Author: Jolijn Geels
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Covers both ends of the travel market for Niger: upmarket travellers looking for background information as a supplement to a tour, and budget explorers with a need to know all the practicalities.
Niger
Author: Jolijn Geels
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Covers both ends of the travel market for Niger: upmarket travellers looking for background information as a supplement to a tour, and budget explorers with a need to know all the practicalities.
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Covers both ends of the travel market for Niger: upmarket travellers looking for background information as a supplement to a tour, and budget explorers with a need to know all the practicalities.
Historical Dictionary of Niger
Author: Abdourahmane Idrissa
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Niger covers the history of the peoples of the Republic of Niger from medieval times to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries covering elements of pre-colonial and colonial history, recent politics, cinema, literature, religion, economics, and finance. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Niger.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Niger covers the history of the peoples of the Republic of Niger from medieval times to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries covering elements of pre-colonial and colonial history, recent politics, cinema, literature, religion, economics, and finance. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Niger.
Historical Dictionary of Niger
Author: Rahmane Idrissa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538120151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Niger is a crossroad, the gate to the outside for West Africans, and the port of entry into West Africa for cross-Saharan tidings and travelers. It remained for centuries the largely uncontrolled periphery of the large empires of the western Sudan and the market cities of the central Sudan. In these two ways, the land forged a very distinctive identity, a fluid blend of diverse communities which make up a nation of marginal cosmopolitans – a paradox illuminated in this book. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Niger contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Niger.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538120151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Niger is a crossroad, the gate to the outside for West Africans, and the port of entry into West Africa for cross-Saharan tidings and travelers. It remained for centuries the largely uncontrolled periphery of the large empires of the western Sudan and the market cities of the central Sudan. In these two ways, the land forged a very distinctive identity, a fluid blend of diverse communities which make up a nation of marginal cosmopolitans – a paradox illuminated in this book. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Niger contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Niger.
Bridge Over Niger
Author: Remo Capra Bloise
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595006949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The United States is financing and building a bridge named after J.F. Kennedy that will span the Niger River in Niamey, Niger-West Africa. The time is between 1965 and 1970, during the Cold War. The bridge has to be completed by December 18, 1970, the XII Anniversary of the Republic of Niger. This will help the election of the incumbent President who is on the American side. Niger is at this point a very strategic point in West Africa. In addition, a huge deposit of uranium at Arlit, halfway to the Lybian border, has been discovered and it has great attraction also for other countries. During the construction of the bridge, there have been many delays, and the bridge might not be completed by December 18 in favor of the left wing forces which are against the election of the incumbent President and any association with France and the West. Thus, a trouble shooter is sent from the U.S. to make sure the bridge is completed by that critical date...
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595006949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The United States is financing and building a bridge named after J.F. Kennedy that will span the Niger River in Niamey, Niger-West Africa. The time is between 1965 and 1970, during the Cold War. The bridge has to be completed by December 18, 1970, the XII Anniversary of the Republic of Niger. This will help the election of the incumbent President who is on the American side. Niger is at this point a very strategic point in West Africa. In addition, a huge deposit of uranium at Arlit, halfway to the Lybian border, has been discovered and it has great attraction also for other countries. During the construction of the bridge, there have been many delays, and the bridge might not be completed by December 18 in favor of the left wing forces which are against the election of the incumbent President and any association with France and the West. Thus, a trouble shooter is sent from the U.S. to make sure the bridge is completed by that critical date...
Bonjour le Niger
Author: Niger. Information et presse (Direction)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 22
Book Description
French-speaking West Africa
Author: Julian W. Witherell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Sahara
Bonjour Le Niger
Author: Service de l'information de la République du Niger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Enculturated Gene
Author: Duana Fullwiley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691123179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell "mild" in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced people to improvise informal strategies of care. Duana Fullwiley shows how geneticists, who were fixated on population differences, never investigated the various modalities of self-care that people developed in this context of biomedical scarcity, and how local doctors, confronted with dire cuts in Senegal's health sector, wittingly accepted the genetic prognosis of better-than-expected health outcomes. Unlike most genetic determinisms that highlight the absoluteness of disease, DNA haplotypes for sickle cell in Senegal did the opposite. As Fullwiley demonstrates, they allowed the condition to remain officially invisible, never to materialize as a health priority. At the same time, scientists' attribution of a less severe form of Senegalese sickle cell to isolated DNA sequences closed off other explanations of this population's measured biological success. The Enculturated Gene reveals how the notion of an advantageous form of sickle cell in this part of West Africa has defined--and obscured--the nature of this illness in Senegal today.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691123179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell "mild" in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced people to improvise informal strategies of care. Duana Fullwiley shows how geneticists, who were fixated on population differences, never investigated the various modalities of self-care that people developed in this context of biomedical scarcity, and how local doctors, confronted with dire cuts in Senegal's health sector, wittingly accepted the genetic prognosis of better-than-expected health outcomes. Unlike most genetic determinisms that highlight the absoluteness of disease, DNA haplotypes for sickle cell in Senegal did the opposite. As Fullwiley demonstrates, they allowed the condition to remain officially invisible, never to materialize as a health priority. At the same time, scientists' attribution of a less severe form of Senegalese sickle cell to isolated DNA sequences closed off other explanations of this population's measured biological success. The Enculturated Gene reveals how the notion of an advantageous form of sickle cell in this part of West Africa has defined--and obscured--the nature of this illness in Senegal today.