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Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica (Diálogos Series)

In contrast to so much books on slavery within the Americas, this social background of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the adventure of particular humans from West Africa to the recent international. Tracing the stories of Africans on Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the writer examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750.

Maghrebs in Motion: North African Cinema in Nine Movements

Exploring movies made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Suzanne Gauch illustrates how past due post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured some of the variations in belief and relation that shocked either individuals and onlookers through the extraordinary uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring.

The Muse of Anomy: Essays on Literature and the Humanities in Nigeria (African World)

The foundation of Anomy is a suite of essays compiled from 40 years of addresses and lectures by way of the prestigious Nigerian author and student Femi Osofisan, who additionally is going via the pen identify Okinba Launko. Coming from one of many significant figures of the modern literary scene in Africa, those essays are candid, thought-provoking, and scintillating.

Democradura: Essays on Nigeria's Limited Democracy

Democradura: Essays On Nigeria’s constrained Democracy is a suite of articles penned via Professor Femi Mimiko, mni, over a 30-year interval. The large subject is Nigeria's tortuous makes an attempt at development democracy and laying the root for nation-building and inclusive improvement, undertaken during the last fifty seven years of the country's relative political independence.