African history books

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Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years on

Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years...

Author: Leigh Neville ,  Joe Barrett
ISBN: 9781987148138
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$197.97

A story of equipment failures, bad luck, poor planning, and unbelievable courage written 25 years after the battle...  Read More >>

France, Algeria and the Moving Image: Screening Histories of Violence 1963-2010

France, Algeria and the Moving Image: Screening Histories...

Author: Maria Flood
ISBN: 9781781883877
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The need to address complex interactions between colonization, past and present violence, and audio-visual representation...  Read More >>

Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam...

Author: Sarah Hillewaert
ISBN: 9780823286515
Format: Hardback
$250.95

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores...  Read More >>

Exodus: The Exodus Revelation by Trey Smith

Exodus: The Exodus Revelation by Trey Smith

Author: Trey Smith
ISBN: 9781733490351
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Exodus: This presentation of the Exodus is likely the mos most unusual in the world. It is a factual journey through...  Read More >>

Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths

Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths

Author: Allen F. Roberts ,  Tom Joyce
ISBN: 9780990762669
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment...  Read More >>

Dennis Brutus: The South African Years

Dennis Brutus: The South African Years

Author: Tyrone August
ISBN: 9781928246343
Format: Paperback
$77.50

Focuses on the life of Dennis Brutus in South Africa from his childhood until he went into exile on an exit permit...  Read More >>

Understanding South Africa

Understanding South Africa

Author: Carien du Plessis ,  Martin Plaut
ISBN: 9781787382046
Format: Paperback
$42.95

The go-to guide for those seeking an informed, balanced and up-to-date analysis of South African politics and society...  Read More >>

Jan Smuts: Son of the Veld, Pilgrim of the World

Jan Smuts: Son of the Veld, Pilgrim of the World

Author: Dan Kriek ,  Chris de Jager
ISBN: 9781485308164
Format: Hardback
$67.27

Jan Smuts, one of the most infamous South Africans of the twentieth century remains a controversial figure. Was...  Read More >>

Women and War in Rwanda: Gender, Media and the Representation of Genocide

Women and War in Rwanda: Gender, Media and the Representation...

Author: Georgina Holmes (University of Reading, UK)
ISBN: 9781838605797
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Georgina Holmes argues that the media represents a site within which political and military actors can influence...  Read More >>

Life Expectancy in Africa: Improving Public Health Policy

Life Expectancy in Africa: Improving Public Health Policy...

Author: Augustine Adu Frimpong ,  Onyumbe B. Lukongo
ISBN: 9781793603562
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book examines life expectancy in Africa in the context of improving public health policy, making use of exploratory...  Read More >>

Portuguese Dragoons, 1966-1974: The Return to Horseback

Portuguese Dragoons, 1966-1974: The Return to Horseback...

Author: John P. Cann
ISBN: 9781912866281
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In 1966 Portugal needed a force that could combine mobility with the ability to engage insurgents; one solution...  Read More >>

Congo Unravelled: Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt 1960-68

Congo Unravelled: Military Operations from Independence...

Author: Andrew Hudson
ISBN: 9781912866861
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Congo Unravelled solves the intractable complexity of this violent period by dispassionately outlining the sequence...  Read More >>

Zambezi Valley Insurgency: Early Rhodesian Bush War Operations

Zambezi Valley Insurgency: Early Rhodesian Bush War...

Author: J. R. T. Wood
ISBN: 9781912866854
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This book describes and examines the first phase of the 'bush war' during which the Rhodesian forces honed their...  Read More >>

Consuls and Captives: Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Consuls and Captives: Dutch-North African Diplomacy...

Author: Erica Heinsen-Roach (Author)
ISBN: 9781580469746
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Analyzes how negotiations between Dutch consuls and North African rulers over the liberation of Dutch sailors helped...  Read More >>

Nation Without Narration: History, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Cameroon

Nation Without Narration: History, Memory and Identity...

Author: Ramon A Fonkoué
ISBN: 9781604979664
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building...  Read More >>

Easy Soup Cookbook: The Complete Cookbook To Learn How To Make Soup Guide With Over 100 Delicious And Tasty Soup Recipes

Easy Soup Cookbook: The Complete Cookbook To Learn How...

Author: Carrie Anderson
ISBN: 9781673813470
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years

Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta...

Author: Anaïs Angelo (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9781108494045
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Reconstructing Jomo Kenyatta's political biography and presidency in order to explore the links between his emergence...  Read More >>

Inside Independent Nigeria: Diaries of Wolfgang Stolper, 1960-1962

Inside Independent Nigeria: Diaries of Wolfgang Stolper,...

Author: Clive S. Gray
ISBN: 9781138717992
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This title was first published in 2003.Wolfgang Stolper was one of the first Western economists to serve as an adviser...  Read More >>

Rewriting Islamic Law: The Opinions of the 'Ulamā' Towards Codification of Personal Status Law in Egypt

Rewriting Islamic Law: The Opinions of the 'Ulamā' Towards...

Author: Tarek Elgawhary
ISBN: 9781463239084
Format: Hardback
$303.47

This book explores the process, effects, and results of codification of Egyptian personal status laws as seen through...  Read More >>

Diplomacy and Borderlands: African Agency at the Intersections of Orders

Diplomacy and Borderlands: African Agency at the Intersections...

Author: Katharina Coleman ,  Markus Kornprobst (Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9780367273323
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines Africa’s internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy...  Read More >>

Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism...

Author: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
ISBN: 9780472074136
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Examines how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade...  Read More >>

The Progenies of the Babylonian Empire: The Origin, Migration and Settlement of the Black Africans

The Progenies of the Babylonian Empire: The Origin,...

Author: K J Liah
ISBN: 9780648654162
Format: Paperback
$60.75

THE PROGENIES OF THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE is a historical vignette of the mis-representation, racism and blackmailing...  Read More >>

An Economic History of West Africa

An Economic History of West Africa

Author: A. G. Hopkins (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780367002435
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the economic history of...  Read More >>

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