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The Kingdom of Waalo

Senegal Before the Conquest

By: Boubacar Barry

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The Kingdom of Waalo

Senegal Before the Conquest

By: Boubacar Barry

Situated along the Senegal River, the Kingdom of Waalo was the smallest of the Wolof states of Senegal, but it illustrates the broader consequences of a shift from trans-Saharan to trans-Atlantic commerce during a time of competing European, Muslim, and indigenous African forces. From the establishment of a French trading post in 1659 to the early nineteenth century, the history of Waalo was closely tied to French interests in St. Louis, popular revolutionary Islamic movements, and internal rivalries between competing royal families and provincial leaders. Stimulating Waalo's socio-political changes were the devastations and fluctuations of the Atlantic slave trade, as well as the Muslim attack on its aristocracy. Torn by internal divisions, devastated by French and Berber incursions, Waalo's institutions and its economy declined. Residents of Waalo sought their own solutions only for external agents to ruin their efforts. By the nineteenth century, the French attempted to establish a plantation economy in Waalo, culminating in their military control of the state and the Senegal valley. This newly translated study is a vital tool in our understanding of Senegal's history, its place in the era of trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic commerce, and its development into the present. The book should be of value to African studies scholars, anthropologists, and historians of Africa, colonialism, empire, and post-colonialism.

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Diasporic Africa Press

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1937306003

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9781937306007

Unsuspecting Souls

The Disappearance of the Human Being

By: Barry Sanders

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Unsuspecting Souls

The Disappearance of the Human Being

By: Barry Sanders

During the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. From the Industrial Revolution, where the disappearance of care for human beings begins slowly, to our own age, where societal events require less person–to–person interaction, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with little but a continuous bombardment of "information," demands on our attention, that brings us out of our world and into one of inhumanity and abstraction. We are losing entirely any palpable attachment to our physical reality. And we've also lost the original sense of a collective consciousness. This loss has been fomenting for two centuries now, dating back to the rise of European powers and worldwide colonization. This has led to the notion that we need to define what is torture, an idea that not long ago would have seemed absurd, and need to pick our poisons among several forms of radical fundamentalisms, each one not only a threat to the other but a threat to humanity itself. From Edgar Allen Poe to Abu Ghraib, this is a fascinating and worrisome story, impeccably researched and compellingly written.

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Catapult

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1582435898

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9781582435893

The Statesman's Yearbook 2003

The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World

By: Barry Turner

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The Statesman's Yearbook 2003

The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World

By: Barry Turner

For nearly one hundred and forty years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world. The appointment of the new editor - only the seventh in the book's history - brought enhancements to the 1998-99 edition and these have been continued since then. The 2003 edition is fully updated and contains more information than ever before, including for the first time websites for national governments and international organizations. A foldout colour section provides a political world map and flags for the one hundred and ninety two countries of the world. In an endlessly changing world, the annual publication of The Statesman's Yearbook gives all the information you need in one easily digestible single volume. It will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources, and it is an essential annual purchase.

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Springer

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0230271316

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9780230271319

Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

By: Adeoti, Adeoti, Barry, Boubacar, Namara, Regassa, Kamara, Abdul, Titiati, Atsu

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Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

By: Adeoti, Adeoti, Barry, Boubacar, Namara, Regassa, Kamara, Abdul, Titiati, Atsu

Treadle pump (TP) technology has been promoted by Enterprise Works Worldwide (EWW) as an alternative to the traditional rope and bucket irrigation that is necessary to overcome the challenge of uncertain and inadequate rainfall for agricultural production. The aim is to improve output, increase incomes and reduce poverty among farm households. This study examines the strategies used for dissemination of the TP and the dynamics of its adoption and impacts, with a special focus on poverty reduction. The results of the study reveal that time and labor savings for irrigation, increased size of irrigated areas and lack of fuel requirements are the attractive features of the TP for those who adopt it. Adoption of TP increases land and labor productivities; and also net farm incomes. The study also demonstrates that adoption of the TP reduces poverty.

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IWMI

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9290906715

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9789290906711

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

In West Africa, especially in the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Mauritania, erratic rainfall sequences within and between years has often led to a high uncertainty in rainfed crop production. Over the past three decades, severe food shortages attributed to drought have been frequently reported in several Sahelian countries, most of which are amongst the least developed of the world. Innovative and indigenous ways to achieve improved crop yields through integrated land and water management such as rainwater harvesting and soil water conservation have been successfully tested and, in some cases, adopted in West Africa. This paper highlights the successful interventions of improved indigenous rainwater harvesting/soil water conservation technologies such as ZaÃ¯ or tassa, stone rows and half-moon in the Sahelian zones of West Africa over the past 10 years, and their contributions to enhancing food security and alleviating poverty. The potential for adoption of these technologies at the farm level and their outscaling to areas with similar agroecological zones are also discussed.

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9290906847

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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Boubacar Barry

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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Boubacar Barry

Authoritative account of 400 years of West African history by a leading scholar.

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394

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Cambridge University Press

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0521597609

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The Kingdom of Waalo

Senegal Before the Conquest

By: Boubacar Barry

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Senegal Before the Conquest

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

By: Barry, Boubacar,Olaleye, Adesola O.,Zougmore, R.,Fatondji, D.

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Barry Rose's Anecdotage

By: Barry Rose

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Barry Rose's Anecdotage

By: Barry Rose

Barry Rose has had a full and eventful life: this book, consisting as it does of snippets of conversation he has had with all and sundry, is without 'form', its arrangement is not in datal or any other particular order, and is a book to be dipped into when there is an idle moment.

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1870234057

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9781870234054

Barry Long's Journal

By: Barry Long

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Barry Long's Journal

By: Barry Long

This is the first volume of an annual journal providing a collection of writings, sayings, jottings, articles, letters and transcripts of talks, published to document a living teaching. This volume covers the period from August 1990 to January 1991.

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1899324089

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By: Max Barry

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By: Max Barry

« Les mots peuvent tuer. Littéralement. » Dans une école bien particulière de Virginie, les étudiants n’apprennent pas l’histoire, la géographie ou les mathématiques, mais comment persuader, en usant du langage pour manipuler les esprits. Les mots sont des armes. Les plus doués prennent le grade de « poète », et intègrent une organisation anonyme au but inconnu. Emily Ruff est repérée par des agents dans les rues de San Francisco, et elle devient rapidement le prodige le plus talentueux de l’école. Jusqu’à son erreur fatale : elle tombe amoureuse. Wil Parke est piégé par deux hommes dans les toilettes d’un aéroport. Ils l’accusent d’être la clé d’un secret qu’il ignore, doté d’un esprit qui résiste aux mots. Pourquoi s’intéressent-ils à lui, pourquoi les poètes le poursuivent-ils... et pourquoi ne se rappelle-t-il pas un accident qui a failli lui coûter la vie des années plus tôt ?

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2370720077

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Unsuspecting Souls

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The Statesman's Yearbook 2003

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Treadle pump irrigation and poverty in Ghana

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling

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Barry Rose's Anecdotage

Barry Long's Journal

Barry Long's Journal

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