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  • Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil by Kubik, Gerhard
    Gerhard Kubik

    Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

    The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma...
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  • Mythos: The Prescient Kings by Todd, D. Baxter
    D. Baxter Todd

    Mythos: The Prescient Kings

    Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as "Pre-History" were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the "Age of Man". Throughout the ages, through...
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  • Five Years with the Congo Cannibals by Ward, Herbert
    Herbert Ward

    Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

    The dramatic first-hand account of the establishment of the Congo Free State, a private colony set up under King Leopold of Belgium to stamp out the Arab slave trade in central Africa, written by a participant in the wars and adventures of the 1890s...
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  • Can't Let Go by Tshibangu, M. D. Raphael
    M. D. Raphael Tshibangu

    Can't Let Go

    Can't Let Go is much more than a tale of rags to riches or the recounting of an immigrant's trials and tribulations. It is not just another rendition of the struggles of belonging-as a newcomer in an unfamiliar land or as a stranger in...
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  • A Different Kind of War Story by Nordstrom, Carolyn
    Carolyn Nordstrom

    A Different Kind of War Story

    A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives--mostly civilian--and completely destroyed homes, crops, hospitals, schools, and...
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  • Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda by Fujii, Lee Ann
    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...
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  • Revolution in the Congo by Roberts, Dick
    Dick Roberts

    Revolution in the Congo Rev/E

    Describes the 1960 victory of Congolese peasants and workers, led by Patrice Lumumba, against Belgian colonial rule. And the role, under United Nations cover, of Washington, Brussels, and other imperialist powers in the overthrow and assassination of Lumumba. Written as the struggles for freedom...
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  • Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 by Terretta, Meredith
    Meredith Terretta

    Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960

    Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalists' petitions to the United...
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  • A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce by Copnall, James
    James Copnall

    A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

    What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was...
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  • The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History by Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges
    Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

    The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful...
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  • Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie Volume 2 by Walker, Bruce
    Bruce Walker

    Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie Volume 2

    The evil of Sinisterism, the Secular Religion of the Lie, is incompatible with the Judeo- Christian moral and philosophical system. One consequence of this is that Sinisterists try to persuade us that history shows the wrongness of Judeo-Christianity. In fact, real history, which is...
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  • Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: Case Studies from a Pandemic Context by Mare, Admire
    Admire Mare

    Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: Case Studies from a Pandemic Context

    This book critically examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated digital innovation within higher education using case studies from Africa. Imagining a future for post-pandemic higher education, it analyses the challenges and opportunities of remote teaching and learning. The book explores the structural barriers...
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  • The Cushite, Or, The Descendants Of Ham by Perry, Rufus Lewis
    Rufus Lewis Perry

    The Cushite, Or, The Descendants Of Ham

    "Perry is a splendid type of the Negro genius." -Men of Mark (1887) "Perry is considered one of the best scholars the negro race has produced." -Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia (1896) "Perry is able to offer hope for modern Cushites in the prophesied moment when...
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  • The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Stearns, Jason K.
    Jason K. Stearns

    The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo

    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"--a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power...
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  • Five Years with the Congo Cannibals by Ward, Herbert
    Herbert Ward

    Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

    The dramatic first-hand account of the establishment of the Congo Free State, a private colony set up under King Leopold of Belgium to stamp out the Arab slave trade in central Africa, written by a participant in the wars and adventures of the 1890s...
    $23.95
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  • Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa by Lee, Christopher J.
    Christopher J. Lee

    Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa

    In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa--contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia--from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum...
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  • Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928: 1868-1928 by Twaddle, Michael
    Michael Twaddle

    Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928: 1868-1928

    This is a history of the early days of Uganda. The account has an African focus because it shows the British takeover through the experiences of an extraordinary leader. "At this spot in the year 1901 the British flag was first hoisted by Semei...
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  • The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa by Parsons, Timothy H.
    Timothy H. Parsons

    The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

    This book provides a new concept framework for understanding the factors that lead soldiers to challenge civil authority in developing nations. By exploring the causes and effects of the 1964 East African army mutinies, it provides novel insights into the nature of institutional violence,...
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  • The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba by Yabili, Marcel
    Marcel Yabili

    The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba

    Congo's past is painted as a gallery of horrors! Looting of King Leopold, a precursor to Hitler and Stalin! Holocaust, hands cut off, whipping, red rubber, forced labour, etc. In fact, all these atrocities have been fueled by interested foreigners.For the first time, a...
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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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  • Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? by Cox, John
    John Cox

    Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?

    Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a comparative overview and analysis of this problem. Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? is a resource for understanding and...
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  • Mau Mau Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Mau Mau Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End

    Discover the remarkable history of the Mau Mau Rebellion...The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With...
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  • Basel Mission Education in Cameroon: 1886-1968 by Gwanfogbe, Mathew B.
    Mathew B. Gwanfogbe

    Basel Mission Education in Cameroon: 1886-1968

    This volume examines the relationships between the German colonial administration, the Basel Mission, the British Baptist Missionary Society and other missionary societies that characterized the setting up of Basel Mission education in Cameroon against the backdrop of intense rivalry. Spanning a period of 82...
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  • In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution by Franck, Alice
    Alice Franck

    In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution

    Focusing on Greater Khartoum following South Sudanese independence in 2011, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum explores the impact on society of major political events in areas that are neither urban nor rural, public nor private. This volume uses these in-between spaces as a lens to...
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  • A History of East Africa, 1592-1902 by Beachey, R. W.
    R. W. Beachey

    A History of East Africa, 1592-1902

    Covering a vital period in the history and development of East Africa this narrative history of the vast region explores the diverse cultural influences of the Arab peoples who traded with East Africa and settled there, Portuguese traders who arrived from the late 17th...
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  • Command Influence: A Story of Korea and the Politics of Injustice by Shaines, Robert A.
    Robert A. Shaines

    Command Influence: A Story of Korea and the Politics of Injustice

    A true story that reads like a novel set in war torn South Korea. This book reflects the best and the worst of our military and shows how political motives can impact those in command of the military. It exemplifies the expendability of the...
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  • Finland and National Liberation in Southern Africa by Soiri, Iina
    Iina Soiri

    Finland and National Liberation in Southern Africa

    Finland's special characteristics as a Nordic, non-aligned welfare state gave it the resources and motivation to support liberation movements - in spite of restrictions arising from trade interests and a reluctance to jeopardise the country's neutral image. The study shows that, although it is...
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  • Command Influence: A Story of Korea and the Politics of Injustice by Shaines, Robert A.
    Robert A. Shaines

    Command Influence: A Story of Korea and the Politics of Injustice

    A true story that reads like a novel set in war torn South Korea. This book reflects the best and the worst of our military and shows how political motives can impact those in command of the military. It exemplifies the expendability of the...
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  • The Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, 1962-2012 by Pantin, Shane J.
    Shane J. Pantin

    The Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, 1962-2012

    In 2012, the Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, a milestone it shared with the national and regional community, as both Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica celebrated their fiftieth year of...
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  • Nyerere: The Early Years by Molony, Thomas
    Thomas Molony

    Nyerere: The Early Years

    A uniquely detailed portrayal of the formative years of Tanzania's first president and the influences that led him to enter politics. Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999), the first President of Tanzania, was a man whose political life was uniquely and inextricably bound into the history...
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  • Democratisation in the Dr Congo from Joseph Mobutu to Joseph Kabila: A Modelled Exploration by Katulondi, Hubert Kabasu Babu
    Hubert Kabasu Babu Katulondi

    Democratisation in the Dr Congo from Joseph Mobutu to Joseph Kabila: A Modelled Exploration

    The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced one of the most complex, meandering, and uncertain democratisation processes in Africa. In 2016 the third cycle of elections was not organised. The Presidential Majority (M.P) was accused of concocting an amendment of the constitution aimed...
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  • The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, History, Africa by Doyle, Arthur Conan
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, History, Africa

    Two of the reformers who led the effort to stop the carnage in Africa were Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement, upon whom Conan Doyle based the characters of Edward Malone and Lord John Roxton in The Lost World. Although these two were later...
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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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  • 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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  • The life of a Congolese in the last Century in the Democratic Republic of Congo(1921-1990) by Muamba, Ina Disengomoka
    Ina Disengomoka Muamba

    The life of a Congolese in the last Century in the Democratic Republic of Congo(1921-1990)

    The book tells the true storie in the Lower -Congo in the last century . While the majority of the territory assigned to the Belgian colonial power at the Berlin Conference in 1877, is still unexplored, born in 1921 in the village of Luvituku...
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  • Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Kisangani, Emizet Francois
    Emizet Francois Kisangani

    Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    This book looks at 55 years of independence, over eight decades of colonial rule, and earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the Congolese territory. This fourth edition highlights new developments and the increasing importance of the DRC in the Great Lakes Region and Africa,...
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  • Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty.: A Comprehensive Compilation of Efforts. Vol by Ayim, Martin Ayong
    Martin Ayong Ayim

    Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty.: A Comprehensive Compilation of Efforts. Vol

    Strong Pre-Plebiscite Position of British Southern Cameroons Leaders The two leaders (Endeley and Foncha, Former and current Prime Ministers) accepted completely dropping the idea of joining Nigeria or Cameroon, simply requesting of the British administering authority the granting of independence to the Southern Cameroons...
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  • From a Sparrow to a Storm: The untold story of the Watts Baby; arrested and imprisoned 48 hours before the revolt known as the 1965 Watts Riots. by Bissett, Reverend Elizabeth
    Reverend Elizabeth Bissett

    From a Sparrow to a Storm: The untold story of the Watts Baby; arrested and imprisoned 48 hours before the revolt known as the 1965 Watts Riots.

    What ever happened to the Watts babies of 1965? From a Sparrow to a Storm is an expose of the events, people, and social pressures that contributed to the Watts revolt of 1965. It is a poignant biography written with such transparency, compelling readers...
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  • Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro: An Historical Account of German Settlers from Palestine Who Started a New Life in German East Africa During the Late by Glenk, Helmut
    Helmut Glenk

    Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro: An Historical Account of German Settlers from Palestine Who Started a New Life in German East Africa During the Late

    Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro covers the period from the establishment of the former colony of German East Africa in the late 19th century until the formation of the independent State of Tanganyika in 1961. The book focuses on a small group of German settlers...
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  • The Death of Dag Hammarskjöld: How the Cold War Turned an Accident into an Assassination by Hammarberg, Sven E.
    Sven E. Hammarberg

    The Death of Dag Hammarskjd: How the Cold War Turned an Accident into an Assassination

    In September 1961, a plane crash killed arguably the second most important man in the world, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjd. For the past sixty years, they have touted this accident as resulting from foul play. In the 1962 investigations, they ruled out the statements...
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  • Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives by Cook, Susan E.
    Susan E. Cook

    Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives

    This volume deals with aspects of genocide in Rwandaand Cambodia that have been largely unexplored to date, including the impact of regional politics and the role played by social institutions in perpetrating genocide. Although the "story" of the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and that...
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  • Blacksmiths of Ilamba: A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century) by Alfagali, Crislayne
    Crislayne Alfagali

    Blacksmiths of Ilamba: A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century)

    This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the...
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  • Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions: The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862-1905 by Cheriau, Raphaël
    Rapha? Cheriau

    Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions: The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862-1905

    In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism...
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  • Evoking Speech in the Deaf: A History of the Montfort College for Special Needs Education and the FIC Brothers in Malawi by Mumba, Vita
    Vita Mumba

    Evoking Speech in the Deaf: A History of the Montfort College for Special Needs Education and the FIC Brothers in Malawi

    In 1969 the Brothers of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary (FIC Brothers) set out to teach deaf children so that they could take their rightful place in society. This book shows the history of the Training of Teachers for the Hearing...
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  • Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation by Harshé, Rajen
    Rajen Harshé

    Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation

    Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond Euro-American perspectives, this book presents...
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  • How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 by Vansina, Jan
    Jan Vansina

    How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600

    Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?Jan Vansina continues...
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  • Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation by Gerard-Libois, Jules
    Jules Gerard-Libois

    Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation

    This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time that they are available in French with an English introduction. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology...
    $92.00
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  • Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation by Gerard-Libois, Jules
    Jules Gerard-Libois

    Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation

    This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels consists of official statements and memoranda, proceedings of conferences, etc. In French, with an English introduction by Herbert Weiss. Originally published in 1967....
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  • Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora by Heywood, Linda M.
    Linda Marinda Heywood

    Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

    This volume sets out a new paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to...
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  • Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda by Longman, Timothy
    Timothy Longman

    Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

    Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then...
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