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  • An Economic History of Ethiopia
    Shiferaw Bekele
    When Emporer Haile Selassie led Ethiopia out of Italian occupation, he promised much - liberalisation, land reform, greater prosperity, a modern army, and a modern bureaucracy. Thirty years later, resistance, radical movements and dissent were to rock the foundation of his fragile new society into revolution. The economic history of modern Ethiopia has not attracted sufficient ...
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    66,90 €

  • How to Be a Kenyan
    Wahome Mutahi
    Peter Enahoro wrote a famously funny book, The Complete Nigerian, and the follow-up How to be a Nigerian. In similar mode, a Kenyan writer has produced a series of hilarious essays about what it means to be a Kenyan. Described as painfully true and outrageously witty, the book is a light-hearted illustration of the particularities of thought, manners and attitude of Kenyan peop...
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    36,33 €

  • For Better Or Worse? Women And ZANLA In Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle
    Josephine Nhongo-Simbanegavi
    With a foreword by Terence Ranger this book offers a thought provoking analysis of women’s experiences with ZANLA during the war of independence.It challenges official orthodoxy that a gende revolution occured in this period and that a generation of liberated women emerged from the struggle.The research demostrates that while ZANLA extensively mobilised women as porters, nurses...
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    56,33 €

  • Politics and Society in South Africa
    Daryl Glaser / Daryl J Glaser
    `Darryl Glaser supplies an illuminating overview of the scholarship since 1970 on South Africa’s political history. His emphasis is on the debates between liberals, Marxists, and to a lesser extent 'post-structuralists' about the origins and the course of South Africa’s racial order’ - Tom Lodge, University of Witwatersrand ...
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    105,61 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Liberia
    Amos J Beyan / Amos J. Beyan / Amos JBeyan / Carl Patrick Burrowes / DElwood Dunn / Elwood D Dunn / Elwood D. Dunn / Elwood DDunn
    Building on the first edition, this updated volume focuses on the personalities, from the founders of Liberia, to the soldiers who are responsible simultaneously for destruction and the hope of stability. Along with these people, various social and ethnic groups, political parties and labor movements, economic entities and natural resources are profiled in this updated work. ...
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    179,35 €

  • The North African Stones Speak
    Paul Lachlan MacKendrick
    Continuing his explorations of life in the Roman provinces, Paul MacKendrick surveys the rich and varied culture that spread from the eastern borders of modern Libya to the Atlantic. He focuses on the ascent of Roman hegemony in the African world, beginning with the romantic and sanguinary rise and fall of Punic Carthage, Rome’s ancient enemy, and lasting through centuries of i...
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    88,33 €

  • The Fighter from Death Row
    Hilton Ebenezer Fyle
    An amazing survival story which can easily pass for a thriller in the field of fiction. But it is true. Journalist Hilton Fyle packs his bags and heads back home to Sierra Leone after 20 years as a star broadcaster with the BBC in London England, during which he became a household name in Africa and most of the English-speaking world. His new challenge is to participate in the ...
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    32,98 €

  • Constituting Democracy
    Heinz Klug
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    156,16 €

  • Constituting Democracy
    Heinz Klug / Klug Heinz
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    68,98 €

  • The Ghanaian Revolution
    Joseph G. Amamoo
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    18,44 €

  • The New Ghana
    Joseph G. Amamoo
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    13,89 €

  • The Political Economy of Housing and Urban Development in Africa
    Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
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    121,79 €

  • Genocide in the Congo (Zaire)
    Yaa-Lengi M. Ngemi
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    11,66 €

  • History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement
    Pier Martin Larson
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    100,08 €

  • Du Bois on Religion
    WEBDu Bois
    Phil Zuckerman here gathers together Du Bois’s writings on religion, and makes a compelling case for Du Bois to be recognized among the leading sociologists of religion. Du Bois on Religion includes selections from his well-known works such as The Souls of Black Folks to poems, prayers, stories and speeches less widely available. Brief, helpful introductions preface each of the...
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    161,04 €

  • Du Bois on Religion
    Phil Zuckerman
    Phil Zuckerman here gathers together Du Bois’s writings on religion, and makes a compelling case for Du Bois to be recognized among the leading sociologists of religion. Du Bois on Religion includes selections from his well-known works such as The Souls of Black Folks to poems, prayers, stories and speeches less widely available. Brief, helpful introductions preface each of the...
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    62,80 €

  • The Faith Moves South
    Steven Paas
    This book provides a succinct historical overview of Christianity in Africa. It is written in the tradition of the existing studies of indigenous and indigenised Christianity on the African continent, considered from Southern perspectives, such as those by F.J. Verstraelen, Ogbu U. Kalu and J. Hildebrandt. ...
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    59,75 €

  • ’Lusofonia’ em Africa
    This innovative work is the first CODESRIA has published in Portuguese, and the first scholarly work the institution has published on the politics, economics and societies of the Portuguese-speaking African countries, authored by social scientists from those countries. In its engagement with the Portuguese-speaking social science communities in Africa, the publication represent...
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    59,84 €

  • Groundwork of Nigerian History
    Obaro Ikime
    Filling a gap, this study presents a comprehensive history of Nigeria’s diverse peoples. The first two chapters provide a geographical and archaeological background. The main body of the work is divided into three sections: Nigeria Before 1800; Nigeria in the 19th century: and Nigeria in the 20th century. Contributors cover a multitude of different issues andregions such as the...
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    107,42 €

  • Crimes and Punishments Under Islamic Law
    Yahaya Yunusa Bambale
    This is an apt publication for modern times, in which ’Sharia’ has become a byword for an unacceptable social system, and is vilified as such; when crime is rife in communities governed by Sharia; and when in the non-Islamic West, the Islamic social and criminal justice systems are subject to intense public scrutiny and criticism, but remain little understood. The author presen...
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    56,57 €

  • The Ghana Revolution
    E. Babatope / EBabatope / Ebenezer Babatope
    This book was published in the immediate aftermath of Jerry Rawlings’ 1981 coup, and proclamation of the Ghana Revolution in January 1982. The author gives an account of the history of the socialist African revolution in Ghana from Nkrumah to Rawlings. He argued that Rawlings represented a continuity of the socialist African revolution, which drove Nkrumah and other revolutiona...
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    56,61 €

  • Historical Archaeology of Bagamoyo
    Eliwasa Maro / Felix Chami / Jane Kessy
    The modern history of Bagamoyo begins with the period 1830-1840, when Zanzibar was established as the capital of the Oman Sultanate and subsequently, the slave and ivory trades intensified. However trade and cultural interactions between the coast and the interior had existed before 1800. In 2001, archaeological works began for the first time at caravan-serai in the Bagamoyo hi...
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    34,75 €

  • The African Archaeology Network
    The first in the book series Studies in the African Past was published in 2001, consisting of reports produced by the archaeology research project, ’Human Responses and Contribution to Environmental Change’. The new research initiative developed out of this project is known as the ’African Archaeology Network’. This is investigating how ancient African societies exploited resou...
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    67,58 €

  • The Cross versus The Cresent
    Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni / Lawrence E.YMbogoni
    A Tanzanian Muslim Dr. Hamza Njozi suggested in his book, Mwembechai Killings, that the killings were 'a culmination of a long historical conspiracy between the Church and the Government: a twin alliance whose objective has always been to marginalize and oppress Muslims'. The author of this timely book explains the rational behind The Cross versus the Crescent. 'It was partly b...
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    65,00 €

  • Lobola
    Chikadzi Joseph / Puleng Letuka / Sarah C Mvududu
    An in-depth, accessible study of the function of ’lobola’ - the bride price - in seven Southern African countries in which it is a widespread tradition and its practice is still common. The study considers this social institution in both matrilineal and patrilineal societies to show that almost without expection, the practice of paying the bride price results in the wife become...
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    56,72 €

  • Culture and Customs of Morocco
    Raphael Njoku
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    80,17 €

  • Key Events in African History
    Toyin Falola
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    38,77 €

  • Culture and Customs of Uganda
    Kefa M. Otiso / Kefa MOtiso
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    77,48 €

  • Redefining Security
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    121,73 €

  • Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Jeanne Moulton / Karen Mundy / Michel Welmond
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    121,79 €