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Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995633193Author Mike BallantineFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Noble House InternationalPublisher Noble House InternationalWeight(grams)...

Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong...

Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its huge disappointments, its relationship to the colonial years and the parallels with events in Eastern Europe. North America: Times/Random HouseBook InformationISBN 9780852557006Author Basil...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Assesses the importance attached by African societies to their past and the growth and...

Detailed study of Kenya's 1992 election. The two authors of this work analyse the case of post-colonial Kenya under Kenyatta and Moi and show how, in spite of a multi-party system, the ruling elite has kept power and wealth to itself. North...

With a focus on the urban setting of key Kenyan novels. A study of the key Kenyan novels since Ngugi published Weep Not, Child in 1962. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEPReviews... a clearly written, accessible overview of an area of...

Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it,...

Can Africa avoid famine? When freedom from famine is a basic right or a political imperative, famine is prevented. Case studies demonstrate such successes but they are not often acknowledged or repeated. Who is responsible for the failures? African...

An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder. Are there social, political and cultural factors in Africa which aspire to the continuation of patrimony and conspire against economic development? In association with the...

Demonstrates the reciprocal influences between Christianity and politics throughout South African history. Almost three-quarters of South Africans in the late-1990s call themselves Christians. From colonial times, when missionaries embroiled...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. The period covered by Volume 3 is dominated by two movements of major and lasting significance in...

Intended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject. The history of the Islamic faith in Africa spans fourteen centuries. This book provides a detailed mapping of the cultural, political, geographic and religious...

With a new Introduction by Said S. Samatar and an Afterword by the author This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Africa has moved from international conflict under foreign domination to struggles for political...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Volume 7 examines the period of partition, conquest and occupation from the beginnings of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993513107Author Siana BanguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Haus of Liberated ReadingPublisher Haus of Liberated Reading

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. The twelfth to the sixteenth centuries constitute a crucial phase in the continent's history, and...

A study of hunting and poaching during the colonial era in Kenya. In 1977 the Kenyan government banned all hunting, whether by sportsmen or Kenyan Africans, in response to the poaching crisis that was then spreading across the African continent. This...

"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job." In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. A history of Africa from the 16th to the 18th centuries, this study concentrates on the...

Since the publication of Vansina's earlier book, oral traditions have now become widely accepted as a legitimate source of history. Although written by a leading historian of Africa, Vansina's work on oral traditions ranges far beyond Africa, so has a...

Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in...

Part of a series of studies that examine political issues confronting African peoples, societies and states, this text explores: theories of the state, the transition to democracy and economic development. Published in association with ROAPE North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620588874Author Karen JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Modjaji BooksPublisher Modjaji BooksWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779063601Author Tendai Rinos MwanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Mwanaka Media and PublishingPublisher Mwanaka Media and PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779063564Author Tendai Rinos MwanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Mwanaka Media and PublishingPublisher Mwanaka Media and PublishingWeight(grams)...

This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stood the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783603578Author Chin CeFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970480043Author Hilda TwongyeirweFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Femrite PublicationsPublisher Femrite PublicationsWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956763481Author Tendai R MwanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Brings together essays on relations between the environmental ideas and practices of Africans, colonial officials, settlers and scientists, challenging some of the interpretive conventions of Africanist scholarship. The recent explosion of interest in...

A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2, the authors investigate major themes including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956764891Author Tendai Rinos MwanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788244325Author Dike OkoroFormat PaperbackImprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785657500Author Tanure OjaideFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779220738Author Irene StauntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity. Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'? What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The terrifying military methods of of Sierra Leone's soldiers may not fir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287077Author Samantha Rumbidzai VazhureFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287077Author Samantha Rumbidzai VazhureFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing...