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Imperial Footprints
Potomac Books Inc. 2004; US$ 21.95ôDr. Livingstone, I presume?ö The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth centuryÆs most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton StanleyÆs death, his accomplishments in Africa have largely receded from public memory or have been... more...
The King's African Rifles - Volume 1
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 19.49This is a regimental history with a difference, one that is bound up with the history of the British Empire in Africa and the extension and development of British rule in the territories of Somaliland, British East Africa (redesignated Kenya from July 1920), Uganda, Nyasaland and, after 1918, Tanganyika (previously German East Africa). These were the... more...
The King's African Rifles - Volume 2
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 19.49This is a regimental history with a difference, one that is bound up with the history of the British Empire in Africa and the extension and development of British rule in the territories of Somaliland, British East Africa (redesignated Kenya from July 1920), Uganda, Nyasaland and, after 1918, Tanganyika (previously German East Africa). These were the... more...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 7.28Mungo Park?s account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent. Though he failed in the object of his mission ? to chart the course of the Niger River ? he succeeded in leaving a unique record of everyday life before the exploitation of Africa... more...
African Democracy and Development
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 79.99This book is an examination of particular African countries that are in the post-conflict phase. They have experienced horrific civil wars that left thousands of their citizens internally displaced or as refugees in surrounding countries, and some fled to countries in the global north. The countries examined in the book are in the process of rebuilding... more...
Mr Stanley, I Presume?
The History Press 2013; US$ 29.17Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most often quoted words of greeting of all time - 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' - Henry Morton Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped... more...
Ethnicity Kills?
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 185.00The 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... more...
From Slave Trade to Empire
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 190.00Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic... more...
New News Out of Africa
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 13.99Exploring 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...
Stanley
Random House 2012; US$ 33.37Sir Henry Morton Stanley, greatest of African explorers, was one of the most fascinating late Victorian adventurers. Born into poverty and illegitimacy, he survived a series of incredible adventures at sea and in the USA to emerge as a journalist of talent after the American Civil War. His coverage of the British Ethiopian expedition to chastise... more...









