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In the Land of Magic Soldiers

A Story of White and Black in West Africa

Daniel Bergner Picador

An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003 In Sierra Leone, rampaging soldiers have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live...

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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,...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Ghana One Decade of the Liberal State, First Edition Africa in the New Millennium Edited by Kwame Boafo-Arthur Zed Books Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Political Organization in Nigeria since the Late Stone Age A History of the Igbo People John N. Oriji Palgrave Macmillan This groundbreaking study provides broad insights into the changes Igbo history and political systems have undergone since the Late Stone Age. It discusses...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Education and Democracy in Senegal Michelle T. Kuenzi Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the role of nonformal education (NFE) in African languages in promoting democracy in Senegal. Using data from a survey of rural Senegalese...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Encountering the Nigerian State Africa Connects Edited by Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare Palgrave Macmillan This volume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa. It analyzes how various agents within the...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Politics of Social Change in Ghana The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality Benjamin Talton Palgrave Macmillan With Ghana’s colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Harmattan, A Wind of Change Life and Letters from Northern Nigeria at the End of Empire Carolyn Johnston Radcliffe Press The end of empire, a romantic story and the social life and culture of an elite British colony -- these are the fascinating themes to emerge from this unique...

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The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget

Murder and Memory in Uganda

Andrew Rice Picador

One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2009 The people of Uganda have long struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi...

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Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Sierra Leone beyond the Lome Peace Accord Edited by Marda Mustapha and Joseph J. Bangura Palgrave Macmillan The Lomé Peace Accord, signed in 1999, presented significant implications, challenges, and possibilities for post-conflict Sierra Leone, but the literature on...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Governance and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria Changes and Challenges Edited by Said Adejumobi Palgrave Macmillan Democratic governance constitutes an enduring challenge for Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria. The book reflects on the form, trajectory and content of...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah Ama Biney Palgrave Macmillan Kwame Nkrumah remains a towering figure in African history. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent campaign of civil disobedience, he led what is now the...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	The West African Slave Plantation A Case Study Mohammed Bashir Salau Palgrave Macmillan The literature on Atlantic slavery is rich with accounts of plantation complexes in the Americas, but to date none have been produced for West Africa. In this...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Power and State Formation in West Africa Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Pierluigi Valsecchi and Translated By Allan Cameron Palgrave Macmillan This study looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early sixteenth century to the second half of the eighteenth. It...

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	Charles Taylor and Liberia Ambition and Atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State Colin M. Waugh Zed Books Campaigner, insurgent, arms dealer, warlord, commodity trafficker, elected president, international fugitive, and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to...

Hardcover : $92.00 Buy	The Struggle for Modern Nigeria The Biafran War 1966-1970 Michael Gould and Foreword By Frederick Forsyth I.B. Tauris International media coverage in the 1960s and early 1970s represented the Biafran War, in which the state of Biafra attempted to secede from the Nigerian...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	K. O. Mbadiwe A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990 Hollis R. Lynch Palgrave Macmillan This book offers a comprehensive political biography of Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, (1915-1990), a central figure in Nigerian political history for more than...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Union Education in Nigeria Labor, Empire, and Decolonization since 1945 Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani Palgrave Macmillan Globally, the role of the workers is gaining ground among scholars. Yet, specific national or regional studies have yet to be fully undertaken. This book will...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic Studies of the Americas Edited by Nancy Priscilla Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca, and David H. Treece Palgrave Macmillan This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Liberia and the United States during the Cold War Limits of Reciprocity D. Elwood Dunn Palgrave Macmillan Exploring the dynamics and limitations of reciprocity in Liberia-US relations, the book offers a perspective on security and economic assistance as instruments...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Magic and Warfare Appearance and Reality in Contemporary African Conflict and Beyond Nathalie Wlodarczyk Palgrave Macmillan This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behaviour...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Civil War and Democracy in West Africa Conflict Resolution, Elections and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia International Library of African Studies #29 David Harris Tauris Academic Studies In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Gender and Power in Sierra Leone Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries Lynda Day Palgrave Macmillan This book uses Sierra Leone to explore gendered political authority, illuminating the roles it plays in women's history, political history, and political...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary Four Transnational Lives Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Patricia A. Schechter Palgrave Macmillan This book sits at the intersection of two historical categories—empire and citizenship—that scholars usually study separately. It does so with a focus on race...

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