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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
RRP: $14.18$10.02A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford'An exhilarating journey through the myths, misconceptions and stereotypes of... -
No Ordinary Day: Espionage, betrayal, terrorism and corruption - the truth behind the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher by Matt Johnson 9781802471441
RRP: $15.47$9.55SHORTLISTED FOR TWO CRIMECON.UK 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS IN THE 'OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING' AND 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' CATEGORIES Behind one of the greatest tragedies in UK policing history lies an incredible political scandal 'An important... -
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book.' SIMON REEVE by Astrid Madimba
RRP: $14.18$9.55'We need this book' SIMON REEVE'Illuminating' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy is Africa often perceived as a single country? What role did African soldiers play in the Second World War?Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Africa?How did an African man... -
The Land Reform Deception: Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe's Land Seizure Era by Charles Laurie 9780190680527
RRP: $45.78$42.38The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized commercial farms using illegal and violent methods against a largely unarmed population of farmers and farm... -
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World by Alex Rowell 9781398514218
RRP: $32.25$22.73'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History ______________________________________________ President... -
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid 9781524748814
RRP: $38.70$26.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748814Author Stuart A. ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 992gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 168mm... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy... -
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
RRP: $14.18$10.71A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a... -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: $14.18$10.02Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid... -
Sankofa: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and a BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Chibundu Onuzo
RRP: $11.60$8.00A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK * A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FUTURES PRIZE * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A captivating story about a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the... -
Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb by Susan Williams
RRP: $21.92$19.31Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important... -
Congo by David van Reybrouck
RRP: $19.34$12.51FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY 'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world's most critical failed... -
African Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Taylor 9780198806578
RRP: $11.60$8.32Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected across the continent, particularly south of the Sahara... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: $14.18$10.02Settlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa's love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work. - Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie and People Person As thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this... -
The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State by Abdulbasit Kassim
RRP: $38.70$34.61Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if any attempts have been made... -
Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa: A blueprint for taking Nigeria and Africa from potential to prosperity by Olusegun Aganga
RRP: $25.79$17.22'A living manual for the renaissance of an eminent African country!' Thabo Mbeki President of South Africa, 1999-2008A practical roadmap for transforming the largest economy in Africa.Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa is an insider's account of how to take... -
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
RRP: $19.34$12.64A Best Book of the Year- The Economist & the Wall Street Journal At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died... -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Rian Malan
RRP: $12.89$8.64For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly... -
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins by Max Gallien 9780231212892
RRP: $38.70$29.44Smuggling is typically thought of as furtive and hidden, taking place under the radar and beyond the reach of the state. But in many cases, governments tacitly permit illicit cross-border commerce, or even devise informal arrangements to regulate it... -
The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations by Toni Haastrup 9780367679255
RRP: $51.59$45.23This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in the relationship between the African continent and the EU, provided by leading experts in the field. Structured into five parts, the handbook provides an incisive look at the... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: $32.25$21.32'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South... -
African Political Thought: An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom by Stephen Chan
RRP: $24.50$21.44African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wretched of the Earth, wrote of the 'native' with his coiled muscles about to explode into rebellion. The... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: $19.34$12.64Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and... -
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw by Eddie Ndopu 9781399803786
RRP: $25.80$17.22'Uncompromising... A masterful writer poised for even more great success' - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actorA memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was... -
Copper King in Central Africa: Corporate Organisation, Labour Relations, and Profitability of Zambia's Rhokana Corporation by Hyden Munene 9781538146422
RRP: $113.52$108.21Copper King in Central Africa offers a detailed account of the corporate history of the Rhokana/Rokana Corporation and its Nkana mine. Thematically and chronologically organised, it explores the discovery of viable ores on the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian... -
Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes by Marcel Uwineza
RRP: $129.00$111.65The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda... -
Sinai: Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare by Mohannad Sabry 9789774167287
RRP: $32.24$26.69The Sinai Peninsula holds a unique strategic and political significance for Egypt and its neighbours. Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged eastern province has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace... -
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Lawrence Devlin
RRP: $18.05$11.87Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry... -
Two Weeks in November: The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe by Douglas Rogers 9781780723853
RRP: $16.76$11.09Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who... -
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition by Jeffrey Herbst 9780691164144
RRP: $36.12$30.47Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in... -
The Africans by David Lamb 9780394753089
$20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394753089Author David LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns 9780691224510
RRP: $24.50$19.08Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and... -
When Hens Begin To Crow: Gender And Parliamentary Politics In Uganda by Sylvia Tamale
RRP: $50.30$49.59Among African countries, Uganda is unique in its affirmative action program for women. In the late 1980s, President Yoweri Museveni announced his belief that Uganda's successful development depended on increased gender equity and backed his opinions by... -
A History of South Africa by Frank Welsh
RRP: $24.50$16.40'A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony Sampson Throughout its turbulent history, South Africa has frequently been the focus... -
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
RRP: $21.92$15.84A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it... -
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition by Amilcar Cabral
RRP: $21.92$17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900045Author Amilcar CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
RRP: $36.11$30.52In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora by B Camminga
RRP: $29.66$24.17Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North ... -
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years by Nelson Mandela 9781509818174
RRP: $28.35$19.10'I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest . . . But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not... -
The Political Economy Of U.s. Policy Toward South Africa by Kevin Danaher 9780367310448
RRP: $51.59$45.23By tracing U.S. involvement in South African political and economic development since the late 1800s, this book analyzes U.S. corporate and government motives for maintaining the political status quo in South Africa. In recent decades, according to the...