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The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
£20.54The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of... -
The Book Of African Proverbs by Gerd de Ley
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578268030Author Gerd de LeyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S. -
Flying Springbok, The: A history of South African Airways since its inception to the post-apartheid era by Lionel Friedberg
RRP: £23.99£21.46An artistic rendering of the African antelope, the Springbok, was depicted with stylized wings to serve as the logo of South African Airways (SAA) for well over 60 years. It was replaced by a new corporate identity when the airline was rebranded after... -
Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80 by Kerrin Cocks
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies 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 -
The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some 9780874779912
RRP: £15.99£11.03Apologies 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 -
Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The South African Tour of 1970 by Colin Shindler 9781785316340
RRP: £19.99£14.28Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches is the compelling story of a cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social history. Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing... -
Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa by Charles Piot
£24.12At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture - subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that... -
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden 9781846277030
RRP: £12.99£8.56Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of... -
The Top Ten of Everything Chelsea: The Best of the Blues from Azpilicueta to Zola by Clive Batty 9781785318610
RRP: £18.99£13.61Brimming with Blues trivia, facts and stats, The Top Ten of Everything Chelsea covers every aspect of the club's long and colourful history in dozens of ranked lists. A star cast features the best of the British, European and South American players who... -
A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez by Jerome Tharaud
RRP: £15.00£9.50From 1917 19, the Tharaud brothers immersed themselves in Morocco while observing the determined imposition of the French Protectorate at first hand. With unique access to both colonial manoeuvres and a now-vanished Moroccan way of life, they settled for... -
The Illegal War on Libya by Cynthia McKinney 9780985271060
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985271060Author Cynthia McKinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop 9781556520884
RRP: £17.99£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520884Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 303g -
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerard Prunier
RRP: £19.99£17.44Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier... -
Battle on the Lomba 1987: The Day a South African Armoured Battalion Shattered Angola’s Last Mechanized Offensive - a Crew Commander's Account by David Mannall 9781909982024
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982024Author David MannallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War by Ben Rawlence
RRP: £10.99£8.02In this extraordinary debut - called 'gripping' by The Times of London - Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congo's 'silent quarter' where peace is finally being built after two decades of civil war and devastation... -
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle by Emily Bridger 9781847013620
RRP: £19.99£17.76Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle. WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022 ... -
Call Of The Litany Bird: Surviving the Zimbabwe Bush War by Susan Gibbs 9781907991004
RRP: £17.99£15.94As a trained nurse, newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years, Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family on their farm in Matabeleland in the midst of the unfolding terror and growing number of atrocities. ... -
The BRF Book of 365 Bible Reflections: A centenary celebration by Karen Laister 9781800391000
RRP: £14.99£9.76The Bible is at the heart of BRF's work and this special anniversary edition is a celebration of the Bible for BRF's centenary year. Written by contributors representing the breadth of BRF's ministries, the reflections provide an introduction to... -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: £27.50£24.04When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an... -
Africa's First Democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar 9780253022226
RRP: £81.00£69.21Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the... -
Fighting the Slave Trade - West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: £24.99£21.89This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries. This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used... -
In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives by Barnaby Rogerson 9781912208784
RRP: £10.99£7.49For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always been a handful of stories he could not pin into neat,... -
Country Of My Skull by Antjie Krog
RRP: £12.99£9.09The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It... -
Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Banning Eyre
RRP: £38.00£33.05Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now... -
Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond by Andrew Balaam 9781909982772
£21.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982772Author Andrew BalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson
RRP: £14.99£9.32The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeThis book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In 1952, after years of... -
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
RRP: £14.99£10.95A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: £19.99£13.96An ambitious and shocking expose of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber... -
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson
RRP: £21.99£19.04On 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 outside... -
Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists by Peter Baxter 9781912866830
£18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866830Author Peter BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Quiet Before: On the unexpected origins of radical ideas by Gal Beckerman 9781529177404
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful storytelling... Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social... -
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War by Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
RRP: £30.00£26.43Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand... -
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara 9780873489881
RRP: £4.00£3.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489881Author Thomas SankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press -
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: £15.99£11.61Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Forgotten until... -
Four Ball One Tracer: Commanding Executives Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone by Roelf Van Heerden
RRP: £10.95£8.72Unapologetic, unassuming and forthright, the combat exploits of Executive Outcomes (EO) in Angola and Sierra Leone are recounted for the first time by a battlefield commander who was physically on the ground during all their major combat operations. From... -
From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph Windsor 9780962088117
RRP: £13.95£8.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962088117Author Rudolph WindsorFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint Windsor Golden SeriesPublisher Windsor Golden Series -
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures by Charlie English
RRP: £14.99£9.70'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Book of the Year 'A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary... -
Ghana: A Political and Social History by Jeffrey Ahlman 9780755601561
RRP: £21.99£18.12Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century... -
South Africa - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Isabella Morris 9781857338720
RRP: £8.99£6.64South Africa has been described as "A World in One Country" and a "Rainbow Nation." Its landscape ranges from miles of glorious beaches to the inland desert of the Karoo, the sweeping grasslands of the Highveld plateau, and the subtropical bush of the... -
Timbuktu Chronicles 1493-1599, The: Al Hajj Mahmud Kati's Tarikh At Fattash by Christopher Wise 9781592218097
RRP: £34.95£22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218097Author Christopher WiseFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 660g