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Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Keith Somerville 9781849045155
RRP: $45.15$40.05Over 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... -
Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon by Florence Bernault 9781478001232
RRP: $125.13$107.08In 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... -
The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal 9781478015246
RRP: $125.13$106.57In 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... -
Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 by Samson Kaunga Ndanyi 9781793649249
RRP: $104.49$99.64In 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... -
Let's Look at Somalia by A.M. Reynolds 9781977103857
RRP: $37.82$23.76Apologies 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 -
Escrow: Politics And Energy In Tanzania by Julius E. Nyang'Oro 9781569024478
RRP: $45.09$29.12Apologies 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. -
Uhuru Revisited: Interviews with African Pro-democracy Leaders by Ron Singer 9781592219698
RRP: $45.09$29.12Apologies 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 -
War And Peace In Zaire/congo: Analyzing and Evaluating Intervention 1994-1997 by Howard Adelman 9781592211319
RRP: $45.09$29.12Apologies 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 -
Making And Breaking States In Africa: The Somali Experience by Ioan Lewis 9781569022900
RRP: $45.09$29.12Apologies 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 -
Bandits On The Border: The Last Frontier in the Search for Somali Unity by Nene Mburu 9781569022276
RRP: $38.64$25.18Apologies 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 -
Putting The Cart Before The Horse: Contested Nationalism and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Somalia by Abdi M. Kusow 9781569022030
RRP: $38.64$25.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022030Author Abdi M. KusowFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 360g -
The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures by Retief Muller 9781474462969
RRP: $25.79$22.91One of the International Bulletin of Mission Research's Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity for 2021 Reveals Scots influence on church and society in South Africa Contributes to academic discourse... -
African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The Burden of Proof by Robert Burroughs 9781138631694
RRP: $174.15$151.29The 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... -
Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City by Filip de Boeck 9789058679673
RRP: $50.31$41.78In 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... -
Cameroon: Dependence And Independence by Mark W. DeLancey 9780367022303
RRP: $174.15$151.29This 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 by Manu Lekunze 9781032178066
RRP: $51.59$45.23Complex 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... -
Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville 9781478015758
RRP: $125.13$107.08On 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... -
A Challenging Transition In Somalia: A Story Of Personal Courage And Conviction by Mohamed Ali Abdiweli 9781569025161
RRP: $32.19$21.26Apologies 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. -
The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, History, Africa by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781603128483
RRP: $28.32$22.38Apologies 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 -
From Tyranny To Anarchy: The Somali Experience by Hussein M. Adam 9781569022887
RRP: $32.19$21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022887Author Hussein M. AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 456g -
To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman 9780060505578
RRP: $32.24$21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505578Author Pat ShipmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa by Arwen P. Mohun 9780226828190
RRP: $32.25$25.95This 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... -
The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa by Retief Muller
RRP: $116.10$94.53Apologies 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 -
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction by Robin Philpot
RRP: $32.19$21.61Former 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 by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue
RRP: $38.64$31.13Gender, 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... -
Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
RRP: $41.28$34.11Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The... -
Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900-1939 by Robert L. Tignor
RRP: $67.08$51.97This 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... -
Medicine, Mobility and the Empire: Nyasaland Networks, 1859-1960 by Markku Hokkanen
RRP: $109.65$78.14David 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... -
Cameroon: Dependence And Independence by Mark W. DeLancey
RRP: $49.01$43.06This 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... -
The Surreptitious Speech: "Presence Africaine" and the Politics of Otherness, 1947-87 by V. Y. Mudimbe
RRP: $51.60$50.25Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the... -
The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier by C.M. Good
RRP: $47.73$46.66In the mid 1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities Mission to Central Africa, bringing education, medical care and the Church to rural Africans. This work traces the mission's history and its lasting impact on public health care in South... -
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa by Christopher J. Lee
RRP: $125.13$107.08In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and... -
Human Rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016: The Long Struggle from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Present by John Idriss Lahai
RRP: $174.15$151.81This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and 2016. It provides a balanced coverage of the local and international... -
The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home by Erik Kennes 9780253021397
RRP: $38.69$33.53Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo,... -
Prelude to Imperialism: British Reactions to Central African Society, 1840–1890 H. Alan C. Cairns 9781032455921
RRP: $38.69$32.88In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their relations with and attitudes to African tribal societies. The author presents... -
To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré Reed Brody 9780231216562
RRP: $25.80$21.93What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, 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...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $25.80$21.93Subtotal: -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781035038817
RRP: $16.76$14.24Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing...