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African culture and global politics : language, philosophies, and expressive culture in Africa and the diaspora

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"This volume is the product of the 2011 Africa Conference at the University of Texas, the theme of which was Africa and World Politics"--Introduction.

Contents

Ideologies of development in French Algeria : Saint-Simonians, manifest destiny and globalization / Emma Deputy
Islam and the politics of assimilation in French colonial Algeria / Dino Palaj
Theorizing conflict and conflict resolution in African philosophical discourse / Oladele Abiodun Balogun
The emergent church in Africa and the phenomenon of reverse missions / Kelvin Onongha
Africa's unheralded contributions to world politics / Kunirum Osia
Failed state or political inspiration? / Kathleen R. Smythe
A parallel evolution : the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, 1968-1994 / Myra Ann Houser
Ensuring that Africa's voice is heard in international forums in the future : the language issues involved / Ann Albuyeh
Strongmen and strategists : perspectivising models of conflict resolution in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart and Anthills of the savannah / Alexander Kure
Antjie Krog's Country of my skull, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the new South Africa / Michael Sharp
Evangelism as political protest in nineteenth century African diaspora : appraising Julia Foote's spiritual autobiography, A brand plucked from the fire / Samantha Earley
The politics of gender roles : a comparative analysis of female husbands, male daughters and sworn virgins among the Igbo of West Africa, the Nandi and Kikuyu of East Africa, and the Gheg of north Albania / Fiosa Begai Mjeshtri
African and African-Brazilian family and kinship in nineteenth-century Brazil / Isabel Cristina Ferreira dos Reis
A global education : Cold War networks, imperial angst and the development of Tanzanian schools, 1960-1970 / Timothy Nicholson
Race and social islands in Kenya's urban social spaces / Brillian Besi Muhonja
Zoot suiters and sapeurs : the politics of dress in the World War II era / Danielle Porter Sanchez
Democratizing traditional rulership and the question of women traditional rulers : a comparison of Nigeria and South Africa / F.A. Olasupo.

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