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Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe
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In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional
African Cultures, Memory and Space
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African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vis
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This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated