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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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In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonial...
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A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present“I did not ...
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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /In the 1880s, Europeans descended on Africa and grabbed vast swaths of the continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Rogue...
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Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the ...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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Power Back to the People: The Relevance of Ethnic Federalism in Uganda
PaperbackOriginal price $38.50 - Original price $38.50Original price $38.50$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The 'scramble for Africa' resulted in random and unlikely borders that remain today. These artificial borders, the colonial policy of divide and ru...
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Democracy and Human Rights in Nigeria's Fourth Republic
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /One of the challenges Nigeria has faced since independence in 1960 has been its human rights record. Under military rule, the problem was attribute...
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Africa Must Deal with Blats for Its True Decolonisation: Unclothed Truth about Internalised Internal Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Africa has always blamed external colonisation for its Catch-22s such as violent ethnic conflicts for the struggle for resource control, perpetual ...
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A History of Rhodesia 1890-1900
HardcoverOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The very first history of the British colonisation of the land which later became famous as Rhodesia, and is now called Zimbabwe.This book, first p...
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Decolonising the Hajj: The Pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca Under Empire and Independence
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria ove...
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Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Alluring Opportunities examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascensi...
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Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and African Decolonial Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decolon...
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, an...
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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least B...
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Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $23.50 - Original price $23.50Original price $23.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjöld and his UN tea...
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Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, ...
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Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (C. 1780-1867)
PaperbackOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /From roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. B...
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decoloniz...
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling test...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to der...
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, an...
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The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780197692196 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 06-01-2023 Pages: 256 Product...
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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other tre...
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