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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785234275Author Rev Fr F O F Fidelis OnwuduforFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Rex Charles and Patrick Ltd.Publisher Rex Charles and Patrick Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789991054612Author Ahmed KoromaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesPublisher Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996003391Author Sylvestre NtabajyanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Full Media ServicesPublisher Full Media ServicesWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480987661Author Ambaye Albertine TshefuFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

A detailed and compelling volume that contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship. Representing Bushmen draws on the work of Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, and Martin Bernal to show how the study of language was integral...

An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis...

Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century. These representatives of the Christian community diligently produced films about far-flung cultures to bolster fundraising for mission...

"If you really want to understand South Africa, read black African writers. Read Es'kia Mphahlele," is the advice proffered to diplomats and scholars by professor and publisher Donald Herdeck. The irony is that in the past, many of Mphahlele's works...

Ngugi's words lead to a deeper understanding of colonial and postcolonial history. These interviews, edited with the assistance of Lynette Cintron, chart Ngugi's political and literary engagement over the previous forty years. Ngugi is one of...

"On the borders there were new guerrilla armies. The rouble and the dollar had replaced the pound sterling. The kilometre and the kilogram and the litre were new ways of measuring miles and imperial pounds and fluid ounces. In Zaire, Patrice Lumumba had...

In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century." This was an important but belated affirmation of women...

The book looks at how conflict and competition between various forms of Hinduism undermines and sustains relations of hierarchy. In the context of Dutch colonialism, world war, the incorporation of Bali into the Indonesian state and the tourist boom,...

Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa's major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania (then the Territory of Tanganyika), Kezilahabi...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783603578Author Chin CeFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

This work outlines the importance of local knowledge for understanding environmental change. African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. This...

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) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Offers analyses of a range of African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is 'too important to be left to outsiders'. In this companion volume to The Roots of African Conflicts African scholars analyse a number of conflicts and their resolution -...

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) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788244325Author Dike OkoroFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Famine is preventable. The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Can Africa avoid famine? When freedom from famine is a basic right or a political imperative,...

An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis...

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)...

"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...

Don't Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mbella is the second. In presenting the emotional and romantic lives of gay, African women, Ekotto comments...

Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'? When does a country become a state? On 18 May 1991, the leaders of the Somali National Movement and the elders of northern Somali clans proclaimed that they were setting up the new...