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African Experience Major Themes in Afric
by Roland Oliver  About the Author Roland Oliver is Emeritus Professor of African history at the University of London and has made an outstanding contribution to the study of African history. In 1948 he was appointed to the School of Oriental and African Studies, the first post ever...
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Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria
by Matthew Hassa Kukah Publisher Comments An in-depth historical analysis of the identity and role of the African woman: in relation to her husband, her family and society; and of the central importance of women to an inclusive and successful African renaissance. The author draws on the writings...
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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
by Rian Malan Publisher Comments A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming...
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments He was known as "the Leopard," and for the thirty-two years of his reign Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, showed all the cunning of his namesake, seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating...
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Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
by Karl Maier Synopsis Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . . INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS "Rich . . . fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review "A master of eyewitness description and of the telling...
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Muntu: African Culture and the Western World
by Janheinz Jahn Synopsis In this insightful study, Jahn surveys the whole range of traditional and modern African thought expressed in religion, language, philosophy, literature, art, music, and dance. He demonstrates that African culture is evolving into a rich and independent...
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
by P Gobodo Madikizela Publisher Comments A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death...
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Contributions in Women's Studies #21: The South African Society: Realities and Future Prospects
by Human Sciences Resea Publisher Comments Intergroup relations is a contentious issue both inside and outside South Africa, where it has dominated political thinking for the past several decades, and affected the day-to-day lives of all the country's inhabitants. In recent years scholars have...
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Telecommunications in Africa (Global Communications Series)
by Eli M Noam Publisher Comments A modern telecommunications network is an essential infrastructure for the world's developing nations. The emergence of new technologies, the entrance of supra-national carriers, and deregulation in the telecommunications sector have resulted in the...
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National Army Museum Book of the Boer Wa
by Lord Carver Publisher Comments A military history of what was Britain's first modern war, written with original sources. Published in cooperation with the National Army Museum, it quotes extensively from the Museum's unpublished archive of diaries, letters, and documents. The text is...
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The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise
by Tom Forrest Synopsis The Advance of African Capital provides the most detailed and extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it examines the growth of private enterprise in Nigeria, giving profiles of the...
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Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa: 1960-2000
by Robert I Rotberg Publisher Comments In this comprehensive narrative of the political and economic evolution of Africa, Robert I. Rotberg explains the critical events, players and policies in the continent's tumultuous shift toward democracy. The book reviews the process of decolonization...
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict & Identity in Selected South African Novels
by Jane Davis Publisher Comments South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major...
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The Boer War 1900: Ladysmith and Mafeking
by Tim Coates Synopsis A snapshot of events in the Crimea, focusing on the Charge of the Light Brigade and the inadequate provisions made for the care of the sick and wounded, as told through government papers published in 1855 and 1856....
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My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou
by Kadiatou Diallo Publisher Comments Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child—a gentle...
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The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid
by Henk Van Woerden Publisher Comments The untold and heartbreaking account of the man who killed South Africa's architect of apartheid, one of the most dramatic political assassinations in modern history. If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri...
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)
by Malika Oufkir Synopsis The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This...
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Morocco: Past and Present
by Guido Barosio Publisher Comments From the winding streets of Tangier's hilly medina to the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Sala Colonia, Morocco is a land with unlimited potential to amaze. Blessed with a diverse and stunning landscape, Morocco's magic can overwhelm even the most...
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Two Evenings in Saramaka
by Richard Price Publisher Comments "Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense...
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The Struggle, a History of the African National Congress
by Heidi Holland Book News Annotation In this popular history of the ANC, Holland chronicles the organization's evolution from 1912 to the present, with a special focus on the personal experiences of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews...
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