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Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
Bookworld Publishers 2007; US$ 39.95The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language;... more...
African Foreign Policy and Diplomacy from Antiquity to the 21st Century
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 105.00This book offers a continent-wide examination of Africa's foreign policy and diplomacy, addressing the relevance of its many languages, precolonial history, traditional value systems, and previous international relationships. more...
Challenge of Culture in Africa
Langaa RPCIG 2010; US$ 22.95This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA ñ Cameroon Cultural Review ñ under the title ìIdea of Cultureî. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which the modern African cultural structure should be raised; the soil into which the new seed should be sown;... more...
Living the End of Empire
BRILL 2011; US$ 60.00Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories. more...
One Zambia, Many Histories
BRILL 2008; US$ 62.00In contrast to the rich tradition of academic analysis and understanding of the pre-colonial and colonial history of Zambia, the trajectory of post-colonial Zambia has been all but ignored by historians. The assumptions of developmentalism, the cultural hegemony of United National Independence Party orthodoxy and its conflation with national interests,... more...
Songs & Secrets
Jacana Media 2012; US$ 25.99"If you picked up this book in the expectation of revelling in the true confessions of a disaffected spy-master ? put it back. If you opened this book in the hope of enjoying the confidences of a disillusioned cadre of the South African liberation movement ?close it, put it down. If you bought this book in anticipation of a grandparents-to-grave... more...
Zambia Then and Now
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 148.00Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial rulers and their African successors in the context of history and the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing colonial society with that of... more...
CultureShock! Morocco
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17CultureShock! Morocco contains all the essential information to help you settle comfortably in this unique but often bewildering country. Offering a different perspective from the romanticised place portrayed in the film Casablanca, the book explores the realities of Morocco and gives important insights into the lives and customs of the Moroccans.... more...
The Land of an African Sultan
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 28.00"There are men", say the Moors, 'who have come from islands far away to the west, upon the great ocean, to see Morocco. Like all the world, they know that there is no other land to compare to it". Walter Harris and Morocco are inextricably linked. For 35 years, he immersed himself in the culture and way of life of Morocco in a way... more...









