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  • Colonial Systems of Control

    Criminal Justice in Nigeria

    de Chris Affor, Uju Agomoh, Biko Agozino, Clever Akporherhe, Sylvester Monday Anagaba, O. Oko Elechi, Osa Eribo, Mechthild Nagel, Igho Odibo, Julia Sudbury, Chukwuma Ume, Unyierie Idem ...
    Series series Alternative Perspectives in Criminology
    A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • My Friend the Mercenary

    A Memoir

    de James Brabazon ...
    "Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa . . . and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms." — Kirkus ReviewsIn February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show the world what was happening in that war-torn country. To protect him, he hired Nick du Toit, a former South African ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • King Peggy

    An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village

    de Peggielene Bartels, Eleanor Herman ...
    The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy has the sweetness and quirkiness of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and the hopeful sense of possibility of Half the Sky.King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of an American secretary who suddenly finds ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Bitter Chocolate

    Anatomy of an Industry

    de Carol Off ...
    This shocking exposé of the corruption and exploitation at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry is "an astounding eye-opener that takes no prisoners" ( Quill & Quire, starred review).Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist Carol Off traces ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Certain Death in Sierra Leone

    The SAS and Operation Barras 2000

    de Will Fowler ...
    Series Libro 10 - Raid
    In September 2000 the notorious militia gang, 'West Side Boys' kidnapped eleven British soldiers in Sierra Leone and Operation Barras was launched as the rescue operation. Fast roping in from helicopters, the SAS soldiers engaged in a heavy firefight with the militia, killing several, and capturing their leader. Meanwhile the Paras advanced on foot, fighting their way through a village to recover ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Tragedy of Victory

    On-the-spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre

    de Godwin Alabi-Isama ...
    The Tragedy of Victory: On-the-Spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre is a chronological narrative of the war that lasted from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970. With about 500 photographs and maps and facts, told with accuracy, the well-organised and efficient Third Marine Commandos, earlier commanded by Col. Benjamin Adekunle (with Lt. Col. G. Alabi-Isama, as the Chief of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Reforming the Unreformable

    Lessons from Nigeria

    de Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...
    A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms.Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically committed team ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Through the Dark Continent

    Volume 1

    de Henry M. Stanley ...
    Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it.Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Kind of Homecoming

    de E. R. Braithwaite ...
    From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental changeIn the early 1960s acclaimed British Guianese author E. R. Braithwaite embarked on a pilgrimage to the West African countries of Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • By the Rivers of Water

    A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

    de Erskine Clarke ...
    In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way they encountered not only many diverse ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Lagos

    A Cultural History

    de Kaye Whiteman ...
    Series series Interlink Cultural Histories
    AN ENGAGING AND WELL-WRITTEN CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY. Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Kaye Whiteman explores a city that has constantly re-invented itself, from the first settlement on an uninhabited island to the creation of the port in the early years of the twentieth century. Lagos is still defined by its curious network of islands and lagoons, where erosion and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Alabama in Africa

    Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South

    de Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman ...
    Series series America in the World
    In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and the economic, political, and intellectual links ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD