Samuel Decalo

Virginia Thompson

Richard Adloff

Expanded and updated by one of the foremost experts on Francophone Africa, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Congo offers African scholars an easy-to-use reference source on this country.

Historical Dictionary of Congo

Mathurin C. Houngnikpo

The fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Benin covers the history of Benin through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Benin.

Historical Dictionary of Benin

Professor Samuel Decalo

Historical, biographical, statistical and bibliographical information about Togo, Africa and its leaders.

Historical Dictionary of Togo

Historical, biographical, bibliographical and statistical information on Benin, Africa (formerly Dahomey) and its leaders.

John Frank Clark

Previously published as: Historical dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / by Emizet Franocois Kisangani and F. Scott Bobb. 2010.

Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo

New edition of a work first published in 1989 by Westview Press. With a political psychology perspective, Decalo, an authority on French-speaking Africa, surveys the recent social, economic, and political histories of Uganda, Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea, exploring the rise of Idi Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, and Francisco Macias Nguema. Although other brutal leaders have appeared on the continent since publication of the first edition, the author chose not to expand coverage of case studies but rather to look deeper at the consequences of dictatorship in the three countries of original study. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

African Personal Dictatorships

Psychoses Of Power

Alfred Schutz

Professor Thomas Luckmann

Historical Dictionary of Dahomey (Peoples Republic of Benin)

Mario J. Azevedo

This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Historical Dictionary of Chad

Benin is now perceived of as a model of democracy in Africa because it has successfully established a democratic political system based on consensus and regular and fair elections, and it continues to improve its electoral and parliamentary systems. Since its democracy it has taken important steps towards laying the foundation for the rule of law by establishing stable political institutions that can withstand the test of time. It has also engaged in an important legal, institutional, and regulatory reform to establish a more favorable environment for private initiative. The fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Benin covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Benin.

Jennifer C Seely

The fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Togo contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

John F. Clark

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo provides a comprehensive set of references on the country’s history, politics, economics, and culture. It traces the careers of the country’s leading personalities into the era following the democratic experiment of the 1990s. It updates the country’s social, economic, and political evolution through the first decade of the 21st century.

Abdourahmane Idrissa

Decalo's name appears first on the earlier edition.

Historical Dictionary of Niger

Written by one of the foremost authorities on Niger and West Africa, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary provides an updated and easy-to-use single-volume reference for scholars of West Africa and Third World development.

Provides thorough coverage of the archaeology, prehistory, culture, geography, politics, science, religion, art, and many other aspects of Chad, as well as such matters as tourism and recent political unrest. This latest edition (last, 1987) features new tables listing important statistics on its economic conditions, including principal crops, gross domestic product, public finances, and main trade partners, as well as six maps, a list of abbreviations and acronyms, and a selected chronology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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.

Samuel Decalo

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