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The Ripper in The North
Marcus Notre-Dame, brilliant lieutenant of the Versailles DRPJ is assigned to a politically very sensitive case. “Beyond Beauty”, a purebred prodigy owned by the prestigious Villeret Stables and the Emir of Qatar, is kidnapped at Charles de Gaulle airport. The mare, jewel in Qatar's crown, is executed according to sacrifice rituals inspired in Norse mythology. With the aid of Jordis Silverstrand, an Interpol agent with expertise in Old Norse religion, the judicial police are in a real race against time to solve the various riddles of these gruesome rituals. The investigation, political pressures media will plunge our inspector into the shadows of an otherwise obscure family affair. The lieutenant will pursue a faceless threat that will him awake. Two enemy or allied families? Two women united by an enigmatic relationship. The author plunges us with stamina and excitement into a complex plot that will reveal the distress of a being who “wishes to fly”. Will Marcus Notre-Dame stop this threat in time? Will he be able to embody the hero of this fresco which shakes up the thriller codes ?
Colonialism in Question
In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960s and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalism—including citizenship and equality—were defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts.
Party Proliferation and Political Contestation in Africa
This book analyzes several components of democratization and party competition in West Africa focusing on Senegal – a country with one of the longest histories of multiparty elections. It does so in service of examining the origins and consequences of the proliferation of political parties, a trend that has taken hold in Senegal and a variety of other African countries. The author uses novel sources of data to illuminate the economic and political roots of party functions and trajectories by placing party formation, opposition, ruling party loyalty, and presidential turnover into local and regional contexts. This work will appeal to African Studies scholars, professors, graduate students, and policy makers.
Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa
This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution. African countries have a good record of signing and ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized a...
Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa
African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the local, regional, and national levels. The book also reveals insightful examinations of the hype, the m...
