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A study of the contribution made by Christian missionaries to the formation of Northern Rhodesia based on firsthand information and study by the author, who has visited nearly every mission station in Northern Rhodesia, consulted missionary diaries,...

Photographers and their images were critical to the making of Mozambique, first as a colony of Portugal and then as independent nation at war with apartheid in South Africa. When the Mozambique Liberation Front came to power, it invested substantial...

In 1980 the ZANU/PF government of Robert Mugabe came to power after an extended war of liberation. They inherited a cluster of emergency laws similar to those available to the authorities in South Africa. It was also the beginning of the cynical South...

In 1980 the ZANU/PF government of Robert Mugabe came to power after an extended war of liberation. They inherited a cluster of emergency laws similar to those available to the authorities in South Africa. It was also the beginning of the cynical South...

This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the...

Jan Christian Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Woodrow Wilson was inspired by his ideas on the League and borrowed heavily from them, including the mandates scheme, whereby South Africa took responsibility...

Between the last centuries BC and the early second millennium AD, central southern Africa witnessed massive social change. Several landscapes hosted a variety of socio-political developments that led to the establishment of state-level society at...

For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the...

Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283346Author Teun BaartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required medical attention during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683056195Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

WINNER SAfA BOOK PRIZE 2023 The first full-length examination of the archaeology and history of the Namib Desert. This is a story of human survival over the last one million years in the Namib Desert - one of the most hostile environments on Earth...

Morgan Tsvangirai's dramatic political battle with Zimbabwe's dictatorial monolith Robert Mugabe stands as one of the most intriguing and important world events of recent times--this is his autobiography From village life as the son of a humble carpenter...

On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957050808Author Claude BoucherFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kungoni Centre of Culture and ArtPublisher Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art

Remembering the rebellion narrates and commemorates the Zulu or Bhambatha rebellion of 1906 with riveting anecdotes, maps and illustrations, many of them previously unpublished. The people of KwaZulu-Natal, already suffering the material and social...

Diamonds have long been bloody. A new history shows how Germany's ruthless African empire brought diamond rings to retail display cases in America-at the cost of African lives.Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds"...

Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now...

By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka...

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South-West Africa and is today the nation of...

Analysis of the political history of Zambia through a study of Michael Sata. It shows the interaction between party politics and populism since the 1950s, the nature and competitiveness of electoral politics in single or dominant party regimes, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789982240901Author Mick BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Gadsden PublishersPublisher Gadsden PublishersWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913713621Author Matiwaza NcubeFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Malaba PublishersPublisher Malaba PublishersWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995362826Author Alan P LandauFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Alandau P/LPublisher Alandau P/LWeight(grams) 408g

In 1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used his office to act on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733423717Author Jonathan MaphendukaFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Kiye MediaPublisher Kiye MediaWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957083745Author Eugen MansfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Jeppestown PressPublisher Jeppestown PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899155996Author David Ivon JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Praxis PressPublisher Praxis PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665584289Author Miguel JuniorFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects brings the victories and the tragedies-and the full extent of the human drama behind this war-to life through 100 iconic artefacts. While a Mafeking siege note helps to illustrate the acute shortages caused by the...

On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as...

The Battle of Spion Kop was fought during the campaign to relieve Ladysmith, South Africa, and was the single bloodiest episode in the campaign, as well as a harbinger of the bitter and desperate fighting still to come in the Second Boer War. Spion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906927121Author Tycho Van Der HoogFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika BibliographienWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789991642093Author Reinhart KoesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Univ. of Namibia PressPublisher Univ. of Namibia PressWeight(grams)...

No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale.In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789990887778Author Kings M. PhiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Kachere SeriesPublisher Kachere SeriesWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797492509Author Pathisa NyathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Amagugu PublishersPublisher Amagugu PublishersWeight(grams) 286g