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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around an East African Lake
by Pascal Jam Imperato  Publisher Comments The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana...
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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa (Eastern African Studies)
by Henri Medard Publisher Comments Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book challenges the...
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California Series in Public Anthropology #14: Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor
by Harri Englund Publisher Comments In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human...
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Life Under Nyerere
by Godfrey Mwakikagile Publisher Comments The author, who lived and grew up under Nyerere's leadership, remembers how life was in those days in his home country of Tanganyika, later Tanzania. It is more than just a sentimental journey into the past. It is also an assessment of Nyerere's...
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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
by Megan Vaughan Publisher Comments ""Creating the Creole Island" is a riveting portrait of a slave-owning society. Megan Vaughan's elegant narrative combines rich and ground-breaking historical analysis with acute theorizing of human subjectivity. It will be of compelling interest to...
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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around an East African Lake
by Pascal James Imperato Publisher Comments The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana...
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Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa
by Alex De Waal Publisher Comments A hard-hitting and sober analysis of Islamic groups and their role in international politics....
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Female Caligula: Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar
by Keith Laidler Publisher Comments The true story of Madagascars very own Red Queen Ounce for ounce as insane as her Roman counterpart, Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar surpassed Caligulas legendary cruelty a million times over. Beginning in 1828, her 35-year reign was measured in bodies:...
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The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
by Rick Ridgeway Publisher Comments In one of the most acclaimed travel and adventure books of the past year, Rick Ridgeway chronicles his trek from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean, through Kenya's famed Tsavo Park. His tale is, according to The Boston Globe, "a...
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The possessed and the dispossessed :spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town
by Lesley A Sharp Publisher Comments This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants...
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Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation-Building and Compromise in Mauritius (Global Issues)
by Thomas Hyll Eriksen Publisher Comments This book seeks to enhance comparative understandings of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization. Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island-state with a population...
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Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar
by G Feeley Harnik Book News Annotation Drawing on fieldwork done 1971-1973 and archival work done later, anthropologist Feeley-Harnick traces the impact of French domination through the colonial period and into the years after official Malagasy independence in 1960. She documents how the...
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Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society & Welfare in the Nineteenth Century (Eastern African Studies)
by Richard J Reid
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Fishing in Africa a Guide To War & Corruption
by Andrew Buckoke
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Plural Medical Systems in the Horn of Africa: The Legacy of "Sheikh" Hippocrates
by Leender Slikkerveer Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-319) and index....
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Carl Akeley :Africa's collector, Africa's savior
by Pene Bodrey Sanders Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289) and index....
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Beyond Capitalism vs. Socialism in Kenya & Tanzania
by Joel D Barkan Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index....
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Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa (Eastern African Studies)
by Mats Widgren Publisher Comments ISLANDS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE are areas of local cultivation surrounded by low-density livestock herders or extensive cultivators. Along the line of the East Africa Rift Valley, and in the highlands on either side, communities of considerable...
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Leadership in Eastern Africa: Six Political Biographies
by Norman Bennett
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Afrikanische Kopfe: Charakterskizzen aus der neueren Geschichte Afrikas
by Carl Peters
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