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We Dared to Win The SAS in Rhodesia

Wessels Hannes

ISBN: HB: 9781612005874, Casemate, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour and black&white photos

In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker...

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Africa

General

Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands

Ryan Chance Kerry

ISBN: PB: 9780226519661, ISBN: HB: 9780226519524, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In "Living Politics", Kerry Ryan Chance radically fl...

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Mayor of Mogadishu A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia

Harding Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781849049511, ISBN: HB: 9781849046787, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
296 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Mayor of Mogadishu" tells the story of one family's epic journey through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular unravelling. Mohamud "Tarzan" Nur was born a nomad, and became an orphan, th...

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Africa

Rwanda From Genocide to Precarious Peace

Thomson Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197396, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus., 5 figures, 2 maps

The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Sus...

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Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

Venter Al J.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...

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Media Studies

Africa

Gogo Breeze Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Englund Harri

ISBN: PB: 9780226498935, ISBN: HB: 9780226498768, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy ove...

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Africa

Political Science

Specter of Global China Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

Lee Ching Kwan

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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Military

Africa

Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron

Scholtz Leopold

ISBN: PB: 9781911512875, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 1 map

Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola. Not only were they up against a vastly superior f...

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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

Sri Lanka

ISBN: PB: 9781849045735, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Even though Sri Lanka's protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longer waging military campaigns and the separatist Liberation...

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