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Julie de Lima's milestone essay,"The Pen and the Gun, 1968-2018 : Fifty Years of Art and Culture in the Filipino People's Struggle for National and Social Liberation is her keynote address to the golden anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines. It is at once a comprehensive chronicle of revolutionary cultural production and an analysis of how art and literature function in a milieu of the militant struggle for national national and social...
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Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. This book is the third of a trilogy that includes The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization and The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. He is also the author of The Idea of Latin America.
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Step into the nuanced realm of "Islamization of Europe: Myth and Reality," where the pages unfold an unbiased exploration of a complex topic. This meticulously researched book is not for the faint-hearted but for those seeking an unvarnished look at the hard realities shaping the continent's cultural landscape. With a fearless commitment to truth, this compelling journey unveils the layers beneath the surface, challenging preconceptions and inviting...
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It is a great tragedy of humankind that the world is now broken into two halves, in both political and economic matters, almost right in the middle.On one side are the wealthy powerful western countries and their allies. On the other side are the poorer countries of the world. The world has become a place of terrible conflicts and continuous wars.It is as if vicious politics and superpower arrogance have taken precedence over the common sense and...
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Ignorancia y libertad no riman. Personas, organizaciones y países albergan claroscuros. Lo sensato es conocerlos, asumirlos y gestionarlos con proporción. Paradigma de tal desafío es la Leyenda Negra: estereotipos que -conscientemente o no, del siglo XVI a hoy- transmiten una imagen falsa de la realidad histórica de España al magnificar miserias y silenciar grandezas. Una verdad exagerada se aproxima a una mentira.
Ante un fenómeno tan poliédrico...
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The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon. It analyzes the reforms introduced by France in Cameroon after World War II, the circumstances surrounding the unsuccessful attempt of the UPC to seize independence by force, and the subsequent eradication of this party by an alliance of Franco-Cameroonian forces. The book shows the length that the French were prepared to go in order to leave Cameroon in the...
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ANC systematically destroyed South Africa. Read Zondo Report. First, it betrayed our political hopes, then proceeded to break everything it found in the state and in society because they were infested by a corruption virus. Pointing out this problem is only a small part of the story, the real challenge arises when we must answer the question - what now? Seldom in life is there any issue of significance that will yield to simple answers. Few appear...
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This book is a very unique one in that it presents the attributes of a great leader, His Excellency Dr. Sam Nujoma, who has won great admiration of being an exemplary leader not only in Namibia but also on the entire African continent and beyond. It is the hope and belief of the writers of the various chapters that the book will inspire the youth as well as men and women to become committed leaders of Namibia, the African continent and the world at...
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“When Africa Awakes” is a powerful meditation on Pan-African identity and solidarity, offering an incisive analysis of the complex political and social forces that have shaped the African diaspora. By critically examining the historical legacies of oppression, Harrison engages in an interdisciplinary exploration of racial injustice and its impacts on African societies. He posits that meaningful progress towards liberation must involve histories...
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is reborn-one that is not appropriated and determined by the market.
Spivak examines how comparative literature...
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A historical study of the 1925 revolt against French rule in Syria, and how it established a new popular nationalism that helped shape the Middle East.
The Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 was the first mass movement against colonial rule in the Middle East. Mobilizing peasants, workers, and army veterans, it was also the region's largest and longest-lasting anti-colonial insurgency during the inter-war period. Though the revolt failed to liberate Syria...
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction-the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas-has long...
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This work is a deconstruction of the discursive constructs of Frantz Fanon in his final work "The Wretched of the Earth" and their application to the reality of the 21st century in the neo-colonial world. These constructs are: decolonisation and violence, the nature of power and power relations of neo-colonial African states, the neo-colonial existential condition and the impact of the Algerian war of liberation on the psyche of Algerians. This deconstruction...
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Qu'est-ce qu'une politique publique, pourquoi et comment sont-elles formulées et quelles sont les caractéristiques d'une bonne politique publique?
Cet ouvrage définit ce qu'est une politique publique et en décrit les différentes caractéristiques. Il énumère les étapes et les procédures adoptées en matière de formulation d'une politique publique dans un pays. Il explique ensuite les caractéristiques d'une bonne politique publique et s'achève...
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Le paradigme hégélien de la reconnaissance, admirablement critiqué par Frantz Fanon dans l'œuvre phare à laquelle ce livre rend hommage, est aujourd'hui évoqué, sous sa forme libérale, dans les débats entourant l'autodétermination des peuples colonisés, notamment les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Nord. Politologue et militant, membre de la Nation dénée du Nord-Ouest du Canada, l'auteur reprend ici la critique fanonienne et démontre...
76) Frantz Fanon for the 21st Century Volume 3 The Algerian Revolution, Islamic Discourse, the Coloni
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This work deconstructs Frantz Fanon's published works on the Algerian Revolution towards interrogating Fanon's discourse of anti-colonial Revolution in a search for insights into the failure of the Algerian Revolution. What is discovered is Fanon's discourse of Revolution in a state of evolution is trapped in time arising from Fanon's death in 1961. This evolving, unfinished discourse of Fanon was of limited utility in understanding what transpired...
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Pourquoi ne connaissons-nous pas le nom de la capitale de la Cte d'Ivoire ou du Nigéria? Pourquoi les séries américaines se déroulent-elles dans des pays d'Afrique qui n'existent pas? Comment expliquer que l'Afrique soit aujourd'hui encore dépeinte comme un espace uniforme, primitif, un espace de pauvreté et de conflits? Un espace hors de l'Histoire, hors du monde en mouvement, en retard. Existe-t-il chez nous ce que le philosophe camerounais...
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In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's population. Decolonization, Black and Brown freedom movements, the establishment of the United Nations and NATO, an exploding Cold War, a burgeoning world human rights movement, all became part of the dramatic events that swept through Africa at a furious pace, with fifty nations gaining independence in roughly...
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The relationship between the media and government, and its influence on democracy and national development are non-separable. In the 21st century, with the emergence of modern nation states, media is also essential aid to development, becoming an important channel for good governance and transparency.
In Malaysia, the mainstream press faces stringent political, legal, and economic controls, and is constantly balancing between national and commercial...
80) Angry Africa
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This research study explores the intricate matter of military coups in Africa, particularly emphasising the contemporary phenomenon of citizens in select African countries demonstrating endorsement for military seizures of power. The author critically analyses the various factors contributing to this phenomenon and investigates the underlying causes for the increasing hostility towards France within these political upheavals.Part I: The Causes of...
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