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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa

Douek Daniel L.

ISBN: PB: 9781849048804, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! South Africa's transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime's counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyse...

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Africa

Music

Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

Dave Nomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...

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Africa

Political Science

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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Military

Africa

Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War

DeVries Roland, Burger Camille, Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps

Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...

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Africa

Teenage Safari A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia

Davies Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911512936, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour & black&white photos, 1 map

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s. This is not the usual military history, written by a commander armed with facts, nor a researched story of a war or campaign. It is a persona...

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Africa

Soldiers in Revolt Army Mutinies in Africa

Dwyer Maggie

ISBN: PB: 9781849048293, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Soldiers in Revolt" examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspecti...

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Africa

Africa, Empire and Fleet Street Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine

Derrick Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781849048323, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on...

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Law

Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

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Africa

Collecting Food, Cultivating People Subsistence and Society in Central Africa

De Luna Kathryn M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218534, Yale University Press, September 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study...

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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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