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Using evidence in policy and practice : lessons from Africa
This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why. Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west …
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- 9781003007043
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- xxvi + 254 p
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- 320.6096
Migrating Fictions : Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacem…
In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women's literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turnâ€_x009d_ of literary studies to analyze the way the U.S has displayed a history of spatial colonization, which we see as a pattern we turn to a variety of seemingly disconnected forced migrations. …
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- 9780814213582
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- 264 halaman
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- 900 MAN m
Africa and the North
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of ke…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780415333917; 9780415498869
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- New International Relations
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- 327 AFR a
The Literary History of the Igbo Novel : African Literature in African Languages
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in Afric…
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- 9780367369613
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- 160 halaman
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- 800 EME l
The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman—lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meanin…
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- 9780814343852
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- 900 BAE g
Dictators and Autocrats Securing Power across Global Politics (Edition 1)
In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more moder…
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- 9781000467604
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Developing Heritage – Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and t…
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism planning. This book unpacks the beginnings of World Heritage in development thinking and the significance of national heritage for developing countries in a global context d…
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- Ed. 1
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- 204
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- Africa in Global History, 1
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- 909.82 HUB d
A Grammar of the Somali Language With Examples in Prose and Verse, and an Ac…
Somali is one of the Cushitic family of languages spoken in the horn of Africa and the official language of Somalia. This practical grammar, published in 1905, was prepared by J. W. C. Kirk, who first learnt to speak the language during his service with Somali troops during the British Empire's failed attempt in 1902–1904 to wrest control of the region from the Dervish state under Muhammad Ab…
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- 9780511708671
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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Economic integration, currency union, and sustainable and inclusive growth in…
This edited volume focuses on economic integration, currency union, and sustainable and inclusive growth in East Africa. It consists of twelve interrelated studies that provide a comprehensive picture of the state and determinants of economic development and cooperation among countries in East Africa, such as Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. The contributions are grouped into five…
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- 1
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- 9783319304328
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- XIV, 232
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- 967.6
A Guide to Taxila
Sir John Marshall (1876–1958) was a British archaeologist who was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. First published in 1960, as the fourth edition of a 1918 original, this book was written to provide a concise guide to the ruins of Taxila, excavation of which was led by Marshall. The introductory chapters give the topographical and historical backgr…
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- 9781316529904
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