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Qadesh 1300 BC: Clash of the Warrior Kings (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by Mark Healy  Publisher Comments The earliest battle in history which can be reconstructed in detail, Qadesh pitted the two great warriors of the age against each other, Muwatallish of Hatti and the great warrior-Pharaoh Rameses II. With the Hittites gaining the initial advantage, all...
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Women & Slavery Volume 1 Africa & the Wester
by Gwyn Campbell Publisher Comments The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until "Women and Slavery", no single collection has focused on female slaves who -...
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Frantz Fanon: A Portrait
by Alice Cherki Publisher Comments An in-depth and personal account of the influential French psychiatrist and revolutionary writer, Frantz Fanon (1925-"1961), written by one of his few surviving contemporaries....
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Stuck in Middle Gear: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Relations
by Ian Taylor Publisher Comments South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy has been a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities. The accession by leading fractions of the African National Congress to the ongoing discourse of neo-liberalism has led to the policy making elite playing to...
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Shaping Tradition: Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957 (African Social Studies Series, Volume 14)
by Jeff D. Grischow Synopsis This historical study of development in Northern Ghana provides a fascinating new analysis of the colonial attempt to preserve African peasant communities in the face of economic transformation between 1899 and 1957....
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Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
by Delores Aldridge Publisher Comments The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new...
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Africa Since 1940 : the Past of the Present (02 Edition)
by Frederick Cooper Publisher Comments Bridges colonial and post-colonial history to explain the effects of political independence on the populace....
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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde
by Richard A. And Paul Khalil Saucier Lobban Book News Annotation Lobban (anthropology, Rhode Island College) and Saucier, a doctoral candidate in sociology and anthropology at Northeastern U., provide a dictionary on the history of Cape Verde, with entries on political and cultural events, figures, places...
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Passages: Photographs in Africa
by Carol Beckwith Publisher Comments Culled from the authors' monumental two-volume "African Ceremonies", the 89 images in this book are dramatic, intimate portraits of African rituals, spanning the entire continent. The artwork is now being exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Full...
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Fanon; Collective Ethics and Humanism.
by Vivaldi Jean-marie Publisher Comments Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism is an exegetical account of Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. By inviting the reader to carefully reconsider Fanon's final book, Vivaldi Jean-Marie facilitates its academic incorporation in the study of important books...
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The Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa
by Constance Hilliard Publisher Comments This text is a collection of sources (both written and oral) detailing the rich intellectual tradition of Ancient Africa to the mid-19th Century. It focuses solely on the work of Africans, and provides excerpts of sufficient length to expose readers to...
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa #01: Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Community Development
by Ramata Molo Thioune Synopsis This a comprehensive study of the doctrine of precedent as applied in the Nigerian courts. The doctrine in the non-law making courts - customary courts and magistrates courts, has also been examined. The study is in three parts. Part One deals with the...
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Contemporary Witch-hunting in Gusii, Southwestern Kenya.
by Justus M Ogembo Book News Annotation Ogembo's study of the witch-killings in 1992 in Kisii District, Kenya benefits from the insider status of its author, who grew up in a Kenya community where stories of witches abounded. The study includes witness interviews taken soon after the event...
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Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
by Karl Maier Publisher Comments 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...
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East Africa Alive
by John Dawson Publisher Comments A crocodile seizes a drinking zebra; an eagle snatches a fish from the lake surface; elephant and white rhino clash at a waterhole. All these moments and many more are captured in East Africa Alive--here is East Africa, more alive than you've ever seen...
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Perspectives on Africa
by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments "Perspectives on Africa "brings key works in African studies to a wide range of readers. Forty-four articles have been selected either because they have proved to be classic and influential, or because of their significance to the current development of...
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Discovery of the Nile
by Gianni Guadalup Publisher Comments This book tells the story of all the adventures and travellers who tackled the mystery of the Nile and the secret of its source, from Livingstone to Stanley, and from Schweinfurth to Miani....
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The White Nile
by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller "The White Nile" -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on...
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Mpumalanga; History and Heritage.
by Peter Delius Book News Annotation Delius (history, U. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) brings together 11 chapters in a study of the history of Mpulmalanga, South Africa, aiming to bring the history of the province more interest and understanding and stimulate debates about history,...
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Muntu: African Culture and the Western World
by Janheinz Jahn Publisher Comments 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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