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Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 34.95Probing the human causes of Africa s continuing travails, a London-educated Kenyan princess examines official policies that do more harm than good, while poking fun at Western hypocrisy and greed, and African vanity and passivity, as well. If the United States is based on the principle that all men are created equal, why, the author asks, does the... more...
Orphan of the Cold War
Palgrave Macmillan 1996; US$ 76.00This is the personal story of Dame Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Angola and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission there from February 1992 to June 1993. Formerly a colony of Portugal, Angola was awarded independence following the democratization of Portugal in 1975. After independence,... more...
Forgotten Africa
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 42.95Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa's momentous human story. Graham Connah is concerned to raise public... more...
Uncovering African Agency
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95In this thought provoking and original work Lucy Corkin demonstrates how Angola has been amongst the most successful of African nations to use China's involvement in the region to grow their economies and solicit renewed interest from previously disengaged foreign powers, bolstering their political capital. Uncovering African Agency casts a fascinating... more...
The Postcolonial Turn
Langaa RPCIG 2011; US$ 49.95This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local peopleís own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional... more...
Civilization or Barbarism
Chicago Review Press 1991; US$ 15.99Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective. more...
Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 113.00This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends... more...
Brothers' or Others?
Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 70.00Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as ?brothers? in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese... more...
Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention. It clearly details how in January 1965 Cuba formed an alliance with the Angolan MPLA which evolved into the flagship of its global 'internationalist'... more...









