Africans

The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries. Total population as of 2020 is estimated at more than 1.341 billion, with a growth rate of more than 2.5% p.a. The total fertility rate (births per woman) for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.7 as of 2018, the highest in the world according to the World Bank. The most populous African country is Nigeria with over 206 million inhabitants as of 2020 and a growth rate of 2.6% …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

waves of protest in solidarity with those North Africans who resisted the occupation of their lands. On


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

the Caribbean. European colonists and enslaved Africans replaced Indigenous populations across the Americas


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right …

transported over two hundred thou- sand enslaved Africans in the sixteenth century, 1.8 million in the


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English

Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …

difficult problem of slavery; calling away the africans to come and enjoy the great american union” (2:


DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 June 2024 English

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to …

to Africa to the Americas, where the kidnapped Africans were walked around the forgetting tree and unnamed with dreams and mirrors. I know the names of the Africans, someplace in my being. I speak their names with can see it in your face.” I also say I found the Africans within me when I learned to dance the Orixás 1834. At this point, many formerly enslaved Africans refused to continue the brutal labour of cutting


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

land or of enslaving and transporting Indigenous Africans to work it; it was an essential component of


NCCIH: National Collaborating Centre for Indigineous Health · 29 April 2024

Indigenous Peoples in Canada experience disproportionately high rates of tuberculosis, driven in part by the long history of trauma they have endured due to colonialism. This report provides a review …

N’Diaye, D. affective reactions of black urban South Africans towards S., Alvarez, G. G., & Schwartzman, K.


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English

"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …

barbarians—worse than Kaffir [the British term for Africans, mainly Xhosas, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa]


CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

what Africa needs; but it certainly allows the Africans to play one against the other…ending all too often


CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

what Africa needs; but it certainly allows the Africans to play one against the other…ending all too often


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