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From Slave Trade to Empireby Pé; tré; Olivier -Grenouilleau
Routledge 2004; US$ 190.00This book provides a new perspective on the colonisation of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century and focuses on the role of Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. more...
Ethnicity Kills?by Einar Braathen; Boå; Morten s; Gjermund Saether
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 165.00The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle which evolved around the state is at the forefront of the analysis of civil war and societal conflict. more...
New News Out of Africaby Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 14.95Exploring the transformation of post-apartheid South Africa, the author emphasizes the challenges and responsibilities of reporting on Africa, the foreign media's role in representing Africa, and her reflection of what dangers her African collegaues face in their countries to report news from their homelands. more...
Tradition and Modernityby Kwame Gyekye
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 60.00This work offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times. Gyekye attempts to show the usefulness of Western philosophical concepts in addressing a range of specifically African problems. more...
Hugh Clapperton into the Interior of Africaby Jamie Bruce Lockhart; Paul E. Lovejoy
BRILL 2005; US$ 69.00Hugh Clapperton, Scottish explorer and diplomat, made two expeditions into the interior of West Africa, the first across the Sahara Desert and the second inland from the Bight of Benin. His first expedition in 1822-24, crossed the Sahara to Borno. A second expedition, also an official mission of the British Government, was undertaken in 1825-27 and is the subject of this volume. Clapperton's diaries have been transcribed and reproduced in a form as close as possible to the original raw material. more...
Mooringsby Josiah Blackmore
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 75.00In this first book to study Portuguese texts about Africa, Moorings brings an important but little-known body of European writings to bear on contemporary colonial thought. Images of Africa as monstrous, dangerous, and lush were created in early Portuguese imperial writings and dominated its representation in European literature. Moorings establishes these key works in their proper place: foundational to Western imperial discourse. Attentive to history as well as the nuances of language, Josiah Blackmore leads readers from the formation of the Moor in medieval Iberia to the construction of a full colonial imaginary, as found in the works of two writers: the royal chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara and the epic poet Luís de Camões.... more...
Africa Yearbook, 4by Andreas Mehler; Henning Melber; Klaas van Walraven
BRILL 2008; US$ 62.00Covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. This book contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa). more...
Africa Yearbook, 5by Andreas Mehler
BRILL 2009; US$ 139.00The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa ? all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business... more...
How I Found Livingstoneby Henry Morton Stanley
The Floating Press 1871; US$ 5.99Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "Dark Continent", caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 the publisher of the New York Herald commissioned reporter Henry Stanley to go and find him. This book is Stanley's account of his adventure, and the moment he found Livingstone, in which he uttered the famous words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" more...