The Central African Republic (CAR) joined the international community when it attained autonomy within the Communaute (French Community) on 1 December 1958. Under this arrangement, France retained control over defense, foreign affairs, currency, and home security. Through history, Central Africans, comprising a quite large number of different ......
In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach ......
Political conflict in many parts of the world has been shaped by notions of who rightfully belongs to a place. The concept of autochthony-that a true, original people are born of a land and belong to it above all others-has animated struggles across postcolonial Africa. But is this sense of rootedness from time immemorial necessary to assertions ......
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, andthe Making of the Luba Katanga
The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators-the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga-in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in ......
Governance, security, and development are three critical components of a dialectical nexus that is both dominant and determinant for any objective and fruitful quest for the understanding of the trajectory of a country, a region or, in the case of Africa, a continent from a colonial past to a neocolonial and meta-colonial present, and toward a ......
"Considering the ensuing conflicts, violence, and wars in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), the question staring us in the face is whether the world community has the will to change the current view of the untouchability of Westphalian sovereign states"--
Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, andthe Making of the Luba Katanga
Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa, today boasting more than one million members in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on artifacts, images, ......
Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
