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Stanley: Dark Genius of African Exploration
by Frank Mclynn
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The celebrated African explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley was one of the most fascinating of the late-Victorian adventurers. Born into poverty and illegitimacy, he survived a series of incredible adventures at sea and in the U.S., emerging as a talented... ( read more)
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Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990
by Claire C Robertson
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This volume is a meticulously executed and written study of women, men, and trade in the Nairobi area from 1890 to 1990.... ( read more)
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Asante Catholicism: Religious & Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana
by P Obeng
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"Asante Catholicism focuses on the interaction between post-conciliar Roman Catholicism and Asante religion of Ghana, with its implications for self-definition and cultural renewal. It begins by exploring Asante cultural history, and depicting how their... ( read more)
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Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa
by Padraig Omalley
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The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, told through the experiences of its unsung hero The struggle in South Africa to destroy apartheid was one of the great moral crusades of the last century, and Mac Maharaj played a pivotal role... ( read more)
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Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity
by Peter Schwab
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Africa continues to be headline news, and this book makes a provocative statement about the cause of the current situation.... ( read more)
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Emma's War
by Deborah Scroggins
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Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine... ( read more)
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The Making of an Islamic Political Leader: Conversations with Hasan Al-Turabi
by Mohamed E Hamdi
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Hasan al-Turabi of Sudan has been one of the most influential figures within political Islam over the past thirty years, having played a formative role in the successful reforms put forth by the Muslim Brotherhood and, more recently, by the Islamic... ( read more)
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The Eye of the Moon
by Shelley Davidow
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Judith Barrington describes The Eye of the Moon as dense with fragrance, eroticism, and the poetry of recalled passion. This memoir is at once an exploration of love, identity and heartbreak against the backdrop of the changing political face of southern... ( read more)
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Warrior Chiefs of South Africa
by Ian J Knight
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Meet Shaka of the Zulu, Maqoma of the Xhosa, Mzililkazi of the Matabele, Moshoeshoe of the Basotho.... ( read more)
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Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902
by Bill Nasson
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The South African War 1899-1902 is no longer treated as 'a white man's war' by historians. Black South Africans were drawn into service by both sides, and the war affected the black communities in a variety of complex ways. Dr Nasson has written a... ( read more)
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Medicine and Society #10: Imperial Bedlam
by Jonathan Sadowsky
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The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that... ( read more)
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Telecommunications in Africa (Global Communications Series)
by Eli M Noam
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A modern telecommunications network is an essential infrastructure for the world's developing nations. The emergence of new technologies, the entrance of supra-national carriers, and deregulation in the telecommunications sector have resulted in the... ( read more)
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Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
by Scott Peterson
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"Peterson melds his eyewitness accounts with considerable research. His reporting is fresh with colorful observation.it makes for powerful reading."-Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down"<BR> As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed... ( read more)
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In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
by Kwame Anthon Appiah
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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the... ( read more)
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National Army Museum Book of the Boer Wa
by Lord Carver
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A military history of what was Britain's first modern war, written with original sources. Published in cooperation with the National Army Museum, it quotes extensively from the Museum's unpublished archive of diaries, letters, and documents. The text is... ( read more)
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Geldof in Africa
by Bob Geldof
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Stunningly illustrated with his own photographs and essays, Geldof in Africa paints a unique picture of this extraordinary land. “Africa is not the Dark Continent as so often described by writers from the gloomy northern skies of Europe. Not the... ( read more)
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Life Under Nyerere
by Godfrey Mwakikagile
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The author, who lived and grew up under Nyerere's leadership, remembers how life was in those days in his home country of Tanganyika, later Tanzania. It is more than just a sentimental journey into the past. It is also an assessment of Nyerere's... ( read more)
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Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia
by Rebecca G Haile
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Still a child, Haile and her family left Ethiopia for the US in 1976,
two years after the army deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. She returned
in the spring of 2001, and recounts her observations, experiences,
feeling, and memories. She includes a... ( read more)
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Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future
by George B N Ayittey
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In "Africa Unchained", George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous institutions which have been castigated by African... ( read more)
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Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa: 1960-2000
by Robert I Rotberg
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In this comprehensive narrative of the political and economic evolution of Africa, Robert I. Rotberg explains the critical events, players and policies in the continent's tumultuous shift toward democracy. The book reviews the process of decolonization... ( read more)
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