African Politics
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From  From his Rwandan Home, Banished a Wand’rer Came |
In Chapter 14, Philpot discusses his meeting with Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former burgomaster of Taba Commune and the first man in history to be convicted of genocide, rape, and other crimes … | Robin Philpot | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! "He will not last long"From: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter Arab Spring protests in Libya, fuelled by inequality, corruption, and the Abu Salim massacre, rapidly turned into an armed civil war that Western governments both culitivated and … | Owen Schalk | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From How Is the Empire? |
In Chapter 7, Philpot examines the meaning behind former Secretary General Boutros-Ghali’s 1998 statement that “the Americans were one hundred percent responsible” for the … | Robin Philpot | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Humanitarianism and the Invention of EmergencyFrom: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter 5, Forte asks the reader to consider what the alternatives were to foreign intervention. He does this by criticizing popular myths that worked to legitimize military intervention and … | Maximilian C. Forte | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From In the Name of Peace and Democracy |
In Chapter 2, Philpot discusses the larger political atmosphere of the Great Lakes region in East Africa before the war, and how with the aid of the Western powers, Paul Kagame, and the Rwandan … | Robin Philpot | 14 | 2013 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Independence and Chaos1960–1961 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the creation of the independent Republic of Congo and the ensuing political fall out between 1960 and 1961. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From International Criminal Justice as "Battering Ram" |
In Chapter 13, Philpot examines the ad hoc criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He does this to discuss the injustice and inept of the tribunal, which the founding resolution … | Robin Philpot | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From IntroductionLiberalism and the New Scramble for Africa From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
Maximilian C. Forte | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add | |
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From Introduction |
In the introduction, Robert Philpot reflects on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the shooting down of the Rwandan president’s plane which triggered war, destruction, and massacres in … | Robin Philpot | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Postcards from Congo |
The Introduction provides an overview of the 150 year history of the modern state of the Democratic Republic of Congo, maps, and etymology. | Edmund Trueman | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From Invasion? What Invasion? |
In Chapter 1, Philpot challenges the notion that the Rwandan Patriotic Front under its leadership of the current Rwandan President Paul Kagame– who, along with many fellow officers was … | Robin Philpot | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From  It Began With a StoryFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of teachers and a principal working with a seventeen-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who would not follow instructions. Once his personal history … | David Starr | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From It Shall be Called a Plane Crash |
In Chapter 6, Philpot discusses the April 6th 1994 assassinations of two African presidents, Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, looking at how these assassinations … | Robin Philpot | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From Keeping Hope AliveFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the story of how a man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was a teacher and activist which made him a target of the army. Details his struggles to claim asylum and finally … | David Starr | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Libya from the Ottomans to King IdrisFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter traces Libya’s history over centuries of foreign domination and the fight among Western countries over the control of its oil wealth and the rise of Muammar Qadaffi, who, … | Owen Schalk | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its DiscontentsFrom: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter Three, Forte focus on Pan-Africanism and the relationships between Gaddafi’s Libya and key African Leaders. Forte highlights how much of Gaddafi’s thinking followed in the … | Maximilian C. Forte | 50 | 2012 | $5.00 Add |
