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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Colonial Africa"”.
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A study of educational development in British Colonial Africa.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Le Jardin des Pamplemousses: A case study into the role of botanical gardens in post-colonial Africa
… confronted by the challenges that arise from its colonial identity in post-colonial Africa. The 'botanical' and 'post-colonial' can therefore be understood as the 2 main identities of the garden - ones that should be interrogated symbiotically in order to uncover the garden's development and …
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The political economy of the Kunene River hydro-electric schemes
… two chief economic requirements of the Southern African region ... .This work essays a political understanding of these two chief economic requirements, in the belief that political conflict has its roots in an economic base that consists not only in social classes but also in the particular …
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The challenges of border issues, documentation, and infrastructure in intra-African trade
In 21st century post-colonial Africa, African leaders have visualised, mobilised, and worked towards economic advancement nationally, regionally, and continentally. In the past 60 or more years there has been a concentration on regional integration as to achieve economic growth and increase global …
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The birth and evolution of the Military in Independent Swaziland 1973-2013
Swaziland is one of the few African countries that has experienced neither a military coup nor a civil war, and has remained peaceful since independence in 1968 from the British. What transpired in Swaziland after independence was not uncommon in post-colonial Africa as evidence suggests that …
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South African foreign policy in Africa
… to take account of the radical change in South Africa's international and continental environment, I have divided this thesis under two headings; policy towards colonial Africa (broadly, the period 1910 - 1959) and secondly, policy towards independent Africa (1960 - ). The division is by no …
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Tuskegee, Achimota and the Construction of Black Transcultural Identity
… model from the United States South to British colonial Africa to explore issues of global educational transfer and borrowing; nation-building; character education; and British colonial education policies. The primary goal of my dissertation is to consider this instance of educational transfer …
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A saga of black deglorification : the disfigurement of Africa in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels
… devoted to the fictional disfigurement of Black Africa from primeval times to the present. An analysis of Afiican writings reveals that a body of contemporary African literature has and is still undergoing a distinctive metamorphosis. This change, which amounts to a significant departure from the …
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A history of Kawambwa tea company, 1970-1996
… of rural development schemes in British Colonial Africa and accounts for their establishment. The chapter has shown that the first attempt made to develop colonies in Africa by the British government was in 1929 when the British Parliament passed a Bill which allowed the government to …
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A history of Kawambwa tea company, 1970-1996
… of rural development schemes in British Colonial Africa and accounts for their establishment. The chapter has shown that the first attempt made to develop colonies in Africa by the British government was in 1929 when the British Parliament passed a Bill which allowed the government to …
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Marking Territory: demarcation of the DRC-Zambia boundary from 1894 to the present day
… As was common practice across most British colonial boundaries in Africa prior to 1914, the process of demarcation was an exercise focused more on mapping and exploration than on clearly defining boundaries at the local scale. The division of territorial sovereignty through boundaries was …
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Land and land grabbing: the case study of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe in Uganda
… by foreign investors in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis focuses on the conceptual and discursive “ecology” surrounding food and land security in the post-colonial, globalized world. The image of post-colonial Africa has been made to show a continent plagued with turmoil, yet filled …
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The logic of violent conflicts in DR Congo : a nested-analysis approach to the understanding of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the deadliest and longest-running wars in post-colonial Africa happened in Congo. Like many others in sub-Saharan Africa, Congo’s civil wars are often misdiagnosed as outcomes of ethnic differences and competition for resources. This study challenges the conventional interpretation of civil wars …
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The Globalization of Artificial Intelligence: African Imaginaries of Technoscientific Futures
… of economic growth, progress, and modernity in Africa. This raises several issues such as the entanglement of AI with global technoscientific capitalism and its impact on the dissemination of AI in Africa. The lack of African perspectives on the development of AI exacerbates concerns of …
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Political branding in Botswana and Malawi: electoral competition and the welfare agenda, 1994-2014
Following the end of colonial rule in several southern African states, national leadership passed largely to neoliberal and patrimonial governments that proceeded to dominate the political landscape. Despite the widespread poverty that characterised much of post-colonial Africa, these governments …
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Somali Resistance against Ethiopian State Nationalism: A Discursive Inquiry
… on contested statehood and sovereignties in post-colonial Africa capturing the ways that the state is experienced and imagined in the margins of society. With an emphasis on orality and indigenous knowledge systems, this investigation forges new ways of conceptualising Somali nationhood in …
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A literature review exploring how colonial psychiatry and colonialism interact in settler colonies in Africa
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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The Development of the Monetary and Financial System of Ghana, 1950-64
… of as a sequel to "Money and Banking in British Colonial Africa" by W. T. Newlyn and D. C. Rowan. The period itself saw considerable changes in political and economic conditions and aspirations which left their mark on the financial system. Emphasis has generally been placed on the major changes …
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Impact of Culture on Employment Relations Practice in Former British Colonies: A Comparative Case Study of Cadbury (Nigeria) Plc and Cadbury Worldwide.
… as Nigeria before the advent of the British colonialists (Ubeku, 1993).The British colonialists replaced the Nigerian Paternalistic employment relations system with their Voluntarist employment relations system. This was done without any considerations for the differences in the …