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Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the n...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the dev...
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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the con...
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The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War: Between Ideology and Pragmatism
PaperbackOriginal price $57.99 - Original price $57.99Original price $57.99$75.99$75.99 - $75.99Current price $75.99| /Based on original research and previously unpublished material, this study reevaluates the Soviet Union’s involvement in the Horn of Africa and t...
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The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /Bringing together a group of international scholars, The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures provides the first review of intelligence cultur...
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Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order
PaperbackOriginal price $46.99 - Original price $46.99Original price $46.99$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Ordersheds light on theplace of "Africa Agency" in the competitive and changing global system. This b...
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Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The ongoing war and consequent famine in the Ethiopian province of Tigray are increasingly critical. International journalists are not being allowe...
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Developmental Regionalism and the Political Economy of Africa's Integration
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /In Developmental Regionalism and the Political Economy of Africa's Integration, Gabila Nubong argues that there are opportunities to transform the ...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $199.99 - Original price $199.99Original price $199.99$216.99$216.99 - $216.99Current price $216.99| /This handbook takes stock of the African Union's Vision 2020 to rid the African continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and hu...
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Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Trade Makes States highlights how trade and the circulation of goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site...
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The Russia-Ukraine War from an African Perspective: Special Operations in the Age of Technoscientific Futurism
PaperbackOriginal price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /In the Russia-Ukraine war, attention has been focused on the "Special Military Operation" This book argues that there are many other special operat...
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Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, by Ayodeji Olukoju and Tokunbo A. Ayoola, examines key social, political, and economic...
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Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. between 2001-2011
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book argues that Nigeria's economic growth from 2001-2011 was fostered by improved governance, and it examines the perceived rivalry between C...
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At the Center of the World in Ethiopia
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /At the Center of the World in Ethiopia by S. W. Omamo As the world lurches seemingly non-stop from one major humanitarian crisis to another, and as...
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Cultural Forces in World Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Ali Mazrui argues that the emphasis in world politics continues to be on arms, on resources and on strategic calculations and that the importance o...
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From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In November 1965, Ian Smith's white minority government in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) made a unilateral declaration of independence, breaking...
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reco...
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Heir Through Hope: Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and William Short, the eldest son of an established Virginia family and relative of Martha Jefferson, beg...
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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in...
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The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers. ...
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Swahili in Spaces of War: A Sociolinguistic Odyssey
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language. Cover...
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Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender?
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Three decades after the Soviet Union's collapse, Russia has transformed from a fringe player to a resurgent great power in Africa. The October 2019...
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How Far We Slaves Have Come!: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Speaking together in Cuba in 1991, Mandela and Castro discuss the place in the history of Africa of Cuba and Angola's victory over the invading U...
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Democratic Backsliding in Africa?: Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a ...
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