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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Africa

Africa's Long Road Since Independence The Many Histories of a Continent

Somerville Keith

ISBN: HB: 9781849045155, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many – histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonisation and state-building, conflict, ec...

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Africa

Political Science

Askari A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

Dlamini Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9781849045605, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Comrade September", of the ANC's military wing, MK, was abducted by South African security forces in August 1986, interrogated and tortured. Soon he began to talk, betraying his ANC comrades, and underwent changes that marked...

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Africa

The Africa List

Accounts and Drawings from Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: HB: 9780857422057, Seagull Books, February 2015
196 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 61 colour plates

Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", Kentridge and Rosali...

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Political Science

Africa

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...

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Biography & Memoires

Africa

Algerian Memoirs

Alleg Henri

ISBN: HB: 9780857420305, Seagull Books, October 2012
442 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The personal history of journalist Henri Alleg is tied inextricably to the history of the French-Algerian Conflict. Best known for his book "The Question", a first-hand account of his torture by French troops during the Algerian war for independence,...

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Africa

Afrikaners Biography of a People

Giliomee Hermann

ISBN: PB: 9781849041485, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
698 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Afrikaners: Biography of A People", the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on – and critical of – the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author's own research and interviews conducted with lead...

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Africa

History

Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

Tilley Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...

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Africa

Sport

African Soccerscapes How a Continent Changed the World's Game

Alegi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849040389, ISBN: HB: 9781849040372, Hurst Publishers, April 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. Football may obey global rules,...

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Africa

After Genocide Transitional Justice, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond

Clark Philip, Kaufman Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781850659198, Hurst Publishers, March 2009
352 pp., 24x16 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "After Genocide", leading scholars and practitioners analyse the political, legal and regional impact of events in post-genocide Rwanda within the broader themes of transitional justice and reconciliation. Given the forthcom...

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