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How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 23.75Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought modernity to Africa, Olúfémi TáÃwò claims that Africa was already becoming modern and that colonialism was an unfinished project. Africans aspired... more...
The Black Nile
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 26.95"A supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny... more...
Top 10 Cairo and the Nile
Dorling Kindersley 2011; US$ 14.00DK Eyewitness Top 10 Cairo & The Nile travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Cairo & The Nile have to offer. Whether you're looking for must-see Egyptian museums, or want to find the best attractions in Cairo for all the family; this travel guide is packed with essential information for every corner of this fascinating... more...
The Only Road North
Zondervan 2009; US$ 10.99The Only Road North is the true-life adventure of a 9,000-mile journey across Africa taken by author Erik Mirandette, his brother, and two friends. When the travelers fall victim to a terrorist attack, Erik must struggle through grief and darkness to find his way back to a life lived for God. more...
Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 34.00This is the first book-length study of popular culture in Islamic society. more...
Crossing the Zambezi
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 90.00This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of 150 years of conflict ove more...
New Approaches to Security and Development
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2003; US$ 19.50This paper was delivered by Shri Lal Krishna Advani, Deputy Prime Minister of India, at a Public Lecture organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore on 4 February 2003.... more...
Heart of Africa
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00More hilarious, more deeply experienced travelling from the author of Dark Continent My Black Arse more...
Trading Conflicts
BRILL 2012; US$ 212.00Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria. more...
Something Torn and New
Basic Books 2009; US$ 25.00"One of Africa's greatest writers? ( San Francisco Chronicle ) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language?and African culture itself more...









