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  • Year of Fire, Year of Ash

    The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid

    by Baruch Hirson ...
    'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of Ash is an eye-opening account of how, in June 1976, 20,000 school students faced down the tanks and guns of a vicious racist regime, in a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Yours for the Union

    Class and Community Struggles in South Africa

    by Baruch Hirson ...
    Series series African History Archive
    Yours for the Union stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled urbanisation resulted in vast shanty towns which became a focal point for resistance and protest. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Africa

    Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

    by Richard Dowden ...
    After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Cleopatra

    Last Queen of Egypt

    by Joyce Tyldesley ...
    The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum" -- a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really?We almost feel that we know Cleopatra, but our distorted image of a self-destructive beauty does no justice to Cleopatra's true genius. In Cleopatra, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley offers ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Why We Can't Wait

    by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
    Series Book 4 - King Legacy
    Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

    by Colin Grant ...
    Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey'Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable' GuardianAt one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • History of Pan-African Revolt

    by C.L.R. James ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance. Robin D.G. Kelley’s substantial introduction contextualizes the work in the history and ferment of the times, and explores its ongoing relevance today.“A History of Pan-African Revolt is one of those rare books that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Garvey

    How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

    by Adam Ewing ...
    Series series America in the World
    A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • South Africa - The Present as History

    From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana

    by John S. Saul, John S. Saul, Patrick Bond, Patrick Bond ...
    In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent in the world - underscored by the police shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana in 2012 - regions ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

    by Professor Tibebu Teshale ...
    Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD