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Vendor:David Renton
The Congo: Plunder and Resistance
This book traces the story of the Congo from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury across the region in the 19th century, to the Western sponsored murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 to the war that has ravaged the country since 1997. It is...- $40.95
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Vendor:David Axe
Army of God: Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa
Joseph Kony is the most dangerous guerilla leader in modern African history. It started with a visit from spirits. In 1991, Kony claimed that spiritual beings had come to him with instructions: he was to lead his group of rebels, the Lord's Resistance Army,...- $19.99
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Vendor:Mario J. Azevedo
Historical Dictionary of Chad
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.Author: Mario J. Azevedo, Samuel DecaloISBN-10: 1538114364ISBN-13: 9781538114360Publisher: Rowman...- $192.00
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Vendor:Louisa Lombard
State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins. In this first comprehensive...- $26.95
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Vendor:David Everatt
Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa
Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations...- $35.00
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Vendor:Abdurahman Abdullahi
Making Sense of Somali History: (Volume Two)
The collapse of the postcolonial Somali state in 1991 and the consequent outbreak of civil war drastically transformed the socio-political landscape in Somalia. Somalis reverted to the pre-colonial state of affairs and sought refuge in their clan attachments. Local authorities were contested by the...- $33.47
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Vendor:Abdurahman Abdullahi
Making Sense of Somali History: Volume 1
In the last three decades, Somalia has been associated with such horrible terms as 'state collapse', 'civil wars', 'foreign intervention', 'warlordism', 'famine', 'piracy' and 'terrorism'. This depiction was in contradiction to its earlier images as the cradle of the human race, the kernel of...- $32.15
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Vendor: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...- $20.99
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Vendor:Ira Dworkin
Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial...- $37.50
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Vendor:Bethany Bryan
Angola
The African nation of Angola has faced more than its share of conflict, originally colonized by Portugal in the sixteenth century and then embattled by a civil war that began in 1975 and lasted for almost thirty years. Today, Angola is a combination of...- $48.79
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Vendor:Mark D. Larabee
The Historian's Heart of Darkness: Reading Conrad's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History /]cedited by Mark D. Larabee
Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness"...- $35.00
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Vendor:Jean M. Hebert
Beyond the Open Well
Author: Jean M. HebertISBN-10: 1434373665ISBN-13: 9781434373663Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2008Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d- $17.99
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Vendor:Robert P. Jones
A Culture Worth Saving: Never too late
From an Early and Colorful Past to the Present: The People Behind Florida's Fishing Industry Florida and fishing have been synonymous since Admiral Pedro Men ndez de Avil s founded St. Augustine in 1565. He brought myriad tradesmen, including net makers and fishermen who...- $14.95
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Vendor:Kenneth Allard
Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned
Author: Kenneth AllardISBN-10: 0898758858ISBN-13: 9780898758856Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.04w x 0.42d- $24.95
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Vendor:Neil Kodesh
Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
Winner of the 2011 African Studies Association Herskovits AwardBeyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who...- $49.50
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Vendor:Rene Lemarchand
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa
Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation--most infamously...- $34.95
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Vendor:E. Sylvia Pankhurst
Ex. Italian Somaliland
Ex-Italian Somaliland describes the struggle of Somaliland under the Italian government, who encouraged traffic of slaves, evicted people from their land, and eventually used the colony as a base of aggression against Ethiopia. Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (May 5, 1882 - September 27, 1960) was...- $25.00
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Vendor:Matthew G. Stanard
Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism
Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908. For the next half century, Belgium not only ruled an African empire but also, through widespread, enduring, and eagerly...- $30.00
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Vendor:Victor Turner
Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual
The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'u), and an analysis of the system of ideas underlying more than a dozen modes of divination. Written by an internationally-known social scientist, the book demonstrates...- $37.95
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Vendor:Lee Ann Fujii
Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda
In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative...- $59.95
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Vendor:Emily Hahn
Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North
A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer when Congo Solo was published. Here - restored to the form she had intended - is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing first-hand account...- $24.95
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Vendor:Innocent Pikirayi
The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States
Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long contentious history of the remains of the remarkable cyclopean masonry, ranging from mighty capitals of traditional kings to humble farmsteads. Forming...- $61.00
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Vendor:Michael Nest
Coltan
A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or 'coltan' - an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops. Then, in 2000, reports began to leak out of Congo: of mines deep in the jungle where...- $26.95
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Vendor:Edward I. Steinhart
Conflict and Collaboration: The Kingdoms of Western Uganda, 1890-1907
Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in...- $58.00
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Vendor:W. Martin James III
A Political History of the Civil War in Angola, 1974-1990
When Portugal's colonial rule in Angola ended in 1974, three liberation groups-UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola)-agreed to a tripartite movement for the fledgling...- $52.95
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Vendor:E. D. Morel
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906
A documented and highly charged contemporary indictment of the Belgian exploitation of Africa during the height of the imperialistic age, first published in 1906 with the support of British antislavery organizations. This expose, by a horrified British investigator, of the atrocities committed against the...- $29.50
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Vendor:Howard W. French
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...- $20.00
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Vendor:D. A. Low
Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902
During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20-30 African kingdoms. In his magisterial new study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were able to dominate...- $58.99
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Vendor:Guy Vanthemsche
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980
While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have examined the repercussions of their respective empires on colonial powers such as the United...- $34.99
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Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980
While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have examined the repercussions of their respective empires on colonial powers such as the United...- $120.00
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Vendor:Johannes Fabian
Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration...- $33.95
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Vendor:David Lamb
The Africans
Author: David LambISBN-10: 0394753089ISBN-13: 9780394753089Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/1987Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d- $22.00
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Vendor:Daniel Liebowitz
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at...- $26.95
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Vendor:Herbert Ward
A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes
A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is a more complete account of his experiences in the Congo in the late nineteenth century, and was published in response...- $22.95
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Vendor:Patrick Chabal
Angola: The Weight of History
Angola is just emerging from almost three decades of civil war, and its abundant natural resources and booming oil sector could lay the groundwork for long-term economic prosperity and cement the transition towards political stability. But are these hopes realistic? Angola provides a thorough...- $55.00
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Vendor:Philip Roessler
Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict
In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. The rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500km in seven months to crush the dictatorship, heralding liberation as a second...- $27.50
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Vendor:David Birmingham
A Short History of Modern Angola
This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as...- $29.95
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Vendor:Kairn A. Klieman
The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to C. 1900 C.E.
Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. It is...- $70.00
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Vendor:Monte Reel
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm
In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins--two of which were stuffed and brought on...- $26.00
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Vendor:Tim Jeal
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
From the best-selling author of Stanley, a riveting account of the explorers who risked everything in their search for the source of the Nile Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It...- $18.50
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Vendor:Jan M. Vansina
Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa
Vansina's scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western...- $26.95
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Vendor:Samuel White Baker
Ismail?: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of
Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was a traveller and explorer. This two-volume work of 1874 is his account of a military expedition under Ismail Pasha (Ismail the Magnificent, 1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the slave-trade of central Africa between 1869 and 1873. Having...- $74.99
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Vendor:Norman P. Grubb
With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests
""With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests"" is a book written by Norman P. Grubb about the life and adventures of Charles Thomas Studd, a British missionary who dedicated his life to spreading the Christian faith in the Congo forests. The book provides a...- $30.95
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Vendor:Marla C. Berns
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationThe Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region, the Valley extends from the...- $75.00
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Vendor:Fonkem Achankeng
Porcupine in a Python's Throat: The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa
Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python's Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons' (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how the...- $120.00
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Vendor:Obi Ukwuoma
The Case For Biafra Restoration
The massacre of Igbos/Biafrans across the Northern Nigeria started way back in 1945 in Jos, where more than 150 Igbos/Biafrans were brutally slaughtered for no reason. That is about thirty-one years after the fraudulent amalgamation of Islamic north and Christian south by the British....- $15.95
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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...- $34.95
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Vendor:W. E. B. Du Bois
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
"Between the sterner flights of logic, I have sought to set some little alightings of what may be poetry. They are tributes to Beauty, unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I know not whether I mean the...- $7.00
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Vendor:Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara
This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major themes--population,...- $31.95
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Vendor:Filip Reyntjens
The Great African War
This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling...- $95.00
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