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  • In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

    Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

    by Michela Wrong ...
    “Wholly unsentimental,” a foreign correspondent’s exploration of political corruption in Africa “gets it right . . . [a] chillingly amusing cautionary tale.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake—seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sunjata Story

    by Bamba Suso, Banna Kanute ...
    A child is born who will overthrow a king...After the leader of a great African kingdom hears that a baby has been born who will destroy him, he hides behind a mighty army and surrounds himself with magical charms. There remains only one way to kill him.Concealing this secret weakness from the world, the ruler clings to power. But when the sister of his enemy seduces him, lust overwhelms the king. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Hannibal

    Rome's Greatest Enemy

    by Philip Freeman, PhD ...
    Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history.Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Modern Egypt

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Bruce K. Rutherford, Jeannie Sowers ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in turmoil. If the Middle East is to achieve a more stable and prosperous future, Egypt-which possesses the region's largest population, a formidable military, and considerable soft power-must play a central role. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Book of the Dead

    by E. A. Wallis Budge ...
    This is E. A. Wallis Budge's translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Jam packed with footnotes, this book has an extensive introductory section by Budge which covers such things as the Gods of the Book of The Dead, the Egyptians ideas of God, the legends of Ra, Osiris, Isis and funeral ceremonies. This edition was formatted using the Sacred Texts online book. In regards to the omittance of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • River of the Gods

    Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

    by Candice Millard ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicABEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST • GOODREADS"A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by [Richard Burton and John Speke] to solve the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The South Africa Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon ...
    Series series The World Readers
    The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Street Archives and City Life

    Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

    by Emily Callaci ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Native Sons

    West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

    by Gregory Mann, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mag van die Noodlot

    by Jopie de Beer ...
    Die verhaal speel af in die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Dit besing nie groot helde nie, vertel eerder die storie van gewone mense, hulle stryd, waagmoed en vindingrykheid. Die karakters is nie net gewone bugers nie. Hulle was opgeleide beroepsoldate, geskoold in strydkuns en spioenasie deur die Staatsartillerie. Die karakters voel soos mense wat lewe, asof dit iemand is wat jy ken.  En reg teen die einde ... Read more

    $7.56 USD

  • Tears of the Desert

    A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

    by Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis ...
    “[Halima Bashir’s] mesmerizing tale of against-all-odds endurance is a piercing lament—and a clear-eyed call to action.”—Vogue“This memoir helps keep the Darfur tragedy open as a wound not yet healed.”—Elie Wiesel, author of NightBorn into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ancient Egypt

    The Definitive Visual History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Classic History
    Discover the intimate details of life under the pharaohs--and their extraordinary legacy--in this fascinating e-guide to Egypt's ancient civilization.Encompassing 3,000 years and 31 Egyptian dynasties, from the time of Narmer to Cleopatra, this fresh appraisal of ancient treasures helps you navigate the political intrigues and cultural achievements of the Ancient Egyptians, from the Pyramids and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Cobalt Red

    How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

    by Siddharth Kara ...
    The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever e... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Africa's World War

    Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

    by Gerard Prunier ...
    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Under Construction

    Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia

    by Daniel Mains ...
    Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest growing economies, largely due to its investments in infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a middle-income country by 2025. Yet most urban Ethiopians struggle to meet their daily needs and actively oppose a ruling party that they associate with ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe

    by Verena Krebs ...
    This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Cairo

    The City Victorious

    by Max Rodenbeck ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself.With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection, Rodenbeck takes us on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Slope of Kongwa Hill: A Boy's Tale of Africa

    by Tony Edwards ...
    Kongwa, in central Tanganyika (now Tanzania) had been the central location for the post-World War II British government's, 30-million-acre Groundnut Scheme. With its failure, a village of tin roofed and white ant infested abandoned shacks, devoid of water-born sanitation, became available - suited, it was decided by the Tanganyika legislature - to temporarily locate a co-ed secondary school for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses

    A Military Engineer's Perspective

    by Simon C Green ...
    Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses is a fresh analytical look at how the construction of over 9,000 small fortifications during the Anglo-Boer War sought to change its course. The author examines all aspects of the South African blockhouses during the war: how the initial concept of protecting key bridges morphed into mass-produced, low-cost, pre-fabricatedforts deployed in long lines across the veld; how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Omoluwabi 2.0

    A Code of transformation in 21st century Nigeria

    by Adewale Ajadi ...
    In Omoluwabi 2.0, Adewale Ajadi lays out a new way of organising and transforming, organisations, countries and continents, based on the Yoruba principle of Omoluwabi, updated for the 21st century. "There are not many original thinkers who dare to explore new territories with creative mental tools and attentiveness to details and still come up with a reader-friendly book. Adewale Ajadi's book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • South Africa in World History

    by Iris Berger ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD