The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa

The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa
Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1965
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674771918

'Professor Rotberg has given students of African history a detailed and thoroughly documented study of the creation of Malawi and Zambia and much information on the formation and collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. No other scholar has written so full and reliable an account of this recent and complex history. Rotberg had access to hitherto unused official archives and to private correspondence, sources that he supplemented by interviews with many of the European and African participants in the events of the last decades of a century of history. No one can read this story without being impressed by the dizzy speed of change in Africa.'-American Historical Review

Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs

Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs
Author: African Union Commission
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre:
ISBN: 926460653X

Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.

Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa

Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Author: Martin Prowse
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030339858

This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi’s main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors combine an innovative range of theory and methods to provide a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century. This work will be ideal for scholars and researchers interested in political economy and African development.

A History of West Central Africa to 1850

A History of West Central Africa to 1850
Author: John K. Thornton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107127157

An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.

Making Sense of the Central African Republic

Making Sense of the Central African Republic
Author: Tatiana Carayannis
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783603828

Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding initiatives, hosting a two-decade-long succession of UN and regional peacekeeping, peacebuilding and special political missions. Drawing together the foremost experts on the Central African Republic, this much-needed volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the country’s recent history of rebellion, instability, and international and regional intervention.

From Iron Age to Independence

From Iron Age to Independence
Author: D. E. Needham
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Africa, Central
ISBN: 9780582651111

This new edition of the popular school history book has been thoroughly revised to bring it fully up to date. It provides a stimulating account of Central African history from the Iron Age to the liberation struggle and the successful achievement of Zimbabwe's national independence.

Roadblock Politics

Roadblock Politics
Author: Peer Schouten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-01-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781108494014

There are so many roadblocks in Central Africa that it is hard to find a road that does not have one. Based on research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR), Peer Schouten maps more than a thousand of these roadblocks to show how communities, rebels and state security forces forge resistance and power out of control over these narrow points of passage. Schouten reveals the connections between these roadblocks in Central Africa and global supply chains, tracking the flow of multinational corporations and UN agencies alike through them, to show how they encapsulate a form of power, which thrives under conditions of supply chain capitalism. In doing so, he develops a new lens through which to understand what drives state formation and conflict in the region, offering a radical alternative to explanations that foreground control over minerals, territory or population as key drivers of Central Africa's violent history.

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521770653

This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.