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Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit
ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...
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£25,00
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War and Peace in Somalia National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab
ISBN: PB: 9781787380189, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a...
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£25,00
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Critical Terms for the Study of Africa
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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£24,50
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£74,00
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Surviving Biafra A Nigerwife's Story
ISBN: HB: 9781849049580, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1961, Rosina "Rose" Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves cau...
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£20,00
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First Raise a Flag How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace
ISBN: PB: 9781849049597, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country spli...
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£25,00
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Cyril Ramaphosa The Path to Power in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781787380158, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led...
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£16,99
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Dark Inheritance Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
ISBN: HB: 9780300225556, Yale University Press, August 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status....
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£45,00
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Africin Imperial London The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor
ISBN: HB: 9781849049603, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at...
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£25,00
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Slave Traders by Invitation West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era
ISBN: HB: 9781849049061, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Slave Coast, roughly the shores of present-day Benin and Togo, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent huma...
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£55,00
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Masters of Mayhem Laurence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
ISBN: HB: 9781612005744, Casemate, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of black&white photos
Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intell...
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£19,00
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