Africa

Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti (d. 1826), decisively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113009Author Willem SteenkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Strength and Goodness (Force-Bonte) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well as a unique and invaluable historical document about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982376Author Peter BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A complete guide for how small states can be strikingly successful and influential--if they assess their situations and adapt their strategies. Small states are crucial actors in world politics. Yet, they have been relegated to a second tier of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920153083Author Michael TellingerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Zulu Planet PublishersPublisher Zulu Planet PublishersWeight(grams) 978g

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an...

The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near...

Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692380833Author Patrick R WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint (Virtual) Armchair General PublishingPublisher (Virtual) Armchair General...

Africanizing Democracies examines the ways in which Africans have constructed and reshaped democracy in order to fit their own political ideals and agendas. Analyzing political democratization in this vast continent--which is home to fifty-five sovereign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982789Author James StejskalFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of in Angola today - and virtually unknown...

In 1961, Rosina 'Rose' Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria's Civil...

Diamonds have long been bloody. A new history shows how Germany's ruthless African empire brought diamond rings to retail display cases in America-at the cost of African lives.Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812931297Author Antjie KrogFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber arrived for fieldwork at the height of tensions attributed to a disastrous communal ordeal two years...

This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and...

Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international investigators has compiled a...

Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An island twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on its shores. Since then, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569020333Author Miguel F BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 338g

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of...

This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century. As such, it provides an exceedingly rare and valuable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432277Author John Henrik ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 320g

Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events within the broad context of Sudan's history, and to examine the efficacy of the world's response to the ongoing violence. Illuminating the deeply rooted causes of...

This is Jim Corbett's last book and the only one not set in India. It tells of Princess Elizabeth's visit to Tree Tops in Kenya, during which she learned George VI had died and that she was now Queen. Although there are the characteristically vivid...

During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717042286Author Stephen Mitford GoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908828606Author David & Alexander BigginsFormat HardbackImprint Token Publishing LtdPublisher Token Publishing Ltd

The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire."We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen," stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916280Author Robin BinckesFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government. A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014248688Author Alex Quaison-SackeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)...

A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this...

In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904563846Author Alixandra FazzinaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Trolley BooksPublisher Trolley Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781711088242Author Matt ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384927Author Stephen A. EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374128807Author Douglas PorchFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the history of this controversial country. Engagingly written, the author provides a sharp, analytical overview...