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The Forgotten People
This is the first book that investigates political banishment in South Africa as well as with a global, historical and comparative focus. It advances understanding of banishment as an old and common practice.
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Banished potentates
Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French - with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco - from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind
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Weiss
A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss� journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s.In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all.
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A Path Through Hard Grass
A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss’ journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned from her home country, and then also from Rhodesia for her critical investigative journalism, she starts reporting from Lusaka, London and Cologne on virtually all issues which affect the newly independent African countries. Peasants and national leaders in southern Africa – Ruth Weiss met them all, travelling through Africa at a time when it was neither usual for a woman to do so, nor to report for economic media as she did. Her writing gained her the friendship of diverse and interesting people. In this book she offers us glimpses into some of her many long-nurtured friendships, with Kenneth Kaunda or Nadine Gordimer and many others. Her life-long quest for tolerance and understanding of different cultures shines through the many personalized stories which her astute eye and pen reveals in this book. As she put it, one never sheds the cultural vest donned at birth, but this should never stop one learning about and accepting other cultures.
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Liberia's President Steps Down
\"Charles Taylor has stepped down as president of Liberia after months of pressure from United States and West African leaders. He handed over power to his vice president, Moses Blah, at a historic ceremony...in Monrovia, the nation's capital.\" (Time for Kids) Learn why Taylor left office and went into exile in Nigeria. The civil war in Liberia and efforts by the U.S. and Nigeria to stabilize the country are discussed. A brief history of Taylor's time in power is included.
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Liberia's Taylor Rebukes U.S. in Farewell Statement
\"In his first formal statement to Liberians that he is stepping down, a solemn President Charles Taylor accused the United States...of supporting the rebels and forcing him out. He pledged to return someday.\" (KRT News Service) Learn how Liberia is preparing for President Charles Taylor's resignation from power. The lack of access for humanitarian aid to be distributed to Liberia's refugees and possible violence after Taylor's departure are discussed.
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