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  • Mythos
    D. Baxter Todd
    Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as 'Pre-History' were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the 'Age of Man'. Throughout the ages, through myth, allegory, parables, iconography and symbolism, the fragmented remains of ancient beliefs have...
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    26,85 €

  • African Nights
    Kuki Gallmann
    Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in AfricaAfrica evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge...
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    12,50 €

  • Resolving the African Leadership Challenge
    Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah
    Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa’s leadership challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership effectiveness. ...
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    143,01 €

  • África moderna
    Captivating History
    El África moderna está inextricablemente unida a una larga historia dominada por las luchas, el dolor y la fuerza de un pueblo cuya historia está poco difundida.Los africanos, aunque fascinantemente diversos, comparten una evolución común, toda ella caracterizada por los poderosos pasos de muchos nombres grabados en la memoria de sus pueblos.Este libro presenta estos recuerdos ...
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    13,22 €

  • Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
    This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in dis...
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    49,57 €

  • Africa’s Hair
    Kofi Piesie
    This book will walk the reader step by step through how important hair was and what roles hair played in Africa, during the slave trade, and during the African emancipation. The book will discuss the purpose of the invention of the comb, the prehistory of hair, hair in artwork, what Africans drew from in nature for their hair care, the statement the Afro made in 60s, threading ...
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    31,12 €

  • Préparer l’indépendance de Mayotte
    Fatahou SOULA
    Ce livre parle de l’indépendance de Mayotte. Il regroupe quelques analyses historiques sur Mayotte et interroge. Vous y trouverez également des propositions de solutions mahoraises pour les problèmes qui affectent la vie des Mahorais ...
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    34,72 €

  • Catholics, Peasants, and Chewa Resistance in Nyasaland 1889-1939
    Ian Linden / Jane Linden
    The 1960s saw the first flowering of African Studies-in History led by the University of Dar-es-Salaam and in Malawi by George Shepperson and Tom Price’s biography of John Chilembwe. This study relied partly on the archives of the White Fathers trained to record their observations. It also benefited from the pioneering anthropological research of the Montfort Father Matthew Sch...
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    49,05 €

  • Trade in the Senegambia Region
    Patience Sonko-Godwin Sonko-Godwin
    Trade in the Senegambia Region deals with the local and trans-continental trading activities in the Senegambia Region. In this exposition, Patience Sonko-Godwin depicts trade as an agent of change and transposition of culture from one state to another and from one continent to another. She delves into aspects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade during which time millions of peopl...
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    64,15 €

  • Land of Strangers
    Paul Hubbard
    This guide focuses on four of the more spectacular and interesting of the stone-built ruins found in the Midlands province in Zimbabwe. Collectively, these and several others in the area formed a network of towns ruled first by the Torwa and then the Rozvi peoples from the late 16th to 19th centuries, when they were conquered by the Ndebele people during the mfecane upheavals, ...
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    25,17 €

  • An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century
    Caroline Jeannerat
    Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. Reduced to an experience occurring within a person, faith was deemed unapproachable by scientific methods. This has, in effect, con...
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    43,41 €

  • A Leading Pioneer in the Development of The Gambia
    Patience Sonko-Godwin
    This work, A Leading Pioneer in the Development of The Gambia: The Very Reverend John Colley Faye, offers inspiration to upcoming generations along the axes of the clarity of vision, commitment, effort and sacrifice, orientations that could help The Gambia chart a beneficial path forward. Patience Sonko-Godwin is a renowned and erudite Gambian historian. She continues to retain...
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    56,02 €

  • Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
    Andrea Emily Stumpf
    Sayyida Salme lived a remarkable life in remarkable times and told the tale more than a century ago in her Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, the first book commercially published by an Arab woman. She was born in 1844 as a princess on the island of Zanzibar, daughter of the great Omani Sayyid Said bin Sultan and his Circassian slave Djilfidan. By the time she published her Memoir...
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    19,57 €

  • Muslim Organisations in South Africa
    Isaac Mutelo
    The historical development of the relationship between Muslims and Politics in South Africa indicates that Islam has played an important role in the political sphere since the dawn of the apartheid political dispensation in 1948. Thus, there has been a need to comprehensively and systematically explore the political involvement of Muslim organisations, the various ways in which...
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    40,61 €

  • Listening to Colonial History
    Anette Hoffmann
    European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these recordings reverberate with the poly­phonic echoes of colonial knowledge production, to date, acoustic collections have rarely been con­sulted as sources of colonial history. In this book Anette Hoffmann engage...
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    31,49 €

  • A guide to the Helderberg & Hottentots Holland Mountain Rim
    Steve Chadwick
    The culmination of eight years of research into the mountains surrounding Somerset West, South Africa. Detailing out its mountains, it’s many hiking trails, as well as carefully researched narratives of the history and legends of the mountains, including the most detailed yet story of the old ’Gantouw’ wagon pass. The book also describes caves where you may find shelter in the ...
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    20,22 €

  • Trek
    Petrus Johannes van der Merwe / Roger B Beck
    This work on the pioneering history of the Boers in the Cape Colony (South Africa) before the Great Trek (1835-1846) is primarily based on research in various archives and libraries. However, the author PJ van der Merwe (1912-1979) found it desirable to personally visit different areas mentioned in the book to get to know the country and the people better and to gather oral tra...
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    18,54 €

  • Poverty and Wealth in East Africa
    Rhiannon Stephens
    In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that ev...
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    35,13 €

  • Poverty and Wealth in East Africa
    Rhiannon Stephens
    In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that ev...
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    134,37 €

  • Britain’s Empires
    James Heartfield
    A history of the many different British Empires - the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention. ...
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    215,65 €

  • Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia
    Tichaona Mazarire
    This study draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped former SWAPO exiles’ economic reintegration in post-colonial Namibia from 1989 through 2018. The book advances three arguments, each of which pushes beyond existing scholarship on Namibia and/or economic reintegration broadly. Collectively, these arguments challenge dominant narrative...
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    76,62 €

  • The Jew a Negro
    Arthur Talmage Abernethy
    2022 Hardcover Reprint of 1910 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. 'In 1910 the Dixie Publishing Company Published The Jew a Negro by Rev. Arthur T. Abernethy, a preacher, professor and rustic journalist. The author sought to demonstrate through 'ethnology' and 'Scriptural proofs' that ’the Jew of today, as well as ...
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    22,92 €

  • Letters From Nigeria
    Elizabeth Deeks
    In 1972 Elizabeth Deeks returned to Nigeria to teach at the Vining Christian Leadership Centre in Akure where men trained as catechists. Elizabeth was the Women’s Warden and she taught a course for their wives designed to help these men in their future work. Some of the women had never been to school and didn’t speak Yoruba or English. They were allowed to bring two children un...
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    27,91 €

  • Letters From Nigeria
    Elizabeth Deeks
    In 1972 Elizabeth Deeks returned to Nigeria to teach at the Vining Christian Leadership Centre in Akure where men trained as catechists. Elizabeth was the Women’s Warden and she taught a course for their wives designed to help these men in their future work. Some of the women had never been to school and didn’t speak Yoruba or English. They were allowed to bring two children un...
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    35,16 €

  • Stronger than Faith
    Oduor Ong’wen / Oudor Ong’wen
    Few events in Kenya’s recent history have captured the imagination of the nation as those of the period from the late 1970s. Between the pages of this memoirs is a history of that period which is hardly taught in our schools and is fast receding into the holes of the insignificant as a younger generation takes over. The history of that era, like that of all the eras that have m...
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    75,17 €

  • Paul Kruger; the Life Story of the President of the Transvaal
    Prescott Holmes
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    34,64 €

  • Amulets
    W M. Flinders Petrie
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    34,69 €

  • Togo Unter Deutscher Flagge
    Heinrich Klose
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    44,10 €

  • Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-Of-War at Ceylon
    Jan N. Brink
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    36,44 €

  • Der Papyrusfund von Elephantine
    Eduard Meyer
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    33,75 €


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