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African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century Osei Bonsu 9781781578384
RRP: $78.00$54.11Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work outside the confines of limiting categories and outdated perceptions; they produce art that is as much a reflection of... -
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane
RRP: $21.43$15.15When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful analysis... -
The Afrikaners: A Concise History by Hermann Giliomee 9780624089896
RRP: $31.18$26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624089896Author Hermann GiliomeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
When the Music's Over: Intervention, Aid and Somalia Gareth Owen 9781914420436
RRP: $33.13$23.28In 1993, Gareth Owen volunteered to go to Somalia with an Irish aid agency. Located in a remote desert outpost, he encountered the brutality of conflict and famine and experienced the hardships and struggles of an extraordinary race of desert warriors... -
Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai
RRP: $21.43$15.15Born 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... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: $48.75$34.36The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: $29.23$16.65Back 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... -
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and Abolitionisma Debate with Joao Pedro Marques by Seymour Drescher 9781800730052
RRP: $54.50$44.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730052Author Seymour DrescherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books -
Antiblackness and Global Health: A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake by Lioba Hirsch 9780745346281
RRP: $48.73$37.81Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health. Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across the landscape of global... -
Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes by Marcel Uwineza
RRP: $195.00$171.68The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda... -
Coconut: A Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her search for belonging and identity Florence Olajide 9781909770652
RRP: $17.53$12.09'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?'A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain... -
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Professor James Walvin 9781472144331
RRP: $48.75$32.72A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: $29.23$21.78After witnessing first-hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition, Richard Hamilton has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers of Morocco, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb. ... -
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
RRP: $25.33$16.83Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern... -
Great Kingdoms of Africa by John Parker
RRP: $48.75$30.95An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of medieval West Africa, the highlands of Ethiopia and on to the forests, lakes and grasslands... -
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War by Emmanuel Iduma 9780008430764
RRP: $21.43$14.14'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An... -
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $19.48$13.86'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into... -
The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some 9780874779912
RRP: $31.18$19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874779912Author Malidoma Patrice SomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'... -
The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein 9781906462093
RRP: $25.35$25.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906462093Author Hilda BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)... -
Morocco - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Jillian C. York 9781787023048
RRP: $21.43$16.03Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Morocco is a joy to the senses. Graced with spectacular scenery, the country's rich history is carved into its architecture and baked into its cuisine. Its marketplaces are filled with tantalizing... -
I Write What I Like by Steve Biko
RRP: $23.19$19.64On 12th September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in his prison cell. He was only 31, but his vision and charisma - captured in this collection of his work - had already transformed the agenda of South African politics. This book covers the basic... -
A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels
$41.28During the West's great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper... -
Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide by Immaculee Ilibagiza
RRP: $29.23$17.22Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family that she cherished.But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into bloody holocaust. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias
RRP: $37.03$26.42The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne 9780190053772
RRP: $64.33$52.07Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: $23.38$21.33"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the... -
Beyond Empire by John T. Ducker
$86.83Beyond Empire looks at three decades of British colonial administration to assess the capacity of the independent governments of Africa to achieve independence. A wealth of archival material and a unique review of British press over those decades brings... -
Julius Nyerere by Paul Bjerk
RRP: $25.33$22.95With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of... -
The Secret World of Shlomo Fine by K M R Smythe 9780797491359
RRP: $45.05$39.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797491359Author K M R SmytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Amagugu PublishersPublisher Amagugu PublishersWeight(grams) 253g -
Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret by Ondjaki 9781927428658
RRP: $23.38$19.46BY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 JOSE SARAMAGO PRIZE AN AFRICA39/UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE 2014 TOP AFRICAN WRITER UNDER 40 A GUARDIAN TOP FIVE AFRICAN WRITER, 2012 WINNER OF THE GRINZANE PRIZE FOR BEST YOUNG WRITER, 2010 By the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets... -
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley
RRP: $25.33$16.54A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of... -
Reiki: From Beginner to Practitioner by Jacqueline Raison 9780719840838
RRP: $29.23$24.47Reiki is a gentle but powerful universal healing energy that boosts the body's ability to heal itself, whether the source of disease is physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. This Japanese healing method can aid relaxation and meditation, boosts our... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
RRP: $25.33$16.54A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London... -
The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney 9781780747668
RRP: $25.33$17.73Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the... -
Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80 by Kerrin Cocks
RRP: $33.05$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294055Author Kerrin CocksFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams
RRP: $48.75$42.96The 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... -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: $48.75$36.82An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from sub-Saharan Africa as... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: $48.75$32.23'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South... -
Civilization or Barbarism by Diop
RRP: $35.00$27.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520488Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 607g