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  • Politics and Violence in Burundi

    The Language of Truth in an Emerging State

    by Aidan Russell ...
    Series Book 145 - African Studies
    Telling the neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi, Aidan Russell examines the political language of truth that drove extraordinary change, from democracy to genocide. By focusing on the dangerous border between Burundi and Rwanda, this study uncovers the complexity from which ethnic ideologies, side-lined before independence in 1962, became gradually all-consuming by 1972. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Ó Sé

    A Kerry Family. A Football Dynasty.

    by Marc Ó Sé, Aidan Russell ...
    Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine. It's in each other's shadow that people live.Marc Ó Sé is the youngest member of the most famous footballing family in Ireland – the Ó Sé family of Ard an Bhóthair, Co. Kerry. As such his football path was clear from a very young age. Not only did Marc have his brothers to emulate, in Kerry the voices from the past can often speak loudest. How loud is the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa

    Dialogues between Past and Present

    by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, V. Adefemi Isumonah, Cherry Leonardi, Eghosa E. Osaghae, Ramola Ramtohul, Aidan Russell, Nicole Ulrich, Chris Vaughan, Henri-Michel Yéré, John Lonsdale, Solomon M. Gofie ...
    Series series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
    Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States

    Histories of the Unspoken

    Edited by Aidan Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Rights
    Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence within their societies. This book explores the histories of these silences, how they were made, maintained, evaded, and transformed.This book gives a comprehensive view of the ongoing evolutions and multiple faces of silence as a common strand in the struggles of state-building. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Fortunes of Africa

    A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

    by Martin Meredith ...
    A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew ... Read more

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  • A Continent for the Taking

    The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

    by Howard W. French ...
    In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, Frenchsearches ... Read more

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  • Journey to a Hanging

    by Peter Wells ...
    Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core. In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. One name – Kereopa Te Rau (Kaiwhatu: The Eye-eater) – became synonymous with the murder. In 1871 he was captured, tried and sentenced to ... Read more

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  • Modern African Wars (4)

    The Congo 1960–2002

    by Peter Abbott ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions led to the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives.From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in history, as armies and rebel groups from Rwanda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Namibia and other countries crossed ... Read more

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  • Zambia

    The First 50 Years

    by Andrew Sardanis ...
    On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonisation and the problems of the incoming government, presented with an immense ... Read more

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  • Decolonization in Africa

    by John D. Hargreaves ...
    Series series The Postwar World
    John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships. ... Read more

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  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Read more

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