Uncover how European powers rapidly annexed nearly an entire continent during the Scramble for Africa, reshaping borders and ...

The New Scramble for Africa is a short book about recent economic development and business activity across Africa. Author Pádraig Carmody, senior lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, provides some ...

These two books try to make sense of all these developments. Carmody’s argues forcefully that the current trends evoke the late-nineteenth-century scramble for Africa, during which a handful of ...

Carmody’s ambitious book seeks to explore this complex state of affairs ... well as how they compete with the new economic powers. The path to the modern scramble for Africa, Carmody argues, was set ...

the scramble for Africa, apartheid’s rise and fall, genocide in Rwanda, the Big Man era, the blight of AIDS, and the recent arrival of Chinese influence. As he struggles to squeeze 5,000 years ...

Just what this anticolonial modernity consisted of is not always clear in Gerits’ account, but his book provides an interesting analysis of the diplomatic activity of the era, including the tension in ...

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is a professor of politics at the University of Oxford and is currently writing a book titled Africa ... ways the oft-repeated Scramble-for-Africa metaphor doesn ...

We need to talk about Africa. With major wars raging in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, increased Chinese and Russian activity, jihadi terrorists gaining ground in many places ...

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