African history Books
Protea Boekhuis Between Woodbush and Wolkberg
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£15.19
Protea Boekhuis Capturing the Soul: The Vhavenda and the
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£22.05
Protea Boekhuis Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652 -
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£22.95
Protea Boekhuis Kinders Van Konings
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£18.86
Protea Boekhuis Da Costa Leal in Die Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek:
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£999.99
Protea Boekhuis Handelsryk in Die Ooste: Die Wereld Van Die VOC,
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£27.86
Protea Boekhuis Islands in a Forgotten Sea
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£18.89
Protea Boekhuis The Boers in Angola: 1928 - 1975
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£31.05
Hansib Publications Limited Black Routes: Legacy of African Diaspora
Book SynopsisA collection of commentaries and biographies celebrating the fighters against oppression - from Bernie Grant to Kwame Toure.
£10.44
WorldView Publications A Family of the Musseque: Survival and
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£999.99
WorldView Publications A Family of the Musseque: Survival and
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£8.99
WorldView Publications Imperial Echoes: The Sudan-People, History &
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£14.20
Serif Angola: Promises and Lies
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£11.40
Haus Publishing General Smuts: South Africa
Book SynopsisJan Christian Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Woodrow Wilson was inspired by his ideas on the League and borrowed heavily from them, including the mandates scheme, whereby South Africa took responsibility for Namibia. Alarmed at the turn that peacemaking was taking, Smuts took the lead in urging moderation on reparations and Germany's frontiers with Poland and pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war. Declaring I return to South Africa a defeated man', Smuts encouraged Keynes to write The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and denounced the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923. He became Prime Minister of South Africa and a leading Commonwealth statesman. He made important contributions to the British cause in the Second World War and was instrumental in the establishment of the United Nations.Trade Review'As this excellent book powerfully shows, he was a man of exceptional broad-mindedness, moral (and physical) courage, realistic wisdom happily married to idealism, admired and almost revered by major figures in Europe, and driven by a highly positive dynamism, all inspired by a passionate longing for, simply, a better world...' 'A great strength of this book is the fact that about 40% of it is made up of quotations - most from Smuts's own writings and speeches, but many uttered by leading British and European figures who knew him, and some by members of his family. The author mostly allows the characters to speak for themselves, which gives his account great solidity. A fascinating and inspiring read.' -- David Pike The Wittnes 20100922 'This excellent book by Anthony Lentin is in a series which concentrates on the men (including Smuts) who shaped the Paris Peace Conference after the First World War. Lentin not only describes Smuts' contribution in Paris, but he also outlines his life from farm boy of the Western Cape to his state funeral in Pretoria 80 years later. Lentin does this in less than 200 pages (excluding references and the index), which is a tribute to his clear, elegant and economical English style.' -- James Barber South African Journal of International Affairs
£11.69
Nomad Publishing Tahrir: The Last 18 Days of Mubarak: An Insider's
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£12.30
Nomad Publishing Egypt from One Revolution to Another: Memoir of a
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£21.21
Old Street Publishing The Night Wanderers
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£9.99
Hansib Publications Limited An African Journey Book Two: From Emancipation
Book SynopsisThe second volume depicting the Windrush Generation's struggle for political and economic liberation from colonial powers.
£10.44
Real African Publishers Pty Ltd The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa
Book SynopsisNelson Mandela’s comrade in the struggle, Denis Goldberg, spent 22 years in an Apartheid South African political prison from 1963 to 1985. In this memoir, Denis, the perennial optimist, writes about the human side of the often painful road to freedom; about the joy of love and death, human dignity, political passion, comradeship, conflict between comrades…and a very long imprisonment. Born in Cape Town in 1933, the son of working class immigrants from Great Britain, Denis Goldberg was one of the white activists against apartheid in South Africa. As a young civil engineer he campaigned with the ANC and in 1961 joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the liberation movement. He was arrested in 1963 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, along with seven other comrades, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. After long, drawn out negotiations Goldberg was released in 1985. Unbroken, he campaigned for the end of apartheid from his exile in London, England. His life has gone full-circle as he now resides in Cape Town, back where it all started. A DVD is included inside the back cover of the book. This contains stories not told in the book, extra photographs, videos, mementos and biographies of 60 ANC members.Table of ContentsThe mission; respect for all; University; political activity 1950 - 1963; last resort - armed resistance; underground in Johannesburg; arrest at Liliesleaf; the Rivonia trial; emotional desert - prison, 1963-1985; problems of Imprisonment, memories of Bram Fischer, health care in prison; the escape; a negotiated release; out of prison, new activist - London - Lusaka - Dar es Salaam; the world is my oyster, t-shirts and music, to the Finland station, meeting Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela, training in Asia - Commonwealth Study Programme, solidarity; affairs of the heart and the community HEART; new life 2003-2009; last thoughts, for now.
£15.19
Jacana Media Mozambique and Brazil: Forging new partnerships
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£17.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Flashes in her soul, the life of Jabu Ndlovu
Book SynopsisThis is the life and times of Jabu Ndlovu—wife, mother, worker, union activist—who fought for the rights of her fellow workers and community members. Flashes in Her Soul is the second book in the Hidden Voices series and is the story of Jabu Ndlovu, a shop steward of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and a community leader in Imbali near Pietermaritzburg. Jabu, her husband and her oldest daughter were killed in a brutal attack on their home in May 1989. This story shows the courage and compassion with which Jabu fought against all forms of exploitation. Her story represents the experiences of thousands of women who struggled and suffered as a result of the war in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1980s and 1990s. Jabu's story reminds us of the devastation that violence brings to families, communities and organizations.The politics and dynamics behind the violence today are not the same as in the 1980s and early 1990s, but the need remains for strong and moral leaders like Jabu to speak out and organize against the violence and the moral corruption that lies behind it.
£8.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Story of One Tells the Story of All:
Book SynopsisThe Story of One Tells the Struggle of All: Metalworkers under Apartheid is the third volume in the Hidden Voices Series. It is comprised of two booklets first published under Raven Press’s Worker Series which aims to tell the lived experiences of workers during apartheid.In The Sun Shall Rise for the Workers, Mandlenkosi Makhoba tells the story of a man from the rurals who comes to Gauteng hoping for work and a better life. He tells of alienation from one’s family, of the unfair treatment from factory “bosses” and his hopes for a more humane life for the worker.In his autobiography, My Life Struggle, Petrus Tom tells the story of his life and work in the Vaal Triangle, first as a metalworker in a cable factory and later as a full-time union organiser.Despite the passing of over thirty years since they were first published, the stories of Mandlenkosi Makhoba and Petrus Tom continue to be relevant as they point to the ongoing struggle against exploitation and oppression which continues across the globe today. Both draw attention to the experiences of the working class that continue to be disregarded until they make life inconvenient for the middle and upper class.
£8.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasie
Book SynopsisThis fourth volume in the Hidden Voices Series is about Oukasie, a township in the Madibeng municipality. At various times in its history, its inhabitants have struggled against problems such as forced removals, terrible living conditions and corrupt officials. Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasie tells the story of a dedicated young group of people who were motivated by their belief that accountable and responsible leadership was needed to improve the situation of their community and its members. Before and after apartheid, they worked together to bring much-needed change to their community. This book tells the stories of those struggles in the 1980s and 1990s, and goes on to describe the problems faced by Oukasie and the wider community when the ethics of accountability were forgotten. The book has many lessons for South Africa today – the benefits that accountable governance can achieve, and what the costs are when a more selfish approach takes root.Trade Review“In this timely work, Kally Forrest expertly sheds light on apartheid South Africa’s last major forced urban removal. Her detailed research dissects the resistance to the removal, how the Oukasie community was torn apart by the machinations of the apartheid local and national state and the challenges of rebuilding, post-apartheid.” – Alan Morris, Professor of Sociology, University of Technology, Sydney “There was a remarkable leadership cadre that makes Oukasie and Brits distinctive, with a long history of organisation in a highly political struggle.” – Taffy Adler, former organiser for the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union
£7.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd UCT Under Apartheid: From Onset to Sit-In
Book SynopsisDrawing on an extensive array of sources – written, oral and visual – this book provides a rounded social, intellectual, educational, cultural and political history of one of Africa’s foremost universities during the first phase of apartheid. It puts a spotlight on its leaders, lecturers and learners, but its wide focus takes in many other dimensions of this heterogeneous institution’s history too – teaching and research, social, cultural and sporting life and its chequered relationship with the apartheid state, ranging from formal opposition and protest and students’ growing defiance culminating in the sit-in of 1968, to ambivalence and willing collaboration. All of these it weaves together into a many-sided whole to produce an elegant, accessible and nuanced study of the operation of UCT as apartheid began to be imposed on South Africa. Howard Philips gives us a definitive history of the period. And one which will occupy pride of place on the bookshelves of the academics and the thousands of alumni who helped shape this history.
£999.99
Aspire Publishing Hub, LLC Africa
£11.55
Daraja Press Politics, Democratization And Academia In Uganda
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£25.19
Daraja Press Kenyan Organic Intellectuals Reflect On The
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£13.49
Daraja Press Mathare : An Urban Bastion Of Anti-oppression
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£13.49
Amalion Publishing British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria,
Book SynopsisMahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.
£62.96
Amalion Publishing British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria,
Book SynopsisMahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA.Trade Review"In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are." - Prof. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University of Oxford, UK.
£36.86
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta
Book SynopsisFrom Darfur to the Rwandan genocide, journalists, policymakers, and scholars have blamed armed conflicts in Africa on ancient hatreds or competition for resources. Here, Tsega Etefa compares three such cases—the Darfur conflict between Arabs and non-Arabs, the Gumuz and Oromo clashes in Western Oromia, and the Oromo-Pokomo conflict in the Tana Delta—in order to offer a fuller picture of how ethnic violence in Africa begins. Diverse communities in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya alike have long histories of peacefully sharing resources, intermarrying, and resolving disputes. As he argues, ethnic conflicts are fundamentally political conflicts, driven by non-inclusive political systems, the monopolization of state resources, and the manipulation of ethnicity for political gain, coupled with the lack of democratic mechanisms for redressing grievances.Table of Contents
£71.24
Palgrave Macmillan Womens Representation in African Politics
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Women's political representation and its forms.- Chapter 3. Gender quotas and descriptive women's representation: Global and continental context.-Chapter 4. Theorizing the impact of women's political representation.- Chapter 5. Substantive representation of women in African politics: Issues and debates.- Chapter 6. Women's political representation in South Africa and Botswana.- Chapter 7. Gender-based violence and femicide as substantive women's representation.- Chapter 8. The impact of gender quotas on substantive women's representation in Botswana and South Africa.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
£999.99
de Gruyter Oldenbourg Communist Actors in African Decolonial Transitions
£57.60
de Gruyter Oldenbourg Beyond Federation
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£61.20
de Gruyter Oldenbourg Nomadic Connectivity
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£26.12
Kohlhammer Das Horn Von Afrika: Athiopien, Dschibuti,
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£25.60
Kohlhammer Zwischen Bomben Und Besatzung
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£27.00
Bohlau Verlag Never lock down Okavango
Book SynopsisAs humans, we live in symbiosis with nature and animals. Nowhere is this more conscious than in Africa. Unplanned 75 days and nights in the middle of the fascinating and species-rich wilderness of the Okavango Delta in Botswana brought Bettina Rumpf experiences that she shares in this very personal animal and nature book. The Okavango Delta in the north of Botswana - one of the seven natural wonders of Africa - is up to 22,000 square kilometers and is home to 500 species of birds and 128 species of mammals, as well as around 150 species of reptiles and amphibians. The Canadian couple Karsten and Bettina Rumpf visited the delta in spring 2020 - just like tourists from all over the world come here year after year. But this journey became intense. The world experienced collectively and suddenly the drama of the spreading corona pandemic and a first global lockdown apparently stopped the course of the earth. The couple had to extend their stay. Instead of the planned seven days, there were two full months. They were stuck in paradise, stranded like two modern Robinson Crusoes ... With her camera and the knowledge of the local guides, the amateur photographer captured the magic of the Okavango Delta and now knows: this miracle of life must never be lost!
£58.89
Springer International Publishing AG Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Book SynopsisThis book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu’s Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies.Table of Contents
£999.99
Not Avail Geschichte gyptens Von der Sptantike bis zur
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£16.10
Bohlau Verlag Geschichtskultur durch Restitution?: Ein
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£40.84
Harrassowitz Verlag International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean
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£73.24
Brill Schoningh El Alamein 1942: Materialschlacht in Nordafrika
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£28.40
Brill I Schoeningh Die Berliner Afrikakonferenz 18841885
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£64.50
wbg Theiss Groae Konigreiche Afrikas
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£28.00
Lit Verlag Africanists on Africa: Current Issues
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£28.76
Lit Verlag The Beginnings of Mission on the Gold Coast
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£999.99
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany RESIST!: The art of resistance
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£25.20
