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Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman
ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...
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£13,50
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Curse of Berlin Africa After The Cold War
ISBN: PB: 9781849040969, ISBN: HB: 9781849040952, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose historical and structural importance continues to affect and shape Africa's contemp...
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Credit Between Cultures Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300181289, Yale University Press, July 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Award-winning anthropologist Parker Shipton brings a variety of persepectives-philosophical, political, and religious-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa.
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£25,00
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Milk and Peace, Drought and War Somali Culture, Society and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781849040457, ISBN: HB: 9781849040440, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Somalia and Somali land, one that transcends the usual boundaries and presents readers with a timely, incisive and compelling introduction to Somali culture, history...
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£40,00
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£55,00
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African Soccerscapes How a Continent Changed the World's Game
ISBN: PB: 9781849040389, ISBN: HB: 9781849040372, Hurst Publishers, April 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. Football may obey global rules,...
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