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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603121668Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AegypanPublisher AegypanWeight(grams) 204g

Henry 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...

Erik 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,...

Apologies 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...

The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies. The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining...

Shows how social, economic, and political drivers of slavery and human trafficking within the Horn of Africa call for a better informed development discourse there

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Unholy Wedlock (1963) tells the story of the ill-fated creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953. The author argues that it was done in the interests of the white minority, and against the wishes of the black majority, and examines the...

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight...

In 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...

What 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...

Winner 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...