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Economic development and social change : some comments on the current state of the field : some programmatic suggestions for change and some preliminary results from west African

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Military Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts in West Africa: Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group as a Case Study (Paperback)

The end of the Cold War witnessed intensification of intrastate conflicts in the West African subregion. Prior to this era the West African subregional body Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had used traditional conflict resolution... more

International Library of African Studies: State Failure in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Crisis of Post-Colonial Order (Paperback)

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new... more

Pre-Owned Sudan: Darfur Islamism and the World: Darfur and the Failure of an African State Paperback

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West Africa & the Global Financial Crisis (Paperback)

Papers from a meeting of West African scholars with senior officials of West African Central Banks the African Development Bank (AfDB) the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held... more

Fernando Po Mission a Consecutive History With Notes On Christian African Settlers [&C.]. Partly Re-Written From West African Scenes With Facts Not Before Published (Paperback)

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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora: The United States and Decolonization in West Africa 1950-1960 (Hardcover)

A history of America s tangled involvement in the transition of British and French West African territories to statehood. As an investigation of America s response to the decolonization process in West Africa The United States and Decolonization in... more

The Black West : A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (Paperback)

This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America s early... more

The Role of the Economic Community of the West African States : ECOWAS -Conflict Management in Liberia (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned General James Longstreet in the West: A Monumental Failure (Paperback) 1886661049 9781886661042

9781886661042. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 136. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 136 p. Civil War Campaigns and Commanders. It is September 1863. Gen. James Longstreet and his Corps ride the rails westward... more

Pre-Owned The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States Hardcover

Floyd has written a path-breaking book on the development of African-American music and its influence in America. He shows how African myths and ritual - especially the ring-shout dances that were ubiquitous in West Africa - have underlain the... more

Pre-Owned It Shouldn t Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care (Paperback 9780826514882) by Robert L Kane Joan C West

9780826514882. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 200. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 200 p. The failure of long-term care is the country s best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States... more

International Library of African Studies: Peacekeeping in Africa: Politics Security and the Failure of Foreign Military Assistance (Paperback)

In recent decades African states have developed an impressive infrastructure for training their peacekeepers. In addition peacekeeping peacebuilding and associated areas of conflict resolution have become significant areas of employment. Marco Jowell... more

Stemming State Fragility Failure and Collapse

Human security state fragility and collapse is about over twenty African nations fulfill the criteria of failing polities. These are states which lack viable institutional pillars and a robust meritocratic system consequential as a tried and tested... more

Western Africa State-Building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958-1974 Book 18 (Paperback)

Explores the fundamental role of the military in state-building in francophone postcolonial West Africa and how foreign economic and military aid has influenced it. How did African armed forces in postcolonial states in francophone West Africa... more

A West African Model to Address Human Trafficking (Paperback)

This book describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities failure to... more

West African Forests and Forestry (Paperback)

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The Periplus of Hanno; a Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast (Paperback)

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With the West African Frontier Force in Southern Nigeria (Paperback)

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Suggestions Arising From the Abolition of the African Slave Trade for Supplying the Demands of the West India Colonies With Agricultural Labourers (Paperback)

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The Caribbean Confederation : A Plan for the Union of the Fifteen British West Indian Colonies Preceded by an Account of the Past and Present Condition of the Europeans and the African Races Inhabiting Them With a True Explanation of the Haytian...

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West African Studies (Hardcover)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

It Shouldn t Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care (Paperback)

The failure of long-term care is the country s best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relative who does. Studies show that 40 percent of all adults... more

African Governance Development and Leadership: The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State : Governance and Security Challenges in Africa (Hardcover)

This broadly interdisciplinary book offers deep insight into Africa’s colonial history for an understanding and explication of contemporary governance crises security challenges and state failure on the continent. It traverses political science... more

Pre-Owned The United States and West Africa: Interactions and Relations (Paperback 9781580463089) by Alusine Jalloh Toyin Falola Abdul Karim Bangura

9781580463089. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 490. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 490 p. Contains: Unspecified Line drawings black & white. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 34. The first... more

Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora: Constructions of Belonging: Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

Applies new approaches to the study of a small densely populated region of West Africa integrating them into a regional history that analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state. Constructions of Belonging provides a history of local... more

Black America: Black Life in West Central Illinois (Paperback)

When the state of Illinois received its charter in 1818 it was declared a free state thus drawing many African-American pioneers to the area. Black Life in West Central Illinois offers a glimpse of the rich history of African-American life from the... more

Graphic History: The Buffalo Soldiers and the American West (Paperback)

Tells the story of the African American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Frontier of the United States. Written in graphic-novel format. more

Routledge African Studies Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule Book 9 (Hardcover)

Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology economics history sociology and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global... more

Pre-Owned A History of West Africa: An Introductory Survey (Paperback) 0521095794 9780521095792

An outline history of West Africa from 900AD up until the end of the colonial period and the re-emergence of independent African states in the 1960s. Topics covered include political development the European scramble for colonies the Islamic revolution... more

Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect: Regional Approaches to the Responsibility to Protect: Lessons from Europe and West Africa (Hardcover)

This book studies regional approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Europe and West Africa. The work assesses how and to what extent the European Union (EU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have internalised the... more

Routledge Studies in Us Foreign Policy West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror (Hardcover)

Since the terrorist attacks on the American homeland on September 11 2001 fighting the menace has become the frontier issue on the U.S. national security agenda. In the case of the African Continent the United States has and continues to accord major... more

Political Economy of Institutions and De African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis 1979-1999 (Hardcover)

This book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than... more

From West Africa to Washington : A President s Notes (Hardcover)

Following a rather brutal press conference African American President of the United States Kwame wonders if he did the right thing in running for office. His opponents had an easy time picking him apart even though he was new to Washington. They said... more

Summoned from the Margin : Homecoming of an African (Paperback)

Summoned from the Margin tells the story of Lamin Sanneh s fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale... more

The Direction of War (Hardcover)

The wars since 9/11 both in Iraq and Afghanistan have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom public enquiries and... more

Wives of the Leopard : Gender Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey (Paperback)

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred... more

Sierra Leone: A Political History (Hardcover)

Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest however obscured two crucial processes in this small West African state. On the one... more