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Analyse der wesentlichen Charakteristika und Mechanismen der postkolonialen Außenpolitik Frankreichs gegenüber Afrika, die von bemerkenswerter Konstanz geprägt ist und mit der es Paris verstanden hat, seine ehemaligen Kolonien in einem neo-kolonialen Abhängigkeitsverhältnis zu halten. Nationalistische Orientierung der französischen Afrikapolitik, die sich in der Art der Handelsbeziehungen, der Entwicklungshilfe und Investitionen, der Einrichtung der Franc-Zone, in politischer und kultureller Dominierung, militärischer Anwesenheit und Intervention äußert. (DÜI-Hlb)

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners carry a series of assumptions about the nature of the voice and to whom it belongs. Outlining how the voice is linked to ideas of racial essentialism and authenticity, Eidsheim untangles the relationship between race, gender, vocal technique, and timbre while addressing an undertheorized space of racial and ethnic performance. In so doing, she advances our knowledge of the cultural-historical formation of the timbral politics of difference and the ways that comprehending voice remains central to understanding human experience, all the while advocating for a form of listening that would allow us to hear singers in a self-reflexive, denaturalized way.

International audience ; Disease has consistently featured among the major constraints of livestock production in the central African region, causing important economic losses. This article reviews livestock diseases of economic importance, the major ones of which include foot-and-mouth disease, trypanosomiasis and dermatophilosis in cattle, peste-des-petits-ruminants virus and gastrointestinal helminthiasis in sheep and goats, and Newcastle disease in poultry. Some aspects of epidemiology such as pathogen identification, prevalence and risk factors are examined in the light of research findings in the region. Control tools such as vaccines, chemotherapeutic/prophylactic agents and protocols developed for their efficiency have also been reviewed. Constraints hindering the effective use of tools have been identified as mostly due to institutional inadequacy. Measures for improvement are proposed, including the promotion of private professional veterinary services with greater responsibility in animal health care, creation and promotion of community-based animal health care units in areas of marginal professional coverage and the adoption of a regional approach to the control of diseases of economic importance.

International audience ; Disease has consistently featured among the major constraints of livestock production in the central African region, causing important economic losses. This article reviews livestock diseases of economic importance, the major ones of which include foot-and-mouth disease, trypanosomiasis and dermatophilosis in cattle, peste-des-petits-ruminants virus and gastrointestinal helminthiasis in sheep and goats, and Newcastle disease in poultry. Some aspects of epidemiology such as pathogen identification, prevalence and risk factors are examined in the light of research findings in the region. Control tools such as vaccines, chemotherapeutic/prophylactic agents and protocols developed for their efficiency have also been reviewed. Constraints hindering the effective use of tools have been identified as mostly due to institutional inadequacy. Measures for improvement are proposed, including the promotion of private professional veterinary services with greater responsibility in animal health care, creation and promotion of community-based animal health care units in areas of marginal professional coverage and the adoption of a regional approach to the control of diseases of economic importance.

How the political system generally militates against fundamental policy change; some focus on the US civil rights movement and the electoral system; since 1950.

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Accounting and the Crimean War -- ch. 3. Accounting on the frontline in the South African War -- ch. 4. Military accounting and the business of war -- ch. 5. Taming the untamable : the normalization of nuclear war -- ch. 6. The Vietnam War, performance measures and representations of reality -- ch. 7. The Holocaust, accounting and the denial of humanity -- ch. 8. Rendering death and destruction visible : counting the costs of war -- ch. 9. Commodifying state crime : accounting for "extraordinary rendition" -- ch. 10. Conclusion.

Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomWhile we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a massive crowd at Lincoln Memorial, few of us remember the man who organized this watershed nonviolent protest in eight short weeks: Bayard Rustin. This was far from Rustin's first foray into the fight for civil rights. As a world-traveling pacifist, he brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the forefront of US civil rights demonstrations, helped build the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the fight for economic justice, and played a deeply influential role in the life of Dr. King by helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolent resistance. Rustin's legacy touches many areas of contemporary life-from civil resistance to violent uprisings, democracy to socialism, and criminal justice reform to war resistance. Despite these achievements, Rustin was often relegated to the background. He was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era. With expansive, searching, and sometimes critical essays from a range of esteemed writers-including Rustin's own partner, Walter Naegle-this volume draws a full picture of Bayard Rustin: a gay, pacifist, socialist political radical who changed the course of US history and set a precedent for future civil rights activism, from LGBTQ+ Pride to Black Lives Matter

Colonial rule in Kenya witnessed the emergence of a profoundly unbalanced institutional landscape. With all capacity resided in a strong prefectural provincial administration, political parties remained underdeveloped. The co-option of sympathetic African elites during the colonial twilight into the bureaucracy, the legislature and the private property-based economy meant that the allies of colonialism and representatives of transnational capital were able to reap the benefits of independence. In the late colonial period these elites not only attained the means of production, they also assumed the political and institutional capacity to reproduce their dominance. The post-colonial state must therefore be seen as a representation of the interests protected and promoted during the latter years of colonial rule. Under Jomo Kenyatta, the post-colonial state represented a 'pact-of-domination' between transnational capital, the elite and the executive. The ability of this coalition to reproduce itself over time lay in its capacity to demobilise popular forces, especially those elements of the nationalist movement that questioned both the social and economic cleavages of the post-colonial state. Whilst Kenya may have experienced changes to both the executive and legislature, the structure of the state itself has demonstrated remarkable continuity.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Terminology, Conventions and Units of Measurement -- Introduction -- 1 Food Crises and Technology Transfer: Sierra Leone 1919-1949 -- The Rice Crisis of 1918-19 -- The Asian Option -- Strengthening the Research Base -- The Indigenous Alternative -- The Return of Technology Transfer: The Polder Irrigation Scheme -- 2 Bringing the Green Revolution to Sierra Leone -- The Green Revolution -- Green Revolution in Sierra Leone -- Limitations to the Green Revolution Swamp Package -- An Alternative to Technology Transfer -- Conclusion -- 3 Mogbuama: Landscape and Society -- A General Introduction to the Case Study -- The Landscape -- Administration and Politics -- Settlement Pattern and Population Characteristics -- Social Organisation -- Summary -- 4 Land and Labour -- Types of Farm -- Who Can Farm? -- Land Types and Land Tenure -- Land Availability and Fallow Periods -- The Farm Household -- Household Work - The Roles of Men, Women and Children -- Non-Household Labour -- Summary -- 5 The Farming Year -- Choosing and Brushing a Farm Site -- The Burn -- Clearing -- Rice Planting -- Weeding, Pest Control and Bird Scaring -- Harvesting -- Conclusion -- 6 The Harvest -- Data Sources -- Mogbuama Agricultural Output -- Agricultural Savings in Mogbuama -- Rice Farm Yields -- Failure and Success -- Conclusion -- 7 The Hungry Season -- The Anatomy of Pre-Harvest Hunger in Mogbuama -- Coping with Hunger in Mogbuama -- Patronage and Entitlement -- Conclusion -- 8 Rice Varieties and Farmer Experiments -- Rice Classification in Mogbuama -- Development of Indigenous Rice Varieties: Selection and Experiment -- Adoption and Abandonment of Rice Varieties -- Conclusion -- 9 Rice R&.

The establishment and functioning of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights challenges a basic principle of positivist international law on which the Organisation of African Unity (O.A.U.) has long based its policies: the sovereign domestic control of member-states.

Beyond black and white theories of political incorporation -- "Good" blacks and "bad" blacks? -- Letting sleeping giants lie -- Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans -- Afro-Caribbean sojourners -- Black like who? Afro-Caribbean immigrants, African Americans, and the politics of group identity -- Black ethnic options.