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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...
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  • Lunda Under Belgian Rule by Bustin, Edouard
    Edouard Bustin

    Lunda Under Belgian Rule: The Politics of Ethnicity

    No detailed description available for "Lunda Under Belgian Rule".Author: Edouard BustinISBN-10: 0674731867ISBN-13: 9780674731868Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1975Pages: 317Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
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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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  • A History of South and Central Africa by Wilson, Derek
    Derek Wilson

    A History of South and Central Africa

    This is a history of Africa south of the Congo Forest from about A.D. 1000 to the era of the establishment of independent modern states. Most textbooks on African history are dominated by modern political boundaries that, of course, have no ethnic or geographical...
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  • Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa by Maier, Karl
    Karl Maier

    Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa

    Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . . INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS ""Rich . . . fascinating."" --The New York Times Book Review ""A master of eyewitness description and of the telling interview, [Maier]...
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  • Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Sacks, Ruth
    Ruth Sacks

    Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

    Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Za?e. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious...
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  • Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium by Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe
    Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

    Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium

    Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic...
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  • Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007 by Cobley, Alan
    Alan Cobley

    Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007

    This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference "Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007", a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire. The papers interrogate and problematize shifting notions...
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  • After All Was Lost: The Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on April 6, 1994 When the Rwandan President's Plane Was Shot Down by Swinnen, Johan
    Johan Swinnen

    After All Was Lost: The Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on April 6, 1994 When the Rwandan President's Plane Was Shot Down

    When the Chief of Staff of Rwanda's Army was assassinated after the invasion of the country, civil war and then genocide, his widow and their six children found ways to overcome the rupture of their family-- and their country. This is their story. Major-General...
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  • Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Monaville, Pedro
    Pedro Monaville

    Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

    On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later...
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  • Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa by Braun, Lesley Nicole
    Lesley Nicole Braun

    Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa

    Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be...
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  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction by Philpot, Robin
    Robin Philpot

    Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu g nocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million...
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  • The Co-Opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate by Gendron, Sarah
    Sarah Gendron

    The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate

    The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate is a study of the ways in which various extremist groups have appropriated education for social manipulation in order to gain political power, and, in some cases, to incite violence. It is a detailed exploration...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building by Jian, Chen
    Chen Jian

    The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building

    'This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that...
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  • The African Slave Trade and Cannibalism: This is a true story! by Grave, E. J.
    E. J. Grave

    The African Slave Trade and Cannibalism: This is a true story!

    This is a true story. You will be horrified by the cruelty. In 1865 the United States abolished the horror of slavery. No longer would a human being in America be considered chattel to be bought and sold at will. However, years later, the...
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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

    The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic.Author: Louisa LombardISBN-10: 1108746187ISBN-13: 9781108746182Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2022Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
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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

    Author: Nathaniel K. PowellISBN-10: 1108738621ISBN-13: 9781108738620Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
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  • France in Centrafrique: From Bokassa and Operation Barracude to the Days of Eufor by Baxter, Peter
    Peter Baxter

    France in Centrafrique: From Bokassa and Operation Barracude to the Days of Eufor

    France in Centrafrique explores the early colonial and post-colonial history of French Equatorial Africa with a particular emphasis on the role of the Central African Republic in the Second World War and the Free French Movement. One of the key figures to emerge from...
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  • The South African Defence Forces in the Border War 1966-1989 by Scholtz, Leopold
    Leopold Scholtz

    The South African Defence Forces in the Border War 1966-1989

    The SADF in the Border War 1966-1989 offers the first comprehensive analysis of the South African Defense Force's role in the Border War in Namibia and Angola since the end of this conflict in 1989. It investigates the causes of the Border War and...
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  • Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon by Walker-Said, Charlotte
    Charlotte Walker-Said

    Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon

    Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions An innovative study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1939. Between the two...
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  • Patrice Lumumba - Ahead of His Time by Mumbata, Didier Ndongala
    Didier Ndongala Mumbata

    Patrice Lumumba - Ahead of His Time

    Europeans and Americans, and especially Western students, know very little, if anything, about Africa and its extraordinary political leaders. At the Institute of Political Science, in the political leadership courses, the focus is on the great political leaders who shaped world history, such as...
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