Output details
30 - History
King's College London
Book title
Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Zed Books
ISBN of book
9781842779095
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
21 - Politics and International Studies
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Africa: the Politics of Suffering and Smiling (2009) proposes an entirely new way of approaching the study of contemporary African societies. It draws on ten years of research in Africanist social sciences, including work in a dozen countries in West, East and Southern Africa. It relies on an exhaustive analysis of existing Africanist sources, in particular detailed anthropological and historical case studies. It is the first Africanist book to apply the lessons of comparative analysis to offer a fresh and critical political history of the continent by means of an enquiry into how ‘ordinary’ people understand and participate in politics.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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