Seeking to fashion a system and process for more effective and efficient social control, Okafo (Norfolk State U., US) establishes a prototype for combining indigenous and foreign elements to restructu
Matsinhe (sociology, Carleton U., Canada) explains his use of the term vertigo in the title as a means of expressing the dizzying impact of the country's past on the country in the form of ongoing "mi
Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations
"Africans are not literally black, yet they are called black. Why? This book explores the genesis and evolution of the description of Africans as black, the consequences of this practice, and how it c
Documenting on the early history of Italy's transition into a immigration country, Andall (U. of Bath) focuses specifically on the experiences of African women migrants from the early 1970s to the ear
Elizabeth Johnson's Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling develops the argument that one way Black women define themselves and each other, is by the way they style/groom their hair
Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. Nowhere more so than in post-apartheid Sou
