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Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight
Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight
by Obi Nwakanma
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Christopher Okigbo, once described as 'Africa's most lyrical poet of the twentieth century' was killed in September 1967, fighting for the independence of Biafra. The Sunday Times described his death as 'the single most important tragedy of the Nigerian... (read more)

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Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature
Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature
by James Currey
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June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial... (read more)

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Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa (African Anthropology)
Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa (African Anthropology)
by Richard Vokes
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On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the... (read more)

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Living Terraces in Ethiopia: Konso Landscape, Culture & Development (Eastern Africa)
Living Terraces in Ethiopia: Konso Landscape, Culture & Development (Eastern Africa)
by Elizabeth E. Watson
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Terraced agricultural landscapes in Africa are remarkable feats of human engineering and social organization, enabling the conservation of soil and water and the cultivation of food. Indigenous terraced landscapes are all the more valuable because they... (read more)

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A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
by Arnold Hughes
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The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government.... (read more)

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Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier
Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier
by Joann Mcgregor
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This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of 150 years of conflict... (read more)

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After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan (Eastern Africa)
After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan (Eastern Africa)
by Elke Grawert
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After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initial hopes that it would be... (read more)

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Multiparty Elections in Africa
Multiparty Elections in Africa
by Liisa Laakso
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Most of the studies in this book are about national elections in Anglophone Africa. There are also less well-known examples from Sudan, Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau. The collection also features studies of the local elections in Namibia and of a... (read more)

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In the Rapids
In the Rapids
by Linda Rode
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Thirty brand new stories from a wide spectrum of South Africans. A seering picture of our times and society emerges from the variety of contributions, as authors from different backgrounds - cultural, linguistic, geographical, economic and religious... (read more)

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Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature
Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature
by James Currey
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17 June 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser. '... not only... (read more)

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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora #33: Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora #33: Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power
by J. C. Myers
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Indirect rule -- the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries -- has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages. A reexamination of the... (read more)

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Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960
Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960
by Terence Ranger
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This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what historical research and reconstruction can add... (read more)

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Pan African Short Stories
Pan African Short Stories
by Neville Denny
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The Penguin book of Southern African stories
The Penguin book of Southern African stories
by Stephen Gray
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Unwinding threads :writing by women in Africa
Unwinding threads :writing by women in Africa
by Charlotte Bruner
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African Writing Today
African Writing Today
by Charles Angoff
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora #1092: The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora #1092: The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
by Toyin Falola
Available July 2013
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Exchanges: South African Writing in Transition
Exchanges: South African Writing in Transition
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Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
by J. C. Myers
Available August 2013
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Awa Collection Winners & Runners Up of a Prose & Poetry Competition Run By the African Writers Association
Awa Collection Winners & Runners Up of a Prose & Poetry Competition Run By the African Writers Association
by Awa
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