History - Africa - Central

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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....

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,...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 72 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy InsollAuthor: Timothy A. R. ClackISBN-10: 1407301179ISBN-13: 9781407301174Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2007Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.35d

This study examines the complex range of forces that have shaped the conflict in Somalia, and recommends contributions which NGOs might make towards the building of a lasting peace.Author: Mark BradburyISBN-10: 0855982713ISBN-13: 9780855982713Publisher: OxfamLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/1994Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.10w x 0.30d

This volume examines the history of Angola since independence in 1975, and in particular the fact that the country has known only one year of peace in that time. The contributions come from a conference held in Cambridge.Author: Keith Hart,Joanna LewisISBN-10: 0852553943ISBN-13: 9780852553947Publisher: James...

This book addresses Cameroon's culture, education and language policies since independence, scholarship on and vigorous debate about them, their bearings on different visions of national development, and their place in the political struggle between autocracy and democracy since 1990. A synoptic view of half...

"German Colonization Past and Future: The Truth About the German Colonies" is a compelling historical defense of German colonial policy and administration during the early 20th century. Written by Dr. Heinrich Schnee, the former Governor of German East Africa, the work provides a detailed...

Cobalt powers the clean energy future. Few people see the lives it consumes. What you're about to discover will change how you see electric vehicles, smartphones, and the promise of a green revolution. In Cobalt Red: The Human Cost of Congo's Green Energy Mines,...

The author looks at the former Belgian Congo during the turbulent sixties. He also looks at the events that followed, including American involvement, in the bleeding heart of Africa. Mercenaries from apartheid South Africa were also some of the most important players on the...

Author: John DrysdaleISBN-10: 1874209731ISBN-13: 9781874209737Publisher: Haan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 208Format: Paperback

Author: Thomas P. Odom,Combat Studies InstituteISBN-10: 1780394578ISBN-13: 9781780394572Publisher: Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2011Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is still commonly thought of as the most picturesque of Britain's colonies overseas. By tracing the life histories of Kenya's 'white...

A Mourner of Swine, although centered within an African environment, sends its message across the imaginary, ethnic and cultural dimensions that has deterred our focus away from the expanding realities of our diminishing global village. A village that reminds us of just how small...

I, Nkoi, am with fear.It is 1960. Almost all the black people of Congo are with great hope and joy. On June 30th they will receive Independence. Yet, I, Nkoi, am with fear. Maybe my life will always be one of fear and trouble....

'Mokili Andelo' is the beautifully told story of Mokili, young son of a Congolese Bambole Chief, growing up in the Congo of the 1930s and 40s. Born into Bambole Tradition, but drawn to the incoming Baptist Mission, young Mokili faces with courage and an...

He's back! Book number four in a series of eight exciting and humorous adventures of a professional killer - who wants to get out of the business - and pimp - who keeps finding himself in the business - in Post-Civil War America. He's...

Winstanley: Mystic Religious Writer and Leader of early Socialist? The Diggers lead by Winstanley tried to provide an answer for the landless poor and workingmen of 17th England. Their efforts were rebuffed but not forgotten.Author: William E. CooperISBN-10: 1432762230ISBN-13: 9781432762230Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2010Pages:...

"When we think of Martyr, most people have in mind men who have died or been crucifi ed or jailed for espousing causes in which they believed." Claude M. Bristol The Magic of Believing "Th e greatest of all forms of happiness comes as...

The book chronicles the life of an Austrian couple and their young daughter, who came to live in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in the late 1920s. It describes how the head of the family, the future Government Sociologist of Tanzania, started out as a wealthy...

Blessed with fertile and well-watered soil, East Africa's kingdom of Buganda supported a relatively dense population and became a major regional power by the mid-nineteenth century. This complex and fascinating state has also long been in need of a thorough study that cuts through...

The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. Njombe's people came to see themselves as excluded from agricultural markets, access...

This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education to subvert it. These...

Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations.This...

A powerful, eloquent, passionate and poetic autobiographical document from one of the 20th century's most influential leaders in the fight for racial equality.Author: W. E. B. Du BoisISBN-10: 1716792746ISBN-13: 9781716792748Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2020Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20-30 African kingdoms. In his magisterial new study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were able to dominate...

This independent scholarly contribution provides an in-depth engagement with foundational cultural and historical themes of the Bamenda Grassfields. When read alongside Volume 1, it offers a critical re-examination of the region's dynamic socio-cultural evolution. Expanding inquiries into traditional authority, indigenous agency, environmental knowledge, and...

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...

This book provides an in-depth study of the nature and pattern of educational development in Cameroon from 1844 to the post-independence period. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including hitherto unused archival material and formal interviews with people involved in Cameroon's pre-colonial, colonial...

The King's African Rifles War Memorial in Zomba has long been a focal point of Malawi memories of the First World War. Now, Chiwaya War Echoes offers a fuller view of how Malawi was involved in both twentieth century world wars. These transcripts of...

First World War 1914-1918: Ends in Zambia: A Journalist's Perspective, is a book that gathers documented evidence from sources such as heritage institutions and descendants whose ancestors fought in the war. The author has packaged the material in thematic and chronological articles, confirming that...

Over nearly seven decades the chronicles and happenings of the British South Africa Police, together with the experiences of ordinary members of the Force, have been recorded in the Police magazines. First there was The Police Review, founded in 1911, then the Rhodesian Defence...

This comprehensive history delves into the complex and often overlooked story of the Republic of the Congo, distinguishing it from its larger neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The narrative begins in the pre-colonial era, exploring the sophisticated kingdoms of Kongo, Loango, and...

From the sacred drums of an ancient kingdom to the turbulent politics of the 21st century, this book chronicles the complex and often tragic history of Burundi, the small nation known as the "Heart of Africa." It explores the pre-colonial society where the lines...