African history Books
Africa World Press New Dimensions In African History
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Africa World Press Discourses On African Affairs
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£17.95
Africa World Press Death Of A Myth
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£21.21
Africa World Press The Legacies Of Julius Nyerere
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£17.95
Africa World Press Images Of Africa
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£29.71
Africa World Press Prince Of The Times
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£25.46
Africa World Press The Transformation Of Nigeria
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£29.71
Center for International Training & Education Through African Eyes Culture and Society
Book SynopsisTable of Contentsv. 1. The past.
£30.00
Pambazuka Press From the Slave Trade to Free Trade How Trade
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£11.95
The House of Emslie Trekking On
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£12.34
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd Africa Beyond The Mirror
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£15.29
Publishing Print Matters The other side
Book SynopsisHarvey Tyson has been actively reporting, analysing and writing for 70 years, on subjects ranging from news, politics and socio-economics to book reviews, history and travel.Table of ContentsPart 1 – Looking Both Ways 1800–1900: 1. The boy who ran away; 2. When your best friend is killed; 3. When silence does not pay; 4. Joseph Wood’s anger at the cross Rhodes; 5. Battles fought in blood and ink; 6. The war of “34”; 7. The past – and the best road ahead; 8. A hundred years of headlines; Part 2 – Too Early for The News 1920–1945: 9. Confessions of a desperate newsman; 10. Dancing through the Roaring Twenties; 11. When our mother left home; 12. Growing up in a gwenya tree; 13. “The happiest days of your life”; 14. The war? What war?; 15. Sexual and other explanations; Part 3 – Learning The Ropes 1945–1950s: 16. Green monster seen in the “Big Hole”; 17. Accusing a man of the wrong crime; 18. When I broke the rules of ethical reporting; 19. Inside the newsroom on deadline; 20. A baby’s laugh o’er the general’s coffin; 21. The three Malans; 22. “Knock twice and ask for Jesus”; 23. Crashes and shambles – and Europe in ruins; Part 4 – From Our Correspondent 1950–1990: 24. Romance, legionnaires and some tall tails; 25. Murder and hangings; 26. Some beautiful people; 27. “If X, Y, Z?”; 28. A cabinet minister admits his ignorance; 29. Liars, and a snake in the grass; 30. The daily “rush” – hitched to a star; 31. June ‘76 Soweto protests get world attention; 32. The other side of the story; Part 5 – Bad Times, Good Times1987–2017: 33. Security Police and memories to haunt us all; 34. Apartheid’s curse; 35. The “miraculous” nineties; 36. Memories and cherries; 37. Dreams of Academe in the cherry fields; 38. A pantheon – to honour the past and alert the future; 39. Choosing champions to stand beside Mandela.
£17.99
Burnet Media 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans
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£13.25
KMM Review Publishing Fort Hare
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£17.06
LEGARE STREET PR The Truth About Egypt
£18.86
LEGARE STREET PR The West African Pocket Book
£11.35
Taylor & Francis The Middle East and North Africa 2025
Book SynopsisNow in its seventy first edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world area.Key Features:- covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen- includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on regional affairs- accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments- provides comprehensive data on all major organizations active in the countries of the region.General Survey- introductory essays cover a wide range of topics relating to the region as a whole.Country SurveysIndividual chapters on each country incorporating:- essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economy- an extensive statistical survey of economic and social indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, fi
£1,235.00
Picador USA White Gold
Book SynopsisGiles Milton''s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose. --Simon Winchester, The Boston GlobeIn the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton''s White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.
£21.85
Forgotten Books East Africa and Uganda
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Forgotten Books Red Rubber
£20.63
Forgotten Books History of the Gold Coast and Asante Classic Reprint
£21.98
Forgotten Books The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State Vol. 1 of 2
£22.99
Forgotten Books Cetshwayos Dutchman Being the Private Journal of a White Trader in Zululand During the British Invasion Classic Reprint
£20.22
Forgotten Books Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon From Its Beginning to Its End Classic Reprint
£24.51
Forgotten Books Da Zeila Alle Frontiere del Caffa Vol 1 Classic Reprint
£24.89
Forgotten Books Our South African Empire Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books A Century of Wrong Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Great African Mysteries Classic Reprint
£20.14
Forgotten Books Tarikh EsSoudan Par Abderrahman Ben Abdallah Ben imran Ben amir EsSadi Classic Reprint
£21.49
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Economic Development and Environmental History in
Book SynopsisGareth Austin is Professor of Economic History at Cambridge University, UK, and until recently was a professor in the Department of International History at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. He has numerous publications on Ghanaian, African, comparative and global economic history.Trade ReviewAustin’s volume shows the benefit of a looser, non-stratigraphical dating. By avoiding any strict periodization of the Anthropocene, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene allows for rich discussions of the multiple entanglements of the histories of the environment and the economy. * Journal of World History *Table of Contents1.Introduction (Gareth Austin, Cambridge University, UK) 2. Environmental Impacts of Colonial Dynamics, 1400-1800: Ecological Imperialism Versus Ecological Adaptation (Amélia Polónia, University of Porto, Portugal) 3. Agricultural Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa 1500-1800 (Mats Widgren, Stockholm University, Sweden) 4. Containerization, Energy and the Anthropocene in West Africa (Emily Osborn, University of Chicago, USA) 5. Africa and the Anthropocene (Gareth Austin, Cambridge University, UK) 6. Local Resource Constraints, Regional Trade and Environmental Sustainability: An Asian Historical Perspective (Kaoru Sugihara, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan) 7. Forests and a New Energy Economy in 19th-Century South India (Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College, USA) 8. Land Quality, Carrying Capacity and Sustainable Agricultural Change in 20th-Century India (Tirthankar Roy, LSE, UK) 9. Forest Development in Southeast Asia and the Human Factor, 1500-2000 (Peter Boomgaard, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 10. Developing the Rainforest: Rubber, Environment and Economy in Southeast Asia (Corey Ross, University of Birmingham, UK) 11. The Development of Energy Conservation Technology in Japan, 1920-70: An Analysis of Energy-Intensive Industries and Energy Conservation Policies (Satoru Kobori, Nagoya University, Japan) 12. The Development of South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Industry in a Resource- and Capital-Scarce Environment (Se Young Jang, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) 13. Water, Energy, and Politics: Chinese Industrial Revolutions in Global Environmental Perspective (Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago, USA) 14. The Present Climate of Economic History (Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame, USA) Bibliography Index
£33.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Imperial Gallows
Book SynopsisStacey Hynd is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include articles in Journal of African History, International Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Journal of West African History, amongst others.Trade ReviewClear, thorough and convincing scholarship. * The Africa Report *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Capital Punishment and Colonial Rule: Race, Violence and ‘Civilization’ in British Africa 1. ‘The Extreme Penalty of the Law’: Law, Courts and Colonial Criminal Justice 2. The ‘Ultimate Deterrent’ in a Colonial Context? Contestations in Colonial Penal Regimes 3. To Hang or Not to Hang? Capital Sentencing, Constructions of Deviance, and the Prerogative of Mercy 4. Cultural Defence Narratives, African Agency and the Landscape of Mercy 5. Murder and the Maintenance of ‘Law and Order’: Colonial Violence and Capital Punishment 6. Shocking Crimes and Scandalous Punishments: Imperial Politics, Humanitarian Sentiment and the Death Penalty 7. ‘In a Humane and Decorous Manner’: Rituals of Execution from Public Executions to Death Row Conclusion Bibliography Index
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Life and Thought of H. Odera Oruka
Book SynopsisHenry Odera Oruka was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century African philosophy. During the early years of the decolonization of African countries, as universities worked to redefine themselves, Odera drove changes to curricula and research. A tireless advocate for democracy and human rights in Africa, he repeatedly intervened in the political debates of his time. This is the first critical biography of both the man himself and African philosophy in the context of changing times, taking us through his early life, scholarly training, and Oruka's way of transforming the field of philosophy as it was taught in Kenya. The narrative unfolds from the personal to the global, from Africa to the world, and from African philosophy to the wider field of philosophy. Biographical material is woven with narratives of the social conditions and live questions as they arise in Oruka's life in Kenya, Sweden, and the United States. We are introduced to his understanding of philosophy as Trade ReviewPresbey takes the reader right into the events and influences that shaped H. Odera Oruka. She skillfully provides the context for understanding Oruka’s thought and legacy as well as making sense of the discussions within African Philosophy. * Sam Imbo, Professor of Philosophy, Hamline University, USA. *This long-awaited book is a detailed study of the development of one of Africa's most influential philosophers in the second half of the 20th century: Henry Odera Oruka. Oruka, who became best known for his Sage philosophy project, was a tireless advocate for democracy and human rights in Africa and repeatedly intervened in the political debates of his time. Presbey traces the path of his thought in detail and provides unique insights into the debates in African philosophy of the 1960s to 1990s. * Anke Graness, Researcher in History of Philosophy and Philosophy in Africa, Foundation University of Hildesheim, Germany *The work weaves delicately but concisely the life and thoughts of one of the major figures in contemporary African philosophy. H. Odera Oruka’s philosophy exemplifies applied philosophy to pertinent issues of our time such as human equality and dignity, freedom and human rights, poverty, global justice and environmental philosophy. * Oriare Nyarwath, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Nairobi, Kenya *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I. An Introduction to the Person of Odera Oruka Introduction 1. Reflections on Oruka’s Early Years Part II. Early Developments as a Philosopher 2. Undergraduate Studies with Ingemar Hedenius 3. Oruka in the United States and Writings on Punishment 4. Oruka’s Thesis/Book on Liberty and Early Years in Nairobi Part III. Sage Philosophy and Culture Philosophy 5. Myths, Traditions, Anthropology, and Philosophy 6. Exploring H. Odera Oruka’s Position on Luo Practices of Burial and Widow Guardianship Part IV. Global Justice: Addressing Poverty, Neo-Colonialism, and Environmental Destruction 7. Ecological Ethics Modeled on the Family: the intertwined issues of environmental preservation, poverty reduction, land ownership, and women’s status 8. Oruka on Political Philosophy – Domestic and International – and his ongoing legacy Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Book SynopsisThis open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision with a focus on the social sciences and cultural studies. In doing so, they explore new development paradigms for Africa in the context of Covid-19, the role of myths in the psychological transformation of Africa, the correlation between discourses on cultures in Africa and the development of the continent, interactions between Indigenous knowledge and Western innovations, and new movements in the arts, handicrafts, and even postmodern Afropop. Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities in order to promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Mission Race and Colonialism in Malawi
Book SynopsisA fresh assessment of how mission, race and colonialism intersected in the life of Scottish missionary Alexander Hetherwick, leader of Blantyre Mission in Malawi from 1898 to 1928.Trade Review"This study of Alexander Hetherwick fills a gap in our understanding of Malawi's history. Anyone seeking to understand the interplay of mission, race and colonialism must read this book." -Billy Gama, CCAP Blantyre Synod
£80.75
Hodder & Stoughton Disentangled
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Phantom Army of Alamein
Book SynopsisIn 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 Montgomery ordered them to to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six weeks two entire divisions were conjured from the sand, while real units, stores and men vanished into thin air. Then, right in front of the German''s eyes they made 600 tanks disappear and reappear fifty miles away disguised as lorries. Rommel had been bamboozled by an army made of nothing but string and straw and bits of wood.Trade ReviewA wonderful book: charming, fascinating, crammed full of extraordinary nuggets of information ... The result is a gem of a book and a classic of its kind -- James Holland * Literary Review *Stroud has a storyteller’s eye for human detail matched with a researcher’s diligence ... A fascinating study of how the most unlikely characters can become heroes * Independent on Sunday *The unit's tale is told with clarity, humour and precision * The Times *
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The founders
Book SynopsisThe African National Congress was founded a hundred years ago, in January 1912. But the roots of the ANC run even deeper in South African history. In fact, the ANC's founding was the culmination of more than sixty years of organisation by a new class of African modernisers.Table of ContentsRoots: Conquest; Missionaries and the growth of Christianity and literacy in southern Africa; Africans in a colonial order; Tiyo Soga and voices from the 1860s; The emergence of the first generation of activists, 1870s; 'Deeper than his civilisation'; Isigidimi and the Native Educational Association's fight in the mission heartland; Formation of Imbumba Yama Nyama, 1882; New organizations and a new church in Thembuland; Mobilising along the Kei; Using the ballot box; Launch of the 'National Newspaper', 1884; 'Eye of the House': The Union of Native Vigilance Associations, 1887; Vigilance Associations challenge Tung' umlomo. The creation of wider networks: Formation of the South African Native Congress, 1891; Two bulls in the camp: 'The Congress' versus 'The Union'; 'A Native Bill for Africa'; First Stirrings in Natal; Bloemfontein, 'Black Mountain' and Basutoland 'Bechuanaland': Diamonds and the Expanding Network; Gold and a new nationalism; Marriage between 'Ethiopianism' and eastern Cape politics; Congress takes first steps as a 'national' movement, 1898; The Role of Women in the Struggle; Black Economic Empowerment; Playing the White Man at his own Game; Part of a Global Dialogue (The humanitarian project and early visits to Britain); Part of a Global Dialogue (America, Pan-Africanism and fresh ideological ideas). War and Change: Britain Takes Control, 1899-1902 (The South African War); New politics in the Transvaal; New politics in the Orange River Colony; Natal Native Congress; Gandhi and the Congresses; Cape Town and post-war politics; Growth of the Eastern Cape-based South African Native Congress; Transkei organizations and Bunga Politics; Jabavu, the SANC and the politics of Higher Education; Bambatha and the Momentum towards Unity. Unification: The Queenstown Conference And 'Closer Union', December 1907; Preparations for the National Convention; The National Convention, October 1908; Petitioning the National Convention; Swaziland, Basutoland and Bechuanaland Part of South Africa?; Responses to the National Convention and its Report; Protests and Plans for a Counter-Convention; The South African Native Convention, March 1909; Imbumba and APO join the Chorus, April 1909; 'Appeal to the Parliament and Government of Great Britain and Ireland'; Preparations to send a Delegation to England; The Coloured and Native Delegation in London, July 1909; Birth of the new South Africa, May 1910; First elections: Dr Rubusana makes history; South African Native Convention and attempts to Cement Unity, 1910-1911; The formation of the South African Native National Congress, 8 January 1912; Past and Present.
£23.40
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Plague pox and pandemics A Jacana pocket history
Book SynopsisOver the last decades, we have seen more than three dozen new infectious diseases appear, some of which could kill millions of people with one or two unlucky gene mutations or one or two unfavourable environmental changes.
£10.44
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Soweto uprising A Jacana pocket history
Book SynopsisThe 1976 Soweto uprising represented a real turning point in South Africa's history. Even to contemporaries it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This short history brings alive the sequence of events and delves into the significance the uprising had on South African politics.
£10.44
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd ANC womens league Sex politics and gender
Book SynopsisThe women's league has played a large but little understood role in the history of the ANC. Over the years it has been headed by some powerful women including Albertina Sisulu and Winnie Mandela and has often gained public and media attention.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Another country South Africas new portraits
Book SynopsisAnother country, South Africa: New portraits is based on South Africans' views on the country and personal history; it gives an unvarnished account of what has changed personally and generally in the country through the lens of existing photographs.Trade Review"I think that's the problem we currently facing in South Af- rica, positive leadership, mentorship, that's what's missing throughout the world, throughout the continent especial- ly. That's what I am passionate about and I know what it means to be an African. We are free today, but we are not equal today. What responsibility comes with that freedom that we have earned, that our parents and grandparents have fought for? Yes, you can go to any restaurant you want to, you can buy any car you want to buy if you can afford it, you can move freely, but what about the rest of the population, are they moving freely? Do they have a health care? No, they don't. Our parents have achieved a lot, but there is still a lot more to be achieved. There is still a lot that we have to celebrate." - Ndaba Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, Investec, Cape Town, April 2010; "Countries with a conflicted history bind you to them much more closely than countries where we could say the more recent past is quite placid. That seems true to me in countries like Israel or Iran and I think that is true of South Africa, too. If you have even half a conscience and half a mind you tend to feel implicated in recent history. I would find it extremely difficult to leave." - Damon Galgut, writer, at home, Cape Town, 2009.
£26.06
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Poverty in South Africa
Book SynopsisExplains why poverty has persisted in South Africa. Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass demonstrate who has and who has not remained poor, how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and how and why these policies were adopted.Table of ContentsChapter 1: glances briefly at the nature of poverty in the colonial and pre-colonial past; Chapter 2: considers how racialised patterns of poverty were established around a set of key institutions and practices: labour migrancy, segregated cities, the colour bar, and white political power; Chapter 3: examines the changing faces of poverty among black South Africans during the first half of the 20th century; Colin Bundy is one of South Africa's foremost historians and the former Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. His books include The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry and three Jacana pocketbooks, biographies of Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki and Short-changed? South Africa since Apartheid; Chapter 4: reviews some startling changes in the nature of poverty during the four decades of apartheid; Chapter 5: explores the responses of successive ANC governments to an inherited legacy of mass poverty rooted in mass unemployment; Finally, Chapter 6: asks what policy options are available to any South African government trying to reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Darwins hunch Science race and the search for
Book SynopsisScientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins - in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics - over the past century.Trade Review"With its unsparing wealth of personal and historical detail, there's nothing else like Darwin's Hunch available." Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History; "Powerful and revealing. Darwin's Hunch is a fantastic read." Xolela Mangcu, Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town, and author of Biko: A Biography; "Kuljian's writing is astute and insightful, bringing out new dimensions and details throughout." - Saul Dubow, Queen Mary University of London, author of Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa.Table of ContentsPrologue: The response to Homo Naledi; Part One: Searching for Difference: 1. “The Most Interesting Specimens Were the Natives”; 2. The response to the Taung Child Skull: Born in Africa? “Preposterous”; 3. Race Typology and ‘Specimens of Natural History’;
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Southern African muckraking
Book SynopsisCelebrates the rich and untold history of investigative journalism in southern Africa and the crucial role it has played in holding power to account over the last 300 years. It is the third book in the best-selling series of Muckraking titles.
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