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Cameroon: Dependence And Independence by Mark W. DeLancey
RRP: $74.08$65.09This 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 Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier by C.M. Good
RRP: $72.15$70.53In 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: $173.55$151.36In 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: $263.25$229.48This 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 Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo by Daniel Liebowitz 9780393328738
RRP: $43.88$36.47Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and... -
The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home by Erik Kennes 9780253021397
RRP: $54.58$47.07Erik 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
$66.28In 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: $39.00$30.99What 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... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781035038817
RRP: $25.33$21.53Winner 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...