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The Shadow of the Sunby Ryszard Kapuscinski
Knopf Publishing Group 2001; US$ 11.99In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles a king cobra to the death and suffers through a bout of malaria. What emerges is an extraordinary depiction of Africa--not as a group of nations or geographic locations--but as a vibrant and frequently joyous montage of peoples, cultures, and encounters.... more...
Africa since 1800by Roland Oliver; Anthony Atmore
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00This book looks at the peoples of Africa at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, partition and colonisation, and the colonial rule up to 1960. The last third of the book is concerned with the history of independent Africa during the last years of the twentieth century. more...
Africansby John Iliffe
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 23.00A vast and all-embracing history of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the aids epidemic. more...
Long Walk to Freedomby Nelson Mandela
Little, Brown and Company 2008; US$ 9.99Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights... more...
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africaby Richard A. Wilson
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 38.00This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. more...
Soaring Stonesby Daniel Cray; Maureen Clemmons
Delcominy Creations, LLC 2011; US$ 2.99The story of a backyard scientist who uses kites to lift sixteen-ton stones, and her struggle to convince Egyptologists that the same method might have played a role in constructing ancient pyramids. more...
Sharpevilleby Tom Lodge
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 21.95On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black andwhite in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the... more...
Contemporary Egyptby Charles Tripp
Routledge 1993; US$ 200.00New expert essays on the social and political forces and personalities that have shaped modern Egypt - and the economic, political and diplomatic dilemmas facing the country. more...
Cleopatrasby John Whitehorne
Routledge 1994; US$ 135.00Traces the turbulent lives of the famous Cleopatra's historically important namesakes, and considers the growing political significance of royal women in the last three centuries B.C. more...
Early Dynastic Egyptby Toby A. H. Wilkinson
Routledge 1999; US$ 140.00This book is the most comprehensive treatment of Early Dynastic Egypt to date, and breaks new ground by tackling such topics as administration and religion. Accessible to the general reader and student alike. more...