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Africa Writes Back - The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature by James Currey
RRP: $32.24$29.37In 2012 the African Writers Series celebrated its 50th anniversary. Africa Writes Back tells the publishing story behind some of the books and authors in the series. Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the... -
The Criminalization of the State in Africa by Jean-Francois Bayart
RRP: $25.79$25.01Has Africa moved on from 'classical corruption? What are the political and economic origins of official implication in crime? What are the new frontiers of crime in South Africa? This book examines the growth of fraud and smuggling in African states,... -
The Search for Africa - A History in the Making by Basil Davidson
RRP: $32.24$31.37The collection gathers together the questions and answers that have come out of the author's lifelong fascination with Africa. These essays and articles, written between 1953 and 1993, explore the development of an African historiography and, in that... -
Brothers at War - Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War by Tekeste Negash
$26.10Demonstrates the wider genesis of the conflict between the two nations. This text presents contextual aspects in order to explain the growing discord between the two former friendly governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It looks at historical relations... -
Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa - Book One: State and Class by Bruce Berman
RRP: $32.24$28.86A 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... -
Our Roots Our Chains: Coping with Pains of Nigeria's 2019 Elections by Amina Chitembo 9781916011441
RRP: $20.63$16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916011441Author Amina ChitemboFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Diverse Cultures PublishingPublisher Diverse Cultures PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Nkrumah and the Chiefs - Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951-1960 by Richard Rathbone
$26.10Charts the governments frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long campaigns by many southern chiefs to resist being marginalized. A study of a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. It shows... -
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers by Ivor W. Hartmann 9780987008961
$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987008961Author Ivor W. HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint StorytimePublisher StorytimeWeight(grams) 440g -
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa - The Tragedy of Endowment by Abiodun Alao
RRP: $42.56$37.71The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil... -
Short Stories from Rwanda by Sylvestre Ntabajyana 9780996003391
RRP: $25.74$20.34Apologies 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)... -
Between the Sea and the Lagoon - An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c.1850 to Recent Times by Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
RRP: $32.24$30.86This study offers a social interpretation of environmental process for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes called the quintessential sea fishermen of West Africa, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a... -
The Mau Mau War in Perspective by Frank Furedi
RRP: $32.24$30.86Aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt. Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era... -
The Pathan Unarmed - Opposition and Memory in the Khudai Khidmatgar Movement by Mukulika Banerjee 9780852552735
RRP: $32.24$20.56The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God), which adopted military forms of organizations and dress, but which also... -
Makers and Breakers - Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa by Alcinda Honwana
RRP: $32.24$30.86Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa. This book contributes to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalization and identity from the past to... -
Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 T O Ranger 9781847010209
RRP: $103.20$99.34A unique and stylish contribution to the social history of African cities and Zimbabwean cultural life. NEW LOW PRICE This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo... -
Patrick Duncan - South African and Pan-Africanist by C. J. Driver 9780852557730
RRP: $32.24$22.72Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces the life and times of Duncan and the changes and... -
Mau Mau and Nationhood - Arms, Authority and Narration by Atieno Odhiambo 9780852554845
RRP: $32.24$30.86Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. More than fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency the significance of Mau Mau is still debated. This collection... -
Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa by Robert S. Smith
RRP: $25.79$25.01Innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period. Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies... -
Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies by Katherine Homewood
RRP: $32.24$28.86A synthesis of the literature on pastoralist societies, this book presents a discussion of their importance for African societies. This is an important and informative work by one of the acknowledged leaders in the field. Its synthesis of the... -
Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt
RRP: $64.50$56.51Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public, and scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, German,... -
Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone by David Keen
RRP: $32.24$30.86A comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone. The United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of 'the New... -
African Wildlife and Livelihoods - The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation by David Hulme 9780852554142
RRP: $32.24$22.72Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main principles: 1) that conservation should be community-based; 2) that things conserved should be managed to achieve both development and conservation goals; 3) that markets should play a role... -
The Idea of Africa by V. Y. Mudimbe 9780852552346
RRP: $32.24$30.86A sequel to The Invention of Africa (joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits prize) As its author Professor Mudimbe says: '...this book presents journeys into the multifaceted "idea" of Africa. As approached and circumscribed here, this idea is a product... -
Lie of the Land - Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment by Melissa Leach 9780852554098
RRP: $32.24$20.56This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests... -
The Lost Cities of Africa by Basil Davidson 9780852557976
RRP: $33.53$26.10The aim of this book is to present what is now known and what seems reasonable to believe about some leading aspects and achievements of African life and civilization during the pre-colonial period, and thus to contribute to an understanding of Africa... -
Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities by Ian Scoones et al.
RRP: $32.24$30.86Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe's land reform. Ten years after the land invasions of 2000, this book provides the first full account of the consequences of these dramatic events. This land reform overturned a century-old pattern of... -
The Nomad's Path: Travels in the Sahel by Alistair Carr
RRP: $16.76$12.63An account of a journey across an inhospitable region with former Tubu rebels at a time of Tuareg insurgency, when explosions from landmines rocked towns, mountains were overrun with militia and journalists were being thrown into desert prisons for... -
White Lies - Canon John Collins and the Secret War Against Apartheid by Denis Herbstein 9780852558850
RRP: $32.24$26.10John Collins, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London, was the Englishman white South Africans most loved to hate. The organisations founded by Canon Collins, the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and Christian Action, depended on the work of... -
General History of Africa volume 6 (pbk abridged - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s by UNESCO 9780852550960
RRP: $32.24$30.86Covers the major forces at work in African society at the beginning of the 19th century until the onset of the European scramble for colonial territory in the 1880s. This study also looks at Africa's changing role in the world economy, and the effects... -
From Guerrillas to Government - The Eritrean People`s Liberation Front by David Pool 9780852558539
RRP: $32.24$26.10The focus of this book is on the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) from its formation in the early 1970s to its victory in 1991, and its transformation from liberation front to ruling party and government of independent Eritrea. North America:... -
The African Slave Trade by Basil Davidson 9780852557983
RRP: $32.24$26.10Examines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the East Coast, and parts of the Guinea coast. Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a... -
Jewels From Our Ancestors: A Book of African Proverbs by Jamilla Okubo 9780997686050
RRP: $21.87$17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997686050Author Jamilla OkuboFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint English SchoolhousePublisher English SchoolhouseWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 279mm... -
Remapping Ethiopia - Socialism and After by Wendy James 9780852554555
RRP: $32.24$26.10This new volume examines the major changes effected by the socialist regime from the revolution of 1974 to its overthrow in 1991, and then into the current period which has been marked by moves towards local democracy and political devolution. North... -
African Guerrillas by Christopher Clapham 9780852558157
RRP: $32.24$26.10Analyses African insurgencies and their relationship to the societies in which they are set and to the outside world. Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa. At one time they could be... -
Writers in Politics - A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780852555415
RRP: $25.79$20.56Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa... -
African Economic History - Internal Development and External Dependency by Ralph A. Austen
RRP: $32.24$30.86First comprehensive account of Africa's economic history. This book spans two thousand years from the origins of domesticated food production to the third decade of the independence era. The author applies various theoretical perspectives to the two... -
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda - The Nyiginya Kingdom by Jan Vansina 9780852559970
RRP: $32.24$26.10The author of the classic Oral Tradition as History bases his account on hundreds of grass-roots narratives. It shows the historical roots of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 through an investigation of Rwanda's Nyiginya Dynasty of the 18th and 19th... -
Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro - Population and Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955 by Shane Doyle 9780852554319
RRP: $32.24$30.86Examines one society's reaction to a period of prolonged, rapid population decline, a trauma that seems likely to become ever more common in African in years to come. Colonial rule triggered rapid population growth in most of Africa. Why then did... -
Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya - The Dialectic of Domination by Bruce Berman 9780852550694
RRP: $32.24$31.37The first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa. Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring... -
Reading Chinua Achebe - Language and Ideology in Fiction by Simon Gikandi 9780852555279
RRP: $25.79$20.56Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal '...the very nature of [Achebe's] creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness...its paradoxes and ambiguities. This is scholarship of real stature and supersedes all other studies of Achebe's writing. It comes...