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  • Conversations and Soliloquies

    A Window on South Africa

    by Maurice Hommel ...
    In the midst of apartheid in South Africa, journalist Maurice Hommel documented the cruel injustices and tensions running rampant within the country. What he saw forever impacted his life.Conversations and Soliloquies presents a collection of Hommels essays and articles from the last fifty-five years, documenting and analyzing South African history during and after apartheid. Over time, the essays ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An American Slave's Journey from Bondage to Voice

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    "I was born a slave, but I shall not die a slave." Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a groundbreaking autobiography of resilience, resistance, and the power of truth. Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass escapes bondage and rises to become one of history's most powerful voices for justice and human dignity. This personal narrative blends vivid storytelling with powerful political ... Read more

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  • A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

    10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

    by Steve Kemper ...
    A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements.In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Uganda

    by Richard J. Reid ...
    This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The African Diaspora

    Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

    by Professor Toyin Falola ...
    The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Africa in Fragments

    Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity

    by Moses E. Ochonu ...
    Africa in Fragments is one of a few texts to tackle many topics on the position and challenges of Africa, its peoples, and its diaspora in the world today. It is part of a new genre that makes old and new academic debates on the problems and predicaments of Africanness accessible 
to a broad spectrum of audiences while outlining and defending the author's own compelling arguments. This book is ... Read more

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  • History Matters

    Selected Writings, 1970–2016

    by Bill Nasson ...
    History Matters is an eloquent selection of writings over four decades by Bill Nasson, one of South Africa’s most popular and highly respected historians. The pieces in this compendium are lively and entertaining, written with wit, humour and a finely tuned sense of irony. Chapters cover the South African War, the two world wars, cricket, District Six, schooldays and education, Hollywood and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Antebellum Slave Narratives

    Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

    by Jermaine O. Archer ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist movement—Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs—revealing how these ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Who's Who in Ancient Egypt

    by Michael Rice ...
    In this compelling guide and sourcebook, renowned author and scholar Michael Rice introduces us to the inhabitants of ancient Egypt, allowing us to encounter their world through their own eyes. Here are the great and the famous, from Cleopatra to Tutankhamun, but here also are the grave-robber Amenwah, Nakht the gardener and Sebaster the hairdresser. The whole arena of Egyptian life is expressed ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Nigeria

    Contemporary Commentaries & Essays

    by Alfred Obiora Uzokwe ...
    This book is a collection of Alfred Obiora Uzokwes critical commentaries about Nigerias triumphs, woes and the way forward. It brings his writings into one volume as a reference material for those conducting research about the country. It will also serve as another tool for Nigerias policy makers in their everyday quest for better decision-making. The subjects of the commentaries are diverse, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Being Black In America

    by Amira ...
    In this book the author Amira is informing you what their point of view of what it is like in the american black society today. They shares with you the African American society and how certain peope judge the black society today. They discusses everything from violence, teen pregnancy, college and everything which goes in the black community from the good to the bad. Will their opinions make a ... Read more

    $3.79 CAD