Category - History
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Second Boer war, written by a soldier who served on the Boer commandos from the very first to t...
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, show...
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Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim.This compell...
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Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and tha...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956–1...
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Man, Know Thyself: Volume 1 Corrective Knowledge of Our Notable Ancestors
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781483641454 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Publication Date: 07-09-2013 Pages: 544 Product Dimensio...
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The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is...
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Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fo...
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of...
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The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, ma...
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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African warSierra Leone is the world's most war-ravaged country. ...
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Decolonizing African Religion: A Short History of African Religions in Western Scholarship
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" pe...
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million peo...
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Insight Guides Tanzania & Zanzibar (Travel Guide with Free eBook)
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Insight Guide to Tanzania & Zanzibar is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during ...
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of littl...
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A History of Algeria
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an exp...
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The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witness...
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On the Postcolony / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our unders...
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Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the f...
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The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism — from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of a...
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The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into...
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When The World Was Black , Part One: The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations Prehistoric Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically learn in school, which most likely began wit...
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of ...
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