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Africa

Sudan 1885

Tyquin Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781922132994, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
200 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm

The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britains Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns wa...

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Africa

Current Affairs

Secure the Base Making Africa Visible in the Globe

wa Thiong'o Ngugi

ISBN: HB: 9780857423139, Seagull Books, December 2015
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrat...

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Africa

Short History of Modern Angola

Birmingham David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045193, ISBN: HB: 9781849045148, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resour...

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Africa

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age A History

Wickramasinghe Nira

ISBN: PB: 9781849044462, ISBN: HB: 9781850657590, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Sri Lanka in the Modern Age" recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minor...

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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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Africa

Sierra Leone A Political History

Harris David

ISBN: PB: 9781849043236, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small Wes...

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Africa

Songs and Secrets South Africa from Liberation to Governance

Gilder Barry

ISBN: HB: 9781849042376, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mbeki, and his then deputy, Jacob Zuma; the dismissal of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's de...

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Africa

South Sudan From Revolution to Independence

Arnold Matthew, LeRiche Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849041959, Hurst Publishers, July 2012
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independence was driven by the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement, a primarily...

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Africa

Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184280, ISBN: HB: 9780300154054, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how it's poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countri...

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Africa

Season of Rains Africa and the World

Ellis Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781849041805, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more complicated than this binary op...

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