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Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951814185Author Karel ArnautFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Horniman Museum & GardensPublisher Horniman Museum & Gardens

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438644Author Alex De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144218Author Lieve JorisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

In From Plantations to University Campus, Woodville Marshall examines the evolution in the use of the space that surrounds the campus of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and identifies some of the individuals who played pivotal...

This study documents how William Hart Coleridge, the first Anglican bishop of Barbados and the Leewards, executed the new mandate of the Anglican church between 1824 and 1842. When the British Government turned to the Established Church for assistance in...

In 2012, the Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, a milestone it shared with the national and regional community, as both Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica...

This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference "Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007", a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire...

The collection Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship commemorates the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held in August 2010, and collects, for the first time, some of the main thinkers on Rastafari. It is an exciting and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872142326Author Bob van der WindenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint WorldView PublicationsPublisher WorldView Publications

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the...

"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560729396Author Eric S PackhamFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 667g

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "happy are those who sing and dance," and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During...

Breakdown and Reconstitution analyzes the interplay between democratization, nation-state building, and ethnicity in Nigeria as well as the challenges of transforming a post-colonial multiethnic state into a stable democracy. This work draws attention to...

Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872142333Author Bob van der WindenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint WorldView PublicationsPublisher WorldView PublicationsWeight(grams) 236g

Over 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 saga of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems, but also...

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...

In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David-whom locals called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977103857Author A.M. ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone Press, IncorporatedPublisher Capstone Press, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024478Author Julius E. Nyang'OroFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219698Author Ron SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 474g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592211319Author Howard AdelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 575g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022900Author Ioan LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 436g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022276Author Nene MburuFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 436g

The humanitarian movement against Leopold's violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and...

This book examines whether Cameroon is self-sufficient in food, debt free, and politically stable, with objectivity and insight. It also examines the success or failure met by Cameroon in solving the problems of nation building, state building, and...

Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon comprehensively maps and analyses Cameroon's security architecture to determine its resilience. The author examines the key actors involved in Cameroon's security and evaluates the...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781569025161Author Mohamed Ali AbdiweliFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603128483Author Arthur Conan DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint AegypanPublisher AegypanWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022887Author Hussein AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 456g

This biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa.   Richard Dorsey Mohun spent his career circulating among the eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462952Author Retief MullerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsibility." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu genocidaires planned and executed a...

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...

This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with...

David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the frameworks of mobilities and networks that...