African history books

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Colonial Seeds in African Soil: A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone

Colonial Seeds in African Soil: A Critical History of...

Author: Paul Munro
ISBN: 9781789206258
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels...  Read More >>

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and...

Author: Adam Hochschild ,  Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780358212508
Format: Paperback
$47.49

With a new foreword from best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and a new afterword, King's Leopold Ghost is riveting,...  Read More >>

Phenemes, Graphemes and Democracy: The Significance of Accuracy in the Orthographical Development of IsiXhosa

Phenemes, Graphemes and Democracy: The Significance...

Author: Zandisile W. Saul ,  Rudolph Botha
ISBN: 9781869144388
Format: Paperback
$29.70

Provides comprehensive guidelines on important aspects of isiXhosa orthography such as word division, spelling and...  Read More >>

The Man Behind the Beard Deneys Schreiner: A South African Liberal Life

The Man Behind the Beard Deneys Schreiner: A South African...

Author: Graham Dominy
ISBN: 9781869144449
Format: Paperback
$63.36

This biography sets out the contexts of Deneys Schreiner's forebears, his youth, wartime service, studies in Britain...  Read More >>

In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa: A travelogue in isiXhosa and English

In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa:...

Author: Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu ,  Cecil Wele Manona
ISBN: 9781776144761
Format: Paperback
$62.07

D.D.T. Jabavu’s account of his journey to India in 1949, in the original isiXhosa and with an English translation...  Read More >>

Troubling Images: Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism

Troubling Images: Visual Culture and the Politics of...

Author: Federico Freschi ,  Brenda Schmahmann
ISBN: 9781776144716
Format: Paperback
$100.91

Offers a critical account of the role of art and visual culture in the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary....  Read More >>

The Training of African Teachers in Natal from 1846–1964

The Training of African Teachers in Natal from 1846–1964...

Author: Nicolas Schicketanz
ISBN: 9781869144425
Format: Paperback
$64.56

The history of African teacher training in Natal is one of the most neglected and under-researched aspects of educational...  Read More >>

Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in Africa

Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in...

Author: Werner Zips ,  Manuela Zips-Mairitsch
ISBN: 9783643910905
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Transfrontier conservation challenges African borders, the colonial scars of history . The global tourism industry...  Read More >>

Africa - Ifriqiya: Continuity and Change in North Africa from the Byzantine to the Early Islamic Age. Papers of a Conference Held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano - Terme Di Diocleziano, 28 February - 2 March 2013

Africa - Ifriqiya: Continuity and Change in North Africa...

Author: Ralf Bockmann ,  Anna Leone
ISBN: 9783447113335
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Africa - Ifriqiya is dedicated to the study of the transformational period that marked the end of Antiquity in the...  Read More >>

Working Class Homosexuality in South African History: Angel and the Ingqingili

Working Class Homosexuality in South African History:...

Author: Iain Edwards ,  Marc Epprecht
ISBN: 9780796925831
Format: Paperback
$77.50

Based on a previously unpublished primary source from the early twentieth century, as well as unique interviews...  Read More >>

Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern

Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern

Author: Liz Gunner (University of Johannesburg)
ISBN: 9781108456357
Format: Paperback
$80.19

How did Zulu Radio in apartheid South Africa, intended to stifle debate, become one of the largest stations in Africa?...  Read More >>

Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected Writings of Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar

Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected Writings...

Author: Yousuf Dadoo ,  Auwais Rafudeen
ISBN: 9781776150557
Format: Paperback
$46.20

A prominent mystic and renowned anti-colonial warrior from Indonesia, Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar, was exiled to South...  Read More >>

Battle for Angola: Portuguese West Africa: a History of Conflict

Battle for Angola: Portuguese West Africa: a History...

Author: Al J. Venter
ISBN: 9781912866038
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History

Author: Dr. John Binns (Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies, UK)
ISBN: 9780567695024
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally...  Read More >>

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the...

Author: Toby Green
ISBN: 9780141977669
Format: Paperback
$37.99

A ground-breaking history that revolutionizes our view of West Africa By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa'...  Read More >>

Africa History and Culture

Africa History and Culture

Author: Mariama Khan ,  Grasian Mkodzongi
ISBN: 9781792408038
Format: Paperback
$117.70

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The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and...

Author: Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108489102
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Challenging the view of epidemics as purely biological events, this study focuses on the political life of Zimbabwe's...  Read More >>

The State in North Africa: After the Arab Uprisings

The State in North Africa: After the Arab Uprisings...

Author: Luis Martinez ,  Cynthia Schoch
ISBN: 9781787382961
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Ever since independence, revolts and riots in North Africa have structured relations between society and the state....  Read More >>

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Author: Alain-Michel Boyer
ISBN: 9788874398683
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Exploring the masks of an African culture that were one of Picasso's primary influences.  Read More >>

The Manuscripts Of Timbuktu: Secrets, Myths and Realities

The Manuscripts Of Timbuktu: Secrets, Myths and Realities...

Author: Jean-Michel Djian ,  Christopher Wise
ISBN: 9781569026380
Format: Paperback
$82.77

What do we really know about Timbuktu?  Read More >>

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