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A Man of Africa - The Political Thought of Harry Oppenheimer by Kalim Rajab (editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
Principled reformer or duplicitous exploiter? The contested legacy of Harry Oppenheimer reflects the tensions involved in dealing with South Africa's complex past. The head of a sprawling global business empire, Oppenheimer played an influential role in twentieth-century South Africa - a role celebrated ...Show more
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$14.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
No Protocol for Me - The Triumphs, Trials and Temptations of a Photojournalist in Africa by Maurice Harvey
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century by Charles Allen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
Small boys and sleeping dictionaries, bush camps and blackwater fever, mosquito-boots and mammy-chairs - TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT is a classic book which captures the vanished world of British colonial Africa through the vivid stories and recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and ...Show more
Paths in the Rainforests - Towards a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa by Jan Vansina
$16.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
The rainforests of equatorial Africa cover an area almost as large as Western Europe and some 12 million people live there. So why has this area remained without a historiography? Vansina disputes the myth of an unchanging past in a hostile environment and demonstrates that there are rich and complex po ...Show more
The Underneath of Things - Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone by Mariane C. Ferme
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: very good
In this erudite and gracefully written ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. The focus is on Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone and the surrounding region. Since 1990, this area h ...Show more
White Plague, Black Labor - Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa by Randall M. Packard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the ...Show more
Africans - The History of a Continent by John Iliffe
$14.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Series: African Studies | Reading Level: good
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture h ...Show more
The Mlungu in Africa: Art from The Colonial Period 1840-1940 by Michael Stevenson and Michael Graham-Stewart
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump; James Gump
$15.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Reading Level: good
In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undiscipline ...Show more