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  • Kenyan Foreign and Security Policies

    The Jomo Kenyatta Presidency and Legacy

    by Ambassador Kipyego Cheluget, Dr. Stephen Wright ...
    Kipyego Cheluget and Stephen Wright evaluate the legacy of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta.Following a nationalist uprising and brutal colonial repression, Kenya became independent in December 1963. With much of the agricultural land still under European settler control, Jomo Kenyatta promoted foreign and security policies to balance Kenyan, African, and settler interests, attracting ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Betrayal of Africa

    A Groundwork Guide

    by Gerald Caplan, Jane Springer ...
    Series Book 6 - Groundwork Guides
    "[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and MailThink Africa, and many people think of brutal war, endless famine, pervasive corruption, unworthy rulers, universal poverty, an AIDS epidemic out of control. As this book ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Africa Works

    Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier

    by Joe Studwell ...
    “[O]ne of the most original and important books on Africa in years.”—Financial Times“Challenges outdated narratives and makes a compelling case for the continent's economic potential.”—Bill GatesThe acclaimed author of How Asia Works brings his “pithy, well-written and intellectually vigorous” (Financial Times) reporting to Africa, revealing essential, promising lessons about the engines of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Why Africa Fails

    The case for growth before democracy

    by Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha ...
    Africa should accept that its present malaise is largely due to its own mistakes: greed, poor policies and a lack of leadership. Blaming colonialism for Africa’s failings belongs to the past. Africa has been lessed with great wealth, but where has this wealth gone? Why are so many countries in need of aid? And why has this wealth not filtered down to poor people? Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha surveys ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Kenya

    A History Since Independence

    by Charles Hornsby ...
    Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its borders and political system intact and avoiding open war with its neighbours and military rule internally. It has been a favoured site for Western aid, trade, investment and tourism and has remained a close security partner for Western governments. However, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Role of Regional Integration in Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution in Africa

    The Case of African Union

    by Joram Mukama Biswaro ...
    This book seeks to trace and evaluate the performance of various mechanisms established by the African Union since its inception in 1963 to manage the current African situation. This work cites different case studies such as Burundi, the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea. ... Read more

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  • A Predictable Tragedy

    Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe

    by Daniel Compagnon ...
    When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Liberation Movements in Power

    Party and State in Southern Africa

    by Roger Southall, Roger Southall ...
    The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Politics South Africa

    by Heather Deegan ...
    South Africas democratic transformation in 1994 captured the attention of the international community. Politics: South Africa provides an acute appraisal of the critical moments in the history of South Africa, and examines the political environment in the years following the shift to democracy.Under the leadership of the revered figure of Nelson Mandela, the rainbow nation achieved the transition ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Morning in South Africa

    by John Campbell ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    This incisive, deeply informed book introduces post-apartheid South Africa to an international audience. South Africa has a history of racism and white supremacy. This crushing historical burden continues to resonate today. Under President Jacob Zuma, South Africa is treading water. Nevertheless, despite calls to undermine the 1994 political settlement characterized by human rights guarantees and ... Read more

    $31.59 USD

  • Fuelling War

    Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts

    by Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from resource exploitation benefit repressive regimes and rebel groups, at a massive cost for local populations. This Adelphi Paper analyses the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Security, Diplomacy and Trade

    Edited by Adekeye Adebajo, Kudrat Virk ...
    South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon.This book provides the first comprehensive ... Read more

    $141.79 USD