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Three Letter Plague: A Young Man's Journey Through a Great Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: $21.92$15.84At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. It is to here that award-winning... -
Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961-1974 by George Roberts 9781009281652
RRP: $28.37$25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009281652Author George RobertsFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte
RRP: $19.34$16.19The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it... -
The Africa Cup of Nations: The History of an Underappreciated Tournament by Ben Jackson 9781801506601
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Africa Cup of Nations explores the vibrant history of one of football's iconic but often overlooked international tournaments.For a long time, the Africa Cup of Nations has been seen as a nuisance to European clubs and fans. However, the tournament... -
Six Years a Hostage: The Extraordinary Story of the Longest-Held Al Qaeda Captive in the World by Stephen McGown
RRP: $16.76$9.69THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE LONGEST-HELD AL QAEDA CAPTIVE IN THE WORLDStephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was... -
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition by Jeffrey Herbst 9780691164144
RRP: $38.70$30.04Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in... -
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong
RRP: $14.18$9.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 'Superb' The Times 'Engrossing and revelatory' Observer 'Powerful, compelling and meticulously researched' New Statesman A new book from the award winning... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: $24.50$18.46'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 Donald R Morris 9780712661058
RRP: $32.25$23.25In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: $14.18$10.02A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
The Slave Trade in Africa: An Ongoing Holocaust by Simon Webb
RRP: $25.80$18.43Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of African leaders? Slavery was a common practice in Africa long before the... -
Portugal's Bush War in Mozambique by Al J Venter
RRP: $38.69$27.01Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique - one of the most beautiful countries in the world - for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take... -
The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia by Andrew Heavens
RRP: $29.66$22.08'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn SissayIn 1868, British troops charged into the mountain empire of Ethiopia, stormed the citadel of its monarch Tewodros II and grabbed piles of his... -
In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey by Barbara Toy
RRP: $16.76$11.09Introduced 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 Climb: The Autobiography Chris Froome 9780241969427
RRP: $14.18$10.02WINNER OF THE 2018 GIRO D'ITALIA!THREE TIME WINNER OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE.THE FIRST MAN SINCE BERNARD HINAULT TO HOLD THE MAGLIA ROSA, THE MAILLOT JAUNE AND THE MAILLOT ROJO AT THE SAME TIME.This is Chris Foome in his own words.'Engaging, vividly evoked'... -
The Boer War by Martin Bossenbroek
RRP: $32.25$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807474Author Martin BossenbroekFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
RRP: $14.18$9.44Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks... -
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
$20.79In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: $25.79$18.01Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of independent nations to 1914 when the current shape of Nigeria... -
The Wilder Shores Of Love by Lesley Blanch
RRP: $12.89$8.77The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa."There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about... -
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
RRP: $21.92$15.84A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it... -
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
RRP: $14.18$9.35Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates-a riveting,thoughtful, and... -
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition by Amilcar Cabral
RRP: $21.92$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900045Author Amilcar CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: $19.34$14.13Shortlisted 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... -
The Black British Quiz Book by Prtyhere 9780008584313
RRP: $16.76$10.94Dive 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... -
Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
RRP: $16.76$11.73Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into... -
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns 9780691224510
RRP: $24.50$19.50Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and... -
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria by Brian Larkin
RRP: $29.66$25.81Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like... -
Early Art and Architecture of Africa by Peter Garlake
RRP: $30.30$21.43This new history of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Peter Garlake uses the latest research and... -
Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change by Erin Pettigrew 9781009224611
RRP: $116.10$105.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009224611Author Erin PettigrewFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Unity and Struggle by Basil Davidson 9780853456254
RRP: $19.29$16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456254Author Basil DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: $19.34$14.13John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... -
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987 by Thomas Sankara 9780873489867
RRP: $23.22$17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489867Author Thomas SankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press -
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
RRP: $14.18$10.23Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an... -
Witnesses at Isandlwana: 22 January 1879 Neil Thornton 9781781559055
RRP: $45.15$32.62On 22 January 1879, British forces in Zululand suffered a shocking and unimaginable defeat at the hands of the Zulus resulting in over 1300 dead, including more than 800 regular British soldiers. But the Zulu victory came at a cost, and their losses were... -
DK Eyewitness Kenya by DK Publishing
RRP: $21.92$16.36The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Kenya.Look out for herds of elephant in Amboseli National Park, explore the bustling streets of Nairobi or laze on... -
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam by Chouki El Hamel
RRP: $34.82$28.08Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot... -
The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 9780755392124
RRP: $12.89$7.69Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has... -
Swahili, State and Society - The Political Economy of an African Language by Ali A. Mazrui 9780852557297
$26.10The authors consider the spread of the Swahili language in Eastern and Central Africa against a background of interaction between church and state, and between economics and politics. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEPBook InformationISBN... -
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans 9780199669035
RRP: $21.92$16.36Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from...