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  • Africa; Its Music & Its People

    by Ed.D. Pascal Bokar Thiam, Ph.D. Magueye Seck ...
    PRAISE FOR AFRICA; ITS MUSIC & ITS PEOPLE... A respected performer, educator, Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam has played with the best of them: Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd and others...his knowledge of Africa's music and culture is just as extensive as his knowledge for the music of America. And he shows us that it is one music. - Teodross Avery, DMA. Music Department, California State University ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

    by Christian Parenti ...
    From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Violent Borders

    Refugees and the Right to Move

    by Reece Jones ...
    **This engaging analysis of the refugee crisis explores how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor.“In an era of terrorism, global inequality, and rising political tension over migration, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse, not better.” —Boston Globe**Forty thousand people have died trying to cross between countries in the past decade, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • It's a Continent

    Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book.' SIMON REEVE

    by Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata ...
    'We need this book' SIMON REEVE'Illuminating' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy is Africa often perceived as a single country?What role did African soldiers play in the Second World War?Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Africa?How did an African man become one of the wealthiest people in history?It's a Continent unravels these untold s... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The African Diaspora

    A History Through Culture

    by Patrick Manning ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Brief Histories of Almost Anything

    50 Savvy Slices of our Global Past

    Edited by Chris Brazier ...
    Here are fifty concise, entertaining histories on a broad, eclectic range of ideas (borders, feminism), global issues (migration, world trade), commodities (bananas, jeans), regions (Africa, Ireland), and institutions (corporations, the World Bank).Lucid and irreverent, Brief Histories of Almost Anything challenges common perceptions associated with the subjects by going behind the facts. Each ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Africa

    Edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara ...
    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rumba Rules

    The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire

    by Bob W. White ...
    Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying “happy are those who sing and dance,” and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During this period Zairian popular dance music (often referred to as la rumba zaïroise) became a sort of musica franca in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But how ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Finding Home

    The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Illustrated by Drew Shannon ...
    Series Book 1 - Orca Think
    What drives people to search for new homes?From war zones to politics, there are many reasons why people have always searched for a place to call home. In Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees we discover how human migration has shaped our world. We explore its origins and the current issues facing immigrants and refugees today, and we hear the first-hand stories of people who have ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hip Hop Africa

    New African Music in a Globalizing World

    by Rainer Polak, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Lee Watkins, Patricia Tang, Daniel B. Reed, John Fenn, Stephanie Shonekan, Jean Ngoya Kidula, Alex Perullo, John Collins, Jochen Seebode ...
    Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Human Tradition in Modern Africa

    Edited by Dennis D. Cordell ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800. The last two centuries have been a time of enormous change on the continent, and these life stories show how people survived by resisting European conquest and colonial rule, by collaborating with colonial powers, or by finding a middle way to live their ... Read more

    $42.89 USD