Africa
Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa
Beer connects commercial, social, and political history in this sobering look at the culture of drinking in South Africa. Beginning where stories of colonial liquor control and exploitation leave off, Anne Kelk Mager looks at the current commerce of beer,...
$33.00
$25.00
Before & Beyond: WW II P-Shooters in North Africa
A history of my experiences with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Armed with Name, Rank and serial number a small band of Hoosiers head north, Ah! the big city of Detroit and the Ford Motor Co… We all would choose...
$22.00
$17.00
Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980
This book addresses two of the most important questions in modern African history: the causes of rapid population growth, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. It examines three societies on the Uganda-Tanzania border whose distinctive histories shed new light...
$228.00
$175.00
Before the Desert Spoke Arabic: Black North Africa, Arabization and the Hidden History of North Africa
What if everything you thought you knew about the people of North Africa was incomplete? North Africa is often presented as an extension of the Arab world—defined by language, religion, and culture that seem timeless. But this narrative hides a...
$36.00
$27.00
Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa
In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead –– including 50,000 children –– and 750,000 citizens forced to take refuge in neighboring countries....
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$12.00
Before the Peace: An American Youth in Apartheid South Africa
On May 1, 1977, twenty-year-old American Paul Kingery arrived in apartheid era South Africa as a missionary. What he saw shocked him, and changed him into an activist for oppressed groups. He knew then that he was seeing only part...
$21.00
$16.00
Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880 a 1960
What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers...
$39.00
$30.00
Being Human in Africa: Toward an African Christian Anthropology
Professor Ali Mazrui has stated that black Africans have been humiliated by other peoples in the world, especially Europeans. The question that this book seeks to address is: How does one make theological sense of such a humiliated humanity? It...
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$45.00
Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa
Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over...
$46.00
$34.00
Beitrage zur Entdeckung und Erforschung Africa's.; Berichte aus den Jahren 1870-1875
Beiträge zur Entdeckung und Erforschung Africa's.; Berichte aus den Jahren 1870-1875 wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir...
$29.00
$23.00
The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State: Revisiting Colonialism
This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908–1959) as a developmental state. The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system’s economic exploitation and extraction, brutality, excessive...
$260.00
$200.00
The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State: Revisiting Colonialism
This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908–1959) as a developmental state. The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system’s economic exploitation and extraction, brutality, excessive...
$75.00
$58.00
Belgian Military Forces in the Congo: Volume 1 - The Force Publique, 1885-1960
Though the dynamics of the Congo Crisis have received, and continue to receive, a good deal of literary and scholarly attention, missing from the canon of work on military forces in the Congo is a study of the Force Publique,...
$46.00
$35.00
Belgian Military Forces in the Congo: Volume 2: Congolese Tactical Air Force Co-Operation with the CIA 1964-67
This volume contains previously unpublished accounts of the operations of the FATAC provided by the veterans of the unit.Although Belgium officially withdrew its military forces from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in July 1960, unofficially the former colonial...
$39.00
$30.00
Belgium's Colonial Report Card: Congo, Extraction and the Ghosts of Empire
BELGIUM’S COLONIAL REPORT CARDCongo, Extraction and the Ghosts of Empire Was the Congo one of the greatest crimes of empire? How did a small European nation create one of the most feared colonial systems in Africa? Why does the Democratic...
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$29.00
Belonging: Tales from a Life in Africa, Wales and Beyond
Through a lens of lifelong affection, Patricia James recounts her cosmopolitan early years bringing up children in Africa, feeding crocodiles, dealing with snakes and bugs, and the lasting impact of friendships and people. But when the Sixties come to a...
$17.00
$13.00
The Benin Kingdom of West Africa
Celebrating the Peoples and Civilizations of Africa is excellent self-esteem material for African American kids and offers a chance for all children to learn about the lifestyles and rich traditions of complex African societies. The beauty of the cultures as...
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$25.00
Benin Wisdom: Ancient Beninese Proverbs, Quotes and Sayings from the Heart of West Africa: 200 Timeless African Wisdom Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms
Discover the Hidden Treasures of Benin: 200 Proverbs That Will Transform How You See the WorldHave you ever felt that modern life moves too fast? That ancient wisdom has been lost in the noise? That you need guidance rooted in...
$11.00
$8.00
Berbers and Others: Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib
Berbers and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazigh (Berber) movement has become a focus of widespread political, social, and cultural attention in North Africa, Europe, and the...
$33.00
$25.00
The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa (Revised)
The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.
$90.00
$69.00