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Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971-1996 by Gretchen Bauer
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $14.58Chronicles the origins and evolution of the history of Namibia's organized labor movement. Explains how, despite the structural limitations of the Namibian economy, a colonial legacy of repression... -
Fighting the Slave Trade - West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf
Booksplease Price: $35.60This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries. This is the first book... -
ALT 6 Poetry in Africa: African Literature Today - A review by Eldred Durosimi Jones
Booksplease Price: $38.29First published in 1973, this volume of the series includes a tribute from the Editor to the poet Christopher Okigbo who died fighting in the Biafran War in 1967, and two articles on his poetry. Also... -
The James Currey Anthology by Stephen Embleton
Booksplease Price: $15.45In the spirit of James Currey, with his work bringing African writers and their stories to the world, the James Currey Anthology showcases a broad range of literary work, with contributors hailing... -
From Sharpville to Rivonia by James Currey 9780850367584
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.631959 was the year James Currey arrived in South Africa and found a nation in crisis. Hopes of change rose and foundered over the next five years. Letters and vivid conversations capture the... -
A Modern History of the Somali - Nation and State in the Horn of Africa by I. M. Lewis 9780852554838
Booksplease Price: $35.99I.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... -
Ghanaian Popular Fiction - `Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life` and Other Tales by Stephanie Newell
Booksplease Price: $38.29This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction. Stephanie Newell's book reveals the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of... -
Nkrumah and the Chiefs - Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951-1960 by Richard Rathbone
Booksplease Price: $38.29Charts the governments frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long campaigns by many southern chiefs to resist being marginalized. A study of a radical nationalist... -
Decolonising the Mind - The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780852555019
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.26A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization. 'The language of literature', Ngugi... -
A History of Malawi - 1859-1966 by John McCracken 9781847010643
Booksplease Price: $55.88WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award A distinguished scholar's magnum opus and the first full account of Malawi's colonial history. This is the first comprehensive history of... -
Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Afri - Past and Present by Mats Widgren
Booksplease Price: $38.57The East African Rift Valley is home to specialized agricultural regimes - their apparent isolation masking the degree of exchange between communities. This book reveals complex agricultural... -
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s by Stephanie Newell (Royalty Account) 9781847013835
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.15Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century. WINNER: 2025 African Literature Association Book of... -
Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies by Katherine Homewood
Booksplease Price: $41.14A synthesis of the literature on pastoralist societies, this book presents a discussion of their importance for African societies. This is an important and informative work by one of the... -
African Futures in the Making by Prof Dr Detlef Muller-Mahn 9781847014870
Booksplease Price: $35.60What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages? ... -
Comrade Power! Student Activism and the Kenyan State, c. 1978-2002 by Luke Melchiorre 9781847013590
Booksplease Price: $105.46Analysis of one of the most influential and powerful student movements in all of sub-Saharan Africa and its impact on transition in the postcolonial state. During the late-1980s, waves of... -
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction: African Literature Today by Ernest N Emenyonu 9781847011855
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.96PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression... -
A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder by Dr Grace A Musila 9781847011374
Booksplease Price: $22.12PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and... -
Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria Professor Ebenezer Obadare (Customer) 9781580465519
Booksplease Price: $123.98An important contribution to the debate on forms of civil society in Africa and elsewhere, and to the global literature on dissent. In Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria, Ebenezer... -
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories Cheryl S. Ntumy 9781835626405
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.20Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauutiverse, following the success of Mothersound:...