The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880-1995 (African Studies)

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The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880-1995 (African Studies)
by Thomas J. Bassett

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Cote d'Ivoire

The development of the cotton economy in West Africa is an African success story. This enduring agricultural revolution was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers. Drawing on archival research, oral histories, and long-term fieldwork on the small farms of northern Ivory Coast, this book places the rural African actors center stage and brings out the complex and manifold ways in which they shaped farming systems and influenced the government policies that brought the cotton economy into being, and sustained it from the 1880s to the 1990s.

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• Published on: 2001-05-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .94" w x 5.98" l, 1.24 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 266 pages

Cote d'Ivoire--Africa: Two Battles To Win

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Cote d'Ivoire--Africa: Two Battles To Win
by Daman Laurent Adjehi

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The Author: Daman Laurent Adjehi

September 19th, 2002, & November 7th, 2004, are two tragic, and trial times that the Ivorian people will not forget so soon; and that the continent of Africa will add up to its long list of disastrous, and inflicting events by which it is "Unfortunately" identified.

The UN Security Council has five (5) permanent member of which 3(3) are from Europe, one (1) from Asia, one (1) from the Americas, and (0) none from Africa. Why that? This leaves room for [subjection], [oppression], [injustice] and myriad questions.

Case Study:

In November 2004, after the French soldiers virtually destroying the Ivorian fighter planes sitting idle on the ground, and slaughtering the youths who were only exercising their rights of patriotism, Chirac ran to the UN to seek weapon ban against the Ivorian government. Secretary General Kofi Annan yielded to his request, and sanctioned Cote d'Ivoire in the spirit of debilitating the Ivorian Army, and thwarting President Gbagbo's attempt to acquire new weapons for replacement of the one's destroyed.

This treatment of[rule of jungle] answers to the above assertion, which in fact is irrelevant to the [Charter of the United Nations]

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• Published on: 2008-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.98" h x .47" w x 9.02" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea: Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts (Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies)

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A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea: Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts (Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies)
by William Bosman

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Cote d'Ivoire

An early example of the travel-writing genre, William Bosman's collection of letters, originally written in Dutch and first published in English in 1705, describes the geography and political and natural history of the coast of Guinea. This 1907 edition is presented as a facsimile of the 1705 version, retaining the original typography. Bosman (born in 1672) went to Africa at the age of sixteen in the service of the Dutch West India Company, and spent fourteen years on the Gold Coast. This collection of twenty letters, written to his uncle in the Netherlands, remains an important source of information about this area of west Africa in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Bosman's accounts are highly descriptive, and his writings cover all aspects of the area, from its flora and fauna to its political, social and legal systems, its enterprising natives and its climate and diseases.

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• Published on: 2011-06-02
• Original language: Dutch
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.22" w x 5.51" l, 1.52 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 550 pages

Cote D'Ivoire: The Conundrum of A Still Wretched of the Earth

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Cote D'Ivoire: The Conundrum of A Still Wretched of the Earth
by Ademola Araoye

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Cote d'Ivoire

Côte d Ivoire The Conundrum of a Still Wretched of the Earth explores the internal complexities and the context of the controversial international engagement in the Ivorian crisis. Bold formulations emerge on the structure of the post-colonial state and its immediate external environment. The environment is populated by unlike units: formal states, proto states, and transnational communities struggle for control. This complex environment is described as intermestic . The intermestic environment drives the search for the total appropriation of the space by competing constituent groups and their transnational allies. Intermesticity explains the propensity of internal conflicts to engulf whole sub regions. . The trajectory of the Ivorian crisis is impacted by France s drive to correct policy failures and re-impose its authority in its pre carré. It portends significant economic consequences and burnishes France s image in the new hegemonic global order. The confrontation in Côte d Ivoire is reminiscent of the Algerian war of independence fifty years ago. Desperate France deploys every asset, including military, to chase the Ivorian nationalists from power. It appropriates a democratic discourse to advance its neo imperialist agenda. The Ivorian election was war: for the nationalists to consolidate a new regime and vision; for the Houphouëtistes to resuscitate a decayed social order; for the rebellion to upend an antiquated social order. The Houphouëtistes are not monolithic in their visions but comply with the dictates of France. The outcome implied profound implications for the ranking of communities in national society. Ivorité becomes a tool to neutralize the consequences of demographic transformations. Removed from office by the French military, Gbagbo emerges an icon of a deferred revolution. As the world moves into a new era of global reach in political and economic power, Ademola Araoye offers in this book a thorough examination of the legacy left by the last period of globalization: colonialism. Focusing on the Côte d Ivoire since the death of strongman President Houphou?t-Boigny in 1993, Araoye shows that development of a strong national identity has been impeded by the divisive influence of the three Rs: region, religion, and resources. Above all, he exposes the ways in which these within-nation divisions are exploited and exacerbated through continued alignment by international powers with various factions within the country not only by France and the United States but also by the larger African states. By their histories, we shall know them, writes Araoye. His exposure of the recent history of the Côte d Ivoire offers a powerful context and a strong caution for any assessment of the prospects for peaceful democratic and economic development in that country. Prof. Thomas Rochon, President, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York Ademola Araoye has broken the golden rule: "See no evil, Hear no evil!" In seeing and hearing about death and disaster, political chaos and wars in Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, Araoye has become one of the most endowed observers of post-colonial disorder, offering profound insights on the internal and external forces of power that shape the visible and invisible actions of manipulative political leaders. This book has completely reconfigured our knowledge of internal politics in Cote d'Ivoire. Toyin Falola, University Distinguished Professor and the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin

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• Published on: 2012-02-16
• Binding: Paperback
• 526 pages

Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in Pictures (Visual Geography (Twenty-First Century))

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Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in Pictures (Visual Geography (Twenty-First Century))
by Lerner, Geography Department

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Text and photographs introduce the geography, history, government, people, and economy of Ivory Coast.

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• Published on: 1989-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 64 pages

Baule: African Art, Western Eyes

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Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
by Susan Mullin Vogel
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Cote d'Ivoire

The sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa's most significant art traditions. The work of many modern artists - Amedeo Modigliani in particular - refelects the direct influence of Baule invention and forms. This text explores for the texture and details of Baule life and art. Illustrations include field photographs showing artworks in the intimacy of daily lives and public performances, and museum photograophs of Baule sculptures. Susan Vogel focuses on the creation and uses of Baule works of art apart from their definition as "art" in western eyes. She establishes a means for understanding Baule expressive culture from the perspective of the Baule individuals. In a discussion of Baule experiences of art objects, she finds different kinds of looking and sleeping - art that is watched (mask dances and entertainment performances), that is seen without looking (works of art too sacred or awesome to be scrutinized), that is glimpsed (sculptures made for personal shrines and kept in private rooms), and that is visible to all (elaborately decorated objects that fulfill the desire for beauty and for open display of talents).

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• Published on: 1997-10-us.html
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 312 pages

French Colonial Rule and the Baule Peoples: Resistance and Collaboration, 1889-1911 (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)

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French Colonial Rule and the Baule Peoples: Resistance and Collaboration, 1889-1911 (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)
by Timothy C. Weiskel
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• Published on: 1981-02-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 354 pages

In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove

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In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove
by Carol Spindel
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The author brings to life a world of herders, potters, farmers and diviners--all the rituals and the daily life of an Ivory Coast community.

• Rank: #1038348 in Books
• Published on: 1989-08-28
• Released on: 1989-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 318 pages

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village

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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
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A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to change

When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first Caucasian to venture there since the French colonialists. But even though she was thousands of miles away from the United States, completely on her own in this tiny village in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, she did not feel like a stranger for long.

As her vivid narrative unfolds, Erdman draws us into the changing world of the village that became her home. Here is a place where electricity is expected but never arrives, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women grinding corn with pestles rings out in the mornings like church bells. Rare rains provoke bathing in the streets and the most coveted fashion trend is fabric with illustrations of Western cell phones. Yet Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, where children work like adults while still managing to dream.

Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.

• Rank: #868045 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

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Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire

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Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire
Joseph Hellweg (Author)
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In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Côte d’Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people’s protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. These men were dozos—hunters skilled in ritual sacrifice—and they applied their hunting and occult expertise, along with the ethical principles implicit in both forms of knowledge, to the tracking and capturing of thieves. Meanwhile, as Benkadi emerged, so too did the ethnic, regional, and religious divisions that would culminate in Côte d’Ivoire’s 2002–07 rebellion. 

Hunting the Ethical State reveals how dozos worked beyond these divisions to derive their new roles as enforcers of security from their ritual hunting ethos. Much as they used sorcery to shape-shift and outwit game, they now transformed into unofficial police, and their ritual networks became police bureaucracies. Though these Muslim and northern-descended men would later resist the state, Joseph Hellweg demonstrates how they briefly succeeded at making a place for themselves within it. Ultimately, Hellweg interprets Benkadi as a flawed but ingenious and thoroughly modern attempt by non-state actors to reform an African state.

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• Published on: 2011-07-01
• Released on: 2011-07-01
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• Number of items: 1

Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary CA'te d'Ivoire (African Expressive Cultures)

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Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary CA'te d'Ivoire (African Expressive Cultures)
by Daniel B. Reed

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Ge, formerly translated as "mask" or "masquerade," appears among the Dan people of Côte d'Ivoire as a dancing and musical embodiment of their social ideals and religious beliefs. In Dan Ge Performance, Daniel B. Reed sets out to discover what resides at the core of Ge. He finds that Ge is defined as part of a religious system, a form of entertainment, an industry, a political tool, an instrument of justice, and a form of resistance—and it can take on multiple roles simultaneously. He sees genu (pl.) dancing the latest dance steps, co-opting popular music, and acting in concert with Ivorian authorities to combat sorcery. Not only are the bounds of traditional performance stretched, but Ge performance becomes a strategy for helping the Dan to establish individual and community identity in a world that is becoming more religiously and ethnically diverse. Readers interested in all aspects of expressive culture in West Africa will find fascinating material in this rich and penetrating book.

• Rank: #2210048 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-21
• Released on: 2003-08-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x .75" w x 6.10" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Tarnished Ivory: Reflections on Peace Corps and Beyond

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Tarnished Ivory: Reflections on Peace Corps and Beyond
by Peter Bourque
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As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1973-75) and a Peace Corps trainer in Mali (1986), Peter Bourque kept a personal journal and wrote over 55 letters back to the States. In them, he described the satisfactions and frustrations of living, working and traveling in West Africa as well as his reactions to the people he encountered-Ivorian, French, Malian and American. Decades later, he reflects and elaborates on these writings with current-day observations and candid essays about idealism, world poverty, the Peace Corps, the French, and losing his religion.

• Rank: #2419914 in Books
• Published on: 2011-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .47" w x 5.98" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Making War in Cote d'Ivoire

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Making War in Cote d'Ivoire
by Mike McGovern

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Cote d'Ivoire

After a brief period of active combat in 2002, the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire settled into a pattern of neither war nor peace until the 2010 elections led to a new phase of direct conflict. During these taut years, short bursts of intense violence alternated with long periods of standoff. When things were peaceful, the Ivorian political elite and the press produced inflammatory rhetoric while soldiers and militias used the state of emergency as an excuse to shake down civilians at roadblocks. What kept this perpetually tense, dismal, and destructive situation simmering? In this groundbreaking book, Mike McGovern suggests the answer lies in understanding war as a process, not a series of events, and that rather than focusing on the role of political institutions, we should be paying attention to the flawed and unpredictable people within them.

 

McGovern argues that only deep knowledge of a region—its history, languages, literature, and popular culture—can yield meaningful insights into political decision making. Putting this theory into action, he examines an array of issues from the micro to the macro, including land tenure disputes, youth boredom, organized crime, and the international cocoa trade. Drawn from McGovern’s academic research and experience working for a conflict resolution think tank and the political access that position gave him, Making War in Côte D’Ivoire will be the definitive work on the Ivorian conflict and an innovative example of how anthropology can address the complexities of politics.

• Rank: #516007 in Books
• Published on: 2011-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 5.50" w x 8.40" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Ivory Coast in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)

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Ivory Coast in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
by Janice Hamilton

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Cote d'Ivoire

• Rank: #1915679 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Library Binding
• 80 pages