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Majimbo in Kenya's Past - Federalism in the 1940s and 1950s (Hardcover): Robert Maxon Majimbo in Kenya's Past - Federalism in the 1940s and 1950s (Hardcover)
Robert Maxon
R2,284 Discovery Miles 22 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Khama - the Great African Chief (Hardcover): John Charles Harris Khama - the Great African Chief (Hardcover)
John Charles Harris
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ancient Near East in the Bible - Treasures from the Met Museum (Hardcover): Ron Choong, Danny Lee Ancient Near East in the Bible - Treasures from the Met Museum (Hardcover)
Ron Choong, Danny Lee; Cover design or artwork by Christine Leong
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mansa Musa - A Captivating Guide to the Emperor of the Islamic Mali Empire in West Africa and How He Developed Timbuktu into a... Mansa Musa - A Captivating Guide to the Emperor of the Islamic Mali Empire in West Africa and How He Developed Timbuktu into a Major Center for Trade (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R579 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Africa Reimagined - Reclaiming A Sense Of Abundance And Prosperity (Paperback): Hlumelo Biko Africa Reimagined - Reclaiming A Sense Of Abundance And Prosperity (Paperback)
Hlumelo Biko; Foreword by Malusi Mpumlwana
R300 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Africa Reimagined is a passionately argued appeal for a rediscovery of our African identity. Going beyond the problems of a single country, Hlumelo Biko calls for a reorientation of values, on a continental scale, to suit the needs and priorities of Africans. Building on the premise that slavery, colonialism, imperialism and apartheid fundamentally unbalanced the values and indeed the very self-concept of Africans, he offers realistic steps to return to a more balanced Afro-centric identity.

Historically, African values were shaped by a sense of abundance, in material and mental terms, and by strong ties of community. The intrusion of religious, economic and legal systems imposed by conquerors, traders and missionaries upset this balance, and the African identity was subsumed by the values of the newcomers. Biko shows how a reimagining of Africa can restore the sense of abundance and possibility, and what a rebirth of the continent on Pan-African lines might look like. This is not about the churn of the news cycle or party politics – although he identifies the political party as one of the most pernicious legacies of colonialism. Instead, drawing on latest research, he offers a practical, pragmatic vision anchored in the here and now.

By looking beyond identities and values imposed from outside, and transcending the divisions and frontiers imposed under colonialism, it should be possible for Africans to develop fully their skills, values and ingenuity, to build institutions that reflect African values, and to create wealth for the benefit of the continent as a whole.

The Life of John Tengo Jabavu (Hardcover): Davidson Don Tengo 1885- Jabavu The Life of John Tengo Jabavu (Hardcover)
Davidson Don Tengo 1885- Jabavu
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hebrewisms of West Africa Hardcover (Hardcover): Joseph J. Williams Hebrewisms of West Africa Hardcover (Hardcover)
Joseph J. Williams; Contributions by Lushena Books
R972 R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Save R137 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dress in the Making of African Identity - A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People (Hardcover): Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi Dress in the Making of African Identity - A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People (Hardcover)
Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
R2,708 Discovery Miles 27 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past - Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias... Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past - Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias (Paperback)
Toby Green, Benedetta Rossi
R2,670 Discovery Miles 26 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book's central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources. Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.

Sketch of the Orange Free State of South Africa. Bloemfontein, 1875 (Hardcover): Orange Free State Commission at the Sketch of the Orange Free State of South Africa. Bloemfontein, 1875 (Hardcover)
Orange Free State Commission at the
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya (Paperback): Restoring The Af Research Collection The Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya (Paperback)
Restoring The Af Research Collection
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Olwibulo Lwa Lwande Wesonga (Hardcover): Elizabeth Masiga Kakembo Olwibulo Lwa Lwande Wesonga (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Masiga Kakembo
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013 (Hardcover): Mustafah Dhada The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013 (Hardcover)
Mustafah Dhada
R4,636 Discovery Miles 46 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

WINNER OF THE 2017 MARTIN A. KLEIN PRIZE In his in-depth and compelling study of perhaps the most famous of Portuguese colonial massacres, Mustafah Dhada explores why the massacre took place, what Wiriyamu was like prior to the massacre, how events unfolded, how we came to know about it and what the impact of the massacre was, particularly for the Portuguese empire. Spanning the period from 1964 to 2013 and complete with a foreword from Peter Pringle, this chronologically arranged book covers the liberation war in Mozambique and uses fieldwork, interviews and archival sources to place the massacre firmly in its historical context. The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013 is an important text for anyone interested in the 20th-century history of Africa, European colonialism and the modern history of war.

Decolonising State & Society in Uganda - The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life (Hardcover): Katherine Bruce-Lockhart,... Decolonising State & Society in Uganda - The Politics of Knowledge & Public Life (Hardcover)
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, Jonathon L. Earle, Nakanyike B. Musisi, Edgar C. Taylor; Contributions by Tushabe wa Tushabe, …
R4,286 Discovery Miles 42 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Key book on the debates surrounding the knowledge economy and decolonialization of African Studies, that brings the subject up to date for the 21st century. Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter. This timely book explores the politics and disputed character of knowledge production in colonial and postcolonial Uganda, where efforts to generate forms of knowledge and solidarity that transcend colonial epistemologies draw on long histories of resistance and refusal. Bringing together scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the contributors in this volume analyse how knowledge has been created, mobilized, and contested across a wide range of Ugandan contexts. In so doing, they reveal how Ugandans have built, disputed, and reimagined institutions of authority and knowledge production in ways that disrupt the colonial frames that continue to shape scholarly analyses and state structures. From the politics of language and gender in Bakiga naming practices to ways of knowing among the Acholi, the hampering of critical scholarship by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.

A History of Madagascar (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Mervyn Brown A History of Madagascar (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Mervyn Brown
R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It is a unique blend of Asia and African culture. Although close to the East Coast of Africa, Madagascar came to be inhabited by sea-faring peoples from present day Indonesia. Although so close to the east coast of Africa where traces of human existence go back hundreds of thousands years, Madagascar was uninhabited until about two thousand years ago. How it came to be inhabited by sea-faring peoples from present day Indonesia is just one of the many fascinating aspects of this book. The History of Madagascar examines the origins of Malagasy, the early context with Europeans and the struggle for influence in the nineteenth century between the British and the French. It also covers the Colonial period from 1896 to 1960, the recovery of independence and subsequent history up to the early 1990's. A highly readable, entertaining introduction to the history, politics and people of Madagascar."

Africology - An Interdisciplinary Study of Thought and Praxis (Paperback): James L. Conyers Jr Africology - An Interdisciplinary Study of Thought and Praxis (Paperback)
James L. Conyers Jr
R3,612 R3,056 Discovery Miles 30 560 Save R556 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Africology: An Interdisciplinary Study of Thought and Praxis provides students with diverse and thought-provoking readings that encourage them to examine Africana culture through the lenses of social science, humanities, and professional studies. The carefully selected readings in this volume features Afrocentric perspectives and support the study of the global Africana experience. The anthology begins with chapters that explore the interchange and migration of African people, nomenclature, methods, tools, and instruments used to evaluate and study Africana phenomena in higher education settings, and analyses of the religiosity of African Americans. Additional chapters are devoted to Black power studies, the position of African Americans in the U.S. economy following the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments, and Black feminist thought. Students read about the psychological development of African American personality, Black athletics, the creation and importance of hip hop culture, and a discussion of criminal justice reform. Featuring principal research and thought leadership in the discipline, Africology is a valuable supplementary text for courses in ethnic studies, Africology, sociology, and any course that explores the Africana experience.

Can't Stop Walking (Hardcover): Murphy V S Anderson Can't Stop Walking (Hardcover)
Murphy V S Anderson; Foreword by Eric M Allison
R771 R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Save R97 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of... Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849-1855 (Hardcover)
Heinrich Barth
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Future for Africa (Hardcover): Emmanuel M. Katongole A Future for Africa (Hardcover)
Emmanuel M. Katongole
R1,207 R1,010 Discovery Miles 10 100 Save R197 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Few Facts, Relating To Lagos, Abbeokuta, And Other Sections Of Central Africa (Hardcover): Robert Campbell (of the Niger... A Few Facts, Relating To Lagos, Abbeokuta, And Other Sections Of Central Africa (Hardcover)
Robert Campbell (of the Niger Valley
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nation Without Narration - History, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Cameroon (Hardcover): Ramon A Fonkoue Nation Without Narration - History, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Cameroon (Hardcover)
Ramon A Fonkoue
R2,397 Discovery Miles 23 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
South Africa - The Long Disputed Land (Hardcover): Gene A Landis South Africa - The Long Disputed Land (Hardcover)
Gene A Landis; Edited by Mandy Oaks
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Security, Diplomacy and Trade (Hardcover): Adekeye Adebajo, Kudrat Virk Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Security, Diplomacy and Trade (Hardcover)
Adekeye Adebajo, Kudrat Virk
R4,322 Discovery Miles 43 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from established Africa, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy; peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS economic grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international relations, international law, security studies, political economy and development studies.

How We Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback): Matthew Owuma How We Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
Matthew Owuma
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A German Soldier in South West Africa - Recollections of the Herero Campaign 1903-1904-Peter Moor's Journey to South West... A German Soldier in South West Africa - Recollections of the Herero Campaign 1903-1904-Peter Moor's Journey to South West Africa by Gustav Frenssen, With a Short Account of the German South West Africa Campaign by Francis J. Reynolds (Hardcover)
Gustav Frenssen, Francis J. Reynolds
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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