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Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013
ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...
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£25,00
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Rwanda From Genocide to Precarious Peace
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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£20,00
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Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron
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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£19,00
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Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849046961, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisation in North Africa. Drawing on analyses of routine governance and of "revolution...
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£25,00
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Revolution Undone Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt
ISBN: HB: 9781849046848, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Amid the turbulence of the Arab Spring, the revolutionary uprising that played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square created high expectations before dashing many of its participants' hopes. The unpredictable events and rapid upheaval t...
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£20,00
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Rebels in a Rotten State Understanding Atrocity in the Sierra Leone Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781849044226, ISBN: HB: 9781849044233, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can we ever truly understand such...
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£22,00
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£40,00
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Role of France in the Rwandan Genocide
ISBN: PB: 9781850658825, Hurst Publishers, August 2007
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! After the Holocaust, the victorious Allies pledged "Never Again" to genocide. This promise, enshrined in the UN Convention on Genocide, stipulates a responsibility to try and prevent genocide or mitigate the suffering of its vi...
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