African history books

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Tanzania: Everything You Need to Know

Tanzania: Everything You Need to Know

Author: Noah Gil-Smith
ISBN: 9798856703954
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Embark on an unforgettable journey through the heart of Tanzania with our captivating book. Delve into the diverse...  Read More >>

Equals in Learning and Piety: Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America

Equals in Learning and Piety: Muslim Women Scholars...

Author: Beverly Mack
ISBN: 9780299342609
Format: Hardback
$211.07

An intellectual history of the Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that...  Read More >>

Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future

Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and...

Author: Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik
ISBN: 9781503634824
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military...  Read More >>

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana

Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana

Author: Barry Driscoll
ISBN: 9780896803275
Format: Hardback
$211.20

This quantitative and qualitative account of Ghanaian development shows how closely fought elections drive subnational...  Read More >>

Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-optation in North Africa

Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian...

Author: Sofia Fenner
ISBN: 9780231208581
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Shouting in a Cage offers new ways to understand co-optation’s power and its limits by examining two co-opted parties,...  Read More >>

Eritrea: Everything You Need to Know

Eritrea: Everything You Need to Know

Author: Noah Gil-Smith
ISBN: 9798856533193
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Embark on an enthralling journey to the enchanting nation of Eritrea with our captivating book. Immerse yourself...  Read More >>

Histories of Nationalism beyond Europe: Myths, Elitism and Transnational Connections

Histories of Nationalism beyond Europe: Myths, Elitism...

Author: Jan Záhořík ,  Antonio M. Morone
ISBN: 9783030926786
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This edited collection explores varying shapes of nationalism in different regional and historical settings in order...  Read More >>

Anglo-Zulu War (1879): British Empire vs Zulu Kingdom

Anglo-Zulu War (1879): British Empire vs Zulu Kingdom...

Author: Daniel Patel
ISBN: 9798856309101
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Fame

Fame

Author: Malvin Sibusiso Tshabangu
ISBN: 9798223548652
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book.' SIMON REEVE

It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country...

Author: Astrid Madimba ,  Chinny Ukata
ISBN: 9781529376814
Format: Paperback
$26.99

IT'S A CONTINENT is the illuminating history book that aims to unravel misconceptions and celebrate Africa's rich...  Read More >>

The Decline and Fall of the Athens of West Africa

The Decline and Fall of the Athens of West Africa

Author: Akibo Robinson
ISBN: 9781669876960
Format: Hardback
$97.65

The country owed its name to the Portuguese explorer, Petro da Cintra, who was the first European to sight and map...  Read More >>

Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom

Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity...

Author: Leslie Fesenmyer (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009335072
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas...  Read More >>

Scandinavian History: From the Ice Age to the Modern Day, A Comprehensive Overview of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland & The Vikings: Explore Timeless Tales, Myths, Heroes, Villains, Gladiators, Epic Battles, Legendary Stories & Much More

Scandinavian History: From the Ice Age to the Modern...

Author: History Brought Alive
ISBN: 9781088160800
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Scandinavian History Comes Alive: A Fascinating Tour Through Time Begin now with This Book  Read More >>

Churchill and Africa: Empire, Decolonisation and Race

Churchill and Africa: Empire, Decolonisation and Race...

Author: C Brad Faught
ISBN: 9781526768544
Format: Hardback
$59.99

First major free-standing work on Churchill and Africa - fills lacuna in vast Churchill literature. Book's main...  Read More >>

Africa: A Home To Many

Africa: A Home To Many

Author: Godwin Ozoemenam
ISBN: 9798854552233
Format: Paperback
$31.65

"Africa, the second-largest continent on Earth, is a land of remarkable diversity and cultural richness. From its...  Read More >>

Dreams and Dust

Dreams and Dust

Author: Alex Stone
ISBN: 9781776468201
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Dreams & Dust is a unique book and an important contribution to the evolving new historiography of South Africa....  Read More >>

Enyangi y'Ebitinge: Traditional Wedding in Gusii

Enyangi y'Ebitinge: Traditional Wedding in Gusii

Author: Daniel M Mokaya
ISBN: 9781926906904
Format: Paperback
$71.28

The book outlines the steps followed in the marriage process in traditional Gusii.  Read More >>

The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930

The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900...

Author: David L. Schoenbrun
ISBN: 9780299332549
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Building on an amazing array of sources, David Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative labour that people...  Read More >>

Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial...

Author: Sakiru Adebayo
ISBN: 9780472056231
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Argues that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched...  Read More >>

Launching Into the Unknown: The Beautiful and Bewildering World of the Sudanese

Launching Into the Unknown: The Beautiful and Bewildering...

Author: Leoma Gilley
ISBN: 9781955272957
Format: Paperback
$52.67

""What should I bring to Africa?"" The answer I got to that question at 31 years old was ""Whatever makes you...  Read More >>

The Long Obedience: The Political Career of Zach de Beer, 1953-1994

The Long Obedience: The Political Career of Zach de...

Author: Alex Mouton
ISBN: 9781485314493
Format: Paperback
$56.93

""Zach's life was an example to others in steadfastness and courage against the worst possible odds."" - Kader Asmal...  Read More >>

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers

Author: Alexander Hamilton ,  John Jay
ISBN: 9789355223487
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Written at a time when furious arguments are raging about the best way to govern America, this title aims of persuading...  Read More >>

O Jogo da Guerra - História da África Histórias da Guerra do Pecado

O Jogo da Guerra - História da África Histórias da Guerra...

Author: Indrajeet Nayak
ISBN: 9798223670124
Format: Paperback
$71.57

"Embarque em uma emocionante jornada pela tumultuada história das guerras do pecado na África com ""The Game of...  Read More >>

La Vérité sur l'Algérie

La Vérité sur l'Algérie

Author: Jean Hess
ISBN: 9783988811158
Format: Paperback
$60.69

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