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Guinea-Bissau Society & Culture Complete Report
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Guinea-Bissau will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Guinea-Bissau, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
To Timbuktu for a Haircut
Dundurn 2008; US$ 26.99Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendour and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name. With this fabled city as his goal, author Rick Antonson began a month-long trek. His initial plan? To get a haircut. more...
And Still Peace Did Not Come
Hyperion 2011; US$ 22.99When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way to the... more...
Rural Hausa
Cambridge University Press 1972; US$ 37.00This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa. more...
West African States: Failure and Promise
Cambridge University Press 1978; US$ 32.00In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroun was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along with a single independent African state. more...
The Politics of Neoliberal Democracy in Africa
I.B.Tauris 2008; US$ 89.00Since the late 1980s the changing dynamic of global development has driven the tide of democratic expansion in the developing world. In Africa, western donors have sought to impose 'neo-liberal' visions of socio-economic and political institution-building, spreading political reforms and economic liberalisation with far-reaching consequences.... more...
Drums on the Night Air
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 11.65Veronica Cecil was twenty-five years old when her husband was offered a job at a large multi-national company in the Congo. Filled with enthusiasm for their new life, the couple and their eleven-month-old son set off for an African adventure. Very soon, however, Veronica began to realise that life in the Congo was not what she had imagined. Food shortages... more...
How de Body?
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 7.99In 1998, acclaimed photojournalist Teun Voeten headed to Sierra Leone for what he thought would be a standard assignment on the child soldiers there. But the cease-fire ended just as he arrived, and the clash between the military junta and the West African peace-keeping troops forced him to hide in the bush from rebels who were intent on killing... more...
My Mercedes Is Not for Sale
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2011; US$ 14.57"My Mercedes Is Not for Sale" is a rollicking, witty and insightful tale of an innocent abroad which captures the high-spirited adventure of a young journalist and paints a vivid portrait of West Africa through a surprise-filled journey into its thriving car cult. "My Mercedes is Not for Sale" has all the wit and charm of John Mole's bestselling "Its... more...









