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  • Hoggaanka iyo Haweenka
    Cabdulqaadir Cabdulle Diini
    Labada jaad ama jinsi ee ragga iyo dumarka waxaa Alle u doortay inay dunida maamulaan, mid kastana wuxuu u yeelay hawl iyo xil saaran iyo xuquuq iyo xaqdhowr uu xilkaa la saaray ku yeelanayo. Hooyada waxaa laga dhigay tiir-dhexaadka ay bulshadu ku taagan tahay, la’aanteedna aanay bulshadu taabbaqaadi karin, qoyskuna aanu dhisnaan karin. Marka dib loo jalleeco sooyaalka iyo dhig...
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    12,68 €

  • DAISY DE MELKER - Hiding among killers in the City of Gold
    Ted Botha
    Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn’t get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity. Against the backdrop of Johannesburg in its golden age, a booming metropolis of opulence and chaos nicknamed the ’City of...
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    16,95 €

  • Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom
    Samuel Sharpe
    With over 100 illustrations, Sharpe covers subjects like gods who had been mortals, burial ceremonies, the worship of ancestors and kings, Osiris, wives and priestesses and the theory of creation. As the title of the book suggests, it also contains info on Egyptian Christianity and covers the rise of Alexandria, the rebellions against Rome, the council of Nicaea and the convers...
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    13,34 €

  • Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom
    Samuel Sharpe
    With over 100 illustrations, Sharpe covers subjects like gods who had been mortals, burial ceremonies, the worship of ancestors and kings, Osiris, wives and priestesses and the theory of creation. As the title of the book suggests, it also contains info on Egyptian Christianity and covers the rise of Alexandria, the rebellions against Rome, the council of Nicaea and the convers...
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    25,51 €

  • The Igbo
    Chinedu Ochinanwata / Dons Eze
    The origin, history, worldview of the Igbo, one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, is shrouded in mystery. Also, there is the controversy about who really are the Igbo, their institutions, political organisation, and relationships with their neighbours. The book not only unravels these mysteries, but also brings to focus contributions made by the Igbo, both at home an...
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    34,23 €

  • LA GUERRA SENZA NOME
    Archibald Ramsay
    Per la prima volta pubblicato integralmente in lingua italiana un classico della storiografia controcorrente. Il libro è opera del capitano AM Ramsay, deputato inglese internato durante la guerra in un campo di concentramento statunitense per le sue idee politiche vicine all’Asse e contrarie alla guerra. In questo libro il controverso Capitano narra le sue vicissitudini persona...
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    20,90 €

  • RUGGERO TIMEUS FAURO
    Bruno De Donà
    Uno studio documentato e attento sulla figura di Ruggero Timeus Fauro, lo scrittore irredentista triestino che ha aperto la via al passaggio dall’irredentismo classico e romantico alle moderne ideologie nazionaliste. Un autore di rinnovata attualità riletto attraverso l’analisi del giornalista e saggista Bruno de Donà, bellunese di origini istriane, studioso di storia veneta e ...
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    8,51 €

  • The African Tarot Guidebook
    Jarmonay Nelson
    This powerful tool is packed with the richness of African and African American history, as well as Tarot insights that are sure to transport you on a journey back to roots and introduce you to the spiritual world of Tarot card readings.This book is an invaluable resource that enables us to continue the traditions of our ancestors by passing down their stories and creative folkt...
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    42,37 €

  • History beyond apartheid
    Thula Simpson
    This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field. ...
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    171,86 €

  • Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa
    Paul Du Chaillu
    Written by Paul du Chaillu, the explorer who was the first outsider to confirm the existence of the Pygmy people of central Africa and of the gorilla-both of which had only been rumoured at before-this book is a dramatic and continually enthralling account of a nearly seven-year long exploration of West and Central Africa in the 1860s.Commissioned by the Academy of Natural Scie...
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    29,88 €

  • Five Years with the Congo Cannibals
    Herbert Ward
    The dramatic first-hand account of the establishment of the Congo Free State, a private colony set up under King Leopold of Belgium to stamp out the Arab slave trade in central Africa, written by a participant in the wars and adventures of the 1890s in that country.Recruited to the service of the Congo Free State by the famous explorer Henry Morton Stanley, the author’s first t...
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    20,77 €

  • What Has Religion Studies in Africa Been Up To?
    Jaco Beyers
    The purpose of the book is to provide a collection of perspectives from various parts of Africa on what scholars in religion studies are currently engaged with, whether it refers to topics or methodology. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a scholar working within a particular context on a particular theme or topic related to religion studies. Several methodologies...
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    31,96 €

  • What Has Religion Studies in Africa Been Up To?
    Jaco Beyers
    The purpose of the book is to provide a collection of perspectives from various parts of Africa on what scholars in religion studies are currently engaged with, whether it refers to topics or methodology. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a scholar working within a particular context on a particular theme or topic related to religion studies. Several methodologies...
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    46,19 €

  • Operation Legacy
    Olasupo Shasore
    Operation Legacy Looting and Losing Africa’s Kingdoms is a treatment of how colonial powers looted precious artefacts across Africa; still hold them in personal and public collections, some known and others unknown; and the violence of the looting and its consequences. The story reaches back into the basic assumptions around colonial rule and debunks them in spectacular contemp...
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    34,16 €

  • The History Of The Rise, Progress And Accomplishment Of The Abolition Of The African Slave Trade By The British Parliament (1808), Vol. 2
    Thomas Clarkson
    'The History Of The Rise, Progress, And Accomplishment Of The Abolition Of The African Slave Trade By The British Parliament' is a two-volume book written by Thomas Clarkson. The book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the efforts to abolish the transatlantic slave trade in Britain. Volume II of the book focuses on the period from 1792 to 1807, during which the Br...
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    15,97 €

  • Power Vacuum
    Anthony of Boston
    This book highlights how power vacuums and psychological operations have been instrumental in furthering the geopolitical agenda of major powers like Russia and the United States, and how such opportunities will eventually make its rounds and land right at Kiev’s doorstep, allowing Ukraine to conduct its own cladestine operation to reclaim all of Ukraine. ...
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    30,07 €

  • THE QUEST FOR WEALTH WITHOUT WORK - Volume 3/Three Wise Monkeys
    Charles Van Onselen
    Three Wise Monkeys presents a startling new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past. This 3-volume work was publish...
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    17,99 €

  • THE MAKINGS OF AN AFRICAN ECONOMIC TRAGEDY - Volume 1/Three Wise Monkeys
    Charles Van Onselen
    Three Wise Monkeys presents a startling new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past. This 3-volume work was publish...
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    16,34 €

  • THROUGH THE TURNSTILES OF THE MIND - Volume 2/Three Wise Monkeys
    Charles Van Onselen
    Three Wise Monkeys presents a startling new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past. This 3-volume work was publish...
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    16,59 €

  • THE MAN WHO SHOOK THE MOUNTAINS - In the footsteps of my ancestors
    Lesley Mofokeng
    ’This is a South African story of an unsung hero, a man forgotten by history - though not by me, nor by the people who knew and respected him ...’ When his grandfather gave sermons, he was ’capable of shaking mountains’, a church leader tells journalist and author Lesley Mofokeng. ’Ntate Mofokeng pulled people towards God with the great and rare talent of a motivator.’ In this ...
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    14,40 €

  • We Rest Here Content
    Robin Smith
    We Rest Here Content is not the history of the Imperial Light Horse Regiment - that was written by the regiment’s Intelligence Officer, Lieutenant George Fleming Gibson and published in 1937 as The Story of the Imperial Light Horse in the South African War 1899-1902. We Rest Here Content approaches the subject of the I.L.H. from a different viewpoint. It looks at all the known ...
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    71,74 €

  • The Rwanda Poems
    Andrew Kaufman
    The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet’s observations and encounters during months spent in post-genocide Rwanda, but on his numerous extensive interviews with survivors, all of whom lost most if not all of t...
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    15,63 €

  • Filhos De Cã, Filhos Do Cão
    Mário Maestri
    Iniciei meu estudo sistemático da África Negra Pré-colonial e do escravismo brasileiro há pouco mais de 45 anos, ainda jovem historiando, na Université Catholique de Louvain, na Bélgica. Naquele então, a escravidão era preocupação mais do que marginal na historiografia brasileira. E a história da África era tema praticamente inexistente.Minha opção pelo marxismo é anterior ao i...
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    29,02 €

  • Evoking Speech in the Deaf
    Vita Mumba
    In 1969 the Brothers of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary (FIC Brothers) set out to teach deaf children so that they could take their rightful place in society. This book shows the history of the Training of Teachers for the Hearing Impaired, its recognition and growth, and the changing educational concepts employed. It seems that the concept of inclusive ’educa...
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    37,56 €

  • Democracy and Human Rights in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
    One of the challenges Nigeria has faced since independence in 1960 has been its human rights record. Under military rule, the problem was attributed to the undemocratic nature of military regimes. When the military handed over power to civilians after an election in 1999, it was expected that democratic governance would lead to improved respect for human rights. But human right...
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    141,08 €

  • Chiwaya War Echoes
    Melvin E. Page
    The King’s African Rifles War Memorial in Zomba has long been a focal point of Malawi memories of the First World War. Now, Chiwaya War Echoes offers a fuller view of how Malawi was involved in both twentieth century world wars. These transcripts of askari memories from a Second World War complete a picture of the Malawian role in the British military. ...
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    38,38 €

  • Class, work and whiteness
    Nicola Ginsburgh
    This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. ...
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    44,13 €

  • Tungo Zetu
    Ibrahim Noor Shariff
    Wataalamu wa lugha na fasihi na mila za watu mbalimbali wametuzindua juu ya utajiri wa fasihi ya Waswahili. Katika fasihi hiyo, tungo za Kiswahili ndilo jambo lililojitokeza mbele kwa mwanga wenye kunawiri sana. Profesa Ibrahim Noor Shariff amefanya utafiti mkubwa kabla ya kukiandika kitabu hiki. Natija yake ni kuwa yaliyoelezwa humu yametufunulia mengi yaliyokuwa dafina. Tokea...
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    20,11 €

  • Otters On A Plane - The India/Africa Expedition
    William Thacker
    From William Thacker’s long-kept field journals comes a fascinating but true story of a remarkable expedition. Thacker and his closest friend, Dr. Richard Ross, set out on a twenty-thousand-mile odyssey across India and Africa to observe and collect wildlife. But they found far more than just animals – danger seemed to await them at nearly every turn.The first of the series The...
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    16,24 €

  • The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa
    Dr Sibtain Akberali Panjwani
    The Khojas were generally regarded as part of the Indian Gujarati mercantile castes known as Lohanas and Bhatias who due to famine, as well as trading opportunities, migrated to Zanzibar in the 1830s and then to other parts of East Africa. They found themselves questioning their socio-religious identity amidst major struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries; living under British...
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    48,95 €


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