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Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand expeiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of...

'Extraordinary' Maaza Mengiste'Exhilarating' Elif BatumanSelam is the youngest child in a large turbulent family. Even before she is born, her omniscience animates life in a Small Town in 1980s southwestern Ethiopia. Selam and her father listen to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600213Author Isak DinesenFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 192mm *...

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936. The book analyzes the strategies and conditions that allowed the institute to endure and...

I.M. Lewis's classic text on the history of the Somali peoples. The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisation and the ingenuity with which the Somali way of life has adapted to all forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408134719Author Steve SpawlsFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint T & AD PoyserPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 1420gDimensions(mm) 248mm...

The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906342395Author Mohamed Mohamud AbdiFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Clear PressPublisher Safis Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987083763Author M Jalal HashimFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 254g

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912680276Author Russell PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Shilka PublishingPublisher Shilka PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Hearing a blast, journalist Anjan Sundaram headed uphill towards the sound. Grenade explosions are not entirely unusual in the city of Kigali; dissidents throw them in public areas to try and destabilise the government and, since moving to Rwanda, he had...

Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp's aesthetic and material landscapes-even if born out of...

In The Mau Mau Rebellion, the author describes the background to and the course of a short but brutal late colonial campaign in Kenya. The Mau Mau, a violent and secretive Kikuyu society, aimed to restore the proud tribe's pre-colonial superiority and...

These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu,...

The people of Uganda have struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view. A stray clue to the 1972 disappearance of a man named Eliphaz Laki led his son to a shallow grave. From...

In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceless residents of Addis Ababa...

This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa. Documenting and delving deep into the reign and rule of General Mohamed Siad Barre regime in Somalia from 1969 up to 1991, the book puts emphasis on African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470120156Author Stephen KinzerFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

'Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious...

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of...

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of...

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest archaeological record of any country in the world: indeed, this precipitous mountain land was where the...

Far from having to 'scram from Africa' following the abandonment of her 'East of Suez' role, and despite the problems of Mau Mau, and the even the Suez debacle on a larger international stage, Britain continued to vigorously pursue imperial African...

The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan...

In February 1990 assailants murdered Kenya's distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Robert Ouko. The horror of the attack, the images of his mutilated and burned corpse, the evidence of a notorious cover-up, and the...

The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle of humanity".About the AuthorRichard Pankhurst who has lived in Ethiopia for over thirty years, is...

The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906342371Author Mohamed Mohamud AbdiFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Clear PressPublisher Safis Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908341280Author Cass CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Paragon PublishingPublisher Paragon PublishingWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique - one of the most beautiful countries in the world - for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take...

In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended...

Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country's independence when Africa's first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the...

Traditional stories bring a deeper understanding of the movement of peoples across East Africa. Common roots and differences between ancient peoples create a lively portrait with their fragile, powerful gods. The modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania,...

Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events, including mass killings of...

Drawing on interviews, diaries, and letters, The Kenya Pioneers tells the story of the European colonization of the Kenya Highlands in the early twentieth century.About the AuthorErrol Trzebinski has spent over half her life in Kenya. She was a...

A compelling exploration of one of the most ill-advised and calamitous interventions in colonial development history. As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909112797Author Abdurahman AbdullahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Adonis & Abbey PublishersPublisher Adonis & Abbey PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908110862Author Dr Sibtain Akberali PanjwaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Sun Behind the Cloud Publications LtdPublisher Sun Behind the Cloud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692770573Author Mike McCrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Mike the WolfPublisher Mike the WolfWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 3mm