As a survivor of the devastating civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Joseph Kaifala recounts the harrowing details of an early life punctuated by unimaginable violence and his journey to survival that eventually led him to the United States. Told with humility and grace, Adamalui is the true story of one man's unshakable faith, thirst for knowledge, and indomitable will.
Kaifala's experiences as a child prisoner and refugee are told through a series of flashbacks as he endeavors to attain a visa to attend college in America. His memories of the death and destruction that he and his family witnessed while attempting to avoid the violence rampant in impoverished West Africa are written with amazing clarity by a man on a mission to chart a way forward for himself and the others who would follow in his steps.
In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare of the 1990s from symbols of the modernist project of nation-building to reminders of the challenges Monrovia's residents face. The transient lives of these buildings' inhabitants, many of whom are ex-combatants, prevent them from making place-based claims to a right to the city and hinder their ability to think of ways to rebuild and repurpose their built environment. Featuring nearly 100 of Hoffman's color photographs, Monrovia Modern is situated at the intersection of photography, architecture, and anthropology, mapping out the possibilities and limits for imagining an urban future in Monrovia and beyond.
Автор: Abby Hardgrove Название: Life after Guns: Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia ISBN: 0813573483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813573489 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 104500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia’s fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove’s ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.Download open access ebook here.
Автор: Abby Hardgrove Название: Life after Guns: Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia ISBN: 0813573475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813573472 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 34230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia’s fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove’s ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.Download open access ebook here.
Автор: Shellum, Brian G. Название: African american officers in liberia ISBN: 1612349552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612349558 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: African American Officers in Liberia tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties as instruments of imperialism for a country that was, at best, ambivalent about having them serve under arms at home and abroad. The United States extended its newfound imperial reach and policy of “Dollar Diplomacy” to Liberia, a country it considered a U.S. protectorate. Brian G. Shellum explores U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia and the African American diaspora, while detailing the African American military experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Shellum brings to life the story of the African American officers who carried out a dangerous mission in Liberia for an American government that did not treat them as equal citizens in their homeland, and he provides recognition for their critical role in preserving the independence of Liberia.
Автор: Gloria Perez Название: Blue Lies: Aftermath of the 1980 Coup dEtat in Liberia and U.S. Engagement ISBN: 1098341635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098341633 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 30010.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Today we think of ukiyo-e - `the pictures of the floating world` - as masterpieces of Japanese art. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time. Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship by contemporaries.
Автор: Isabelle Duyvesteyn Название: Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia ISBN: 0415646693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415646697 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This study shows that wars interpreted as driven by economic, resource, ethnic or clan interests (such as the conflicts in Liberia and Somalia in the 1990s) have an overriding political rationale, in line with Clausewitz`s 19th century theory of
Автор: Caree A. Banton Название: More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic ISBN: 1108429637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108429634 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 61250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: More Auspicious Shores offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century. Caree A. Banton effectively explores the political and sociocultural consequences of their settlement in Africa and how it influenced the meaning of blackness in the Atlantic World.
Автор: Leigh A. Gardner Название: Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 ISBN: 1009181106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009181105 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sovereignty without Power provides the first quantitative and comparative economic history of Liberia and contributes to debates in economic and political history. Liberia`s economic history over two centuries shows the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty for independent states around the world during the age of empires.
Liberia's contributions to the world continue to be overlooked, including by Black Americans.
Gebah Sekou Kamara, a native of Liberia migrated to the United States in 1998 after fleeing the Civil War in his country, he was granted asylum in 2001. Mr. Kamara explores how many freed Blacks from the United States and beyond gave their lives in founding the republic of Liberia on the coast of West Africa.
The author attempts to reawaken the minds and spirits of Black Americans and Liberians both in the diasporas and on the mainland about engaging with each other to help Liberia reclaim its place on the world stage. He also answers questions such as:
- How did slavery develop on the African coast?
- Why did Black Americans return to Africa?
- How have Liberian natives been miseducated?
- How was the modern Liberian nation built?
The book highlights Liberia's long journey toward democracy, why the nation is so important to Blacks around the globe, and how it can move forward.
Join the author as he shares a fascinating account of Liberia and its connection to Blacks in the United States of America.
Автор: Everill B. Название: Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia ISBN: 1349440019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349440016 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.
Автор: Camara Mohamed Saliou Название: Health and Human Security in the Mano River Union: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Cфte d`Ivoire ISBN: 1498549381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498549387 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 102960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book studies the challenges facing Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d`Ivoire relative to sustainable security in the areas of health, food, environment, law and order and governance in the wake of the armed conflicts and Ebola outbreak that rocked the Mano River Union sub-region in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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