The Image of Africa in Italian Music proposes an innovative, fresh, provocative study, delving inside the common mentality of Italians, through their popular music and the way it has represented Africa and Africans. Italian music has largely followed national history, representing Africa as a mere object, from an inferior and inferiorized land of conquest to a slow process of decolonization of this image, which began around the 1980s and culminated with the irruption of second-gen...

Since its establishment in 1980 the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has largely been a state driven organization, with the people of Southern Africa, though enshrined in the treaty, remaining observers in the SADC democratization and integration agenda. The Southern African Development Community Treaty-Nexus: National Constitutions, Citizen’s Sovereignty, Communication, and Awareness, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane...

"Nel gennaio del 1938, in boulevard Saint Michel a Parigi, SamuelBeckett viene accoltellato al petto e sopravvive per miracolo. Quando lo scrittore chiede all’aggressore le ragioni del suo gesto, quello lo guarda con stupore e rassegnazione e confessa di non saperlo…Nell’estate del 2015, nel quartiere Esquilino a Roma, Flavio Bertone indaga su una serie di omicidi perpetrati da un serial killer. Levittime sono emarginati, barboni, un cieco, persone rassegnate e infelic...

This e-book is the result of a panel organized in the Fifth European Congress of African Studies (ECAS 5) that took place in Lisbon in June 2013. We thought of organizing this panel on “Press Freedom and Right to Information in Africa” since the question of freedom, especially press freedom, is presently extremely important in all African countries. However, it is not yet well known, both in the academic context and by the public.