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Speaking Truth to Power
Pambazuka Press 2010; US$ 19.99The untimely death of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in 2009 on African Liberation Day stunned the Pan-African world. This lively selection of his weekly Pan-African Postcards demonstrates the brilliant wordsmith he was and his steadfast commitment to Pan-Africanism and offers a legacy of political, social, and cultural thought from his determination... more...
Mugabe - My Part in His Victory
Grosvenor House Publishing 2011; US$ 8.74Mugabe-my part in his victory' is a light-hearted but factually based look at national service in the Rhodesian police force immediately prior to Robert Mugabe?s accession to power in Zimbabwe. It follows the transition of Chris Walmsley and his university friends from raw, high spirited recruits to disciplined and competent policemen. Not that this... more...
A Desert Named Peace
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 27.99In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence... more...
African Awakening
Pambazuka Press 2011; US$ 24.95An insightful and comprehensive compilation of the year’s events, this record offers in-the-moment comment and analysis as well as informed reflection on the 2011 African uprisings. While the tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have seized the attention of media analysts, the concurrent rebellions in Benin, Gabon, Senegal, Swaziland,... more...
The Fate of Africa
PublicAffairs 2007; US$ 21.95An epic biography of post-colonial Africa, and illuminating insight into its current devastating problems, by one of its most authoritative scholars more...
The Fate of Africa
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 21.99An epic biography of post-colonial Africa, and illuminating insight into its current devastating problems, by one of its most authoritative scholars more...
Südafrika
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 11.00Hauptbeschreibung Seit dem Ende der Apartheid ist Südafrika zu einem Magneten für Afrikabegeisterte geworden. Felsküsten, Sandstrände, Weinberge und eine einzigartige Tierwelt locken Touristen. Mancher kommt als Besucher und bleibt. Allein um Kapstadt herum haben sich mehr als 90 000 Deutsche niedergelassen. Edith Werner hat fünf Jahre in Kapstadt... more...
Brothers Under the Skin
Pan Macmillan UK 2003; US$ 18.03The renowned, South African author?s reflections on the character of modern tyranny, as exemplified in the person of Robert Mugabe. Bringing his unique experience and dazzling prose style to bare on the subject, he has produced a disturbing, wise, yet amusing text that combines memoir, interview and reportage to reveal the tragic absurdity of one man?s... more...









