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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
RRP: €22.60€15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800752610Author Candice MillardFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The Sudan Handbook by John Ryle
RRP: €23.79€20.19A compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient reference work. The Sudan Handbook, based on the Rift Valley Institute's successful Sudan Field Course, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to... -
Opération Crevette: Benin, Mercenaries, and the Survival of a New State by Les Sosnowski 9781666911237
RRP: €101.15€91.36Freshly out from under French colonial rule in 1960, the West African nation of Dahomey (now Benin) became home to the largest number of coups d'etat in history, earning the reputation of the "sick child of Africa." Country politics eventually aligned... -
The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner 9780801491016
RRP: €33.31€28.63A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. American Anthropologist A pioneering work of high quality, this collection of anthropological... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks 9780745341767
RRP: €29.75€19.97Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all... -
Tunisia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Gerald Zarr 9781857334777
RRP: €11.89€8.71Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels 9781612005874
RRP: €29.75€18.85In 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... -
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: €11.89€8.46Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is... -
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure by Michael Asher
RRP: €15.46€10.82The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret
RRP: €26.18€20.22A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in... -
The Train Driver and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
RRP: €17.84€16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363860Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of... -
Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh
RRP: €30.93€26.17Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative... -
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively
RRP: €11.89€8.46This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Eygpt up to, and including, World War... -
The Scramble for Africa by M. E. Chamberlain 9781408220146
RRP: €44.02€42.53In 1870 barely one tenth of Africa was under European control. By 1914 only about one tenth Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia was not. This book offers a clear and concise account of the 'scramble' or 'race' for Africa, the period of around 20 years... -
Africa: A Beginner's Guide by Tom Young 9781851687534
RRP: €11.89€7.63Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history... -
Lonesome Vol. 2: The Ruffians by Yves Swolfs 9781800440012
RRP: €10.70€8.02True to his word, Mayor Harper has brought in a Marshall to get rid of 'Lonesome', thrown in jail by a repentant sheriff. But it takes more than that to stop the lone rider in his quest for revenge, and he is soon back on the trail of Markham, the mad... -
A Short History Of Africa: From the Origins of the Human Race to the Arab Revolts of 2011 by Gordon Kerr 9781842434420
RRP: €15.46€10.33Africa. The cradle of civilisation. From the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa right through to the so-called 'Arab Spring' of 2011, Gordon Kerr offers a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous continent. He begins... -
1 Recce: Through Stealth Our Strength by Alexander Strachan 9780624088820
RRP: €19.03€15.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624088820Author Alexander StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
China's Second Continent by Howard W. French
RRP: €17.84€14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946652Author Howard W. FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
South African Armoured Fighting Vehicles: A History of Innovation and Excellence, 1960-2020 by Dewald Venter 9781913336257
€27.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336257Author Dewald VenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney
RRP: €26.18€20.22The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the... -
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
RRP: €69.01€68.62This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.Reviews"Surely no need for commentary on this... -
Unfair Game: An investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry by Michael Ashcroft 9781785906114
RRP: €17.84€13.03In April 2019 Lord Ashcroft published the results of his year-long investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry. Over eleven pages of a single edition of the Mail on Sunday he showed why this sickening trade, which involves appalling... -
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341798
RRP: €23.79€15.89Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism. The CFA Franc was created in 1945, binding fourteen African states and... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: €15.46€10.41Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf
€44.80In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded... -
Biafra Story - Isbn Previously 9781844155095 by Frederick Forsyth
RRP: €15.46€10.82This is the book which marked Frederick Forsyth's transition from journalist to author. A record of one of the most brutal conflicts the Third World has ever suffered, it has become a classic of modern war reporting. But it is more than that. It voices... -
Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group: Merlyn Craw MM's War 1940 1945 by O'Carroll, Brendan 9781399084277
RRP: €29.75€21.44Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw... -
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2012 by Daniel Branch 9780300194142
RRP: €35.70€34.81On 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... -
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall 9781847013743
RRP: €30.93€29.55Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". ... -
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction by Elleke Boehmer 9780192893444
RRP: €10.70€7.68Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic... -
Sudan: The Failure and Division of an African State by Richard Cockett
RRP: €15.46€13.64Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has... -
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
€13.48In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were... -
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley
RRP: €15.46€10.09A 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... -
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time by Astrid Madimba
RRP: €23.80€15.89'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising... -
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina 9781847083326
RRP: €11.89€7.97Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells,... -
In Praise Of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front by Rever Judi 9780345812100
RRP: €17.84€11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award - Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction 2018. Short-listed for Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize 2018... -
Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves
RRP: €15.46€10.23The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid by Thomas Grant 9781529372861
RRP: €29.75€19.97'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us all' David LammySydney Kentridge carved out a reputation...