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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch Picador

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...

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How de Body?

One Man's Terrifying Journey through an African War

Teun Voeten Thomas Dunne Books

In 1998, acclaimed photojournalist Teun Voeten headed to Sierra Leone for what he thought would be a standard assignment on the child soldiers there. But the...

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Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	The Black Diaspora Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa Ronald Segal Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	African Exodus The Origins of Modern Humanity Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book A Choice Outstanding Academic Book A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book A New York Times Notable Book Once in a generation a book such as African Exodus...

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The Troubled Heart of Africa

A History of the Congo

Robert B. Edgerton St. Martin's Press

Written over a century ago, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to dominate our vision of the Congo, unlikely as it might seem that a late-Victorian...

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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...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	The Liberal Model and Africa Elites Against Democracy Kenneth Good Palgrave Macmillan This book critically examines the realities of liberal democracy: its elitism and non-accountability; and its inequalities and injustices. Participatory...

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...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean Deryck Scarr Palgrave Macmillan An in-depth study of slave plantations, law courts, and the illegal slave trade in the Southwest Indian Ocean.

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Serving the Master Slavery and Society in 19th Century Morocco Mohammed Ennaji; Seth Graebner Palgrave Macmillan Uses a unique wealth of hitherto unstudied sources to paint a practical, compelling picture of the experiences of slaves in nineteenth-century Morocco.

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893-99 The Transformation of German Colonial Policy Matthew S. Seligmann Palgrave Macmillan This study focuses on the development of German policy towards the Transvaal and Southern Africa in the 1890s.

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960-98 Edgar O'Ballance Palgrave Macmillan This is the exciting saga of the second largest country in Africa, one which has had a full experience of civil wars, tribal uprisings, revolts, plots against...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Race and Ethnicity in East Africa Peter G. Forster; Michael Hitchcock; Francis F. Lyimo Palgrave Macmillan Race and ethnicity continue to be important if unwelcome factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa, where the ethnic factor is often dominant...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Election Observation and Democratization in Africa Jon Abbink and Gerti Hesseling Palgrave Macmillan This authoritative study of election observation in Africa by foreign and local observers studies its relation with democratization processes. Election...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Ethnicity in Ghana The Limits of Invention Carola Lentz; Paul Nugent Palgrave Macmillan These essays address the neglected theme of ethnicity in Ghanaian history, society, and politics. The essays qualify the notion that ethnicity was purely a...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Portugal and Africa David Birmingham Palgrave Macmillan The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the Roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic...

Trade Paperback : $44.00 Buy	How Sanctions Work Lessons from South Africa International Political Economy Series Edited by Neta C. Crawford and Audie Klotz Palgrave Macmillan Eleven respected scholars from South Africa, Canada and the U.S. weigh the evidence regarding the sanctions which were debated and imposed on apartheid South...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Subsaharan Africa, Volume 4 Synthesis and Review Edited by Ademola Oyejide, Benno Ndulu and David Greenaway Palgrave Macmillan This fourth volume draws upon the theoretical framework and detailed studies of both individual countries and regional schemes of the previous three books to...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Africa at the Millennium An Agenda for Mature Development Edited by Bakut tswah Bakut and Sagarika Dutt Palgrave Macmillan This book is aimed at providing a framework for African issues in the 21st century. Apart from its African-centered approach, it argues that previously...

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...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	The South African Truth Commission Kenneth Christie Palgrave Macmillan The South African Truth Commission assesses different versions of the South African past, the complex negotiations leading to the establishment of the...

Hardcover : $126.00 Buy	Intervening in Africa Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent Studies in Diplomacy Herman J. Cohen Palgrave Macmillan As the Cold War faded, Ambassador Hank Cohen, President George Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, engaged in aggressive diplomatic intervention in...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	From Comrades To Citizens The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy International Political Economy Series Glenn Adler; Jonny Steinberg Palgrave Macmillan Charts the rise and fall of the urban townships' youth and residents' 'civics movement' in the transition to, and consolidation of a democracy in South Africa....

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