African history books

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Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute

Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute...

Author: Peers, Chris
ISBN: 9781784387563
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Enthralling hour-by-hour investigation into the extraordinary events at Isandlwana.  Read More >>

Sundiata

Sundiata

Author: Djibril T Niane
ISBN: 9798758218891
Format: Paperback
$18.99

The Sundiata Keith or Epic of Sundiata (likewise alluded to as the Sundiata Epic or Sunjata Epic) is an epic sonnet...  Read More >>

The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo

The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial...

Author: Daniel Tödt ,  Alex Skinner
ISBN: 9783110708691
Format: Hardback
$120.03

How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book...  Read More >>

Ramblings of a life in Africa

Ramblings of a life in Africa

Author: Anita Bunn
ISBN: 9780620946773
Format: Paperback
$41.37

During 1988 Anita Bunn left South Africa for America to see how other people lived. It would be for 36 months, she...  Read More >>

An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race

An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of...

Author: Shobana Shankar (Stony Brook University)
ISBN: 9780197619407
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A definitive cultural and political history of how race and racialization have brought Africans and Indians together,...  Read More >>

Where Credit Is Due: How Africa's Debt Can Be a Benefit, Not a Burden

Where Credit Is Due: How Africa's Debt Can Be a Benefit,...

Author: Gregory Smith
ISBN: 9780197619971
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Analyzes the strategy of many African countries that have borrowed in the multi-trillion global debt market, financing...  Read More >>

Simulizi Za Bi Time: Hadithi za Ncha Saba

Simulizi Za Bi Time: Hadithi za Ncha Saba

Author: Mohammed Ghassani
ISBN: 9781471606656
Format: Paperback
$20.86

"Huu ni mkusanyiko wa hadithi za paukwa-pakawa zinazosimuliwa katika jamii za Waswahili wa visiwa vya Zanzibar kama...  Read More >>

Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health

Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public...

Author: Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
ISBN: 9780815627661
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the...  Read More >>

Unleashing My Superpowers

Unleashing My Superpowers

Author: Patience Mpofu
ISBN: 9780645233711
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Sustainability Mining Thought Leader Dr. Patience Mpofu Releases a Bestseller to Empower Women in Science and inspires...  Read More >>

The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological...

Author: Mohamed El Mansour
ISBN: 9781032177304
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The study of Muslim societies has been the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view...  Read More >>

Guillaume de Machaut: The Capture of Alexandria

Guillaume de Machaut: The Capture of Alexandria

Author: Janet Shirley ,  Peter W. Edbury
ISBN: 9781032180205
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa: The Cases of Trade and HIV/AIDS

Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa: The...

Author: Andréas Godsäter
ISBN: 9781032179506
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa: 1930s–1990s

Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa: 1930s–1990s...

Author: Duncan Money (University of the Free State, South Africa) ,  Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (University of Basel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781032173863
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern...  Read More >>

Common Ground: Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges, 19021961

Common Ground: Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges,...

Author: Nicholas J Clarke ,  Roger C Fisher
ISBN: 9789460225338
Format: Hardback
$113.82

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known...  Read More >>

A Missionary Nation: Race, Religion, and Spain's Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841–1881

A Missionary Nation: Race, Religion, and Spain's Age...

Author: Scott Eastman
ISBN: 9781496204165
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa

Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries...

Author: Lennart Bolliger
ISBN: 9780821424551
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Thousands of Black troops served in South Africa’s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger’s...  Read More >>

The Underground World of Secret Jews and Africans: Two Tales of Sex, Magic, and Survival in Colonial Cartagena and Mexico City

The Underground World of Secret Jews and Africans: Two...

Author: Jonathan Schorsch
ISBN: 9781558769533
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Explores the question of how free and enslaved Africans and secret Jews interacted in daily life. The book focuses...  Read More >>

Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa

Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of...

Author: Joshua D. Rubin
ISBN: 9780472055005
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research...  Read More >>

European and Non-European Societies, 1450–1800: Volume I: The Longue Durée, Eurocentrism, Encounters on the Periphery of Africa and Asia

European and Non-European Societies, 1450–1800: Volume...

Author: Robert Forster
ISBN: 9781138335721
Format: Paperback
$71.99

First published in 1997, this volume looks at the process of European expansion which brought into contact societies...  Read More >>

The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved...

Author: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
ISBN: 9781469663609
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the...  Read More >>

The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved...

Author: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
ISBN: 9781469663593
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the US Lower South on the eve of the...  Read More >>

Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa

Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of...

Author: Joshua D. Rubin
ISBN: 9780472075003
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research...  Read More >>

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