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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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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Africa

Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2: The War in Italy and The Interwar Years 1942-1961

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781911512400, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

Volume 2 of "The Black Beret" picks up where the previous volume left off, describing the bowing out of the South African Tank Corps, the formation of 6th South African Armoured Division and its subsequent campaign in Italy. Its exploits in Italy are...

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Military

Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Africa

Bridge Over Blood River The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

Norman Kajsa

ISBN: HB: 9781849046817, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? "Bridge Over Blood River's" haunting and subversive evocation of South Afr...

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General

Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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Africa

Burundi The Biography of a Small African Country

Watt Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781849045094, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events,...

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Africa

Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 1: Beginnings to the Invasion of Madagascar 1942

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781910294680, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
608 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps, 275 black&white illus.

Volume 1 of "The Black Beret" starts with the early history of South Africa and ends with the invasion of Madagascar by the South African Forces during WWII. This volume covers topics such as how armour came to the battlefield, the use of horses vs...

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Africa

General

Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

Sluyter Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300179927, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the h...

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