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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.81How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.10Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara 9780873489881
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489881Author Thomas SankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press -
Toward the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon 9780802130907
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary... -
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A 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... -
Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop 9781556520884
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £8.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520884Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 303g -
The Black British Quiz Book by Prtyhere 9780008584313
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.70Dive into this fun and entertaining quiz book from the UK's biggest Black British pub quiz! Get your thinking caps on because it's time to test your knowledge on all things Black and British, with rounds on... -
In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey by Barbara Toy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.82Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels in North Africa and Arabia, set out in her trademark Land Rover to drive from Libya to... -
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide by Ernle Bradford 9781497637863
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £10.15The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had... -
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams 9781787389618
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.44The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's... -
Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones by Richard Hamilton 9780755654512
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75In this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers, artists and musicians.In Tangier, the Moroccan... -
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.80The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most... -
Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe by James Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians.' Sebastian Faulks'Holland's skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with vivid prose.' The TimesShortlisted for the 2021 British Army Military Book of the... -
Africana by Lerato Umah-Shaylor
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £12.83'It is a glorious book: an education and an invitation. There is such life in its pages, and such food!' Nigella Lawson A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continent Africana... -
The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt by Christopher Dunn 9781879181502
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.07Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? The technology of harmonic resonance, claims renowned master craftsman and... -
From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph Windsor 9780962088117
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962088117Author Rudolph WindsorFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint Windsor Golden SeriesPublisher Windsor Golden Series -
Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804180143
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.07A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney,... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.81Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver.In the late nineteenth century,... -
We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels 9781612005874
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.81In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists.A quiet, introspective, deep thinker Andre... -
The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith by Gerald Hausman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.83The Kebra Nagast is a sacred text originally written in 14th century Ethiopia. It tells the story of how the Queen of Sheba met the biblical King Solomon, and relates the birth of her son, Menilek, who became the legendary king of Ethiopia. A work of... -
Bunny vs Monkey by Jamie Smart 9781788451772
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.45FAST AND FURRY-OUS! Welcome to the woods. It's chaos in there! Bunny and his friends Weenie the Squirrel, Pig (the pig), Action Beaver and Skunky the Inventor lived a peaceful life in the forest - until Monkey's rocket crash-landed and he decided... -
Indaba, My Children: African Tribal History, Legends, Customs And Religious Beliefs by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.46First published in 1964, Indaba, My Children is an internationally acclaimed collection of African folk tales that chart the story of African tribal life since the time of the Phoenicians. It is these stories that have shaped Africa as we know it.About... -
Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with... -
The Scramble For Africa by Thomas Pakenham
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.24In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by... -
Congo by David van Reybrouck
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.92FINALIST 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... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'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... -
Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa by Cato Pedder 9781399810791
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.86'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer'Fascincating and engrossing' Literary ReviewHow did South Africa turn out the way it... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden 9780008445614
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY The treatment of refugees... -
Rubbish Pet Portraits by Hercule van Wolfwinkle 9780008468163
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.14**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A hilarious collection of Hercule Van Wolfwinkle's 'extremely realistic' pet portraits. Warning: may not be suitable for anyone who actually likes animals or has the... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2020Winner of the American... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg 9780008353810
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.70*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From... -
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett 9780747260332
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Top Ten of Everything Chelsea: The Best of the Blues from Azpilicueta to Zola by Clive Batty 9781785318610
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72Brimming with Blues trivia, facts and stats, The Top Ten of Everything Chelsea covers every aspect of the club's long and colourful history in dozens of ranked lists. A star cast features the best of the British, European and South American players who... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.01It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02Back 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... -
What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by Max Siollun 9781911723264
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.04Most accounts of Nigeria's colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership. Thanks to this skewed writing of history, many Nigerians today... -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David... -
Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804180136
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.32A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney,... -
Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman... -
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £3.00Booksplease Price: £2.71He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books...