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  • Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar

    by Elke E. Stockreiter ...
    After the abolition of slavery in 1897, Islamic courts in Zanzibar (East Africa) became central institutions where former slaves negotiated socioeconomic participation. By using difficult-to-read Islamic court records in Arabic, Elke E. Stockreiter reassesses the workings of these courts as well as gender and social relations in Zanzibar Town during British colonial rule (1890–1963). She shows how ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum is a collection of accounts about African civilizations written by some of the oldest and most prominent historians of antiquity, including Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, who lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their ... Read more

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  • The Explorers

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    by Martin Dugard ...
    Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and “a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history’s most famous explorers…[with] infusions of insight and enthusiasm” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Frances Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown: the ... Read more

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  • Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

    The Story of Black Hollywood

    by Donald Bogle ...
    In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, ... Read more

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  • Apartheid: It's Also An Individual Reality

    by Mark Howard ...
    Apartheid.It's not a bygone political ideology. It's something within a lot of us.In this book Mark Howard takes a very personal look at the political system he grew up in.He links that to later experiences, post apartheid and outside of South Africa, and concludes that an inhumane system associated with a single period and place in history is in fact more than that.Apartheid is as much a personal ... Read more

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  • Boer Boy

    Memoirs of an Anglo-Boer War Youth

    by Chris Schoeman ...
    Boer Boy is the touching true story of a ten-year- old farm boy’s traumatic but fascinating experiences during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. When Charles du Preez and his father were discovered hiding in the mountains of their eastern Free State farm, they were taken prisoner by the English and transported in open coal trucks to Durban. From there they began a harrowing journey aboard the SS ... Read more

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  • The War in South Africa

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series Book 15 - Nonfiction and Essays Collection
    There was never a war in history in which the right was absolutely on one side, or in which no incidents of the campaign were open to criticism. I do not pretend that it was so here. But I do not think that any unprejudiced man can read the facts without acknowledging that the British Government has done its best to avoid war, and the British Army to wage it with humanity. ... Read more

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  • Into the Heart of the Whore

    The Story of Apartheid's Death Squads

    by Jacques Pauw ...
    The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African government flatly denied any involvement. All investigations of the matter were met with stony silence.The first crack in the wall came with the publication by the Vrye Weekblad newspaper of the extraordinary story of Dirk Coetzee, former Security Branch ... Read more

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  • A History of Algeria

    by James McDougall ...
    Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of ... Read more

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    Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, Stacey A. Langwick ...
    Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa—and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such ... Read more

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  • John Bull in Abyssinia, Illustrated

    by H M Alden ...
    This piece includes a general account of the country, it's geography, culture, flora and fauna, including a very brief history of the country and it's religion. The rise and fall of King Theodore, his titles honors and justice are described. The piece concludes with the British capture of Abyssinia after the suicide of King Theodore. ... Read more

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  • Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agency

    An Afrocentric Analysis

    by Daryl Zizwe Poe ...
    Series series African Studies
    This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966. ... Read more

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