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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
RRP: £16.99£11.48'A must read...!!!' will.i.am'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David OlusogaWITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTOConversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race,... -
Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
RRP: £19.99£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476725277Author Eve FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan by Deborah Scroggins
RRP: £12.99£9.09Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer. Emma McCune's passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the Sudan, and her striking glamour set her apart from other... -
Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally by Dan Joseph
RRP: £23.99£20.41One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat to stability in the Horn of Africa. Somalis risk retaliation or death if they oppose or fail to comply... -
Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa by Jonathan Miran
RRP: £25.99£22.44In the late 19th century, the port of Massawa, in Eritrea on the Red Sea, was a thriving, vibrant, multiethnic commercial hub. Red Sea Citizens tells the story of how Massawa rose to prominence as one of Northeast Africa's most important shipping centers... -
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History by Dr Kaveh Yazdani 9780199499717
RRP: £56.00£50.59This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue duree from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the... -
Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by John Campbell 9780190657987
RRP: £10.99£7.77As the "Giant of Africa," Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African... -
Cynghanedd i Blant by Mererid Hopwood 9781911584490
RRP: £9.95£9.90A lively and colourful book that aims to teach the ancient art of composing poetry in strict metre to young poets.Book InformationISBN 9781911584490Author Mererid HopwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Cyhoeddiadau BarddasPublisher Cyhoeddiadau... -
Copper Wings: British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing Volume 2: 1974-1980 by Guy Ellis 9781804513620
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513620Author Guy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot by Colin Freeman
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Captivating, a John le Carre-esque yarn' Telegraph'A thoroughly good read' Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and presenter of Great British Railway Journeys'A compelling story of courage, determination and skill' Terry... -
The NLP Professional: Your Future in NLP by Karen Falconer 9780857162083
RRP: £16.99£12.28Karen Falconer is the CEO and driving force of ANLP International CIC, the world's most successful independent Association for NLP Professionals. ANLP runs the largest international NLP annual conference. Karen brings her vast experience of running... -
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley 9780140175967
RRP: £15.99£11.61In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners... -
When the Tempest Gathers: From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War by Andrew Milburn 9781526750556
RRP: £25.00£17.62These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu,... -
CIA and British Mercenaries in Angola, 1975-1976: From Operation Ia/Feature to Massacre at Maquela by Stephen Rookes
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059063Author Stephen RookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Zulu War: Then and Now by Ian Knight 9780900913754
RRP: £24.95£20.51This work is one of the most widley known military campaigns of the Victorian era. The story is presented through the "After the Battle" series "then and now" photographic theme and contains graphic eyewitness accounts from both sides which aim to convey... -
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld 9780312425036
RRP: £22.00£12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425036Author Jean HatzfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Britain's Desert War in Egypt and Libya 1940-1942: The End of the Beginning' by David Braddock 9781526759788
RRP: £19.99£14.28The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best... -
Like Wolves on the Fold: the Defence of Rorke's Drift by Lieut. Col. Mike Snook 9781848325838
RRP: £16.99£12.28Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the... -
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus 9780674416758
RRP: £17.95£14.28More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is... -
Africa Must Unite by Kwame 1909-1972 Nkrumah 9781014363008
RRP: £33.95£28.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014363008Author Kwame 1909-1972 NkrumahFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John G Jackson 9780592438849
RRP: £19.99£13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780592438849Author John G JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in... -
History of Africa by Kevin Shillington
RRP: £44.99£40.76This fourth edition of this best-selling core history textbook offers a richly illustrated, single volume, narrative introduction to African history, from a hugely respected authority in the field. The market-leading range of illustrated material from... -
Botswana - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Michael Main
RRP: £9.99£7.11Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Botswana is a country of contrasts. Culturally, the people are overwhelmingly Bantu, but with more than twenty different ethnic groups and over thirty languages spoken, the society is by no means... -
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya by Annick Cojean
RRP: £12.99£8.56Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making the following week. This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on... -
Plural Maghreb: Writings on Postcolonialism by Abdelkebir Khatibi
RRP: £31.99£28.38Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the... -
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by Lawrence James
RRP: £14.99£9.32In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. The... -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte 9781859844106
RRP: £18.99£16.10Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elected to lead the Mouvement National Congolais, the party he founded in 1958, Lumumba was at the centre of the... -
The Desert Air War 1940-1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526711083
RRP: £14.99£10.95The war in air over North Africa and the Mediterranean during the Second World War has long been overshadowed by the battle on the ground. Between 1940 and 1943 Italy's Regia Aeronautica and then Germany's Luftwaffe waged a concerted aerial campaign... -
Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Keith Somerville
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing... -
Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9789774168864
RRP: £29.99£25.16King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and... -
Painting Wargaming Figures: WWII in the Desert by Andy Singleton
RRP: £14.99£11.93Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade with those collecting figures for the North African campaigns in... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: £13.99£9.26"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Paul Farmer called "a gem of a social history linking two countries stuck in uncomfortable embrace for... -
Modern African Wars 5: The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £12.99£9.09With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the... -
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability by Jacob Doherty
RRP: £25.00£19.18Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what... -
Sierra Leone: A Political History by David Harris
RRP: £22.00£19.11Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small West African state. On the one... -
Frog Crush by Ian Worboys 9788090753259
RRP: £10.99£7.77Frog Crush presents a scene from life in the African savannah and it follows the short journey of five animals in the midday sun, while they are trying to find something juicy and tasty to eat. The book opens with the sight of a Frog singing on a lily... -
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Jason K. Stearns
RRP: £28.00£21.36Why 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... -
Seychelles Since 1770: The History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society by Deryck Scarr
RRP: £19.99£17.44A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and the social changes precipitated by tourism in the...