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  • Clothing and Difference

    Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

    Edited by Hildi Hendrickson ...
    Series series Body, commodity, text
    This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • A Saharan Caravan 1890, Illustrated

    by A F Jaccaci ...
    In the 1890's, with the slave trade coming to and end and the market for ostrich feathers drying up, the era of the great caravan was coming to and end. This short piece follows a Caravan from Tripoli across the Sahara to Central Africa. ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • Congo Mercs

    by Ronald Ledwell ...
    Series series Congo Mercs
    The events that capitulated the Congo into prominence in 1960 were many: Congo’s recent independence from Belgium, Congo’s immense mineral wealth, the lack of leadership which plunged the country into civil war, and the harsh treatment by the Belgians of the native population for the proceeding 100 years. The first democratically elected Prime Minister was deposed in a coup shortly after his ... Read more

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  • Drink the Bitter Root

    A Search for Justice and Healing in Africa

    by Gary Geddes ...
    Drink the Bitter Root is an international story about the ethical and environmental footprint world nations are leaving in Africa in their determined efforts to destabilize and loot the continent. In the spirit of Robert Kaplan and Samantha Power, Gary Geddes sets out in search of justice, healing and reconciliation. He begins his journey at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, then ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    by Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • 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

  • Captain Richard Burton's Journey to the Land of the Moon, Illustrated.

    by Charles Holmes ...
    This mid nineteenth century piece gives a brief account of Captain Richard Burton's journey across Africa to become the first white man to visit to Lake Tanganyika. ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD

  • Black Morocco

    A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam

    by Chouki El Hamel ...
    Series Book 123 - African Studies
    Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

    by Amy Jacques Garvey ...
    First published in 2004. Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the struggle for true liberty and political recognition. This book discusses his philosophy and opinions.This series comprises reprints as well as original ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Coptic Egypt

    Impacting World Peace

    by Laila Fares ...
    Discover simple Truths and Bible information that you always wanted to know but had never the chance to read anywhere else.Learn how the oldest and the youngest countries in the world, Egypt and the United States, share in common some same exact historical events.Meet with some of the greatest personalities in the world and in history: hear them speaking in an uncovered setting sitting and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Facet of Black Culture

    Volume 1

    by Elias Yussif ...
    The Facet of Black Culture is a very unique book that talks about culture of the black people, the birth of a person to his final departure to our ancestors and how his property will be shared if he or she has any. This book begins with the brief history of some ethnic groups in Africa, particularly Ghana. In this chapter you will learn how some of the ethnic groups moved from their original ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD