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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tabitha kanogo”
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  • Wangari Maathai

    by Tabitha Kanogo ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa’s most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long career as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905–1963

    by Tabitha Kanogo ...
    Series series Eastern African Studies
    This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands is essentially the story of the conflicts and contradictions that existed between two agrarian ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • African Activists of the Twentieth Century

    Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa

    by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron, Toyin Falola ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.Chris Hani, by Hugh MacmillanChris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and uMkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination in 1993 threatened to upset the country’s transition to democracy and prompted an ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Roots

    The History How Britain Carved South Africa's Neo-Liberal Age, 1806-1996

    by Thembinkosi Lehloesa ...
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  • A Sense of Balance

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    On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future.In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect the sense of balance in the formulation of public policy that has long defined us as a nation and made Australia an ... Read more

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  • The European Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Usherwood, John Pinder ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • A History of South Africa: Revised Edition

    by Leonard Thompson ...
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  • A Rumour of Spring

    South Africa after 20 Years of Democracy

    by Max du Preez ...
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    The History of Apartheid: Race vs. Reason - South Africa from 1948 - 1994

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  • Becoming Zimbabwe

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