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In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'The best ecology and anthropology ever written.' Whole Earth ReviewBook InformationISBN 9780195003222Author E. E. Evans-PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name.If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands?Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394753089Author David LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 9781453789438Author Ron MorkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

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...

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)...

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...

Niger is a crossroad, the gate to the outside for West Africans, and the port of entry into West Africa for cross-Saharan tidings and travelers. It remained for centuries the largely uncontrolled periphery of the large empires of the western Sudan and...

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...

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but...

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

Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with the...

How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been...

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...

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but...

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 9781541768307Author Susan WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 603g

This is the fascinating story of Cameroonian and German refugees on the island of Fernando Po 1916 - 1919; perhaps the only group of Europeans to be refugees in Africa. The story begins in Cameroon in 1965 and travels back in time to Germany and colonial...

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 9780316174381Author Basil DavidsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 300g

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 *...

Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived...

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...

We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other...

In their internationally acclaimed book, Kinshasa, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Francoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today but also of a second, invisible...

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