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The Partition of Africa
Taylor and Francis 1983; US$ 26.95Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years. In this pamphlet Dr MacKenzie attempts to do this, by sketching... more...
The African Inheritance
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 67.95Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars and widespread famine. The causes of many of the continent's problems are deep rooted and can be traced to Africa's colonial past, when European powers divided the spoils of the continent into separate sovereign states. The African Inheritance examines the effect this "balkanization" of Africa has had,... more...
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
Greenwood Publishing Group 2002; US$ 58.00Zimbabwe won its independence in 1980 and the evolving traditions of the Zimbabweans are examined here. However, the impact of Western lifestyles and prejudices continues to be felt, and this text also conveys the co-existence of traditional and Western forces in such areas as religion and music. more...
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Volume 5
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 113.00Conferences, lectures, funding opportunities, and publications now all fully embrace terrorism and counter-terrorism as topics worthy of serious reflection and investigation among criminologists. The papers in this volume bring out the distinct contribution criminologists and criminological sociologists have to offer in the study of counter-terrorism... more...
What Is Africas Problem?
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 70.50Edited by Elizabeth Kanyogonya?I am very pleased that this book by one of Africa?s most important leaders now will be available to Americans. We need to understand what Africans think about Africa.??Jimmy Carterand/orWhat is Africa?s problem? As one of the leaders expressing a broad and forceful vision for Africa?s future, Uganda?s Yoweri K. Museveni... more...
Algeria since 1989
Zed Books 2010; US$ 29.95Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. Le Sueur shows that Algeria is at the very heart of contemporary debates about Islam and secular democracy, arguing that the stability of Algeria is crucial for the security of the wider Middle East. Algeria Since 1989 is a lively and essential examination of how the fate of one... more...
The Fear
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 12.99Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with... more...
The Mind of Black Africa
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 33.95The violent colonization of Africa by European nations toward the end of the 19th centuryÑa colonization justified by theories about the African Mind promulgated in the Age of ReasonÑhad a profound impact upon the mind of Black Africa. After World War II, the mind of Black Africa rebelled; this rebellion led to a struggle for the self. After... more...
Apostles of Modernity
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 62.50This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century. more...









