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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The East African Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c. 1780-1867)
Book SynopsisFrom roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Because of Faku's legacy, the Mpondo Kingdom became the last African state in Southern Africa to fall under colonial rule. When his father died, Faku inherited his power. In a period of intense raiding, migration and state formation, he transformed the Mpondo polity from a loosely organized constellation of tributary groups to a centralized and populous state with effective military capabilities and a prosperous agricultural foundation. In 1830, Faku allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a station within his kingdom and they became his main channel of communication with the Cape Colony, and later Natal. Ironically, he never showed any serious inclination to convert to Christianity. From the 1840s to early 1850s, this Mpondo king played a central, yet often understated, role in the British colonization of South Africa. While over the years his territory and power declined, Faku remained quite astute in diplomatic negotiations with colonial officials and used his missionary connections to optimum advantage. Timothy J. Stapleton's narrative and use of oral history paint a clear and remarkable portrait of Faku and how he was able to manipulate missionaries, neighbours, colonists and circumstances to achieve his objectives. As a result, Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c.1780-1867) helps illuminate the history of the entire Cape region.Trade Review``Stapleton's magisterial overview of the reign of Faku, chief from the early 1810s to 1867 of the Mpondo Kingdom in the northeastern portion of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, will be of considerable interest to southern African historians.... Stapleton's painstaking reconstruction of the military and political history of Faku's reign ... goes beyond individual biography to shed light on the regional politics of a complicated period. The work is more broadly a useful contribution to the project of reconstructing the history of rural South Africa before the advent of formal colonialism.... [T]his detailed examination of the Mpondo kingdom will doubtless be very helpful to those trying to work out the overall pattern of regional dynamics, as well as to those interested in early nineteenth-century African state formation. Stapleton reinforces what appears to be a growing consenseus that whatever the most important causes of regional conflict, scholars must look well beyond the Zulu and dig deeper than the 1820s and 1830s.... [T]his is a pioneering and significant work.'' -- Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University -- Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 36, no. 3, 2002, 200804``[An] impressive biography ... Stapleton's control of his sources is admirable. The story he tells is a complicated one, as Faku played politics for fifty years with a cast of characters that included British colonial officials, British traders, the Zulu, the Griqua, the San, and the Mpondo royal family and their clients. He has included helpful appendices listing all the players--African and European--and the significant dates and events. His conclusion is an excellent summary of both the substance and the themes of his book.'' -- Catherine Higgs, University of Tennessee -- International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 34, no. 3, 2001, 200210``With this book, Tim Stapleton cements his reputation as one of the most important historians of the Cape frontier in the 19th century. This was a period that saw the emergence of powerful and innovative African political leaders in much of southern Africa....Though poorly studied up to now, Faku belongs in this group. Though less revolutionary than Shaka and less innovative than Moshoeshoe, he parried the efforts of African rivals over a half-century and adeptly used his links with the British and with Wesleyan missionaries to establish his dominion over a large area. The Mpondo kingdom he created was the largest of the Xhosa states. Stapleton uses oral tradition, missionary letters, colonial archives and published accounts to give us a full and interesting picture of Faku's life and a vivid picture of the complex conflicts that shaped an area caught between the expanding power of first Zulu and then, British expansionism.'' -- Martin A. Klein, University of TorontoTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c. 1780â1867) by Timothy J. Stapleton Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Mpondo Royal Genealogy from c. 1800 Maps Preface Introduction The Rise of Faku and the Centralization of the Mpondo Kingdom (c.1780â1829) Missionaries, Colonial Officials and Mpondo Power (1830â36) Trekkers and Treaties (1837â44) The Expansion of the Cape Colony and Natal (1845â52) Direct Colonial Intrusion in Fakuâs Final Years (1852â67) Conclusion Afterword Appendix 1: Cast of Characters Appendix 2: List of Terms Appendix 3: Chronology of Major Events Notes Bibliography Index
£33.20
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc Documents from the African Past
Book SynopsisThis fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant’s guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes, China’s discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court life in inner East and West Africa, and the experiences of Asian and European settlers, merchants, and colonialists. There are writings by important local authorities and scholars as well as travelers and administrators from other continents. The ideas of leaders who shaped modern Africa are represented in the documents of Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Steven Biko, and Nelson Mandela.Table of ContentsAnonymous - Periplus of the Eryhraean Sea. First Century C.E. * Tuan Ch'eng-Shih - China's Discovery of Africa * Gomes Eannes de Azurra - The Discovery of Guinea 1435 * Rui de Aguiar - King Affonso 11516 * Leo Africanus - The Western Sudan 1526 * Andrew Battell - The Jaga 1568 * Gaspar Bocarro - From Tete to Kilwa 1616 * Giovanni Cavazzi - Queen Anna NZinga 1654 * John Barbot - Benin 1680 * William Snelgrave - The Slaves Mutiny 1730 * Andrew Sparrman - The Boers 1776 * Archibald Dalzel - Dahomey and Its Neighbors 1793 * Father Pinto - The Kingdom of the Kazemb 1799 Abd Allah Ibn Muhammad - The Hijra and Holy War of Sheik Uthman Dan Fodio 1804 * Thomas Pringle - Boer Meets Bantu 1820 * Rene Caille - The Trans-Saharan Caravan 1828 * Henry Francis Fynn - Shaka 1830 * Robert Moffat - Mzilikazi 1840 * Theodore Canot - Slaving in Liberia 1850 * Charles Livingstone - The Prazeros 1859 * Edgar Canisus - Rubber Collecting in the Congo 1885 * Ndansi Kumalo - The Ndebele Rebellion 1896 * Nelson Mandela - Address to the ANC 1985
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum
Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book provided teachers of African history, for the first time, with fully annotated translations of the most important Greek and Roman sources for the history of these two remarkable ancient African civilizations. The new edition retains all of the features that made the first edition so successful while significantly expanding the coverage of the history of Kush and Axum. The illustration program has been revised, new translations have been added including recently discovered Nubian and Axumite royal documents, and a new chapter treats the origins of the kingdom of Kush and its relations with Egypt and Persia.Trade ReviewStanley Burstein has researched, compiled, and translated with commentary the most significant Greek and Roman sources concerning Black Africa. The result is a fascinating book about the people of the southern part of the Nile Valley, the gold mines of Nubia, and the Hellenistic city of Meroe, capital of the Ethiopian Empire of Kush, with its own highly developed culture (300 BCE to 300 CE). This book is a masterpiece of scholarship and historical research. - Midwest Book Review
£26.95
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc African Women: A Historical Panorama
Book SynopsisA survey of the roles women have played in Africa south of the Sahara, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the present-day presidents of Liberia and Malawi. Romero discusses education and religion; the occult and power; diseases and treatment; women and war; and women's increasing presence on the political stage, including their roles as environmental activists. Drawing on the latest research, the book comprises documents, travellers' accounts, and case studies in its coverage of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial Africa.
£74.00
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc African Women: A Historical Panorama
Book SynopsisA survey of the roles women have played in Africa south of the Sahara, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the present-day presidents of Liberia and Malawi. Romero discusses education and religion; the occult and power; diseases and treatment; women and war; and women's increasing presence on the political stage, including their roles as environmental activists. Drawing on the latest research, the book comprises documents, travellers' accounts, and case studies in its coverage of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial Africa.
£28.95
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc Problems in African History: Volume I: The Precolonial Centuries
Book SynopsisUpdated 2013 Edition of the Classic Reader by Robert O. Collins. This collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history. Its themes comprise: Africa and Egypt African Trade and States Islam in Africa Women in African Societies Slavery in Africa.
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc From Berber State to Moroccan Empire: The Glory of Fez Under the Marinids
Book SynopsisMedieval Fez was a main centre of education, art, and commerce from the 13th to the 16th centuries after the Berber tribe of the Marinids seized power in Morocco and moved the capital from Marrakesh to Fez. As non-Arabs they gained legitimacy by founding madrassas, religious universities. They also supported the arts and commerce, and expanded their state into an empire. It was the Golden Age of Fez. Maya Shatzmiller draws a historical panorama of this era, highlighting its movers and shakers in locations from North Africa to the Mediterranean world.Trade Review"Extremely important [and] invaluable guide." -Arab Studies Journal"...the book makes a significant contribution to the fields of North African, Berber, and Islamic histories, illustrating the key importance of the Marinids not only for the study of Morocco but also, as she proposes in the new last chapter, for Mediterranean history more broadly."- Religious Studies Review “Insightful and provocative study of Marinid history and Berber historical identity … with an interpretive flair.” -The International History Review
£28.95
Wipf & Stock Publishers Africa and the Africans in the Old Testament
£21.08
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan
Book SynopsisA history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present. Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them "blood memories" in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, "has no history." Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. Beswick demonstrates how early pre-colonial stresses play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself. Stephanie Beswick is professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She was born in Khartoum, Sudan.Trade ReviewBroad in scope, and based on rigorous research and extensive fieldwork, [Beswick's] book makes a lasting contribution to Sudanese studies and will appeal broadly to scholars of African oral history and migration. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES *This book is full of big ideas and detailed commentary, resulting in a satisfying intellectual experience. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This book is a remarkable achievement that establishes a definitive standard for all future Dinka studies, a foundation of clarity, comprehension, and creativity. It should be required reading in all government, nongovernment, and humanitarian agencies whose employees work with the Dinka. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Clearly an important and original contribution to the study of the history of Sudan and of Dinka history in particular. * MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Geography and Brief History of Sudan The Changing Nilotic Frontier Slave Raids, Wars, and Migrations Communities of the Sobat/Nile Confluence: The Padang Communities of the Eastern Nile: The Bor Communities in the Southwest: The Southern Bahr el-Ghazal Communities in the Northwest: The Northern Bahr el-Ghazal Grain, Cattle, and Economic Power Totemic Religion Human Sacrifice, Virgins, and River Spirits Priests, Politics, and Land Ethnic Expansion by Marriage Sovereign Nations within the Dinka Eighteenth-Century Slavers and Traders Nilotic Chaos: Dinka, Nuer, Atwot, and Anyuak Politics and Stratification among Stateless Peoples Summary and History Legacy of the Precolonial Era
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s
Book SynopsisAn analysis of how traditional power structures in Nigeria have survived the forces of colonialism and the modernization processes of postcolonial regimes. This book analyzes how indigenous political power structures in Nigeria survived both the constricting forces of colonialism and the modernization programs of postcolonial regimes. With twenty detailed case studies on colonial andpostcolonial Nigerian history, the complex interactions between chieftaincy structures and the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic conditions of the twentieth century become evident. Drawing on the interactions between the state and chieftaincy, this study goes beyond earlier Africanist scholarship that attributes the resilience of these indigenous structures to their enduring normative and utilitarian qualities. Linked to externally-derived forces, and legitimated by neotraditional themes, chieftaincy structures were distorted by the indirect rule system, transformed by competing communal claims, and legitimated a dominant ethno-regional power configuration. Olufemi Vaughan is Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Winner of the 2001 Cecil B. Currey Book-length Award from the Association ofThird World Studies.Trade ReviewVaughan magisterially treats heavily troubled Nigeria. . . Six good maps, four helpful tables, excellent endnotes, a comprehensive bibliography, and good indexing enhance this title. * CHOICE *The contribution of this study is a significant one. . . [Vaughan's] is an exceptionally complex account, incorporating every possible variable. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Vaughan's book is an excellent survey of the central role played by chieftaincy structures in these decades. * EHR *Vaughan's study of Yoruba chiefs is a brave undertaking. . . [his] book is especially welcome in that it makes a major contribution to the historiography of modern Nigeria. * AFRICAN HISTORY *
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Black Classic Press The Negro
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Universal Publishers Across the Landscape: Selected Political Writings and Speeches on Liberia--1978-2001
£29.67
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the
Book SynopsisStephanie J. Urdang's memoir tracking the slow demise of apartheid that led to South Africa's first democratic elections.Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urdang also met African revolutionaries such as Amilcar Cabral, who would influence her return to Africa and her subsequent journalism. In 1974, she trekked through the liberation zones of Guinea-Bissau during its war of independence; in the 1980's, she returned repeatedly to Mozambique and saw how South Africa was fomenting a civil war aimed to destroy the newly independent country.Urdang's memoir maps out her quest for the meaning of home and for the lived reality of revolution with empathy, courage, and a keen eye for historical and geographic detail. This is a personal narrative, beautifully told, of a journey traveled by an indefatigable exile who, while yearning for home, continues to question where, as a citizen of both South Africa and the United States, she belongs. "My South Africa!" she writes, on her return in 1991, after the release of Nelson Mandela, "How could I have imagined for one instant that I could return to its beauty, and not its pain?"
£999.99
The Merlin Press Ltd Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the
Book SynopsisStephanie J. Urdang's memoir tracking the slow demise of apartheid that led to South Africa's first democratic elections.Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urdang also met African revolutionaries such as Amilcar Cabral, who would influence her return to Africa and her subsequent journalism. In 1974, she trekked through the liberation zones of Guinea-Bissau during its war of independence; in the 1980's, she returned repeatedly to Mozambique and saw how South Africa was fomenting a civil war aimed to destroy the newly independent country.Urdang's memoir maps out her quest for the meaning of home and for the lived reality of revolution with empathy, courage, and a keen eye for historical and geographic detail. This is a personal narrative, beautifully told, of a journey traveled by an indefatigable exile who, while yearning for home, continues to question where, as a citizen of both South Africa and the United States, she belongs. "My South Africa!" she writes, on her return in 1991, after the release of Nelson Mandela, "How could I have imagined for one instant that I could return to its beauty, and not its pain?"
£71.25
PublicAffairs,U.S. Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for
Book SynopsisRobert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was forced to step down and Mugabe was elected president. Initially he promised reconciliation between white and blacks, encouraged Zimbabwe's economic and social development, and was admired throughout the world as one of the leaders of the emerging nations and as a model for a transition from colonial leadership. But as Martin Meredith shows in this history of Mugabe's rule, Mugabe from the beginning was sacrificing his purported ideals,and Zimbabwe's potential,to the goal of extending and cementing his autocratic leadership. Over time, Mugabe has become ever more dictatorial, and seemingly less and less interested in the welfare of his people, treating Zimbabwe's wealth and resources as spoils of war for his inner circle. In recent years he has unleashed a reign of terror and corruption in his country. Like the Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Zimbabwe has been on a steady slide to disaster. Now for the first time the whole story is told in detail by an expert. It is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and an essential text for understanding today's Africa.Trade Review"...the best argued and best written indictment yet of the man Nelson Mandela mockingly calls Comrade Bob." The Economist "This book is highly readable, clear and fast-moving. It is excellent on Mugabe's early life and the way he became drawn into the struggle of Zimbabwe." Financial Times "As a well-written chronicle of Zimbabwe's degradation, this book is of great value." Sunday Telegraph "Martin Meredith's account of the pursuit of power and plunder is especially good on the early years of Mugabe..." Daily Telegraph "Martin Meredith's book is not so much a biography as a brief gallop through the unfolding moral fable of independent Zimbabwe to the present day. As such it is a useful short guide..." Sunday Times"
£15.19
Society of Biblical Literature Letters from the Hittite Kingdom
£36.10
Society of Biblical Literature The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant
£54.15
Long Riders' Guild Press Mounted Archery in the Americas
£13.30
Westholme Publishing When I Die, I Shall Return to My Own Land: The
Book SynopsisThe New York City Slave Revolt of 1712. The First Comprehensive Investigation into the First Uprising Against Slavery in North America.
£22.50
Alan Rodgers Books The River War by Winston S. Churchill, History
£15.15
Tsehai Publishers The Dying Lion: Feudalism & Modernization in Ethiopia
£19.95
Tsehai Publishers Tradition & Change in Ethiopia: Social and Cultural Life as Reflected in Amharic Fictional Literature (1930-1974)
£14.20
Tsehai Publishers A Political History of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-1991)
£23.70
Tsehai Publishers The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to I920
£23.70
Tsehai Publishers REPUBLICANS on the THRONE: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT of ETHIOPIA's MODERNIZATION and PAINFUL QUEST for DEMOCRACY
£28.45
Tsehai Publishers Ethiopia: the Era of the Princes
£19.95
Tsehai Publishers Society & State in Ethiopian History
£48.19
Tsehai Publishers Interpreting Ethiopia: Observations of Five Decades
£23.70
Cosimo Classics The Man Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures
£14.11
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Merchant Books From Superman to Man
Book SynopsisAn Unabridged Printing of the Second Edition, to include the First, Second, Third and Fourth Day, with opening quote by Schopenhauer and all footnotes - Joel Augustus Rogers'' defining work originally self-published in 1917.
£15.59
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Cambria Press Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa: Interreligious Encounters and Dialogue
£80.74
Cambria Press Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 1890-1980
£99.74
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Cambria Press Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People
£94.58
PublicAffairs,U.S. The Looting Machine
Book SynopsisThe trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent. In his first book, The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage. The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal political cabals to loot the states' value. And the vagaries of resource-dependent economies could pitch Africa's new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they climbed out of it. The ground beneath their feet is as precarious as a Congolese mine shaft; their prosperity could spill away like crude from a busted pipeline. This catastrophic social disintegration is not merely a continuation of Africa's past as a colonial victim. The looting now is accelerating as never before. As global demand for Africa's resources rises, a handful of Africans are becoming legitimately rich but the vast majority, like the continent as a whole, is being fleeced. Outsiders tend to think of Africa as a great drain of philanthropy. But look more closely at the resource industry and the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world looks rather different. In 2010, fuel and mineral exports from Africa were worth 333 billion, more than seven times the value of the aid that went in the opposite direction. But who received the money? For every Frenchwoman who dies in childbirth, 100 die in Niger alone, the former French colony whose uranium fuels France's nuclear reactors. In petro-states like Angola three-quarters of government revenue comes from oil. The government is not funded by the people, and as result it is not beholden to them. A score of African countries whose economies depend on resources are rentier states; their people are largely serfs. The resource curse is not merely some unfortunate economic phenomenon, the product of an intangible force. What is happening in Africa's resource states is systematic looting. Like its victims, its beneficiaries have names.
£16.14
Light Messages Publishing Tales of Mogadiscio
£14.11
Orange Grove Books Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt
£28.45
Cosimo Classics Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
£16.59
Cosimo Classics Egyptian Magic
£16.59
£24.50
Cosimo Classics The Natural Genesis (Two Volumes in One)
£41.99
Wipf & Stock Publishers African Women, Religion, and Health
£28.22
Strategic Book Publishing Liberia's Deadest Ends
£13.05
Strategic Book Publishing The Akan House of Mystery: The History and Accomplishments of the Akan People
£8.68
Echo Point Books & Media African Heroes and Heroines
£18.52
