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Why 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...

Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the Rwandan genocide, one of the most appalling events of the twentieth century. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved amounts to a catalogue of failures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485300441Author Jan BreytenbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 285g

Congo is one of the most complex countries in the world, yet it is the most overlooked. It is one of the wealthiest in Africa as a result of its natural endowments, but its people are some of the poorest in the world. Congolese culture is informed by the...

Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. Rich in "conflict minerals"--valuable resources mined in the midst of armed...

Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is...

The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project-U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea-and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects...

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian...

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP) The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key...

Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged...

Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings...

On June 30, 1960-the day of the Congo's independence-Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Guardian First Book Award 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780312243357Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453789438Author Ron MorkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an...

This is Jim Corbett's last book and the only one not set in India. It tells of Princess Elizabeth's visit to Tree Tops in Kenya, during which she learned George VI had died and that she was now Queen. Although there are the characteristically vivid...

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at...

What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissene Habre, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight bloody years in power-all while enjoying full American and Western support. After...

Exploring Ugandan politics since 1986, Tripp focuses on the complex connections among Museveni's economic and political reforms, his wars in the north and in Congo, the key roles of international donors and the institutional changes that have defined his...

No further information has been provided for this title.Book InformationISBN 9781558764606Author Philippe HugonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Markus Wiener Publishing IncPublisher Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956763054Author Esendugue G FonsahFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 263g

Political conflict in many parts of the world has been shaped by notions of who rightfully belongs to a place. The concept of autochthony—that a true, original people are born of a land and belong to it above all others—has animated struggles across...

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing...

Responsibility is political. As the international community has called for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities has become more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through the new rhetoric of...

This volume publishes one of the most important early Portuguese accounts of east central Africa. The author, Antonio da Conceicao, was the ecclesiastical administrator of the Portuguese Zambesi settlements at the end of the seventeenth century. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977105646Author A.M. ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541768307Author Susan WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 603g

A case study of colonialism in Africa from economic, religious, and political perspectives that examines the participation of African elites in colonial ruleThis is a richly documented history of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries,...

Between 1964 and 1974 Tanzania came to be regarded as a model nation and a leading frontline state in the struggle for African liberation on the continent and beyond. During this time, a number of African American and Caribbean nationalists, leftists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915703524Author Augustin F. C. HollFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Publications DepartmentPublisher...

During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959527Author Karl MaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint SerifPublisher SerifWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199342457Author GonzalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429379Author Jean HatzfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781400030279Author Howard W. FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995222397Author Karim F. HirjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812278323Author Lee V CassanelliFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062200129Author David Van ReybrouckFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)...