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  • The Secrets of an Aborted Decolonisation. The Declassified British Secret Files on the Southern Cameroons by Anyangwe, Carlson
    Carlson Anyangwe

    The Secrets of an Aborted Decolonisation. The Declassified British Secret Files on the Southern Cameroons

    A remarkable feature of the collapse of the British Empire is that the British departed from almost every single one of their colonial territories invariably leaving behind a messy situation and an agenda of serious problems that in most cases still haunt those territories...
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  • Gypsy Lore (1908) by Macfie, R. A. Scott
    R. A. Scott Macfie

    Gypsy Lore (1908)

    Gypsy Lore is a book written by R. A. Scott Macfie and published in 1908. The book is a comprehensive study of the history, customs, and beliefs of the Roma people, also known as Gypsies. Macfie draws on his extensive travels and personal interactions...
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  • Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, and the Search for Stability by Sundiata, Ibrahim K.
    Ibrahim K. Sundiata

    Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, and the Search for Stability

    This book presents information on the land and people, history, politics, economy, society, and culture of Equatorial Guinea. It includes views of the author on economic dependency, ethnic rivalry, and lack of infrastructure based on the visits to Equatorial Guinea.Author: Ibrahim K. SundiataISBN-10: 036715658XISBN-13:...
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  • The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures by Muller, Retief
    Retief Muller

    The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures

    Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections this book presents a trans-generational narrative of the influence and role played by diasporic Scots and their descendants in the religious and political lives of Dutch/ Afrikaner...
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  • The Plant by Bluestone, Robert Coe, III
    Robert Coe III Bluestone

    The Plant

    The Plant In 1964, the National Motors auto manufacturing plant was a city sin unto itself: Liquor flowed, while fat-cats entertained clients with gambling, prostitutes and other vices in the plant's business underworld, and one had to learn to negotiate convoluted plant politics to...
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  • Mlozi of Central Africa: Trader, Slaver and Self-Styled Sultan. The End of the Slaver by Stuart-Mogg, David
    David Stuart-Mogg

    Mlozi of Central Africa: Trader, Slaver and Self-Styled Sultan. The End of the Slaver

    For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century. That Mlozi bin Kazbadema was a significant slaver who conducted...
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  • King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century by Fitzmaurice, Andrew
    Andrew Fitzmaurice

    King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century

    A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809-1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain,...
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  • Muntu by Jahn, Janheinz
    Janheinz Jahn

    Muntu

    Over a quarter of a century has passed since Muntu was first published in English, but this landmark examination still provides one of the most in-depth looks at African and neo-African culture. In his insightful study, Janheinz Jahn surveys the whole range of traditional...
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  • Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6 by Doherty, Jacob
    Jacob Doherty

    Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6

    Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these...
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  • A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Kinzer, Stephen
    Stephen Kinzer

    A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

    A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa,...
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  • The Antelope's Strategy by Hatzfeld, Jean
    Jean Hatzfeld

    The Antelope's Strategy

    One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into the sunshine, singing hallelujahs, their freedom granted by presidential pardon. As they returned to their old...
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  • Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire by Umutesi, Marie Beatrice
    Marie Beatrice Umutesi

    Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire

    In An Uncompromising Generation, Michael Wildt follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics--who came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society--as they started to identify with the Nazi concept of Volksgemeinschaft, which labeled Jews as enemies of the people and...
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  • African Modernism and Its Afterlives by Geissler, Paul Wenzel
    Paul Wenzel Geissler

    African Modernism and Its Afterlives

    The legacy of colonial and postcolonial African architecture. This edited collection of essays and image-driven pieces by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and historians examines the legacies of African architecture from around the time of independence through examples from different countries. Drawing on ethnography, archival research,...
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  • A History of West Central Africa to 1850 by Thornton, John K.
    John K. Thornton

    A History of West Central Africa to 1850

    Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external...
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  • Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa by Harms, Robert
    Robert Harms

    Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

    A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the...
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  • Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B.
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

    Initially published in 1920, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil is a combination of essays that tackle the power dynamics of gender, race and religion. It's a searing portrait of America influenced by Du Bois' own personal experiences. Du Bois delivers a contemporary examination...
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  • Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6 by Doherty, Jacob
    Jacob Doherty

    Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6

    Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these...
    $85.00
    $85.00
    $85.00
  • Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The Un, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa by Williams, Susan
    Susan Williams

    Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The Un, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

    One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjöld and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick forest...
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  • A History of West Central Africa to 1850 by Thornton, John K.
    John K. Thornton

    A History of West Central Africa to 1850

    Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external...
    $105.00
    $105.00
    $105.00
  • The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda by Straus, Scott
    Scott Straus

    The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so...
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