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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 280–281.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong Eva E. Rosander. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997. Pp. 229. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Eva E. Rosander. Transforming Female Identities: Women’s Organizational Forms in West
Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 335–344.
Published: 01 August 2003
...AGBENYEGA ADEDZE Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 In the Pursuit of Knowledge and Power: French
Scienctific Research in West Africa, 1938-65
AGBENYEGA ADEDZE
As agents of scientific colonization, the governors of modality, the survey modality...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 647–656.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Réflexions sur le Savoir Islamique en Afrique de l'Ouest (Reflections on Islamic Knowledge in West Africa ). Talence, France : Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire , 1985 . Cardaire Marcel . L'Islam et le terroir africain (Islam in the African Lands) . Dakar, Senegal : Intitut Français d'Afrique...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 345–347.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Philip S. Zachernuk Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 ix + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 671–678.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Ousseina Dioula Alidou This article uses Rudolph T. Ware III's original and compelling book, The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa , as a window through which to reflect on the contribution of West African clerisy of the classical Quran tradition...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 226–234.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Siba Grovogui As both a response and a complement to Partha Chatterjee's observations on modern Indian history, this essay speaks to the heterogeneity of cosmopolitanism and its trajectories. It focuses specifically on political and cultural experiments in West and North Africa that over time...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 508–523.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Begüm Adalet This article assesses James Baldwin’s status as a symbol of third world solidarity by situating his nonfiction writings in the context of his travels to France, Turkey, Israel, and West Africa, as well as the Cold War institutions and ideologies that shaped the contours of his...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 211–229.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of the Atlantic model (slavery, slave trading, and the black diaspora), the Atlantic trade (commodities, including slaves out of West Africa), and Orientalism (Islam and Eastern visions of slavery). Part 2 develops a case study of a medieval Saharan commercial center, Awdaghust, to explore how these influences...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 December 2015
... manifestations of Islam in West Africa within the epistemologies of the global intellectual economies of Islam, the colonial library, and the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition. The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa By Ware Rudolph T. III Chapel...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 21–31.
Published: 01 May 2010
... is expected to be. Comparing naming practices and name acquisition by blacks and Jews in British colonial West Africa and Central Europe during the century of emancipation from the 1780s to the 1860s, and during the subsequent era of growing exclusionist racism and anti-Semitism, this essay examines being...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 December 2023
... West Africans did not simply side with Sudanese or Saudi Arabian officials in the matter of hajj but instead critiqued Arab racism and enslavement of Africans while also playing on British and American fears of communism in Africa and attempts to use Islam and religious discourse more broadly to create...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 656–666.
Published: 01 December 2015
...” Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . Lefkowitz Mary . “The Afrocentric Interpretation of Western History: Lefkowitz Replies to Bernal.” Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 12 ( 1996 ): 88 – 91...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 May 2017
... . “L'esprit de la civilisation, ou les lois de la culture négro-africaine” (“The Spirit of Civilization, or the Laws of Negro-African Culture”) . Présence Africaine 8– 10 , no. 4 ( 1956 ): 51 – 65 . ———. “Le Problème culturel en AOF” (“The Cultural Question in French West Africa”) . In Liberté 1...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 517–530.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Ariella Aïsha Azoulay; Sohail Daulatzai; Arash Davari; Mamadou Diallo; Bouchra Khalili; Elleni Centime Zeleke Abstract This dialogue, recorded in late 2020, brings together a group of remarkable critics and creators working between Asia, Africa, and the West, each of whom address the relationship...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 61–77.
Published: 01 May 2008
... state of exis- in
of Africa as a place of rampant sexual depravity. tence. In Courtemanche’s novel, HIV/AIDS and
The presumably direct access to Justin’s sexual- Rwanda’s arms trade with the West, specifically Corpse
ity and the scrupulous description of raped and with France...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 641–647.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Fisher Humphrey . “Conversion Reconsidered: Some Historical Aspects of Religious Conversion in Black Africa.” Africa 43 , no. 1 ( 1973 ): 27 – 40 . Fortes Meyer . Oedipus and Job in West African Religion . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1959 . Griaule Marcel...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383.
Published: 01 August 2007
... agents in
French West Africa (l’Afrique Occidentale Française, or AOF) attempted to manipulate reli-
gious practices—and intervened actively in spiritual hierarchies—as a matter of policy. This
essay explores one example of those interventions in Muslim practice under France’s Fourth
Republic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 391–399.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization? Oxford : Berg , 2002 . Constantinou Costas M. On the Way to Diplomacy . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1996 . Cooper Frederick . Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 666–671.
Published: 01 December 2015
... , 1968 . Quran, The Meaning of the Holy Quran . Translation and Commentary by Ali Yusuf . Beltsville, MD : Amana , 2004 . Ware Rudolph T. III . The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2018
... , 1964 . Hopkins A. G. An Economic History of West Africa . Harlow, UK : Longman , 1973 . Hopkins A. G. “ Innovation in a Colonial Context: African Origins of the Nigerian Cocoa-Farming Industry, 1880 – 1920 .” In The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa...
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