise, pour l'opinion publique, la politique française en Afrique.
Comme si les massacres sur le continent noir étaient des événements endémiques inévitables et incompréhensibles.
Au contraire, ce génocide n'a été ni spontané ni imprévisible, mais il a bien été préparé et organisé, tant en France qu'au Rwanda.
Pour la Françafrique, tous les moyens sont bons pour garder le contrôle de l'Afrique.
Et ce million de meurtres n'aurait pas eu lieu sans le soutien indéfectible des décideurs français, militaires et politiques, jusqu'au plus haut échelon de l'Etat.
Nous connaissons ces criminels français: ce sont nos élus.
Ce livre, paru en juin 2001, est malheureusement épuisé mais reste téléchargeable.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2005, 256pp

South African journalism has been fortunate in recent decades to have editors, writers and practitioners of the highest order working within its ranks. Some, like radio talk show host John Perlman and cartoonist Zapiro, are household names. Others are less well-known, but work quietly and effectively behind the scenes, bringing years of experience and skill to bear on their art. Until the publication of this book, few have taken the time to sit down and spell out the do's and don'ts of their particular specialty, gained often after a lifetime of trial and error.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2006, 232pp

The introduction of a quality, accessible local television network represents the final piece in post-apartheid South Africa's media jigsaw. With legislation and policy now in place, the fitting of the last piece is imminent. The race is now on to develop models and fine-tune systems that will make the most powerfully democratic tier of broadcast media sustainable, empowering and development friendly.

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- Religious Human Rights in the Qur'an

- Women in Islam: Body, Mind and Spirit

- Members, One of Another: Gender Equality and Justice in Islam

- Religious conservatism: feminist theology as a means of combating injustice toward women in Muslim communities/culture

- Women engaging in bridge-building. The context for bridge-building between Muslims and non-Muslims in the aftermath of September 11, 2001

- From Re-Active to Pro Active - The Challenge for Muslim Women on the road from Cairo to Beijing

- Islam and human rights in Pakistan: a critical analysis of the positions of three contemporary women

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African Minds, South Africa, 2005. 358 pp.

Emerging Solutions for Musical arts Education in South Africa offers peer-reviewed articles prepared for the 2003 Conference of the Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education in Africa held in Kisumu, Maseno, Kenya.
Not only does this publication voice the solutions offered by 31 authors from the African continent and beyond, but it presents in a unique and highly accessible fashion the collective voice of the conference participants.
True to the spirit of ubuntu - an individual is only a person through other people (their communities) - this publication is a reflection of the essence of an overarching sub-Saharan philosophy; the contents represents a conference where papers were not presented, but where conference participants engaged to discuss solutions for the musical arts on the African continent.
While the individual voice has been given its rightful place, the collective voice represents an emergent song composed by the scholarly community in oral fashion.
This publication provides insight into the problems of musical arts education in Africa; and solutions for musical arts education.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2004, 408 pp

This is the story of one man's single-minded, unremitting, always creative, campaign to provide material support to South Africa's liberation struggle, assisting leaders like Nelson Mandela and ordinary township and rural activists, as well as families who suffered because their loved ones were political prisoners, had fled into exile or been killed by the apartheid regime.

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MPRA Paper No. 9499, July 2008


Rapid urbanisation is a fact of live even in the least developed countries where the lion's share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come.

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Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World



Online journal of contemporary art and architecture, art history and criticism, focusing exclusively on the visual creative expressions of artists in Africa and other regions of the world. As well, it also highlights the work of non-African / non-Diaspora artists who use iconography and symbolisms derived from any of the artistic traditions of Africa.
Ijele: Art eJournal provides a forum for scholarly articles of the highest quality, and is devoted to making a major contribution to the advancement of African art studies in universities all over the world. Interviews that illumine the creative politics and philosophy of artists are especially welcome.

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The name of the ISIM Newsletter has been changed to the ISIM Review to more accurately reflect the publication's objective of providing a review of debates and research on contemporary Muslim societies and communities in an accessible manner to a broad readership.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2004

This paper was presented as the first annual John Gerhart Memorial Lecture at the conference of the Africa Genome Initiative held in Cairo in March 2004. In Africa in the Age of Biology, Dr James discusses Africa's long history of scientific, technological and mathematical enterprise, from tokens of the very earliest counting by humans to the sum of knowledge brought to bear in the construction of the pyramids.

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Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2000

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Jinadu, L. Adele:
Explaining & Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa:
Towards a Cultural Theory of Democracy

Claude Ake Memorial Paper Series (CAMP)
Uppsala universitet/Department of Peace and Conflict Research
(2007)

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The Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) is a new interdisciplinary
journal that provides a forum for debate on the historical and
contemporary aspects of media and communication in Africa. It hereby
aims to contribute to the on-going re-positioning of media and
cultural studies outside the Anglo-American axis.

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Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies



Volume I 1996-97. Edited by Joseph Norment Bell with Petr Zemánek.
Volume II 1998-99. Edited by Joseph Norment Bell.
Volume III 2000. Edited by Joseph Norment Bell.
Volume IV 2001-2002. Edited by Joseph Norment Bell with Agostino Cilardo and Stefan Leder.
Volume V 2003. Edited by Joseph Norment Bell.

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JMMS is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal.

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Al-Karmel

Al-Karmel magazine published in Palestine in Arabic, chief in editor Mahmoud Darwish.

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Dídac P. Lagarriga: Hip hop a l'Àfrica. Recorreguts i maneres
(oozebap, 2006)

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Lianes


En proposant une prise en compte de ces cultures nées dans l'entre-deux, la revue Lianes pense actualiser une démarche entreprise, par d'autres médias tout en essayant de pousser plus en avant le questionnement sur le phénomène intéressant de la rencontre. Il s'agit de prêter plus d'attention aux différences, aux valeurs du Moi et de l'Autre en évitant le réflexe tribal, essentialiste. Les Lianes expriment un troisième lieu où s'entrecroisent les différences. C'est le lieu dynamique d'une confrontation qui nourrit le regard et le projet de société. Il est à travers une diversité de rubriques que Lianes compte toucher le plus large public possible: articles critiques, interviews, enquêtes, pages culture et notes de lecture.

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Dossiers:
Accords de Cotonou - Europe/ACP . Agriculture - Accès à la terre . Conflits armés . Droits Humains . Eau . Environnement . Financement du développement . FMI et Banque mondiale . Forums sociaux . Françafrique . Habitat . Littérature et résistances . Luttes des femmes . Médias . Mémoire de la décolonisation . Migrations . Nepad . OGM . OMC - AGOA - Commerce international . Pillage des ressources . Privatisations . Racisme - Esclavage - Réparations . Santé . Solidarité internationale . Syndicalisme . VIH-Sida

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Judith van de Looy:
Africa and China, A Strategic Partnership?
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC Working Paper no. 67, 2006.

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This report explores the interface between recent socio-political changes in Namibia, and the way they are reflected in emergent musical practices and identities within the country. The potential tension between unity and diversity is investigated within musical landscapes in traditional and contemporary frames. Sadly, diversity is often seen to be the precursor of divisiveness rather than a product of human creativity and ingenuity.
Based on a decade of field research undertaken mainly in the north and central areas of Namibia since 1993, this report poses questions about fundamental purposes of music-making, and the conscious response of people to the contemporary Namibian socio-political situation. It provides a broad overview of music emanating from different cultural practices in Namibia, and relates this to the State's political strategies for ensuring unity and nation-building through policy-making, education and broadcast media. The changes that occur in musical practices are seen as strategic cultural choices and ongoing identity-formation.



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This collection brings together many African voices expressing their ideas and conceptions of musical practice and arts education in Africa. With essays from established scholars in the field as well as young researchers and educators, and topics ranging from philosophical arguments and ethno-musicology to practical class-room ideas, this book will stimulate academic discourse. At the same time, practical ideas and information will assist teachers and students in Africa and elsewhere, bringing fresh musical perspectives on instrument playing, singing, children's literature and play.

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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2007

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Matatu - Journal for African Culture and Society
Volume 25/26: "African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum. Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict" Edited by Tobias Doring

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CCCB, Barcelone, 22 pp.

L’étude qui suit se propose d’analyser quelques-unes des manières d’imaginer le politique qui, dans l’Afrique contemporaine, accordent une place centrale à la pensée et à la pratique du pouvoir comme pensée et pratique de la guerre. Telle qu’elle est utilisée ici, la notion de « guerre » ne se réfère pas uniquement à ces moments précis de dramatisation du conflit qui se traduisent par l’affrontement belliqueux des forces,
par une intensification des combats, puis des destructions entraînant des pertes humaines sur les champs de bataille. Cette sorte d’épreuve dont l’issue est, de bout en bout, suspendue au jugement des armes avait été bien étudiée en son temps par Clausewitz. Dans le cas africain, elle a fait, au cours de la décennie passée,
l’objet de chroniques de plus en plus nombreuses et de plus en plus sophistiquées.

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SADC Centre of Communication for Development, 2004

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations or of the SADC Centre of Communication for Devolopment concerning the legal or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.







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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2008

Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring
security from outside: they involve third-party mediators during the
negotiation stage and often peacekeeping troops to guarantee the
agreement at an implementation stage. This paper reviews parts of the
academic debate on power sharing and war termination, touching on some
key findings by the main researchers working on the topic.

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Dans son analyse de diverses pratiques, de l'islam rigoureux jusqu'à l'islam libéral observé dans plusieurs pays, l'auteur a poussé l'investigation jusqu'à essayer de comprendre l'impact réel de ces tendances sur les droits de la femme, le port du voile, le problème délicat de la sexualité en terre d'Islam, la place de l'individu dans la société, le statut des minorités juives et chrétiennes et les conflits de civilisations.
L'orientation didactique adoptée se veut utile aussi bien pour le grand public que pour les spécialistes. À cet effet, l'auteur s'est surtout attaché à faciliter la tâche de lecteurs soucieux de cerner la nébuleuse d'un monde islamique aussi varié que passionnant.

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Depuis la promulgation du Code Noir par Louis XIV, jusqu'à l'implication de la France dans le génocide rwandais sous Mitterrand, en passant par les exactions de la colonne Voulet-Chanoine en 1899, ce calendrier d'événements à se remémorer décrit l'action de la France outre-mer à l'opposé des clichés d'une France généreuse apportant la civilisation à des peuples sauvages : le but est d'assujettir, voire de faire de la place pour l'Européen, l'indigène qui se rebelle est exterminé.
Tout en se targuant d'être la patrie de la Déclaration des droits de l'Homme, l'État français continue d'en enfeindre systématiquement le premier article : " Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits. "

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2004, 344pp

In an extraordinary and engaging account this book traces the paths South Africans have followed from pre-colonial times to the democratic present, providing fascinating personal and historical details, and raising provocative questions about the choices, mistakes, contradictions and key themes in the emergence of the complex society that South Africa is today.

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Enda éditions, Dakar, 2009. 126 pp.


Le projet TIC-MGF "Contribution des TIC à l'abandon des MGF en Afrique de l'ouest francophone, rôle citoyen des jeunes" a été conçu et réalisé par ENDA Tiers Monde, avec le soutien du CRDI, avec la participation de trois associations locales de développement de trois villes secondaires du Burkina-Faso, du Mali et du Sénégal. Plusieurs activités combinant différents niveaux et méthodes de recherche, d'action et de formation, menées de manière exploratoire, transdisciplinaire, et participative, ont mis en lumière qu'à l'heure de la société africaine de l'information, l'abandon des MGF en Afrique gagnerait à passer par l'intégration des jeunes et de la problématique de genre aux stratégies et politiques relatives aux MGF axées sur l'exploitation des caractéristiques citoyennes des TIC. La société de l'information impose, en Afrique, une nouvelle vision du développement, axée sur l'innovation conceptuelle et méthodologique, la redéfinition de la gouvernance citoyenne selon les genres, pour atténuer la prégnance du système patriarcal qui aliène les hommes, pénalise les femmes et marginalise les jeunes.

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DEGAGER L'HORIZON : LA SCIENCE, LES SCIENCES
HUMAINES ET L'AFRIQUE - CLEARING THE HORIZON : SCIENCE, SOCIAL
SCIENCES AND AFRICA
ETRE ENFANT EN AFRIQUE - BEING A CHILD IN AFRICA
BRAIN DRAIN AND NATIONAL (DE)CONSTRUCTION IN
AFRICA / FUITE DES CERVEAUX ET (DE)CONSTRUCTION NATIONALE EN AFRIQUE
ECOLOGIE, ECOCRITIQUE ET LITTERATURE - ECOLOGY, ECOCRITIC AND LITERATURE
BEYOND FASHION : SUITS AND POLITICAL TIES - MODE ET MODES : L'HABIT FAIT-IL LE MOINE?

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Mupedziswa, Rodreck and Perpetua Gumbo: Women Informal Traders in Harare and the Struggle for Survival in an Environment of Economic Reforms

Published by Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Research Report 117, june 2001


This report summarises the results of the fourth and final round of interviews carried out among informal sector women traders in Harare, Zimbabwe as part of a longitudinal study of their conditions of work and livelihood in the context of economic crisis and structural adjustment.
The evidence which was available from the interview points to a deepening social crisis in Zimbabwe as attested to by the increasing crisis of subsistence and livelihood among the overwhelming majorette of the informal sector workers.
Far from being the terrain where sections of the populace might be able to find economic liberation, the informal sector is, in fact characterised by serious internal differentiation, very low incomes, and an over-saturation that results in the inability of the women survey to do anything other than struggle at the margins for basic survival.

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Hamza Mustafa Njozi: Mwembrechai Killings and the Political Future of Tanzania

Published by: Globalink Communications (Ottawa, Canada, 2000)

On Friday 13 February, 1998 at the instigation of a Catholic priest of Mburahati parish in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzania government ordered its para-military police force to open fire on unarmed Muslims at Mwembechai area, killing at least four of them. It was soon discovered that the seditious claims made by the Catholic priest and repeatedly broadcast on a Catholic radio that Muslims were ridiculing Jesus were a sheer fabrication. Muslims' demands for an independent probe team to investigate the killings were immediately rejected by the Minister for Home Affairs. The government also banned a meeting organised by Muslim women to speak out about the sexual humiliations and indignities they suffered at the hands of male police officers while in remand prison.

In this book Dr. Njozi looks at the Mwembechai killings as a manifestation of a simmering political crisis in Tanzania. The book provides unsettling details about religious discrimination in a country which is thought by many as setting a shining example to rest of the world. Tha author's analysis of the looming political tragedy in Tanzania is both illuminating and sympathetic.

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Northeast African Studies
Volume 6, Number 1-2, 1999. Michigan State University Press.

Northeast African Studies, the leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Djibouti, is published three times a year. The journal's founding editor, Harold G. Marcus, had a vision: to publish widely across disciplines and thus to present a panoramic and interrogative view of the political and cultural landscapes of the Horn of Africa.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2006, 264pp


The extent to which indigenous people were dispossessed of their land by whites in South Africa under colonial rule and apartheid has no parallels on the African continent.

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Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
Africa Development, vol. XXXIX, n.1, 2004

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Akina Mama wa Afrika, 2010. 136 pp.

This publication breaks the silence regarding women's sexuality. Governments, women's rights activists and other social movements, often fail to understand the
connection between sex work, forced early marriage, land rights, poverty, education, property and
inheritance rights. We need to understand the politics behind sexuality, sexual rights and sex work because the liberation of all women, the equitable distribution of power and resources, and the ability to control our own bodies are indeed critical to our feminist agenda.
This breakthrough work is in line with AMwA's core mandates of creating space for African Women to
SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. It allows sex workers to speak for themselves; claim their spaces and share their stories. "When I Dare to Be Powerful" redefines African sex workers; giving the power back to them and their struggles.

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Pan African Visions



Pan African Visions is a forum for genuine analyses, frank and focused debates, constructive criticisms and concrete ideas to showcase the genius that lies within the African mindset as the continent and its people strive to move out of the ghetto that it has been wrongly labeled with, and relegated to, in the global village that the world has become. It is born out of the desire to come out with a publication that accompanies the continent as it makes positive strides in meeting up with the challenges of the 21st century. As a website it will compliment existing publications with the difference that it will focus more attention on that which is positive about Africa, the progress that it is making, and the capabilities and potentials it has to brace multi-faceted challenges.

With the increasing emergence of democratic governments, a more ambitious African Union, increasing efforts on the part of a growing new generation of leaders to get Africa more actively involved in the quest for solutions to its problems, the formulation of credit worthy blue prints like the New Partnership For African Development , the African Peer Review Mechanism, a more vibrant civil society,the frontline role its women are taking et al, African Visions will compliment similar ventures in marketing the success stories from Africa.



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REVISTA PAPERS

ÍNDEX DEL NÚMERO 35/2006:

- rEVOlució Morales?. Jordi Urgell
- Retalls de premsa. Isabel Ruíz
- Del diàleg entre religions al diàleg entre sacralitzacions. Joan Casañas
- Àfrica pot alimentar l'Àfrica. Carme Arís, Jordi Prat, Rita Huybens i Xavi Zulet. Assistents al FSM de Bamako (Mali)
- Un altre feminisme: Àfrica. Entrevista a Sara Longwe (FEMNET). Sara Bastardes
- El cinema dels pobles indígenes. Isabel Ruíz

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 1993, 178pp

This biography introduces the reader to Albert Lutuli, erstwhile President of the ANC and the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The book includes a collection of his speeches and writings as well as excerpts from his evidence presented at the Rivonia Trial.

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Press Afrique

Webmagazine citoyen d'information et de réflexion sur la Françafrique
& le néocolonialisme en Afrique.

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PROUDFLESH promotes Black Life, its Culture, Politics and Consciousness, for "All Over the World" Afrikans, in a world that seeks to take Black life away.
We aim to be youthful and old in perspective, both fresh and wise. We are about creation, opposition, and more with respect to mind, body and spirit.
Socially. Economically. Artistically. Sexually. Critically, we seek revolutionary words and strive to make them flesh.

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Lesego Rampolokeng: Blackheart (Epilogue to insanity)




The latest novel by one of the most exciting poets from South Africa, 2004

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IDRC 2000, 266 pp.

Information is universally acknowledged to be a lynchpin of sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, access to information is limited, and especially so for rural women. The new information and communication technologies (ICTs), centred mostly on the Internet, provide potential to redress this imbalance.

The essays in this book examine the current and potential impact of the ICT explosion in Africa. They focus specifically on gender issues and analyze the extent to which women's needs and preferences are being served. The authors underscore the need for information to be made directly relevant to the needs of rural women, whether in the areas of agriculture, health, microenterprise, or education. They argue that it is not enough for women simply to be passive participants in the development of ICTs in Africa. Women must also be decision-makers and actors in the process of using the new ICTs to accelerate African economic, social, and political development.



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Ce manuel traite, du point de vue des femmes, des enjeux liés à l’entrée des pays africains dans la société de l’information. Il présente, à l’intention des décideurs et acteurs publics, civils et privés, un plaidoyer sur la prise en compte du genre dans les politiques de TIC pour une société africaine de l’information juste, plurielle et inclusive.

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La recherche sur la fracture numérique de genre en Afrique francophone, réalisée par le Réseau genre et TIC, établit que, dans les six pays étudiés (Bénin,
Burkina-Faso, Cameroun, Mali, Mauritanie et Sénégal) les femmes ont globalement un tiers de chances en moins que les hommes de bénéficier des avantages de la société africaine de l’information et que les liens politiques entre les questions de genre et de TIC y sont largement méconnues. Les preuves quantitatives et qualitatives qu’elle présente, justifiant les alertes lancées par les spécialistes des questions de genre dans la société de l’information, appellent, de la part des décideurs politiques publics et civils, à la mise en œuvre d’actions pour une société plus juste et inclusive en termes de genre.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2005, 416pp

Baba: Men and Fatherhood in South Africa provides answers to some of the most difficult questions about fatherhood in South Africa: Who is a father? What does it mean to be a father? Is it important for fathers to do more for children in a world that assumes that mothers take the primary parenting role? Do different people understand fatherhood in different ways? What evidence is there of new fatherhood styles emerging in South Africa?

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Dotarnos de razones para combatir el racismo contra la población inmigrante. Denunciar la política imperialista sobre África. Analizar la "lucha contra la inmigración ilegal" y la "lucha contra el terrorismo" como excusas para la penetración económica, política y militar en los países africanos. Mostrar el papel de la ayuda al desarrollo en esta estrategia recolonizadora. En fin, frente a la política de vallas, muros y buques de guerra, explicar quién invade a quién.

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Nawal al Saadawi
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas: Men, Women and God(s).
Nawal El Sadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1995

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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2007

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Frithjof Schuon: Comprender el Islam
José J. de Olañeta, editor (1987, 2001)

Uno de los libros más importantes sobre el Islam, comprendido en su esencia y en su razón de ser.

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Kathleen Seidel: Serving the guest

A cookbook with essays & anecdotes on the historic & contemporary role of food, eating, meals & hospitality in Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam.

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AbdouMaliq Simone: For the City Yet to Come. Remaking Urban Life in Africa

Conference lectured at the cycle "Mapping Africa", Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, 17 February 2003 (18 pp.)

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IDRC/CTA 1999, 240 pp.

This book describes the valuable contribution that urban agriculture is making to food security and urban sanitation in the cities of West and Central. It also presents a strategy for launching a multistakeholder network on urban agriculture, and does so with input and support from producers; NGOs; national, regional, and international research institutions; donors; and policymakers and government officials at both the municipal and national levels.

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 1999, 312pp

A valuable reference work and source of inspiration, this biographical dictionary lists the life histories of people who have contributed significantly to the course of South African history but who have not been widely recognised. Illustrated entries include extra-parliamentary political leaders, leaders from marginalised communities, women and other pioneers.
It is not only the lives of the illustrious minority who achieve greatness that have much to teach us, but also those less famous who inspire and help to build a nation. This volume offers the biographies of journalists Percy Qoboza, Nata Nakasa and George Heard, composers such as Todd Matshikiza, writers such as Bloke Modisane, community leaders, social scientists, educationists and many more.

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An expanded version of the Sudan Open Archive (SOA) is now online. The
new version - SOA 2.0 - features an improved user interface and open
access to a thousand books and documents on all aspects of Sudan. The
Archive makes a wide range of material available - and searchable - in
digital form for the first time. It also incorporates an internet
guide with links to several hundred Sudan-related websites. SOA 2.0
includes dictionaries, material on human rights and environmental
issues and a collection of reports on local peace meetings in north
and south Sudan.

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Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha: An Introduction To The Second Message of Islam
(Translated into English by Dr. Abdullahi An-Na'iem)

Islamic philosopher and politic, Taha was killed in the 80's by the dictatorship of Sudan because his revolutionary interpretation of Islam and its dangerous spreading of his teachings among Sudanic people.

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Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha: Towards The Second Message of Islam
(Translated into English by Dr. Abdullahi An-Na'iem)

Islamic philosopher and politic, Taha was killed in the 80's by the dictatorship of Sudan because his revolutionary interpretation of Islam and its dangerous spreading of his teachings among Sudanic people.

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Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
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La revue s'adresse avant tout à ceux qui souhaitent allier la connaissance et l'analyse des réalités les plus concrètes de notre société avec la conscience des problèmes et des enjeux où se décident notre survie et notre devenir. Elle se résigne d'avance à être négligée par ceux qui ne recherchent que le divertissement paresseux ou la confirmation de leurs préjugés ou de leurs passions. C'est que TERROIRS voudrait donner à penser.



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The family is one of the most important institutions of African societies. Where is it going today? How is it affected by global processes, cultural and political as well as economic? How does it compare with family developments in other parts of the world? These are questions, which this report addresses. It deals with - the African family in a comparative global context, focusing on patriarchy, sexuality and marriage, and fertility;- biological and social reproduction in Ghana under conditions of globalization and structural adjustment;- Nigerian marriage relations under the impact of current conditions;- family changes in the North (Britain) viewed from and compared with a family perspective from the South (South Africa).




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Uganda Communications Commission: Funding and implementing universal access. Innovation and Experience from Uganda
Fountain Publishers/CRDI 2005, 100 p.

Uganda was one of the first countries in Africa to develop a policy on universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to implement a universal access fund, designed to support initiatives aimed at improving access to ICTs for poor and rural populations. Today, Uganda's universal access policy and rural communications development fund are generally seen as best practice.

This book presents the Ugandan experience - an experience that was unique because of the country's early liberalization of the communication sector and mobile explosion. Regulators, policy advisors, and government officials, both within and outside Africa, will find this book useful as they develop their own policies, strategies, and implementation plans for universal access.



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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2009. 56 pp.

In its efforts to assist post-conflict societies in Africa the international aid community has acitvely promoted projects of psycho-social healing among people traumatized during wars and violent conflict. To a large degree these projects have been established in the tradtion of Western psychology. More recently, however, it has been realized in order to help survivors of war effectivley it is necessary to adapt projects and enhance "local" psycho-social healing. This policy report locates the structures - with local legitimacy - that are available to young people who experienced sexual abuse during the Sierra Leone civil war (1991-2002). To this end, this booklet discusses a healing complex that comprises a number of overlapping actors, including herbalists, Zoe Mammies (heads of the female secret societies), Mori-men (Muslim healers); Karamokos (Muslim teachers) and Christian pastors.




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Verde Islam
1996-2002

Verde Islam fue una de las revistas, escritas en español, más importantes de los últimos años en tratar al Islam desde dentro. Dirigida por musulmanes españoles, sus contenidos continúan siendo herramientas precisas para profundizar en las diferentes capas que todo saber contiene.







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In rural Africa and the Middle East, many ecosystems are on the verge of collapse. The interplay of social, ecological, and political-economic forces has compromised the ability of farmers to sustain their precious soil. As a result, farmers, and especially women farmers, face a constant daily struggle to survive.

This book illustrates in rich detail the complexity and diversity of women's lives in Maragoli, western Kenya, as they work to sustain their soils and negotiate a plethora of competing demands and constraints in an increasingly stressful economic environment. With extensive use of personal narratives and photographs from the farmers of Maragoli, this book demonstrates that soil degradation is not simply a function of population pressure and ignorance; rather, it is embedded in gender relations and complex struggles at the local level.


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Camille de Vitry: L'or nègre

Tahin Party, 2009. 176 pp.

En 2004, François-Xavier Verschave, mon époux, souhaitait rédiger un ouvrage destiné au grand public pour faire comprendre ce qu'il a appelé la " mafiafrique ".
À partir de scènes de vie quotidienne et de témoignages d'habitants d'une région d'Afrique, il voulait mettre en lumière, en les reconstituant, les mécanismes institutionnels, politiques et financiers à l'origine de situations intolérables, symboles de l'aliénation par l'Occident de tout un continent.
En 2002 et 2003, Camille de Vitry avait recueilli le témoignage des habitants de Sadiola au Mali. Ses films ont révélé un mode inimaginable d'exploitation de l'or, responsable de graves problèmes sanitaires et qui repose sur des conditions de travail insupportables. François s'était alors investi dans un travail minutieux pour recouper les informations existantes en vue d'une publication commune avec Camille et les ressortissants de Sadiola. Ce projet ne verra jamais le jour : François est décédé le 29 juin 2005...
Merci à Camille d'avoir écrit ce " roman " pour révéler, au travers de son itinéraire personnel et de sa découverte du Mali, une réalité mal connue. Au fil de son histoire, elle intègre certains éléments de travail de François sur ce dossier, rédigés en 2004 et au début de l'année suivante. Elle contribue de manière formidable à la sensibilisation de nos concitoyens et amorce l'immense travail d'information qu'il faut poursuivre.

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Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch: Islam, otro rostro.
Entrevistas con Rachel y Jean-Pierre Cartier.
Traducción al español de Hawwa Morales

Eva de Vitray fue traductora al francés de Rumi y una de las intelectuales más firmes y apasionantes (no sólo de Francia, sinó del siglo XX). Estas entrevistas, donde cuenta sus vivencias y sus opiniones, son imprescindibles para acercarnos un poco más a un tipo de pensamiento islámico muy necesario para los tiempos que corren...

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Con Sandro Mezzadra, Gayatri Chakravoty Spivark, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ella Shohat, Stuart Hall, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Achille Mbembe, Robert J. C. Young, Nirmal Puwar, Federico Rahola

Edita: Traficantes de sueños, Madrid, 2008

Lejos de manifestar el enésimo síntoma de una era privada de la imaginación suficiente como para dotarse de nombres propios, lo postcolonial marca un tiempo de transición en el que lo antiguo permanece todavía entre nosotros, constituyendo un presente que aún no ha encontrado su forma paradigmática. En este sentido, lo postcolonial señala el fin de una época, la de los grandes imperios coloniales, seguida de la independencia del dominio colonial directo y la formación de nuevos Estados, a la vez que la emergencia de nuevas relaciones de dominio que sólo pueden ser consideradas a la luz de la reinvención de los viejos dispositivos coloniales. El mundo postcolonial viene así encarnado por la persistencia de muchos de los efectos de la colonización implicados en el desplazamiento del eje colonizador/colonizado y en su interiorización dentro de la sociedad actual. Indicaría una nueva situación significada por una transversalidad de origen colonial que ahora puede ser encontrada, revisada, en cada rincón del planeta. De este modo, lo postcolonial no sólo destaca las nuevas relaciones de dependencia y dominio del Norte sobre el Sur, sino la irrupción plena y exuberante de las "colonias" en las "metrópolis": el crisol étnico de las grandes ciudades, la aplicación de formas de derecho neocolonial sobre migrantes y minorías, la reactualización permanente del racismo como forma de gobierno y el tesoro, a la espera tan sólo de nuevos herederos, de las luchas anticoloniales.



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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents, is a record of the second resistance movements waged by Indians in the country; the first was waged by Gandhi at the beginning of the century. The 1946 Campaign was seminal in the gestation of the anti-apartheid front, at home and abroad. it was the forerunner to the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign, organised jointly by the South African Indian Congress and African National Congress; it placed the issue of racism on the sanctions against South Africa. This is the first comprehensive record of that campaign, and fills a crucial gap in our history.



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Appraisal of Western-Muslim relations compiled by six intellectuals from countries strongly influenced by Islam, namely Salwa Bakr (Egypt), Basem Ezbidi (Palestinian Territories), Dato' Mohammed Jawhar Hassan (Malaysia), Fikret Karcic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Hanan Kassab-Hassan (Syria) and Mazhar Zaidi (Pakistan).

The Report addresses the historical roots of the confrontation between the West and the Islamic world, identifies stereotypes and prejudices, and draws a line through to the causes and effects of the September 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The essays include recommendations and core points for how we can jointly shape the future.

Published by: Institut für Auslandbeziehungen (ifa) Stuttgart, within the ifa forum Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, 2004

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VV.AA.: ACTES del Congrés Àfrica Camina (gener del 2004).

- Jokin Alberdi Bidaguren: Seguridad humana en Sudáfrica: balance y retos de un decenio sin Apartheid
- Molefi Kete Asante: In search of an afrocentric historiography
- Shiferaw Bekele: The Chronicle of Tecle Giyorgis I (first r. 1779-1784)
- Philip Burnham & José Muñoz: Prospecting for political spaces in Cameroon
- Michel Cahen: El potencial revolucionario de una categoría desechada: la etnia y las ciencias sociales aplicadas en África
- Alicia Campos Serrano: Cooperación y democracia en Guinea Ecuatorial y Mozambique
- Maria Cardeira: De que género é o Norte de África? Reflexões em torno da produção de antropologia, género e território em contexto africano
- Carlos Cardoso: A diáspora africana no contexto da globalização: entre a integração social e a cidadania política
- Christian Coulon: Que sont les Marabouts devenus? Les dynamiques de l´Islam maraboutique au Senegal
- Papa Demba Fall: Les sénégalais au Kwazulu-Natal (Afrique du Sud) ou les "naufragés" de la migration internationale
- Jean-Pierre Dozon: La crise ivoirienne à la lumière d´une "refondation nationale" et de l´implication de la France
- Marzia Grassi: Informalidade e comércio transnacional: estudo de caso em Cabo Verde
- Mbuyi Kabunda: La democracia en África: entre la recuperación de la tradición y la integración en la economía global
- Koffi Kouassi Denos: El itinerario de un conflico previsible: las causas profundas de la guerra civil marfileña
- Serge Latouche: L´Afrique peut-elle contribuer a résoudre la crise de l´Occident?
- Carlos Manuel Lopes: Informalidade e desenvolvimento: algumas pistas para reflexão
- Ahmed Mahiou: Remarques sur l´évolution du système politique algérien
- Jean-Claude Marut: Y a-t-il un modèle sénégalais de résolution des conflits?
- Carlos Oya: El modelo del Banco Mundial para África: ¿hacia un consenso internacional?
- M.L. Rodrigues de Areia: O multiculturalismo em contexto afro-americano: o verso e o reverso.
- Gerhard Seibert: O fenómeno da proliferação das igrejas espirituais nos bairros peri-urbanos
- Ibrahim K. Sundiata: Africa in the diasporic gaze
- José Carlos Venâncio: Jaime Bunda versus Sem Medo. Nacionalismoe e estado pós-colonial em Angola no registo de um dos seus escritores

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CCCB, Barcelona, 2003.


Esta edición digital recoge las ponencias del seminario "Mapas de África. Reconfigurar un continente", un seminario dirigido a impulsar la investigación y el debate acerca de las realidades políticas y sociales del continente africano. Este seminario contó con la participación de destacados pensadores que, desde diferentes disciplinas (política, sociología, antropología, periodismo, demografía, arte), ayudaron a componer un mapa de los principales retos de la sociedad africana actual. Lejos de reproducir los recurrentes esquemas occidentales sobre el continente, este ciclo se centró en la complejidad de formas (autóctonas, modernas, foráneas, tradicionales) que constituyen la base de una vía propia a la modernidad.

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VV.AA.: Survivors. Women affected by gun violence speak out

IANSA, 2009. 20 pp.



'Survivors' presents women's experiences of gun violence in their own words. These experiences range from torture in Central Africa to domestic violence in Europe; from cross.re in Asia to grieving the loss of a murdered child in the Americas. Harrowing and at times hopeful, the 16 stories paint a picture of the impact of guns on ordinary women's lives.
Most of the stories take place at home. Unlike men, women are more likely to encounter gun violence in the home than in public places.

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VV.AA.: The impact of guns on women's lives

International Action Network on Small Arms, 2005. 76 pp.




This report looks at the impact on women of guns in the home, in communities and during and after conflict. In each of these contexts, it looks at violence
committed with guns against women, the role women play in gun use, and the
campaigns women are spearheading against gun violence.

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VV.AA.: Diccionario de Literatura del África subsahariana


Translit/Virus, Barcelona, 2001. 155 pags.

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VV.AA.: Women and Peace in Africa.
Case studies on traditional conflict resolution practices

The collection of case studies that follows results from work undertaken during
the mid-nineties within the framework of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Women and Culture of Peace
Programme (1996-2001). They vary in length and depth of analysis, and reflect
the styles of the various authors. This variation is also reflected in the use of
different methodological approaches to evaluate the role of women and peace in
the six African cases and so present an interesting collage of traditional conflict
resolution and peace-building practices.

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This book takes these stories at face value, as everyday descriptions of extraordinary occurrences. My analysis is located firmly in the stories: they are about fire stations, injections, and overalls, and they record history with descriptions of fire stations and injections. These are tools with which to write colonial history. The power and uncertainty of these stories-no one knew exactly what Europeans did with African blood, but people were convinced that they took it-makes them an especially rich historical source, I think. They report the aggressive carelessness of colonial extractions and ascribe potent and intimate meanings to them. Some of the stories in this book locate pits in the small rooms of Nairobi prostitutes in the late 1920s. Others relocate the Tanganyikan Game Department in the rural areas of Northern Rhodesia in the early 1930s. Such confusions offer historians a glimpse of the world as seen by people who saw boundaries and bodies located and penetrated. The inaccuracies in these stories make them exceptionally reliable historical sources as well: they offer historians a way to see the world the way the storytellers did, as a world of vulnerability and unreasonable relationships. These stories of bloodsucking firemen or game rangers, pits and injections, allow historians a vision of colonial worlds replete with all the messy categories and meandering epistemologies many Africans used to describe the extractions and invasions with which they lived.

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Africa World Press Guide is a 200-page annotated guide to educational resources from and about Africa.
Compiled by WorldViews and published by Africa World Press, the guide contains 28 topical chapters and comprehensive lists of Africa-related information.

TOPICAL CHAPTERS:
Africa-Overview / The Nations of Africa / Africa's Peoples / AIDS in Africa / Belief Systems / African Cinema / Conflicts in Africa / Africa's Debt Burden / Democracy / Development / Emergency Relief Aid / Environment / Food and Agriculture / Foreign Intervention (Somalia) / Human Rights / Images of Africa / Labor's Role in Africa / African Literature / Mining in Africa / Music in Africa / Population / Refugees in Africa / South Africa / Struggles Unknown (Sudan and Western Sahara) / Struggles Won (Eritrea and Namibia) / Visual Arts / The Voice of African Women / Women in Africa

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Hans Zell Publishing, 2004

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HSRC Press, South Africa, 2004, 100pp



This comprehensive research study is one of the first to scientifically review and make recommendations on HIV/AIDS policy, legislation, financing and programme implementation in the six Southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

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Internet resources

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide2.html
Africa's selected internet resources by topics and countries (women, environment, literature, politics, health, languages, music, student organizations, radio stations, human rights, history, science...). Hundreds of links.

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http://folk.uio.no/albrech/CybIslamLinks.html
Arab world and Islam's selected internet resources by topics and countries (Media, litterature, politics, universities, history, human rights...) Hundreds of links.