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A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa

By Janet Roitman , Florence Bernault

Book information

Publisher
Heinemann
Year
2003
ISBN
032507125X, 9780325071251
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12490186 bytes)
Series
Social History of Africa Series
Pages
304\297
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-02-10 16:28:56
Africa Algeria Egypt Ethiopia Kenya Nigeria South

Description

Over the last 30 years, a substantial literature on the history of American and European prisons has developed. This collection is among the first in English to construct a history of prisons in Africa. Topics include precolonial punishments, living conditions in prisons and mining camps, ethnic mapping, contemporary refugee camps, and the political use of prison from the era of the slave trade to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

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