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  • Imagining Serengeti

    A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

    by Jan Bender Shetler ...
    Series series New African Histories
    Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Black History: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This e-book is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.Know your stuff: read about Black History in just one hour. ... Read more

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  • Africa, Africa!

    by Frederic Hunter ...
    A white girl disappears in the Congo jungle. A Belgian planter escapes his past. An African king bests an award-winning American journalist in a contest of will.Author Frederic Hunter developed these stories from his experience as a State Department official and a journalist in Africa in the 1960s.Africa, Africa! is a tour de force by a distinguished writer. It is powerful and sometimes chilling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War

    Decision at Cuito Cuanavale and the Battle for Angola, 1987–1988

    by Peter Polack ...
    A fascinating chronicle of the Cold War battle where US and Soviet weapons, as well as Cuban and South African troops, took part in the Angolan Civil War.In the late 1980s, as America prepared to claim its victory in the Cold War over the Soviet Union, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The socialist Angolan government, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Political Thought

    by G. Martin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Wind of Change

    The Wind of Change is the Wind of Chance

    by Eudora Aletta ...
    “She was killing herself slowly, and this obsession with the war had to stop.” How can one man cope when his true love is a woman of great destiny? “The people are her purpose and she is my purpose.” The Wind of Change follows the intersecting fates of Francois and Zola as they struggle with the injustices of life and inconsistencies of love in a world where children are dying. Within the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa

    by James L. A. Webb, Jr ...
    The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors, parasites and malarial disease that have shaped the programs of malaria control and altered the transmission of malarial infections. It examines the history of malaria control and eradication in the contexts of racial thought, population movements, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Politics of Heritage in Africa

    Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures

    Edited by Kodzo Gavua, Ciraj Rassool, Derek R. Peterson ...
    Series Book 48 - The International African Library
    Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958

    by Elizabeth Schmidt ...
    Series series Western African Studies
    In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, Guinea was the only territory to vote “No.” Orchestrating the “No” vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church

    by Joel Cabrita ...
    Series Book 46 - The International African Library
    Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Greatest Safari

    In the Beginning Was Africa: The Story of Evolution Seen from the Savannah

    by Søren Rasmussen ...
    Why does the zebra have stripes and the elephant a long trunk? How did the giraffe acquire a long neck and why does a hippopotamus lie in muddy water all day? How does an acacia tree kill grazing wild? Do wild animals speak to each other and do they have feelings?In The Greatest Safari, the reader is taken on an African adventure and told stories about the feelings, senses and communication of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New York

    Religion, Abolitionism, and Democracy

    by Judith Wellman ...
    Series series Studies in African American History and Culture
    Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district.African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this book focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary citizenstried to maintain a balance between stability and change. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD