African history books

The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Secret service in South Africa This book, Secret service in South Africa, by Douglas Blackburn, W. Waithman Caddell,...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Bureau of printing Subjects:...  Read More >>

All That Matters about Ancient Egypt. All That Matters books are a fast way to get right to the heart of key issues....  Read More >>

This edited collection is the first book-length project to undertake a multidisciplinary study of democratization...  Read More >>

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments...  Read More >>

Rwanda: Rebuilding of a Nation is a story that takes the reader through a sweeping panorama of Rwanda's history,...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This book is the outcome of a PhD Thesis that made an archaeological examination of cultural interactions in the...  Read More >>

Seeks to examine the Eritrean National Liberation Movement of 1961- 1991 by critically analysing the internal progress...  Read More >>

P.Khalil Saucier and Tryon P.Woods make the case that racism and colourism (here referred to as AntiBlackness) have...  Read More >>

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Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works,...  Read More >>

The earliest reference to the Pygmies occurs in the narrative of Andrew Battell, who spent three years in the kingdom...  Read More >>

A history of Zambia, formerly named Northern Rhodesia, during the struggle for independence from Britain and events...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75. It...  Read More >>

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In this introduction to the career of an enigmatic leader, Sebastian Balfour traces Fidel Castro's path to power,...  Read More >>

The author returns, twenty years after the genoicide, to Rwanda and the eastern Congo April 2014 marks the twentieth...  Read More >>

Describes the position of the smith in the culture of the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria....  Read More >>

Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day...  Read More >>

This book Trends in African Studies is a response to the challenge of the paucity of materials on the history and...  Read More >>

A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West...  Read More >>

Examines land management programs pushed by the colonial government in western Kenya between 1920 and 1963, analyzing...  Read More >>