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Charts 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...

Examines 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...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620835220Author Nicolette MashileFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Financial BunnyPublisher Financial BunnyWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789976532289Author Mniko ChachaFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Mniko ChachaPublisher Mniko ChachaWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Amaury Talbot Prize Winner Shows that Somalia is an extreme case of an economy without a government. Does statelessness necessarily mean anarchy and disorder? Clan elders, religious leaders and businessmen have worked together to provide stability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287336Author David ChasumbaFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Born 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...

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...

Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people. Many conservationists insist that conservation that ignores local costs cannot be sustained. For if conservation is...

Examines the rise in the inter-war years of a Gandhian influenced non-violent movement in the North West Frontier. The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim...

The 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...

Terence Ranger collected a range of sources, including the archive of Thompson's papers, the National Archives and oral interviews. This work provides a collective biography of Thompson Samkange and of two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake. Thompson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779223692Author Franziska KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. This work examines people's beliefs, ideas and experiences both during Zimbabwe's liberation war and afterwards. The contributors look at...

In 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...

Covers 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...

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 9781589826762Author Taiwo OdumosuFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Isbn-10: 1-58982-676-0Publisher Isbn-10: 1-58982-676-0Weight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

A 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...

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...

This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg. How was an autocratic emperor replaced by a totalitarian dictator? ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260328Author Tope OmoniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999330760Author Ismail BadjieFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Fye NetworkPublisher Fye NetworkWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies 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

Diverse essays on the life and career of one of the greatest tragic actors of the nineteenth century. Ira Aldridge -- a black New Yorker -- was one of nineteenth-century Europe's greatest actors. He performed abroad for forty-three years, winning more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909326385Author Marricke Kofi GaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Marrickegane PublishingPublisher Marrickegane PublishingWeight(grams)...

A sequel to The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia. This 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...

In highlighting the role of East Africa's commercial connections to the Middle East and India during the colonial period, this book makes a major contribution to African history as part of world history. Conventional history assumes that the rise of...

Demonstrates 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...

This volume examines just how successful community-based conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods. Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955507908Author Ato QuaysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916026315Author Rotimi OlaniyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Apex Publishing Uk.Publisher Apex Publishing Uk.Weight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press

First paperback edition with a new and updated author's introduction, and a Foreword by Douglas H. Johnson.. The conflict in Darfur had a precursor in Sudan's famines of the 1980s and 1990s. David Keen's The Benefits of Famine presented a new and...

Apologies 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...

Analyses 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...

Herbstein charts Canon Collins' single-minded campaign to provide material support to those waging the struggle against apartheid. John Collins, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London, was the Englishman white South Africans most loved to hate. The...

A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds. The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con...