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  • Africa since 1800by Roland Oliver; Anthony Atmore

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00

    This 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$ 23.00

    A 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$ 9.99

    Read 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$ 38.00

    This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. more...

  • Sharpevilleby Tom Lodge

    OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 21.95

    On 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...

  • Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africaby William Beinart; Saul Dubow

    Routledge 1995; US$ 41.95

    Beinart and Dubow's selection of some of the most important essays on racial segregation and apartheid in South Africa provides an unparallelled introduction to this contentious and absorbing subject. Incorporates the 1994 election. more...

  • Pan-African Historyby Marika Sherwood; Hakim Adi

    Routledge 2003; US$ 41.95

    Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of he last two-hundred years. more...

  • Decolonization Of Africaby David Birmingham

    Routledge 1995; US$ 28.95

    This synthesis presents an accessible introduction to one of the major themes of 20th-century world history namely, the decolonization of Africa. more...

  • Frontiersmenby Anthony Clayton

    Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95

    Focusing on warfare in Africa since 1950, the text explores two themes: that in North Africa warfare has been a matter of identity and that south of the Sahara is comparable with that of pre-colonial Africa. more...

  • Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914by Bruce Vandervort

    Routledge 1998; US$ 40.95

    A military history of the European conquest in Africa and an assessment of the impact and legacy of the imperial wars on African and European military practice. The text is intended for undergraduate courses on imperial, African and military history. more...