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Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966-1985
ISBN: HB: 9780857427892, Seagull Books, March 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the...
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£35,00
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Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones
"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...
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£34,00
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Specter of Global China Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226340838, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 tables
China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred...
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£22,50
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Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...
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£44,00
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Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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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£28,00
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£82,00
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I Say to You Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9780226498058, ISBN: HB: 9780226498041, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 14 tables
In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal pe...
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£28,00
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£74,50
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Understanding Somalia and Somaliland Culture, History, Society
ISBN: PB: 9781850658986, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cu...
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£20,00
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