African history books

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"""Sorry. I am what I am."" The Life and Letters of the South African Pianist and Opera Coach Gordon Jephtas (1943- 92)"

"""Sorry. I am what I am."" The Life and Letters of...

Author: Hilde Roos ,  F�roll-Jon Davids
ISBN: 9783906927589
Format: Paperback
$101.64

"Gordon Jephtas (1943-92) was born into an impoverished, coloured, single-parent family in South Africa. He began...  Read More >>

Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance: Occupational Lung Disease and the Buying and Selling of Labour in Southern Africa

Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance: Occupational...

Author: Jock McCulloch ,  Pavla Miller
ISBN: 9789811983290
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa

Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar...

Author: Lacey Sparks
ISBN: 9783031235207
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance: Occupational Lung Disease and the Buying and Selling of Labour in Southern Africa

Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance: Occupational...

Author: Jock McCulloch ,  Pavla Miller
ISBN: 9789811983269
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous...  Read More >>

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives...

Author: Siddharth Kara
ISBN: 9781250284303
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications

Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges,...

Author: Sarah Yerkes
ISBN: 9781399503693
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Examines the impact of the changing geopolitical environment on a range of governance issues in North Africa  Read More >>

Mission, Race and Colonialism in Malawi: Alexander Hetherwick of Blantyre

Mission, Race and Colonialism in Malawi: Alexander Hetherwick...

Author: Kenneth R. Ross
ISBN: 9781399517416
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A fresh assessment of how mission, race and colonialism intersected in the life of Scottish missionary Alexander...  Read More >>

Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa: with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals.

Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa: with...

Author: Paul Du Chaillu
ISBN: 9781915645180
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Written by Paul du Chaillu, the explorer who was the first outsider to confirm the existence of the Pygmy people...  Read More >>

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa:...

Author: Rachel Sigman (University of Denver)
ISBN: 9781009262835
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Drawing upon in-depth case studies of Benin and Ghana, Rachel Sigman explains the strategies political parties use...  Read More >>

History of Music

History of Music

Author: Adewumi Adedoyin
ISBN: 9798391222248
Format: Paperback
$18.48

Our favorite melodies release dopamine, known as the feel-good hormone, which activates our brain's pleasure and...  Read More >>

Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

Author: Herbert Ward
ISBN: 9781915645173
Format: Paperback
$50.03

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.  Read More >>

Great Kingdoms of Africa

Great Kingdoms of Africa

Author: John Parker ,  David Adjaye
ISBN: 9780500252529
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts....  Read More >>

On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British...

Author: Jochen Lingelbach
ISBN: 9781800739123
Format: Paperback
$72.32

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Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance...

Author: Kristen Collins ,  Bryan C Keene
ISBN: 9781606067857
Format: Paperback
$72.95

This abundantly illustrated book examines the figure of Balthazar, one of the biblical magi, and explains how and...  Read More >>

History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border

History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on...

Author: Peter Wafula Wekesa
ISBN: 9781666919240
Format: Hardback
$184.00

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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966

The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit...

Author: Frank Gerits
ISBN: 9781501767913
Format: Hardback
$179.39

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Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle

Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South...

Author: Emily Bridger
ISBN: 9781847013620
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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African Language Media

African Language Media

Author: Phillip Mpofu ,  Israel A. Fadipe
ISBN: 9781032395272
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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The Historical Chronicle of Abū ʿAbdallāh Maḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dukkālī: Fes in the Mid-18th Century (1149/1736-1179/1766)

The Historical Chronicle of Abū ʿAbdallāh Maḥammad Ibn...

Author: Norman Cigar
ISBN: 9789004525146
Format: Hardback
$472.56

Ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dukkālī’s Historical Chronicle edited and translated by Norman Cigar is a rare contemporary source...  Read More >>

Infinite Love: Melanin Love Stories to Color

Infinite Love: Melanin Love Stories to Color

Author: Afrosynthesis Society
ISBN: 9798390187715
Format: Paperback
$26.37

"Welcome to ""Infinite Love: Melanin Love Stories to Color""! This exquisitely designed coloring book is a celebration...  Read More >>

I believe in you Hooyo

I believe in you Hooyo

Author: Abdirahman Mohamud
ISBN: 9781471015564
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"""My Son I believe in You"" tells the extraordinary story of Manow Waqti, a forty-four-year-old math teacher, who...  Read More >>

We Rest Here Content: The monuments and headstones of the Imperial Light Horse

We Rest Here Content: The monuments and headstones of...

Author: Robin Smith
ISBN: 9781915660497
Format: Paperback
$132.74

We Rest Here Content is not the history of the Imperial Light Horse Regiment - that was written by the regiment's...  Read More >>

The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide

The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide...

Author: Andrew Kaufman
ISBN: 9781630450816
Format: Paperback
$50.03

The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of...  Read More >>

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