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Hardcover : $74.95 Buy	A History of East Africa, 1592-1902 R. W. Beachey I.B. Tauris 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...

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 : $84.00 Buy	Forced Migration in Eastern Africa Democratization, Structural Adjustment, and Refugees Cassandra R. Veney Palgrave Macmillan This study enriches understanding of East Africa’s refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya S.M. Shamsul Alam Palgrave Macmillan This offers an alternative to the colonialist and nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Race and Empire Eugenics in Colonial Kenya Studies in Imperialism Chloe Campbell Manchester University Press Race and Empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set...

Hardcover : $37.00 Buy	Africa's Winds of Change Memoirs of an International Tanzanian Al Noor Kassum I.B. Tauris The 1960s were a tumultuous period in the history of Africa as one country after another won independence from the colonial powers. This was particularly true...

Trade Paperback : $20.95 Buy	Life After Violence A People's Story of Burundi African Arguments Peter Uvin Zed Books Burundi recently emerged from twelve years of civil war. In this book, ordinary Burundians, farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	The Media and the Rwanda Genocide Allan Thompson and Kofi Annan Pluto Press Explores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond.

Hardcover : $49.95 Buy	Birth of a Nation The Story of a Newspaper in Kenya Gerard Loughran I.B. Tauris Launched in Nairobi in 1960, three years before the birth of independent Kenya, the Nation group of newspapers grew up sharing the struggles of an infant...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa Exploring Dislocation and Agency Elinami Veraeli Swai Palgrave Macmillan This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women’s knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Understanding the Somalia Conflagration Identity, Islam and Peacebuilding Afyare Abdi Elmi Pluto Press Somalia has been devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, and it has long been without a central government. Against this...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Integration and Peace in East Africa A History of the Oromo Nation Tsega Etefa Palgrave Macmillan This book analyzes the development of indigenous religious, commercial, and political institutions among the Oromo mainly during the relatively peaceful two...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Brief Authority A Memoir of Colonial Administration in Tanganyika Charles Meek; Edited by Innes Meek Radcliffe Press Charles Innes Meek’s account of his twenty years in Tanganyika – now Tanzania – goes to the heart of British colonial rule at the end of empire. Arriving in...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Mau Mau in Harlem? The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya Contemporary Black History Gerald Horne Palgrave Macmillan From the inception of a the British colony in Kenya in the late 19th nineteenth century, the United States has been intimately involved in the country's...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State African Arguments Mary Jane Harper Zed Books Somalia is a comprehensively failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbors, and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for...

Hardcover : $59.00 Buy	Kenya A History Since Independence Charles Hornsby I.B. Tauris Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact, and without...

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	Race and Empire Eugenics in Colonial Kenya Studies in Imperialism Chloe Campbell Manchester University Press Race and Empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set...

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Britain, Kenya and the Cold War Imperial Defence, Colonial Security and Decolonisation David Percox Tauris Academic Studies Far from having to "scram from Africa" following the abandonment of her "East of Suez" role, and despite the problems of Mau Mau, and even the Suez debacle on...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present Patricia M. E. Lorcin Palgrave Macmillan This illuminating study of European women's narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Pioneer Merchant Trader The Life and Times of Otto Markus Eve Pollecoff Radcliffe Press The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s showed European interest in Africa at its most intense and today evokes a picture of the great European powers engaged in...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature Apollo Obonyo Amoko Palgrave Macmillan This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya The Legitimization of Coercion, 1912-1930 Opolot Okia Palgrave Macmillan This book describes the growth and development of communal forced labor in Kenya from 1912-1930. During the early period in Kenya's colonial history the...

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