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African Alternatives
BRILL 2007; US$ 62.00To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances, this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced. more...
Making Nations, Creating Strangers
BRILL 2007; US$ 105.00Explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship. more...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 16.00When the ship veered into the Cape of Good Hope, Mum caught the spicy, heady scent of Africa on the changing wind. She smelled the people: raw onions and salt, the smell of people who are not afraid to eat meat, and who smoke fish over open fires on the beach and who pound maize into meal and who work out-of-doors. She held me up to face the earthy... more...
The African Union
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 42.00Based in Ethiopia, the Africa Union, established in July 2002, is the successor to the Organization of African Unity, created in 1963. The AU aims include promoting democracy, human rights, and sustainable economic development across Africa, especially by increasing foreign investment through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). more...
Anatomy of Violence
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95With a focus on Africa, this study examines three structurally interdependent conflict systems to highlight the complexities of transboundary and transregional conflict systems. The systemic approach permits you to come away from the book with a better understanding of the underlying currents of violent conflicts and thus a clearer idea of how they... more...
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 25.95A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of Fuller?s parents and of the price of being possessed by Africa?s uncompromising, fertile, death-dealing land. We follow Tim and Nicola Fuller hopscotching the continent, restlessly trying to establish... more...
The Last Resort
Short Books 2011; US$ 13.11WINNER, BEST TRAVEL BOOK 2010 ? BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS ?A memoir that is both funny and deeply moving... Rogers? compassion, humour and frequent bemusement give this heart-stoppingly good book its life force.? The Times In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story... more...
Van afspiegelen naar afrekenen?
Leiden University Press 2011; US$ 25.90In Van Afspiegelen naar Afrekenen? Rudy Andeweg and Jacques Thomassen reflect in a particularly accessible style on questions that worry so many Dutch people. more...
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...









