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Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide by Linda Melvern
RRP: €29.74€24.85Conspiracy 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... -
Forged in battle by Jan Breytenbach 9781485300441
RRP: €21.36€17.96Apologies 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 Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed by John Prendergast
RRP: €26.18€18.52Congo 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... -
Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place by Peter Eichstaedt
RRP: €17.79€13.33Every 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... -
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History and Society by Ioan Lewis
RRP: €23.80€20.78Ioan 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: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah Appel
RRP: €30.93€26.23The 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... -
Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo by Jules Marchal
RRP: €15.46€13.46In 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... -
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda by Scott Straus
RRP: €29.74€25.26Winner 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: Murdering Patrice Lumumba by Emmanuel Gerard
RRP: €39.21€31.57Death 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... -
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror by Helen Epstein
RRP: €13.08€11.95Is 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... -
Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville
RRP: €30.93€26.23On 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... -
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch 9780312243357
RRP: €22.61€14.76Apologies 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... -
Rhodesia - Beginning to End by Ron Morkel
RRP: €23.74€20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453789438Author Ron MorkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace by Susan Thomson
RRP: €29.75€25.37A 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... -
Tree Tops by Jim Corbett 9780195627213
RRP: €2.98€2.63This 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... -
Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon by Florence Bernault
RRP: €30.93€26.23In 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... -
To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissene Habre by Reed Brody
RRP: €33.32€25.42What 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... -
Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime by Aili Mari Tripp 9781588267078
RRP: €27.31€22.28Exploring 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... -
African Geopolitics by Philippe Hugon 9781558764606
RRP: €89.25€72.04No 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 Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda by Scott Straus 9780801444487
RRP: €60.69€56.80The 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... -
The English Speaking Mbos of Cameroon. Economic Development and Historical Perspective: 1885-1922 an Assessment Report of J. by Esendugue G Fonsah 9789956763054
RRP: €36.65€32.57Apologies 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 -
Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic by Gino Vlavonou 9780299345709
RRP: €105.91€86.25Political 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 by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue 9780472074136
RRP: €91.63€75.30Gender, 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... -
Commodity Politics: Contesting Responsibility in Cameroon by Adam Sneyd 9780228008880
RRP: €110.67€85.97Responsibility 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... -
'Treatise on the Rivers of Cuama' by Antonio da Conceicao by Antonio da Conceicao 9780197264072
€38.43This 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... -
Let's Look at Somalia by A.M. Reynolds
RRP: €8.27€6.90Apologies 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 -
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams 9781541768307
RRP: €27.36€18.36Apologies 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 -
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order by Jelmer Vos
RRP: €77.35€76.87A 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,... -
A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964-1974 by Seth M. Markle
€48.23Between 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,... -
The Land of Houlouf: Genesis of a Chadic Polity, 1900 B.C.–A.D. 1800 by Augustin F. C. Holl
€36.46Apologies 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... -
Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa by Ch. Didier Gondola
RRP: €85.68€72.49During 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"... -
Angola: Promises and Lies by Karl Maier 9781897959527
RRP: €14.28€11.33Apologies 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 -
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld 9780312429379
RRP: €23.80€14.91Apologies 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 *... -
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W French 9781400030279
RRP: €23.80€17.49Apologies 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... -
Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa by Ch. Didier Gondola 9780253020772
RRP: €30.93€26.23During 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... -
The Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Karim F. Hirji
RRP: €17.84€9.07Apologies 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 -
The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900 by Lee V Cassanelli 9780812278323
RRP: €101.15€86.81Apologies 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... -
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck 9780062200129
RRP: €23.79€15.35Apologies 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)... -
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History by Jean-Pierre Chretien
RRP: €29.75€25.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951351Author Jean-Pierre ChretienFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 by David L Schoenbrun 9780299332501
RRP: €95.20€77.68Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun...