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  • Angus Mitchell

    Casement

    An illumination of the life of diplomat Roger Casement. At the time of his execution for treason in 1916, few were aware who Roger Casement was or what he represented. Since then, he has been lauded for his investigations into Belgian brutality in the...
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  • Manuela Palmeirim

    Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin: Contradiction and Ambiguity in Ruwund (Lunda) Symbolic Thought

    Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin presents a detailed understanding and analysis of the ideology of kingship among the Aruwund (Lunda) of southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In doing so the text is drawn into addressing a range of important regional themes: the...
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    Peter Duignan

    Burden of Empire: An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in Africa South of the Sahara

    Since its publication in 1967, Burden of Empire has been widely praised and criticized for its controversial approach to the problem of colonialism in Africa. The authors have challenged the new "orthodoxy" about Africa--the belief that little but evil and exploitation has resulted from...
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  • A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes by Ward, Herbert
    Herbert Ward

    A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes

    A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is a more complete account of his experiences in the Congo in the late nineteenth century, and was published in response...
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  • Sarah Lambert

    King Leopold II's Congo: The hidden machinery of conquest, profit, and cruelty behind his personal African state

    History remembers his monuments. It tried to forget his victims. What you are about to discover will change how you see power, ambition, and the price paid when one man chases greatness at any cost. This is the untold story behind one of the...
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  • The Cinema of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: War, Revenge, Redemption, and Possibilities by Frindéthié, Martial
    Martial Frindéthié

    The Cinema of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: War, Revenge, Redemption, and Possibilities

    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's films offer a stark, lyrical meditation on survival, dignity, and moral complexity in postcolonial Chad. Through stories of war, exile, secrecy, and resilience, Haroun crafts a cinema that resists spectacle and embraces silence, intimacy, and ethical depth. His characters, mothers, fugitives, dancers,...
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    Stephanie Wynne-Jones

    The Swahili World

    The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban...
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  • Robert Love

    Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Horn of Africa: Towards a More Socio-economically Informed Development Discourse

    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social, economic, and political drivers of slavery and human trafficking within the Horn of Africa in order to show how different development policies could lead to longer-term solutions. In so doing, it addresses a matter is...
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    Peter Baxter

    Somalia: Us Intervention, 1992-1994

    The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the...
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  • Bernhard Udelhoven

    Ifishilano ku Kabende na kwa Sokontwe

    A history of the Bena Kabende and Batwa people of Zambia, narrated by elders, chiefs, headwomen and headmen in the Bemba language.Author: Bernhard UdelhovenISBN-10: 1515313948ISBN-13: 9781515313946Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2015Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
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  • Luiz Felipe de Alencastro

    The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

    Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated,...
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  • Douglas L. Wheeler

    Angola

    Author: Douglas L. Wheeler,Rene Pelissier,UnknownISBN-10: 0313200114ISBN-13: 9780313200113Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/1978Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d
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  • The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B. by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
    Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

    The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B.

    Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life of a pivotal figure in global exploration with "The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B." Penned by Henry M. Stanley himself, this authoritative personal account offers a comprehensive look at the remarkable trajectory of the...
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  • Africa Yearbook Volume 6: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2009 by Mehler, Andreas
    Andreas Mehler

    Africa Yearbook Volume 6: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2009

    The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa)...
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  • Whispers of the Biafran Skeleton by Osuoha, Ngozi Olivia
    Ngozi Olivia Osuoha

    Whispers of the Biafran Skeleton

    On May 30, 1967, Biafra declared its independence from Nigeria. On July 6th Nigeria's military attacked Biafra, touching off over two years of a vicious civil war in which over 2 million people died. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ahiara Declaration of...
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  • Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's Expedition and Its Consequences by Chilver, E. M.
    E. M. Chilver

    Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's Expedition and Its Consequences

    Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896...
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  • Zanzibar: The Hundred Days Revolution by Hunter, Helen-Louise
    Helen-Louise Hunter

    Zanzibar: The Hundred Days Revolution

    In the late 1950s, Communists decided that Zanzibar offered them a particular favorable opportunity for expanding their influence.Author: Helen-Louise HunterISBN-10: 0313361959ISBN-13: 9780313361951Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.50d
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  • Gabon: Everything You Need to Know by Gil-Smith, Noah
    Noah Gil-Smith

    Gabon: Everything You Need to Know

    Step into the heart of Central Africa and discover one of the continent's most fascinating and least-known countries, Gabon. This in-depth guide, "Gabon: Everything You Need to Know", invites readers on a captivating journey through a land where dense rainforests meet the Atlantic coast,...
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  • Cameroon: Everything You Need to Know by Gil-Smith, Noah
    Noah Gil-Smith

    Cameroon: Everything You Need to Know

    "Cameroon: Everything You Need to Know" is an immersive journey through one of Africa's most captivating and diverse nations. This comprehensive text-only guide offers a deep and engaging look into the heart of Cameroon, its landscapes, history, people, and cultureFrom the mist-covered slopes of...
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  • In Chains for My Country. Crusading for the British Southern Cameroons by Nfor, Nfor N.
    Nfor N. Nfor

    In Chains for My Country. Crusading for the British Southern Cameroons

    In Chains for My Country is an account of the struggle of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a nonviolent liberation movement, to wrestle British Southern Cameroons from the colonial claws of la République du Cameroun. It is an epic and thrilling account of...
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  • Southern West Cameroon Revisited (1950-1972) Volume One. Unveiling Inescapable Traps by Ndi, Anthony
    Anthony Ndi

    Southern West Cameroon Revisited (1950-1972) Volume One. Unveiling Inescapable Traps

    This book contributes to discussions on the topical issue of "Fifty Years after the independence of the Southern Cameroons", by taking a critical look at the process that lead up to Southern Cameroons' 'reunification' with la République du Cameroun. This was the period spanning...
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  • Southern West Cameroon Revisited Volume Two. North-South West Nexus 1858-1972 by Ndi, Anthony
    Anthony Ndi

    Southern West Cameroon Revisited Volume Two. North-South West Nexus 1858-1972

    This book argues that Southern Cameroons up to the late 1960s had extensively developed an evolved mature, political culture. It was amazingly led by a range of: simple, visionary, austere, honest, peace-loving and realistic leaders, almost without exception; vintage products of their epoch. Distinguished...
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  • Urgency of a New Dawn. Prison Thoughts and Reflections by Nfor, Nfor N.
    Nfor N. Nfor

    Urgency of a New Dawn. Prison Thoughts and Reflections

    Urgency of a New Dawn is the cry of most Southern Cameroonians against those who they experience to be an oppressive, Machiavellian, hostile, parasitising, captor-like, secessionist, assimilationist, discriminatory, and dehumanising la République du Cameroun, to which they were annexed through misleading UN and UK...
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  • Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun: Resistance & the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons by Anyangwe, Carlson
    Carlson Anyangwe

    Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun: Resistance & the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons

    It always comes as a surprise to many that the British-administered UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons was not granted independence like other colonial territories but was allowed to fall prey to the territorial expansionism of the contiguous state of Cameroun Republic, a...
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  • The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament by Atanga, Mufor
    Mufor Atanga

    The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament

    This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in...
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  • Scribbles from the Den. Essays on Politics and Collective Memory in Cameroon by Tande, Dibussi
    Dibussi Tande

    Scribbles from the Den. Essays on Politics and Collective Memory in Cameroon

    This collection consists of 49 insightful essays by leading Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande, which originally appeared on his award-winning blog Scribbles from the Den. These essays tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues facing Cameroon today such as the stalled democratization process,...
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  • Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon by Terretta, Meredith
    Meredith Terretta

    Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon

    Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain,...
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  • The Bakundu of Cameroon Yesterday and Today: A Study in Tradition and Modernity by Ebune, Joseph B.
    Joseph B. Ebune

    The Bakundu of Cameroon Yesterday and Today: A Study in Tradition and Modernity

    This study is essentially about culture and culture change in Bakundu society. Culture and culture change have assumed a new importance in recent years with the coming of globalisation, giving currency to phrases like "culture wars" and most famously, Huntington's "clash of civilisations", the...
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  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Diaspora in African History by Klein, Martin
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    Martin Klein

    The Oxford Encyclopedia of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Diaspora in African History

    Both colonial and early nationalist writers of African history tried to minimize the importance of the slave trade in the study of Africa's past and present. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the significance of the institution for properly understanding African history, both within the...
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  • The Gulistan Bring The Rose Garden Of Shaikh Sa'di (1899) by Arnold, Edwin
    Edwin Arnold

    The Gulistan Bring The Rose Garden Of Shaikh Sa'di (1899)

    The Gulistan brings the Rose Garden of Shaikh Sa'di is a book written by Edwin Arnold in 1899. It is a translation of a Persian literary work called Gulistan, which was written by the renowned poet and philosopher Shaikh Sa'di. The book is a...
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  • A Study through Skull Morphology on the Diversity of Holocene African Populations in a Historical Perspective by Ribot, Isabelle
    Isabelle Ribot

    A Study through Skull Morphology on the Diversity of Holocene African Populations in a Historical Perspective

    The main objective of the present research is to explore through skull morphology some potential sources of biological diversity within sub-Saharan Africa, such as: geography and especially history, in relation to large-scale population movements (expansion of Bantu-speakers). Therefore, through various statistical analyses, morphological variation...
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  • Yakusu, the Very Heart of Africa: Being Some Account of the Protestant Mission at Stanley Falls, Upper Congo by Smith, H. Sutton
    H. Sutton Smith

    Yakusu, the Very Heart of Africa: Being Some Account of the Protestant Mission at Stanley Falls, Upper Congo

    In this gripping and eye-opening work of historical nonfiction, H Sutton Smith tells the story of the Protestant mission at Stanley Falls in the Upper Congo, one of the most remote and challenging outposts of the Christian mission movement. Through firsthand accounts and detailed...
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  • Farewell, the Beloved Country by Du Bois Cleynhens, Greta
    Greta Du Bois Cleynhens

    Farewell, the Beloved Country

    This is the story of my childhood and teenage years in central Africa, from 1951 to 1962. I recall my life in the colony of Belgian Congo, the discovery of the bush, the people, and their culture. Important also is the prison we live...
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  • Empowered Without Power by Kpughe, Michael
    Michael Kpughe

    Empowered Without Power

    This book examines women's participation in the executive structures of the Basel Mission and Presbyterian Church in Cameroon in order to tell a new story of women and church leadership. In 1886, the Basel Mission commenced mission work in Cameroon and successfully established an...
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  • Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978 by Odom, Thomas P.
    Thomas P. Odom

    Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978

    Author: Thomas P. OdomISBN-10: 1839310979ISBN-13: 9781839310973Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2011Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
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  • Democratisation in the Dr Congo from Joseph Mobutu to Joseph Kabila: A Modelled Exploration by Katulondi, Hubert Kabasu Babu
    Hubert Kabasu Babu Katulondi

    Democratisation in the Dr Congo from Joseph Mobutu to Joseph Kabila: A Modelled Exploration

    The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced one of the most complex, meandering, and uncertain democratisation processes in Africa. In 2016 the third cycle of elections was not organised. The Presidential Majority (M.P) was accused of concocting an amendment of the constitution aimed...
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  • Insediamenti Francescani in Abruzzo Nel Duecento E Sviluppo Nel '300 E 400 Con La Riforma Osservante by Di Virgilio Ofm, Felice
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    Felice Di Virgilio Ofm

    Insediamenti Francescani in Abruzzo Nel Duecento E Sviluppo Nel '300 E 400 Con La Riforma Osservante

    Analyzes the early presence of Franciscan monastic houses in Abruzzo in the thirteenth century.This study analyzes the early presence of Franciscan monastic houses in Abruzzo in the thirteenth century and their development with the Observant Reform in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.Author: Felice Di...
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  • Travels Through The Interior Of Africa: From The Cape Of Good Hope To Morocco (1801) by Damberger, Christian Frederick
    Christian Frederick Damberger

    Travels Through The Interior Of Africa: From The Cape Of Good Hope To Morocco (1801)

    Travels Through The Interior Of Africa: From The Cape Of Good Hope To Morocco (1801) is a book written by Christian Frederick Damberger, a German explorer who traveled extensively through Africa in the late 18th century. The book is a detailed account of his...
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  • Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace 1907 (1907) by Morel, E. D.
    E. D. Morel

    Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace 1907 (1907)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Thus Ruled Emir Abbas: Selected Cases from the Records of the Emir of Kano's Judicial Council by Christelow, Allen
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    Allen Christelow

    Thus Ruled Emir Abbas: Selected Cases from the Records of the Emir of Kano's Judicial Council

    Thus Ruled Emir Abbas is an important new research tool that reveals much about daily life in Kano, the wealthiest and most populous emirate of the African Sokoto Caliphate. It contains a selection of Kano Judicial Council documents, as well as their English translations,...
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  • The 1995 General Elections in Tanzania by Monitoring Committee, Tanzania Election
    Tanzania Election Monitoring Committee

    The 1995 General Elections in Tanzania

    The October 1995 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Tanzania marked an important milestone in the country's transition to multi- party democracy. It brought to an end the intense debates during the preparation for the elections. The Tanzania Election Monitoring Committee was the main national...
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  • State of a Union. The Half Century of Cameroon's Bicultural Experience by Vubo, Emmanuel Yenshu
    Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo

    State of a Union. The Half Century of Cameroon's Bicultural Experience

    The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in...
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  • The Land of Houlouf: Genesis of a Chadic Polity, 1900 B.C.-A.D. 1800: Volume 35 by Holl, Augustin F. C.
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    Augustin F. C. Holl

    The Land of Houlouf: Genesis of a Chadic Polity, 1900 B.C.-A.D. 1800: Volume 35

    A thorough review of the important archaeological sites on the Chadian Plain, including Houlouf, which the author excavated 1980-1990.Author: Augustin F. C. HollISBN-10: 0915703521ISBN-13: 9780915703524Publisher: U of M Museum Anthro ArchaeologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 271Format: PaperbackSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.70d
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  • Historical Archaeology of Bagamoyo by Chami, Felix
    Felix Chami

    Historical Archaeology of Bagamoyo

    The modern history of Bagamoyo begins with the period 1830-1840, when Zanzibar was established as the capital of the Oman Sultanate and subsequently, the slave and ivory trades intensified. However trade and cultural interactions between the coast and the interior had existed before 1800....
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  • The History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town by Sheriff, Abdul
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    Abdul Sheriff

    The History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

    Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms. Should it be fossilized for the tourists? Or should it grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures?For its size, Zanzibar,...
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  • A History of the Congo by Katumbi, Moïse
    Moïse Katumbi

    A History of the Congo

    This sweeping history chronicles the turbulent story of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nation of immense wealth and staggering suffering. The narrative begins long before the arrival of Europeans, exploring the sophisticated ancient kingdoms of the Congo Basin, such as the Kongo,...
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  • Nomadic Connectivity: An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa by Butter, Inge
    Inge Butter

    Nomadic Connectivity: An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa

    A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at the centre of a country and region known for its political turmoil, ecological insecurities, and socio-economic hardship. The everyday...
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  • The Case For Biafra Restoration by Ukwuoma, Obi
    Obi Ukwuoma

    The Case For Biafra Restoration

    The massacre of Igbos/Biafrans across the Northern Nigeria started way back in 1945 in Jos, where more than 150 Igbos/Biafrans were brutally slaughtered for no reason. That is about thirty-one years after the fraudulent amalgamation of Islamic north and Christian south by the British....
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  • God's Ravens: A Story of Life and Work in the Belgian Congo by Kellersberger, Julia Lake
    Julia Lake Kellersberger

    God's Ravens: A Story of Life and Work in the Belgian Congo

    God's Ravens is a memoir written by Julia Lake Kellersberger, detailing her life and work in the Belgian Congo. The book explores her experiences as a missionary in the region during the early 20th century, as well as her interactions with the local Congolese...
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  • Living for the City by Larmer, Miles
    Miles Larmer

    Living for the City

    Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the...
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