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Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs Peter Schwab Palgrave Macmillan Many of the nations of sub-Saharan African have all but ceased to exist as organized states: tyranny, diseases such as AIDS, civil war and ethnic conflict--and...

Trade Paperback : $64.00 Buy	South Africa: A Modern History T.H.R. Davenport and Christopher Saunders Palgrave Macmillan This book is a comprehensive survey of the whole of South African history from pre-colonial times to 1999. It handles all major topics in some depth, with...

Trade Paperback : $44.00 Buy	African Military History and Politics Ideological Coups and Incursions, 1900-Present A.B. Assensoh and Yvette Alex-Assensoh Palgrave Macmillan This book shows how Africa's former colonial powers--including Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain--trained members and leaders of colonial Armed Forces...

Hardcover : $152.00 Buy	The Nile An Annotated Bibliography Edited by Terje Tvedt I.B. Tauris This unique bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of the literature relating to the many political, cultural, economic, and developmental aspects of the...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Ethiopia, the Unknown Land A Cultural and Historical Guide Stuart Munro-Hay I.B. Tauris The authoritative guide to Ethiopia’s land, culture, people, art, and history.

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Twilight on the Zambezi Late Colonialism in Central Africa Eugenia W. Herbert Palgrave Macmillan This book looks at Central Africa in the moment before the collapse of British colonial authority. Beginning with a lively study of Northern Rhodesia, the book...

Hardcover : $173.00 Buy	The Impact of the South African War Edited by David Omissi and Andrew S. Thompson Palgrave Macmillan This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Zed Books As this book shows, the People of the Congo have suffered throughout the past century from a particularly brutal experience of colonial rule, and a series of...

Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	African Renaissance Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization Fantu Cheru Zed Books Cheru attempts to shed new light on the topic of economic development in Africa, looking at the practical lessons to be learned from both mistakes made and the...

Hardcover : $57.00 Buy	Remote Corners A Sierra Leone Memoir Harry Mitchell Radcliffe Press In this vivid memoir, Harry Mitchell gives a vivid account of the British Colonial administration in Sierra Leone in the twilight of empire. Covering such...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Sir Glyn Jones A Proconsul in Africa Colin Baker I.B. Tauris Sir Glyn Jones, as last governor of Nyasaland, oversaw the transition of the country to Malawi. Involving widespread unrest, the removal of a governor, a state...

Hardcover : $73.00 Buy	The Scent of Eucalyptus A Journal of Colonial and Foreign Service Richard N. Posnett I.B. Tauris Richard Posnett's first post in the Colonial Service was in Uganda. These were times of rapid change for the British Empire in Africa with independence for...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Revolt of the Ministers The Malawi Cabinet Crisis 1964-1965 Colin Baker I.B. Tauris Dr. Hastings Banda, a highly respected medical doctor based for many years in London, was invited back to Nyasaland to lead the movement to independent Malawi...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	The Horn of Africa Politics and International Relations Peter Woodward I.B. Tauris In this comprehensive history of the region, Woodward argues that while the principal conflicts have arisen from domestic issues of ethnicity, history and...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Fela From West Africa to West Broadway Trevor Schoonmaker Palgrave Macmillan Essays exploring world of Fela Kuti: legendary Nigerian Afrobeat musician, political leader, keeper of 28 wives, black icon

Hardcover : $57.00 Buy	Capricorn David Stirling's African Campaign Richard Hughes Radcliffe Press The turbulent history of post-colonial Africa has been a disappointment to idealists and to politicians who hoped for peace in countries free of European...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	The Fall of Apartheid The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki Robert Harvey Palgrave Macmillan The Fall of Apartheid tells the extraordinary story how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	An African Trading Empire The Story of the Susman Brothers and Wulfsohn, 1901-2005 International Library of African Studies #16 Hugh Macmillan I.B. Tauris Kinship and partnership united Elie and Harry Susman when they crossed the Zambezi from the south in 1901 and travelled north to buy cattle from King Lewanika...

Hardcover : $51.00 Buy	No Fixed Abode A Jewish Odyssey to Africa Peter Fraenkel I.B. Tauris Peter Fraenkel here gives a vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then...

Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	African Intellectuals Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development Africa in the New Millennium Edited by Thandika Makandawire Zed Books Compared with Asia or Latin America, Africa has experienced much higher rates of emigration of its intelligentsia to North America and Europe, and frequent...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Moving the Maasai A Colonial Misadventure St Antony's Series Lotte Hughes Palgrave Macmillan In Moving the Maasai Lotte Hughes tells the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s....

Hardcover : $56.00 Buy	Searching for African Prospects Life as a Mining Engineer in Nigeria and Angola Diane Chads Radcliffe Press Here is a unique picture of European mineral exploration in Africa and the larger than life character William Chads. He followed his father into the army,...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Crisis in the Congo The Rise and Fall of Laurent Kabila François Ngolet Palgrave Macmillan This volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997-2001. The author examines...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Mineworkers in Zambia Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa International Library of African Studies Miles Larmer Tauris Academic Studies The received view of Zambia’s mineworkers is of a reactionary body unable and unwilling to shape progressive politics in post-colonial Zambia. Miles Larmer...

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