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  • Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

    Edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, Dominic Thomas ...
    This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • South Sudan

    The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

    by Hilde F. Johnson ...
    In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Travels In the Heart of Africa

    by Samuel Baker ...
    Narrating his experiences in Africa, Baker has dwelled upon the wild and untamed beauty of the land. He elaborates the culture of the people, their religion as well as the wild-life and its habitat. The book offers a detailed study of the area with a profound personal touch and opinions of the author. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Killed Hammarskjold?

    The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

    by Susan Williams ...
    One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick forest in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), abruptly ending his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Across the world, many ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Third World Child

    Born White, Zulu Bred

    by GG Alcock ...
    GG Alcock's parents, Creina and Neil, were humanitarians who gave up comfortable lives to move to rural Zululand. In a place called Msinga, a dry rock-strewn wilderness and one of the most violent places in Africa, they lived and worked among the Mchunu and Mthembu tribes, fighting for the rights of people displaced by the apartheid government's policy of "forced removals". They also fought ... Read more

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  • The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

    Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]

    by Douglas Johnson, Dr Douglas H Johnson ...
    Series Book 38 - African Issues
    Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan.Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The War in South Africa:, Its Cause and Conduct

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Account of the Boer War, first published in 1902. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character ... Read more

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  • This House Has Fallen

    Nigeria In Crisis

    by Karl Maier ...
    To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation. Each year, with depressing consistency, Nigeria is declared the most corrupt state in the entire world. Though Nigeria is a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mississippi in Africa

    The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today

    by Alan Huffman ...
    When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Creating the Creole Island

    Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    by Megan Vaughan ...
    The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Africans

    The History of a Continent

    by John Iliffe ...
    Series Book 137 - African Studies
    In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Bushmen Soldiers

    The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90

    by Ian Uys ...
    The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers and dedicated soldiers.Coming from a primitive hunter/gatherer culture, they responded well to a ... Read more

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