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  • Hopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Ed by Ahimbisibwe, Asa
    Asa Ahimbisibwe

    Hopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Ed

    Hopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them, overcomes the challenges of poverty and cultural barriers with the help of his uneducated parents, who decided to do something that...
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  • When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland by Phillips, Sarah G.
    Sarah G. Phillips

    When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland

    For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by it. Sarah G. Phillips's When There Was No Aid offers us one such example.Using...
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  • The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 by Schoenbrun, David L.
    David L. Schoenbrun

    The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930

    Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork-the imaginative labor that people...
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  • France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa by Powell, Nathaniel K.
    Nathaniel K. Powell

    France's Wars in Chad

    Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of Fran ois Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene....
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  • Bantu Africa: 3500 Bce to Present by Fourshey, Catherine Cymone
    Catherine Cymone Fourshey

    Bantu Africa: 3500 Bce to Present

    Combining history, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics, Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present, synthesizes current scholarship on one of the most important cultural zones in world history--an area larger than the United States--whose traditions span several thousand years. The authors show how Bantu cultural ideas...
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  • Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition) by Phillips, Barnaby
    Barnaby Phillips

    Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition)

    A tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of art A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.' Evening Standard '[A] valuable guide...
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  • Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola by Coghe, Samuël
    Samu? Coghe

    Population Politics in the Tropics

    Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samu? Coghe sheds new light on the history...
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  • Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II by Williams, Susan
    Susan Williams

    Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II

    In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb -- and to make sure nobody saw them doing it Albert Einstein told President...
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  • The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Meredith, Martin
    Martin Meredith

    The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence

    The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism -- from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid. The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece....The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a...
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  • African Women by Romero, Patricia W.
    Patricia W. Romero

    African Women

    African women have made history as doctors, merchants, slaves, prostitutes, and religious leaders. In this survey of the roles women have played in sub-Saharan Africa, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the elected presidents of contemporary Liberia and Malawi, Romero discusses education...
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  • Katanga 1960-63: Mercenaries, Spies and the African Nation That Waged War on the World by Othen, Christopher
    Christopher Othen

    Katanga 1960-63: Mercenaries, Spies and the African Nation That Waged War on the World

    In King Leopold II's infamous Congo 'Free' State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But the Belgians don't seem to have a sense of historical shame, as they connived for an independent Katanga state in 1960 to...
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  • Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City by de de Boeck, Filip
    Filip de Boeck

    Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City

    In this internationally acclaimed book, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Fran輟ise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination...
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  • Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith The Debunking of a Myth by Goodson, Stephen Mitford
    Stephen Mitford Goodson

    Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith The Debunking of a Myth

    Fifty years ago Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith and the Rhodesian Front party declared independence from Great Britain unilaterally. A decision which was viewed at that time as being both brave and foolish, it gave Rhodesians of all races seven years of peace and...
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  • Rhodesia-beginning to end by Ahlgren, M.
    M. Ahlgren

    Rhodesia-beginning to end

    Rhodesia--beginning to end is a historical trek seen through the eyes of the white pioneers who tamed the wilderness of what is now Zimbabwe and whose descendants struggled for life amidst African rebellion. A fascinating, fact-filled read, this book transports its audience to a...
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  • Dragon Rouge: The Rescue of Hostages in the Congo by Wagoner, Fred E.
    Fred E. Wagoner

    Dragon Rouge: The Rescue of Hostages in the Congo

    International terrorism and the seizure of hostages for political purposes have become all too familiar events in Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe, England - no area seems to be immune - innocent civilians are being seized and held by those wishing to achieve...
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  • Archaeological Survey and Excavations at Mikindani, Southern Tanzania: Finding Their Place in the Swahili World by Pawlowicz, Matthew
    Matthew Pawlowicz

    Archaeological Survey and Excavations at Mikindani, Southern Tanzania: Finding Their Place in the Swahili World

    Large-scale networks of interaction and exchange have existed on the East African Swahili coast for at least the past two millennia, linking coastal populations with South Asia, the Middle East and the African Interior. The connections coastal inhabitants nurtured along those networks were crucial...
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  • Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda by Barnett, Michael
    Michael Barnett

    Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda

    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 the UN's involvement...
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  • Interesting History of Lagos [Nigeria] by Stehr, Emily
    Emily Stehr

    Interesting History of Lagos [Nigeria]

    Interesting History of Lagos Nigeria] Definition of Lagos "1. The former capital and chief port of Nigeria, on the Bight of Benin: first settled in the sixteenth century; a slave market until the nineteenth century; ceded to Britain (1861); university (1962). Population: 11,135,000 (2005...
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  • The Bahutu Manifesto by Horvath, Anthony
    Anthony Horvath

    The Bahutu Manifesto

    The Bahutu Manifesto was penned at a volatile moment in the history of Rwanda. Though the genocide of the 1990s was still far off, the Manifesto reveals that the seeds were already sown. In 1957, the Hutus were enjoying a reversal of fortune at...
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  • John Wesley Haley and Building the Indigenous Church: Reflections on Self-Determination in Twentieth Century Burundi by McCready, John
    John McCready

    John Wesley Haley and Building the Indigenous Church: Reflections on Self-Determination in Twentieth Century Burundi

    A relatively unknown Canadian Free Methodist minister, J. W. Haley (1878-1951) served, along with his family, as a church-planter and pastor in Saskatchewan and Ontario as well as a missionary in Mozambique and South Africa (1902-1934); finally initiating new ministry in Burundi and Rwanda...
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  • Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic by Lombard, Louisa
    Louisa Lombard

    Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic

    Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate freely. In this first ethnographic and historical study of Central African raiding, Louisa Lombard...
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  • Prisoner without a Crime. Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon by Mukong, Albert
    Albert Mukong

    Prisoner without a Crime. Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon

    Doughty human rights crusader, Albert Mukong was incarcerated for six years in some of Cameroon's worst detention centres under the despotic regime of late President Amadou Ahidjo. This book details his personal account of the discipline and punishment that the Cameroonian state has systematically...
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  • Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt by Larmer, Miles
    Miles Larmer

    Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt

    Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the...
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  • Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience by Močnik, Nena
    Nena Močnik

    Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience

    This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective 'experiential learning' strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination. All chapters revolve...
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  • Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo by Janzen, John M.
    John M. Janzen

    Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

    Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into...
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  • Congo Etiquette: Traditional Food In The Congo: Baptist Mission Schools by McNuh, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel McNuh

    Congo Etiquette: Traditional Food In The Congo: Baptist Mission Schools

    The book presents knowledge of the Congolese traditions.Th book is the beautifully told story of the young son of a Congolese Bambole Chief growing up in the Congo of the 1930s and 40s. Born into Bambole Tradition but drawn to the incoming Baptist Mission,...
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  • A Far-Away War: Angola, 1975-1989 by Liebenberg, Ian
    Ian Liebenberg

    A Far-Away War: Angola, 1975-1989

    South Africa's armed forces invaded Angola in 1975, setting off a war that had consequences for the whole region that are still felt today.A Far-Away War contributes to a wider understanding of this war in Angola and Namibia. The book does not only look...
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  • Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War by Talmasse, Gaspard
    Gaspard Talmasse

    Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War

    The true odyssey of a young child, Alice Cyuzuzo, as she traverses the roads of Zaire to seek refuge from the civil war that has struck her native Rwanda. Gitarama, the Southern Province of Rwanda, 1994. Five-year-old Alice enjoys a peaceful childhood with her...
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  • Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by Cruvellier, Thierry
    Thierry Cruvellier

    Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

    When genocidal violence gripped Rwanda in 1994, the international community recoiled, hastily withdrawing its peacekeepers. Late that year, in an effort to redeem itself, the United Nations Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to seek accountability for some of the worst...
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  • The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding by Autesserre, Séverine
    S騅erine Autesserre

    The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding

    The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic...
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  • The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda by Newbury, David
    David Newbury

    The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda

    The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case studies presented in The Land Beyond the Mists illustrate...
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  • Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery by Besteman, Catherine
    Catherine Besteman

    Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

    In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight...
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  • The Black Madonna: Mysterious Soul Companion by Georgieff, Stephanie
    Stephanie Georgieff

    The Black Madonna: Mysterious Soul Companion

    The Black Madonna, Mysterious Soul Companion. . . Beginning as a research project for a graduate class in Spirituality and Culture, The Black Madonna and all that she represents became a mystical guide for Georgieff on her intimate journey of the human soul. Through...
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  • Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970 by Ardener, Edwin
    Edwin Ardener

    Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

    The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples,...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Mozambique by Darch, Colin
    Colin Darch

    Historical Dictionary of Mozambique

    The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the...
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  • Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place by Eichstaedt, Peter H.
    Peter H. Eichstaedt

    Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place

    Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. Rich in "conflict minerals"--valuable resources mined in the midst of armed...
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  • The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria by Matera, Marc
    Marc Matera

    The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria

    In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its...
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  • Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History by Gordon, David M.
    David M. Gordon

    Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History

    Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in...
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  • Revolution in Zanzibar by Petterson, Don
    Donald Petterson

    Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

    The Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a strange, messianic Ugandan, Cuban-trained factions headed the rebels, making Zanzibar (in the eyes of Washington) a potentially cancerous base for the communist subversion of...
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  • Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba by Gerard, Emmanuel
    Emmanuel Gerard

    Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba

    More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people--black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and...
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  • A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique by Finnegan, William
    William Finnegan

    A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

    Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique-a naturally rich country-into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African...
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  • Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta
    Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

    Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book...
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  • Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 by Ndanyi, Samson Kaunga
    Samson Kaunga Ndanyi

    Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963

    In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition by Idrissa, Rahmane
    Rahmane Idrissa

    Historical Dictionary of Niger

    Niger is a crossroad, the gate to the outside for West Africans, and the port of entry into West Africa for cross-Saharan tidings and travelers. It remained for centuries the largely uncontrolled periphery of the large empires of the western Sudan and the market...
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  • Operation Restore Hope: Us Military Intervention in Somalia and the Battle of Mogadishu, 1992-1994 by Baxter, Peter
    Peter Baxter

    Operation Restore Hope: Us Military Intervention in Somalia and the Battle of Mogadishu, 1992-1994

    The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the...
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  • Mozambique Mysteries by St Aubin de Teran, Lisa
    Lisa St Aubin de Teran

    Mozambique Mysteries

    MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Teran travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the...
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  • The Doctor Who Would Be King by Lachenal, Guillaume
    Guillaume Lachenal

    The Doctor Who Would Be King

    In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David--whom locals called "emperor"--dreamed of establishing a medical...
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  • Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics by Larres, Klaus
    Klaus Larres

    Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics

    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six...
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  • Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums: Black Skin, Black Masks by Mullins, P. a.
    P. a. Mullins

    Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums: Black Skin, Black Masks

    This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in American Museums explores black...
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  • Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future by Lee, Sabine
    Sabine Lee

    Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future

    This volume presents research from an international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral research project in which 15 doctoral researchers explored a range of issues related to the life-course experiences of children born of war in 20th-century conflicts. Children Born of War (CBOW), children fathered by foreign...
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