History
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bf 109 Aces of North Africa and the Mediterranean
Totally outnumbered throughout their short two-year sojourn in the Western Desert, the crack fighter pilots of the handful of Jagdgeschwader in-theatre fought an effective campaign in support of Rommel's Afrika Korps against the British and American forces. Relying almost exclusively...
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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...
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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
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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.
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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 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...
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Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of...
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Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
As anyone who lived through that decade knows, the 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of grassroots organizations--including trade unions, civic associations in the black townships,...
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$75.00
Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
As anyone who lived through that decade knows, the 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of grassroots organizations--including trade unions, civic associations in the black townships,...
$98.00
$75.00
Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa
The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of Moroccan polymath Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca....
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Beyond History: African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Moving beyond a self-indulgent attitude about Africa’s historical victimhood, the book seeks to capture how African states individually and Africa’s collective institutions (the AU) are providing agency in Africa’s international relations. While African states have been trailblazers in such ideas...
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Beyond History: African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Moving beyond a self-indulgent attitude about Africa’s historical victimhood, the book seeks to capture how African states individually and Africa’s collective institutions (the AU) are providing agency in Africa’s international relations. While African states have been trailblazers in such ideas...
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Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950-1975
In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work. This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and practices of regionalism, their remarkable...
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