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The ongoing conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur has received unprecedented attention from the international media and human rights organizations, and it has captured the attention of millions of people around the world. Those seeking to...

Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II. It provides a cross-national, cross-regional analysis of religious reform,...

Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the...

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768184153Author Miguel BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 304g

A History of the Sudan by Martin Daly and PM Holt, sixth edition, has been fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments that have occurred in Sudan over the last nine years, including the crisis in Darfur.The most notable...

On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approached the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the...

This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century. As such, it provides an exceedingly rare and valuable...

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In them, these students explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699084Author Wojciech JagielskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144737Format PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

When news of the Darfur famine in the '80s broke in the West, relief experts predicted that, without massive food aid, millions of people would starve to death. Food aid on this scale did not arrive, but millions did not starve to death. Analyzing the...

After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912411337Author Mohamed Hussein Ma'allin AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Looh Press LtdPublisher Looh Press LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987753994Author Isaria N KimamboFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913294533Author John BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint TSL PublicationsPublisher TSL PublicationsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

The untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from europhric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world-a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987753260Author Marie-Aude FouereFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 454g

In the late 19th century, the port of Massawa, in Eritrea on the Red Sea, was a thriving, vibrant, multiethnic commercial hub. Red Sea Citizens tells the story of how Massawa rose to prominence as one of Northeast Africa's most important shipping centers...

Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania. Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources. Responding to the...

The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates...

Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any...

At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of...

This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996881920Author Libby JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Penstemon PublicationsPublisher Penstemon PublicationsWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909112988Author Abdurahman AbdullahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Adonis & Abbey PublishersPublisher Adonis & Abbey PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088204535Author John a HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 15mm

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...

In highlighting the role of East Africa's commercial connections to the Middle East and India during the colonial period, this book makes a major contribution to African history as part of world history. Conventional history assumes that the rise of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789873184Author E E Evans-PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

The role of the Colonial Medical Service, the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories, goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. Practising Colonial Medicine is a unique study based on original sources and...

First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shaping Ethiopian history. This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of...

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda...

When insurgent organizations factionalize and fragment, it can profoundly shape a civil war: its intensity, outcome, and duration. In this extended treatment of this complex and important phenomenon, Michael Woldemariam examines why rebel organizations...

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...

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956550149Author David WeekesFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Lavender InprintPublisher Lavender InprintWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914245381Author Massowia Von Prince (Haywood)Format PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint TSL PublicationsPublisher TSL PublicationsWeight(grams) 209g

Opens a fresh conversation on the study of the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan history by arguing that Mau Mau was a nationalist movement rather than a Kikuyu war. Through a critical examination of the Mau Mau oath used to initiate and unite fighters,...

This volume explores how the people of littoral East Africa imagined and reimagined their communities over two millennia of engagement with Indian Ocean transformations-from the settlement of Bantu speakers near the coast around the first century CE to...