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Reincarnation is a focus of much debate in modern African thought. In this challenging study, Majeed rejects the denial of the existence of reincarnation in African thought by reference to Akan culture. However, he makes a clear distinction between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645279914Author Kristine SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Jump! IncorporatedWeight(grams) 230g

In this engaging study of African diplomacy, Nigerian scholar Nwankwo Nwaeziegwe revisits the issue of cooperation between Arab nationalist governments and the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. The book clinically explores the proper bases, character, and...

In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of a work first published in 1994, many of the entries have been expanded or entirely rewritten, and the entries have increased in number from 2,000 to more than 2,500. Each placename's entry identifies...

To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a...

This book relates a series of events leading from Kenya's colonization through its emergence as an independent country. Beginning with the advent of Europeans in the late 1800s, it presents Kenya as a land of contrasts--in geography as well as people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932415974Author Amare TekleFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 291g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213887Author Taniya LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 305g

This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569020890Author Herbert LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026540Author Tarik ElhaddFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213146Author Ntongela MasilelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436145Author Tracy D SnipeFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026601Author Francis Mading DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438149Author Bhekizizwe PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 459g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865430648Author Koigi wa WamwereFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 260g

The letter-books of the Royal African Company of England, which have never previously been printed, cover the period 1681-1699. The original texts are being published in full, with extensive explanatory commentary, in three or four volumes. This second...

A product of international collaborative research, this collection of essays by scholars from Japan, North America and Europe illuminates the many important ways in which mobilization for total war in the 1930s and early-1940s laid the foundation for...

Africa's Past, Our Future engages the history of the African continent through the perspective of global issues such as political instability, economic development, and climate change. Since the past may offer alternative models for thinking about our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197769331Author Haggai ErlichFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197758427Author Sara ByalaFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 149mm * 34mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447056076Author Siegbert UhligFormat HardbackPage Count 1211Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1106g

This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art)...

The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined...

Ibadan market women were active in political mobilization and they engaged in eclectic political actions during the decolonization process. Their leaders significantly swayed the electorate both in and beyond the market places. This study examines the...

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa-often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes-shaped widespread myths about the...

With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until...

Begun more than a decade ago while their author taught at the Ethiopian National University, this study examines the development of the institutions of higher education and the roles they played in transforming traditional Ethiopian society.Wagaw sets...

The Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through six individual life histories that extend from the early colonial years through the first decade after independence. Taken together,...

In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism...

In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral,...

The Denver African Expedition of 1925 sought “the cradle of Humanity.” The explorers returned claiming to have found the “Missing Link” in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari—and they proceeded to market this image. As Robert J. Gordon shows in Picturing...

This book explores the political history of Liberia and its descent to civil war, the regional ramifications of the war, and conflict intervention and peacekeeping efforts. It also examines the problems, challenges, and opportunities of post-war...

Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. While most other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket...

Troubled Journey: Nigeria Since the Civil War is the latest of a number of case-study probes into Nigeria's unique experience as a modern African state. It pulls together a talented group of Nigerian historians who have been close students of Nigeria's...

This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800. The last two centuries have been a time of enormous change on the continent, and these life stories show how...

W.E.B. Du Bois shaped 20th century America to an extent rivaled by few others. The first black to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard, he helped create the discipline of sociology and was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of...

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them against uncritical use of such evidence. In an attempt to determine how much historians can learn about the...

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them against uncritical use of such evidence. In an attempt to determine how much historians can learn about the...

This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the point of view of Western scholarship. The book aims, in Professor Laroui's words, "to give from within a...