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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...
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...
Südafrika
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 10.77Hauptbeschreibung 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...
Double Victory
Chicago Review Press 2013; US$ 15.99?Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft won?t be necessary. . . . If nurses are needed so desperately, why isn?t the Army using colored nurses?? ?My arm gets a little sore slinging a shovel or a pick, but then I forget about it when I think about all those boys over in the Solomons.? Double Victory tells the stories of African... more...
The Africana World
Africa Institute of South Africa 2012; US$ 39.95It is 127 years since the Scramble for Africa divided up the continent, imposing borders that have led to conflict rather than peace and stability. It is 100 years since the African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the first African liberation movement with pan-African roots. It is nearly 50 years since the Organization of African Unity (OAU)... more...









