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  • Porcupine in a Python’s Throat

    The Ambazonia Story in West Central Africa

    by Carlson Anyangwe, Jean-Claude Ashukem, Denis Atemnkeng, John Fobanjong, Thomas Ayeh Jing, Tatah Mentan, George Nkuo, Nfor Ngala Nfor, Gerald Nyuykongmo Njumbam, Stanley Nzefeh, Lilian Lem Atanga0, Carol Chi Ngang1, Fonkem Achankeng2 ...
    Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python’s Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons’ (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how the people of ex-British Southern Cameroons’ (Ambazonia) seek alternatives ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • African Insurgencies

    From the Colonial Era to the 21st Century

    by Richard A. Lobban Jr., Chris H. Dalton ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    Presenting a continent-wide comparative analysis of ethnic, political, and colonially based insurgencies, this text examines the causes, tactics, outcomes, and key individuals of African insurgent events and assesses a range of foreseeable outcomes in Africa's multiple regions of continuing political instability.Insurgencies continue to erupt in many nations of Africa. The techniques and intended ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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    by Philip Gourevitch ...
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government ... 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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  • Through the Dark Continent

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    by Henry M. Stanley ...
    Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it.Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, ... 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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  • Silent Accomplice

    The Untold Story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide

    by Andrew Wallis ...
    FULLY REVISED AND UPDATEDThe massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country - France - was secretly providing military, financial and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Quilombo dos Palmares

    Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves

    by Glenn Alan Cheney ...
    For almost a hundred years, a nation of fugitive Africans, Indians, whites, and mixed races fought off the world’s most powerful empires in a struggle to survive in freedom.Over the span of the 17th century, the Quilombo dos Palmares melded several cultures to form its own language, religion, government, values, and way of life. Its population may have exceeded 20,000. Its last king is believed to ... Read more

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  • Dying to Live

    A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo

    by Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga, Phil Taylor ...
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    Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was a history teacher in Kigali when he was forced to flee to the neighbouring Congo (Zaïre) with his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of 9781926824789 low ressurvival during which they travelled thousands of kilometers on foot from one refugee camp to another. Lacking food and water, they were often robbed, sometimes raped but were ... Read more

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  • The Partition of Africa

    And European Imperialism 1880-1900

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    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years. In this pamphlet Dr MacKenzie attempts to do this, by sketching the historical background to the partition, ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Blood

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    A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete ... Read more

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