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Empire in Africa : Angola and Its Neighbors (Research in International Studies A (Paperback)
Birmingham, DavidReleased 2006-05-01
Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks whether the colonizing ventures of the Portuguese can bear comparison with those of the Mediterranean Ottomans or those experienced by Angola’s neighbors in the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, or the Dutch colonies at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Transvaal.
Middle Passages : African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (Hardcover)
Campbell, James T.Released 2006-04-06
The roster of those African Americans who found their way back to Africa beginning in the eighteenth century includes many of the central figures in African American intellectual and political life, including Martin Delany, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Eslanda Robeson, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou, to name only a few.
Conspiracy to Murder : The Rwandan Genocide (Paperback)
Melvern, LindaReleased 2006-04-01
Voted the Best Book on Africa by Foreign Affairs and Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice.
Machete Season : The Killers in Rwanda Speak (Paperback)
Hatzfeld, Jean and Sontag, SusanReleased 2006-04-01
As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that everyone should read . . . because making the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult.
Burning Hunger : One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid (Paperback)
Schuster, LyndaReleased 2006-03-01
Originally published in the United Kingdom to critical acclaim, A Burning Hunger tells the story of black South Africa in microcosm, embracing just about every facet of the liberation struggle.
Global Shadows : Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Paperback)
Ferguson, JamesReleased 2006-03-01
In Global Shadows the renowned anthropologist James Ferguson moves beyond the traditional anthropological focus on local communities to explore more general questions about Africa and its place in the contemporary world.
Intimate Enemy : Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide (Hardcover)
Straus, Scott and Lyons, RobertsReleased 2006-03-01
Intimate Enemy is a rare entree into the logic, language, and imagery of Rwanda's violence. The book presents perpetrator testimony along with photographs of Rwandans, both perpetrators and survivors.
African AIDS Epidemic : A History (Paperback)
Iliffe, JohnReleased 2006-02-01
This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.
Prisoner in the Garden (Hardcover)
Nelson Mandela FoundationReleased 2006-01-01
An extraordinary visual journey documenting Nelson Mandela’s twenty-seven years in prison on Robben Island, Prisoner in the Garden contains previously unpublished images, documents, and diary and letter extracts, as well as some original notes from the writing of Mandela’s bestselling autobiography, A Long Walk to Freedom, and other archival material that helps illustrate the life in jail of the world’s most famous political prisoner.
History of Modern Libya
Vandewalle, DirkReleased 2006-01-01
As the first comprehensive history of Libya over the last two decades, this book will be welcomed by scholars and students of North Africa, the Middle East, and by those who are visiting and doing business in the region.
Africa: The Politics of Independence and Unity
Wallerstein, ImmanuelReleased 2005-12-01
The influential Africa: The Politics of Independence was written as Africa was just realizing independence and still reveling in the optimism it brought. Immanuel Wallerstein was one of the few scholars who had traveled throughout Africa during the collapse of colonial rule.