African History
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China and Africa in the Middle Ages: Template Subtitle
Teobaldo FilesiCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99First published in 1972: The Author brings together the arguments of those who see Chinas first African ventures as a response to the lure of the e...
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Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa
T. J. TallieCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces? In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Nata...
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Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
Michael BarnettCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firs...
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South Africas Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles
Alexander BeresfordCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99South Africa's current political upheavals are the most significant since the transition from apartheid. Its powerful trade unions are playing a ce...
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Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
Jan AssmannCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Human beings, the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is th...
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Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African Nation
David JohnsonCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism How the Cape Colony was imagined as a politic...
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Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Zimbabwe and Namibia
Lexington BooksCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99The book investigates the use of bottom-up, community based healing and peacebuilding approaches, focusing on their strengths and suggesting how th...
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Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
Roman LoimeierCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan AfricaBased on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Ni...
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The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East
Abdelmajid HannoumCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb emerged as distinct from two other geographical entities that, too, are colonial inventions: ...
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The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation
Peter HeywoodCurrent price €87.21Original price €97.99Quaggas were beautiful pony-sized zebras in southern Africa that had fewer stripes on their bodies and legs, and a browner body coloration than oth...
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(u)Mzantsi Classics: Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press and African Minds websitesThough Greco-Roman...
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Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community and Clubs
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to e...
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Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two
B. MalwalCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99The Republic of Sudan's former Culture Minister and a leading architect in the movement to gain independence for South Sudan, Bona Malwal, provides...
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Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa
C. DeckerCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefu...
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The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation
Peter HeywoodCurrent price €44.49Original price €49.99Quaggas were beautiful pony-sized zebras in southern Africa that had fewer stripes on their bodies and legs, and a browner body coloration than oth...
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Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf
Nathaniel MathewsCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat ...
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Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa
Scott StrausCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018 Winner of the Joseph Lepgold Prize Winner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies...
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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 19451966
Frank GeritsCurrent price €67.49Original price €74.99In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization proj...
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The Impact of Ethnic, Political, and Religious Violence on Northern Nigeria, and a Theological Reflection on Its Healing
Sunday Bobai AgangCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Current price €42.29Original price €46.99Save 10% -
The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity
Mark ShawCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Current price €32.85Original price €36.50Save 10% -
Congo
David van ReybrouckCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY Not only deserves the description epic, in its true sense, but the term masterpiece as well In...
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Modern Egypt: Egypt During the Crusades, Rise of the Ottoman Power, Napoleon in Egypt, the Rule of the Khedives, Discovering the Source of the Nile, Archaeological Research and Discovery (Large Tex...
Gaston Maspero Archibald Henry Sayce L. W. KingCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Current price €35.09Original price €38.99Save 10% -
The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
Evan Maina MwangiCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent f...
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My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa: As Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (Large Text Classic Reprint)
Thomas Heazle ParkeCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Current price €37.79Original price €41.99Save 10%