Central African Republic
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The Rebels' Hour
by Lieve Joris  Publisher Comments In The Rebels’ Hour, world renowned journalist Lieve Joris illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely and complicated rebel leader who becomes a high ranking general in the Congolese army. When Assani, a young...
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Another Day of Life (Vintage International)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—...
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was...
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Fulbe Voices
by Helen A. Regis Publisher Comments Fulbe Voices is based on everyday conversations in the West African village of Domaayo, Cameroon, where men and women struggle with the multiple cultural contradictions and social tensions emerging from their varied perspectives as farmers and...
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Africa Series #81: Portugal and Africa
by David Birmingham Synopsis PORTUGAL WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN NATION to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots. The...
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
by Pat Shipman 
Publisher Comments Prepare to embark upon a breathtaking adventure, brimming with hair-raising rescues, impossible quests, danger, discovery, catastrophe, mutiny, and uncompromising love -- all the more remarkable because every word is true. Acclaimed New York Times and...
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Black and White in Southern Zambia: The Tonga Plateau Economy and British Imperialism, 1890-1939
by Kenneth Vickery Review It is trendy to rush doctoral studies into book publications. In many cases, no follow-up research is undertaken before converting the doctoral study into a book. Within this general trend, Vickery is unique in having made two further trips in order to...
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The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in...
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Lost City of Solomon and Sheba
by Robin Lowe Synopsis A story of discovery and detection in one of the most mysterious of ancient civilizations. The book reveals how the truth about the Zimbabwe culture has been radically influenced throughout history by white and black political interests, struggling to...
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The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in...
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Angola : Anatomy of an Oil State (Rev 04 Edition)
by Tony Hodges Synopsis How oil and mineral wealth have affected Angola's prospects for development....
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Angry Wind (05 Edition)
by Tayler Publisher Comments Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth — the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the...
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The Lake Regions of Central Africa
by Richard F. Burton Publisher Comments An engrossing record of explorations of central Africa's lake regions. Acute observations on village life, native character, religion and government....
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Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by Daniel N Posner Publisher Comments The book demonstrates how formal institutional rules determine the kinds of social cleavages that matter in politics....
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Ranking and resistance :a precolonial Cameroonian polity in regional perspective
by Richard G Dillon Publisher Comments Based upon extended anthropological fieldwork and ethnohistorical reconstruction, this is a study of the precolonical political system of an acephalous society in West Africa. The Meta' are a sedentary farming people living in what is now the Republic of...
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Diwan Revisited: Literacy, State Formation & the Rise of Kanuri Domination (AD 1200-1600)
by Augustin Holl Publisher Comments Revealed to Western culture in the 1850s by the German explorer H. Barth, the Diwan, or genealogy, is a remarkable collection of facts, deeds, and descriptions of the sultans of Kanem-Bornu, one of the most advanced civilizations in West Africa. The...
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A Central African Odyssey
by William W Cowen Publisher Comments This biography gives an account of William Cowen's medical practice in Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Zambia. He worked as Medical Officer of Health during a politically turbulent period which brought him into contact with such people as Ian...
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African Stakes of the Congo War
by John F Clark
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Introduction To the History of Central Africa
by Aj Wills
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Gbaya Thought and Art in Oral and Written Forms
by Cecilia A Noss
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