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Ancient Egypt: A Social History by B. G. Trigger
RRP: £34.99£30.49The rich and extensive floodplain of the River Nile can claim to be the cradle of one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of antiquity. Ancient Egypt: A Social History, first published in 1983, presents an innovative perspective on the... -
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror by Helen Epstein
RRP: £10.99£10.04Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings... -
The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Ching Kwan Lee
£26.03China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign... -
Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt: Studies in the Writings of 'Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Sha 'Rani by Michael Winter
RRP: £45.99£42.01The sixteenth century was a watershed in Egyptian his- tory. After being the center of powerful Islamic empires for centuries, Egypt was conquered in 1517 and made an outlying province of the Ottoman Empire. This study illuminates aspects of Egypt's... -
An Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields by Adrian Greaves 9781399040686
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without... -
Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace by Jok Madut Jok
RRP: £25.00£18.55After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to... -
Paul Kagame and Rwanda: Power, Genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front by Colin M. Waugh 9780786419418
RRP: £21.99£19.41In 1994, ethnic conflict turned to genocide in Rwanda. When the world finally took notice, a million people lay dead, and the small African country lay in ruins. Rwanda returned from the brink guided by rulers determined to rebuild the country on their... -
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage by Laura Edmondson
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to... -
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood by Catherine E McKinley
RRP: £30.00£19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620403532Author Catherine E. McKinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 730g -
African Philosophy in Search of Identity by D. A. Masolo
RRP: £21.99£18.79" . . . a great read. It is masterfully presented, and is an ideal text both for advanced undergraduates and graduate students." -International Journal of African Historical Studies" . . . a detailed, critical guide to fifty years of African philosophy ... -
Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana - From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956 by Gareth Austin
RRP: £40.00£35.56An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative era. This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made... -
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic by Herman L. Bennett
RRP: £21.99£18.79A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they... -
The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War by S. Elizabeth Bird
RRP: £22.99£19.56In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian... -
Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
RRP: £36.99£34.46Winner of the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies 2022This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929-1934) through the oral testimonies... -
The Fatimid Empire by Michael Brett
RRP: £29.99£24.56This is a new history showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider world. From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. This definitive account... -
Somme 1916 by Stephen Bull 9781800352544
RRP: £27.95£19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352544Author Stephen BullFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Josh Shoemake 9781788312837
RRP: £20.00£12.81An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries -... -
Struggles for Self-Determination: The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa by Josiah Brownell
RRP: £27.99£23.61Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei and Bophuthatswana: four African countries that, though existing in a literal sense, were, in each case, considered by the international community to be a component part of a larger sovereign state through which all official... -
The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and amaXhosa in the Cape Colony by John Laband
RRP: £14.50£9.21Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution... -
Kwame Nkrumah: More Letters from the Conakry Years by Doreatha Drummond Mbalia 9781545160350
RRP: £9.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545160350Author Doreatha Drummond MbaliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960 by Gloria Chuku
RRP: £53.99£49.09This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro.About the AuthorGloria Chuku is Associate Professor in the... -
Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940 by Nigel Pavitt 9780393067774
£41.08This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored, is one of the most important visual records of Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ever to have been... -
Somalia: Economy without State by Peter D. Little 9780253216489
RRP: £19.99£17.17In the wake of the collapse of the Somali government in 1991, a "second" or "informal" economy based on trans-border trade and smuggling is thriving. While focusing primarily on pastoral and agricultural markets, Peter D. Little demonstrates that the... -
Africa, Another Side of the Coin: Northern Rhodesia's Final Years and Zambia's Nationhood by Andrew Sardanis
£27.86'Africa is a lost cause.' This is a cynical view held widely in the West, in much of the world and even in Africa. Many people in the old European colonial powers - and not only the dwindling band of 'old Africa hands' who served in the colonies - are in... -
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present by Aribidesi Usman
RRP: £32.99£28.83The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa, with significant populations in Nigeria, Benin and Togo, as well as a sizeable diasporic community around the world. By considering the art, religion, economics and political systems of the... -
The Life of Mark Akenside: The Breakthrough to Modernity by Dr Barbara C. Morden 9780857162373
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE LIFE OF MARK AKENSIDE has an inter-disciplinary nature, linking literature with medicine and the visual arts. It is not only for students of history, literary history, art history, poetry, modernity, gender relevance and education, it is also for... -
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky (10-Year Anniversary REISSUE): The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Alephonsion Deng
RRP: £14.99£9.32Christopher Award Winner Los Angeles Times Bestseller Washington Post Top 100 Books of the Year SelectionA stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin,hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a moving,... -
Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity by Jonathan Wyrtzen
RRP: £29.99£25.99"There is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtzen's book will undoubtedly become a reference for Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern historians... -
These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The contested future of land, home and death in South Africa by Mbuso Nkosi 9781776148400
£19.16These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi... -
The Pan-African Pantheon by Adekeye Adebajo
RRP: £30.00£22.31With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to Pan-Africanism. The book explores the history of Pan-Africanism and... -
Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present by Myron Echenberg 9780521188203
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and... -
Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies by Ernesto Sirolli 9780865713970
RRP: £25.00£12.93Not your average (boring!) book on economic development, this is an inspired account of a revolutionary approach to revitalizing urban and rural economies, one person at a time. Through "Enterprise Facilitation," depressed communities can build lasting... -
Cambridge Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem by Jamie Collinson 9780752453958
RRP: £12.99£9.37Cambridge University is famed for the resourcefulness and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the... -
Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya by Sarah M. Mirza
RRP: £15.99£13.92"This is altogether a most worthwhile book, a fine example of a growing genre of African literature . . . " -Choice"Mirza and Strobel let these women speak about their lives in their own words, and the results are wonderful. . . . This is an excellent... -
Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria by Muriam Haleh Davis 9781478018506
RRP: £22.99£19.60In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what... -
Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly by Safwan M. Masri
RRP: £18.99£14.79The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years,... -
Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 by Spencer D. Segalla 9781496237736
RRP: £25.99£22.04Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores how environmental catastrophes both shaped and were shaped by struggles over the dissolution of France's... -
They're Burning the Churches by Patrick Noonan 9781919931463
RRP: £15.95£13.02Father Patrick Noonan's book is a meticulously written and moving account of the events in and around the Vaal Triangle, leading up to the downfall of apartheid. Noonan's clear and unbiased historical record clarifies many misconceptions regarding these... -
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2012 by Daniel Branch 9780300194142
£30.61On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approached the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the... -
South Africa by Alicia Klepeis 9781644872581
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644872581Author Alicia KlepeisFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media