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Queer African Reader
A diverse collection of writing from across the continent exploring African LGBTI liberation: identity, tactics for activism, international solidarity, homophobia and global politics, religion and culture, and intersections with social justice movements.
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The People's Spring
The Future of the Arab Revolution
Samir Amin
The 2011 Arab uprisings offer a glimpse of a better future but a huge challenge. To take control, Arab peoples need to ally with struggles for secular democracy and face the militarism and erosion of democracy that capitalism's decline promises.
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Adam Hanieh, Development Studies, SOAS
Samir Amin has once again demonstrated why he is one of the most original, powerful thinkers on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. This book outlines a remarkable historical framework for understanding the uprisings that shook the region in 2011 and continue to reverberate through 2012. Amin's panoramic analysis covers the role of political Islam, the various phases of colonial and imperialist intervention in the region, and the evolution of a wide range of political and... cont'd
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Where Law Meets Reality
Forging African Transitional Justice
Considering the core debates about how to develop a transitional justice agenda that best responds to the African context, this book addresses the tension between justice, peace and reconciliation.
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Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Pretoria
The most important part of addressing the challenge to break the hold of human rights violations on any society, is to understand the dynamics at work. This book brings together some of the people who are best placed to guide us in this process in Africa, and to present us with a guide to action.
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China and Angola
A Marriage of Convenience?
Despite the escalation of co-operation between China and Angola and the explosion of interest in China's broader engagement with Africa, the terms and implications of the China-Angola partnership remain unclear. This illuminating books reveals all.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
Rodney's groundbreaking analysis shows how the wealthy countries and international capitalism bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. This classic remains an essential introduction to the dynamics of Africa's relations with the West.
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To Cook a Continent
Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa
Nnimmo Bassey
Exploiting Africa's resources has delivered huge profits to the North and huge damage to Africa's environment and economies. Overcoming the crises of environment and climate change means also confronting corporate profiteering and resource extraction.
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From Citizen to Refugee
Uganda Asians come to Britain
Mahmood Mamdani
Forty years after the 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda, this vivid account interweaves gripping personal stories with an examination of Uganda's colonial history, the evolution of post-independence politics and the politicisation of racial identity.
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African Awakening
The Emerging Revolutions
The tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have seized the attention of media but what about the rest of Africa? With incisive contributions from across the continent, "African Awakening" presents the 2011 uprisings in their African context.
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Demystifying Aid
Yash Tandon
This pamphlet shows that 'development aid' is not what it purports to be - the effects of actions of well-meaning allies in the North who support aid to Africa for reasons of ethics or solidarity are, unfortunately, the opposite of their good intentions.
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Earth Grab
Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes
ETC Group
As greedy eyes focus on the global South's resources this book 'pulls back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.
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