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  • From a Sparrow to a Storm: The untold story of the Watts Baby; arrested and imprisoned 48 hours before the revolt known as the 1965 Watts Riots. by Bissett, Reverend Elizabeth
    Reverend Elizabeth Bissett

    From a Sparrow to a Storm: The untold story of the Watts Baby; arrested and imprisoned 48 hours before the revolt known as the 1965 Watts Riots.

    What ever happened to the Watts babies of 1965? From a Sparrow to a Storm is an expose of the events, people, and social pressures that contributed to the Watts revolt of 1965. It is a poignant biography written with such transparency, compelling readers...
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  • Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro: An Historical Account of German Settlers from Palestine Who Started a New Life in German East Africa During the Late by Glenk, Helmut
    Helmut Glenk

    Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro: An Historical Account of German Settlers from Palestine Who Started a New Life in German East Africa During the Late

    Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro covers the period from the establishment of the former colony of German East Africa in the late 19th century until the formation of the independent State of Tanganyika in 1961. The book focuses on a small group of German settlers...
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  • The Death of Dag Hammarskjöld: How the Cold War Turned an Accident into an Assassination by Hammarberg, Sven E.
    Sven E. Hammarberg

    The Death of Dag Hammarskjd: How the Cold War Turned an Accident into an Assassination

    In September 1961, a plane crash killed arguably the second most important man in the world, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjd. For the past sixty years, they have touted this accident as resulting from foul play. In the 1962 investigations, they ruled out the statements...
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  • Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives by Cook, Susan E.
    Susan E. Cook

    Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives

    This volume deals with aspects of genocide in Rwandaand Cambodia that have been largely unexplored to date, including the impact of regional politics and the role played by social institutions in perpetrating genocide. Although the "story" of the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and that...
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  • Blacksmiths of Ilamba: A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century) by Alfagali, Crislayne
    Crislayne Alfagali

    Blacksmiths of Ilamba: A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century)

    This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the...
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  • Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions: The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862-1905 by Cheriau, Raphaël
    Rapha? Cheriau

    Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions: The Zanzibar Sultanate, Britain, and France in the Indian Ocean, 1862-1905

    In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism...
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  • Evoking Speech in the Deaf: A History of the Montfort College for Special Needs Education and the FIC Brothers in Malawi by Mumba, Vita
    Vita Mumba

    Evoking Speech in the Deaf: A History of the Montfort College for Special Needs Education and the FIC Brothers in Malawi

    In 1969 the Brothers of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary (FIC Brothers) set out to teach deaf children so that they could take their rightful place in society. This book shows the history of the Training of Teachers for the Hearing...
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  • Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation by Harshé, Rajen
    Rajen Harshé

    Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation

    Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond Euro-American perspectives, this book presents...
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  • How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 by Vansina, Jan
    Jan Vansina

    How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600

    Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?Jan Vansina continues...
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  • Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation by Gerard-Libois, Jules
    Jules Gerard-Libois

    Congo 1964: Political Documents of a Developing Nation

    This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time that they are available in French with an English introduction. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology...
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  • Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation by Gerard-Libois, Jules
    Jules Gerard-Libois

    Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation

    This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels consists of official statements and memoranda, proceedings of conferences, etc. In French, with an English introduction by Herbert Weiss. Originally published in 1967....
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  • Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora by Heywood, Linda M.
    Linda Marinda Heywood

    Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

    This volume sets out a new paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to...
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  • Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda by Longman, Timothy
    Timothy Longman

    Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

    Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then...
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  • A History of South and Central Africa by Wilson, Derek
    Derek Wilson

    A History of South and Central Africa

    This is a history of Africa south of the Congo Forest from about A.D. 1000 to the era of the establishment of independent modern states. Most textbooks on African history are dominated by modern political boundaries that, of course, have no ethnic or geographical...
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  • Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa by Maier, Karl
    Karl Maier

    Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa

    Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . . INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS ""Rich . . . fascinating."" --The New York Times Book Review ""A master of eyewitness description and of the telling interview, [Maier]...
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  • Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Sacks, Ruth
    Ruth Sacks

    Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

    Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Za?e. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious...
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  • Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium by Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe
    Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

    Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium

    Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic...
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  • Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007 by Cobley, Alan
    Alan Cobley

    Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007

    This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference "Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007", a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire. The papers interrogate and problematize shifting notions...
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  • After All Was Lost: The Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on April 6, 1994 When the Rwandan President's Plane Was Shot Down by Swinnen, Johan
    Johan Swinnen

    After All Was Lost: The Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on April 6, 1994 When the Rwandan President's Plane Was Shot Down

    When the Chief of Staff of Rwanda's Army was assassinated after the invasion of the country, civil war and then genocide, his widow and their six children found ways to overcome the rupture of their family-- and their country. This is their story. Major-General...
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  • Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Monaville, Pedro
    Pedro Monaville

    Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

    On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later...
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  • Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa by Braun, Lesley Nicole
    Lesley Nicole Braun

    Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa

    Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be...
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  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction by Philpot, Robin
    Robin Philpot

    Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu g nocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million...
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  • The Co-Opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate by Gendron, Sarah
    Sarah Gendron

    The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate

    The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate is a study of the ways in which various extremist groups have appropriated education for social manipulation in order to gain political power, and, in some cases, to incite violence. It is a detailed exploration...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building by Jian, Chen
    Chen Jian

    The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building

    'This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that...
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  • The African Slave Trade and Cannibalism: This is a true story! by Grave, E. J.
    E. J. Grave

    The African Slave Trade and Cannibalism: This is a true story!

    This is a true story. You will be horrified by the cruelty. In 1865 the United States abolished the horror of slavery. No longer would a human being in America be considered chattel to be bought and sold at will. However, years later, the...
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  • Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic by Lombard, Louisa
    Louisa Lombard

    Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic

    The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic.Author: Louisa LombardISBN-10: 1108746187ISBN-13: 9781108746182Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2022Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
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  • France's Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa by Powell, Nathaniel K.
    Nathaniel K. Powell

    France's Wars in Chad

    Author: Nathaniel K. PowellISBN-10: 1108738621ISBN-13: 9781108738620Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
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  • France in Centrafrique: From Bokassa and Operation Barracude to the Days of Eufor by Baxter, Peter
    Peter Baxter

    France in Centrafrique: From Bokassa and Operation Barracude to the Days of Eufor

    France in Centrafrique explores the early colonial and post-colonial history of French Equatorial Africa with a particular emphasis on the role of the Central African Republic in the Second World War and the Free French Movement. One of the key figures to emerge from...
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  • The South African Defence Forces in the Border War 1966-1989 by Scholtz, Leopold
    Leopold Scholtz

    The South African Defence Forces in the Border War 1966-1989

    The SADF in the Border War 1966-1989 offers the first comprehensive analysis of the South African Defense Force's role in the Border War in Namibia and Angola since the end of this conflict in 1989. It investigates the causes of the Border War and...
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  • Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon by Walker-Said, Charlotte
    Charlotte Walker-Said

    Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon

    Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions An innovative study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1939. Between the two...
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  • Patrice Lumumba - Ahead of His Time by Mumbata, Didier Ndongala
    Didier Ndongala Mumbata

    Patrice Lumumba - Ahead of His Time

    Europeans and Americans, and especially Western students, know very little, if anything, about Africa and its extraordinary political leaders. At the Institute of Political Science, in the political leadership courses, the focus is on the great political leaders who shaped world history, such as...
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  • No Greater Love by Dusengumuremyi, Jean D'Amour
    Jean D'Amour Dusengumuremyi

    No Greater Love

    This book gives testimonies of the exemplary life and death of Sister Felicitas Niyitegeka, the director of the Centre Saint-Pierre in Gisenyi, Rwanda. During the 1994 Genocide, she helped many Tutsi to escape by giving them shelter and helping to cross the border to...
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  • Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Monaville, Pedro
    Pedro Monaville

    Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

    On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later...
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  • Remembering Genocides in Central Africa by Lemarchand, Rene
    Rene Lemarchand

    Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

    Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research...
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  • In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Pawson, Lara
    Lara Pawson

    In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre

    On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of in Angola today - and virtually unknown outside...
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  • The Discourse of British and German Colonialism: Convergence and Competition by Rash, Felicity
    Felicity Rash

    The Discourse of British and German Colonialism: Convergence and Competition

    This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project from as early as the sixteenth...
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  • Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Wrong, Michela
    Michela Wrong

    Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

    A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa's Great...
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  • In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by Daughton, J. P.
    J. P. Daughton

    In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Oc饌n Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

    The Congo-Oc饌n railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were...
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  • Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Kara, Siddharth
    Siddharth Kara

    Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

    The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red...
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  • On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, C.1830-1890 by Gooding, Philip
    Philip Gooding

    On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, C.1830-1890

    This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Philip Gooding deploys diverse source materials, including oral, climatological, anthropological, and archaeological sources, to ground interpretations of the better-known, European-authored...
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  • Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone by Simons, Anna
    Anna Simons

    Networks Of Dissolution: Somalia Undone

    This book aims to analyze the making of a pivotal moment in Somali history. It charts new ground in the study of the dissolution of a state at all levels, shuttling back and forth between micro and macro frames, historical and everyday practices, and...
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  • Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga by Maxwell, David
    David Maxwell

    Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga

    The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators--the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga--in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of...
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  • How Nigeria Became Independent: Short history about Nigeria by Joseph, John
    John Joseph

    How Nigeria Became Independent: Short history about Nigeria

    This book is talking about how Nigeria became independent from the colonials peopleAuthor: John Joseph, Prof Ibrahim DanladiISBN-10: 8354051749ISBN-13: 9798354051748Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2022Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.10d
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  • In the Ranks of the C.I.V. by Childers, Erskine
    Erskine Childers

    In the Ranks of the C.I.V.

    This Book "In the Ranks of the C.I.V." has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
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  • Shaping Claims to Urban Land by Overbeek, Fons Van
    Fons Van Overbeek

    Shaping Claims to Urban Land: An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces

    The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms, processes...
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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 Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, History, Africa by Doyle, Arthur Conan
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle, History, Africa

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many more novels, stories and works of nonfiction than the immortal tales of Sherlock Holmes. His interests, also, were broad-ranging. Conan Doyle became outraged upon learning of the abuses of human life that were committed as a result of...
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  • Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History by Trueman, Edmund
    Edmund Trueman

    Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History

    The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian rule. The country has played a crucial role in the economic growth of the...
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  • History of the Catholic Church in Zambia, 1895-1995 by Hinfelaar, Hugo
    Hugo Hinfelaar

    History of the Catholic Church in Zambia, 1895-1995

    A History of the Catholic Church in Zambia from 1895 to 1995. The book starts with the development of the first Mission foundations and draws out the development of all significant Catholic institutions in Zambia.Author: Hugo HinfelaarISBN-10: 1515284034ISBN-13: 9781515284031Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa by Schulz, Hiltrud
    Hiltrud Schulz

    Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa

    A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA'S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent's highest mountain and the world's tallest freestanding mountain. It is a geological wonder formed, sculpted, and...
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