Africa
Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial...
$59.00
$45.00
Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa: Exploring Dislocation and Agency (2010)
This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge.
$72.00
$55.00
Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa: Exploring Dislocation and Agency (2010)
This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge.
$72.00
$55.00
Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa
Even within anthropology, a discipline that strives to overcome misrepresentations of peoples and cultures, colonialist depictions of the so-called Dark Continent run deep. The grand narratives, tribal tropes, distorted images, and “natural” histories that forged the foundations of discourse about...
$129.00
$99.00
Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa
Even within anthropology, a discipline that strives to overcome misrepresentations of peoples and cultures, colonialist depictions of the so-called Dark Continent run deep. The grand narratives, tribal tropes, distorted images, and “natural” histories that forged the foundations of discourse about...
$37.00
$28.00
Biafra: Africa's Lost Power
What really happened to Biafra—and why does it still matter today? BIAFRA: Africa’s Lost Power is a gripping and unflinching historical analysis of one of Africa’s most defining yet misunderstood moments. This book goes beyond headlines and surface narratives to uncover...
$21.00
$16.00
Biafra: The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970
Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman...
$39.00
$30.00
Biafra: The Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (Revised & Expanded)
Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman...
$39.00
$30.00
The Biafran Army 1967-70: Build-Up and Downfall of the Secessionist Military
Biafran forces confront a brutal civil conflict, revealing a hidden, multi-branch military story.Synonymous with the starvation that killed almost two million people, Biafra was a parastate that voted to secede from Nigeria in May 1967. Formally recognized by Gabon, Ivory...
$39.00
$30.00
The Biafran Story: How a Nation's Civil War Shaped Its Search for Unity
What if the story of your nation’s unity was built on silence, loss, and survival?In The Biafran Story: How a Nation’s Civil War Shaped Its Search for Unity, author Sarah Lambert delivers an unflinching, human-centered retelling of one of Africa’s most painful and...
$13.00
$10.00
The Bible and Apartheid: Contested Interpretations in the History of Christianity in South Africa and Beyond
English summary: The starting point of this book is the troubling insight that apartheid was a Christian project. Its theological justification was formulated by Christian theologians such as Totius or E. P. Groenewald. Even the segregated state structure had been prefigured...
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$82.00
Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa
"Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa 1903-1926" is a detailed and immersive account of Kalman Kittenberger's extensive expeditions across the African continent during the early twentieth century. As both a professional hunter and a dedicated naturalist, Kittenberger provides a narrative...
$52.00
$40.00
Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa
"Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa 1903-1926" is a detailed and immersive account of Kalman Kittenberger's extensive expeditions across the African continent during the early twentieth century. As both a professional hunter and a dedicated naturalist, Kittenberger provides a narrative...
$37.00
$28.00
The Big Game of Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$36.00
$27.00
The Big Game of Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$52.00
$40.00
The Big Green: A Story about the Great Green Wall of Africa
"This lovely picture book is sure to be enjoyed by all patrons." —School Library Journal (starred review)In an upbeat story with bright, welcoming illustrations, Ken Wilson-Max conveys the excitement and hope created by a vast, community-powered project to bring more trees...
$25.00
$19.00
Big-game hunting and trading in Central Africa 1894 to 1904
Big game hunting and trading in Central Africa from 1894 to 1904. The Robert Wright memoirs are an interesting and sometimes humorous window into the life of the European pioneers of Northern Rhodesia and the British East African Protectorate from...
$23.00
$17.00
BIGGIN HILL and A BUSH PILOT: RAF Stories from 1934 to 1944 and My Flying Adventures in Africa
This book is a revised version of "To Fly". "Biggin Hill and a Bush Pilot" is a compendium of stories about flying adventures of a father and son, the father in the RAF and the son in Zimbabwe and South...
$13.00
$10.00
Bihe and Garenganze: Or Four Years' Further Work and Travel in Central Africa
Follow explorer and missionary Fred. S. Arnot on his four-year journey through Central Africa. This gripping account details his encounters with various tribes and cultures, as well as his work establishing Christian missions in the region. This work has been...
$25.00
$19.00
Bihe and Garenganze: Or Four Years' Further Work and Travel in Central Africa
Follow explorer and missionary Fred. S. Arnot on his four-year journey through Central Africa. This gripping account details his encounters with various tribes and cultures, as well as his work establishing Christian missions in the region. This work has been...
$42.00
$32.00