Those Who Came Before Us
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Black Lives Matter : The African Context

Those Who Came Before Us
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss police brutality in Africa. A slight detour from the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara series. #BLACKLIVESMATTER Sources Glasman,Joel. 2017. What is the Concept of Professionalization Good For? An Argument From Late Colonialism. Police in Africa:The Street Level View, NY, USA: Oxford University Press Steinberg, Jonny. 2017. Policing During and After Apartheid: A New Perspective on Continuity and Change. Police in Africa: The Street Level View, NY, USA: Oxford University Press Faull, Andrew. 2017. Fighting for Respect: Violence, Masculinity and Legitmacy in the South African Police Service. Police in Africa: The Street Level View, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. Kyed, Helene Maria. 2017. Inside the Police Stations in Maputo City: Between Legality and Legitimacy. Police in Africa: The Street Level View, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. Lar, Jimam. 2017. Historicizing Vigilante Policing in Plateau State,Nigeria. Police in Africa: The Street Level View, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. Thurmann, Laura. 2017. Somewhere between Green and Blue: A Special Police Unit in DR Congo. Police in Africa: The Street Level View, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. International Crisis Group. 2017. “Double Edged Sword: Vigilantes in African Counter Insurgencies” Accessed August 13. https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/west-africa/sierra-leone/251-double-edged-sword-vigilantes-african-counter-insurgencies The Conversation. 2017. “Vigilantism is Flourishing in Nigeria- with Official Support” Accessed August 13 https://theconversation.com/vigilantism-is-flourishing-in-nigeria-with-official-support-86867 Livingstone, Steven. 2013. Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security, Washington DC, USA: African Center For Strategic Studies. Forrest, Kally. 2015. Bold Recommendations Embedded in Timidity: International Union Rights, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2015), pp. 6-7: International Centre for Trade Union Rights De Mesquita, Bruce Bueno. 2007. Leopold II and the Selectorate: An Account in Contrast to a Racial Explanation, Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 32, No. 4 (122), Neue Politische Ökonomie in der Geschichte / New Political Economy in History, pp. 203-221. Gesis - Leibniz - Institute for the Social Sciences, Center for Historical Social Research. NTV Fourth Estate.2020. “How the Media Covered Emmanuel Tegu’s Death” Accessed August 10 Music Transition Digya Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Energizing Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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