{"title":"History - Africa","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781471135453","title":"The Fortunes of Africa - A 5000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since the era of the Pharaohs, Africa has been coveted for its riches. The pyramids of the Nile Valley dazzled the rest of the world as symbols of the wealth of Egypt's rulers. Legends about Africa's riches endured for millennia, drawing in explorers and conquerors from afar.\u003cbr\u003eLand was another prize. The Romans relied on their colonies in North Africa for grain to feed Rome. Another commodity in high demand from Africa was slaves.\u003cbr\u003eCotton, cocoa, coffee, rubber, ivory, gold, diamonds, copper and oil; in the space of twenty years, mainly for economic benefit and for national prestige, European powers claimed possession of virtually the entire continent.\u003cbr\u003eBy the end of the scramble, European powers had merged some 10,000 African polities into some forty colonies.\u003cbr\u003eNow the lure of Africa's riches remains as strong as ever.\u003cbr\u003eNew players have entered the field. The rising economic might of China has stimulated a boom in demand for Africa's oil and mineral resources. To secure food supplies, land too has become a prized commodity once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Meredith is a journalist, biographer and historian who has written extensively on Africa and its recent history. He is the author of many books, including Diamonds, Gold and War, The State of Africa, Mugabe, and Mandela: A Biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Martin+Meredith\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMartin Meredith\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Martin Meredith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375423963299,"sku":"9781471135453","price":395.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781471135453_eeee1f38-2360-411d-9e49-5604fc9ee7b5.jpg?v=1776541847"},{"product_id":"9781431402984","title":"Who Killed Hammarskjold","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiven that Ndola air traffic control had seen the plane flying overhead and had granted the pilot permission to land, why did the airport manager close down the airport? Why did Lord Alport, the British High Commissioner in Salisbury (now Harare), who was at the airport, insist that the Secretary-General must have decided 'to go elsewhere'? Why did it take until four hours after daybreak to start a search, even though local residents, policemen and soldiers reported seeing a great flash of light in the sky shortly after midnight? Why was the missing aircraft not found for a full fifteen hours, even though it was just eight miles away from the airport where it had been expected to land? What about the second plane that had been seen to follow the Secretary-General's aircraft? Why did the survivor refer to an explosion before the crash? Why did Hammarskjöld have no burns, when the other victims were so badly charred? How did he escape the intense blaze, which destroyed 75 to 80 per cent of the fuselage?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Susan+Williams\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSusan Williams\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Susan Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375589212323,"sku":"9781431402984","price":280.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781431402984_52d93920-1718-47bf-87d3-ecd03906c918.jpg?v=1776535854"},{"product_id":"9781869198428","title":"African Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAl Venter regards himself an African a white African, but as much a part of the fascinating and often troubled continent on which he was born as his Zulu and Swahili speaking contemporaries. There is no country in Africa that he has not visited. During his half-century career as a foreign correspondent, working for media outlets on four continents, he has given his version of unfolding events from many of them, for, inter alia, Britain s Jane s Information Group, the 'Daily Express' and 'Daily Mail' of London, United Press International, Geneva s 'Interavia,' the BBC, SABC, NBC (radio), as well as scores of magazines.His love for Africa stems in part from his childhood. At the age of 14 - while on vacation in what was then still Northern Rhodesia - he hitched-hiked back to boarding school in Johannesburg in a race with his schoolmates who travelled by train. And he won. Seven years later, after completing three-years in the navy, he explored East Africa and ended up in Mombasa in Kenya and cadged a lift on a freighter to Canada. Then, after qualifying professionally in London, he travelled overland through West Africa all the way to London. Along the way he met many notables including Ghana s Kwame Nkrumah and the man who hosted Graham Greene at his derelict hotel in Liberia then all but an American colony, where the greenback was the official currency as well as the great Dr Albert Schweitzer. The author spent a week at his jungle clinic at Lambarane in Gabon.Venter includes many of these adventures in this new book. He also delves into some of his military adventures and has invited several of his old colleagues to add some of their thoughts to this bundle of travel, adventure and excitement to create a remarkable insight to a continent that that, though briefly tamed by Europe, was never really subjugated. In that anomaly too, there lies many a stirring yarn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Al+J.+Venter\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAl J. Venter\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Al J. Venter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375740895395,"sku":"9781869198428","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781869198428_a43f3a1e-1f19-4c38-8941-01d37456500e.jpg?v=1776608148"},{"product_id":"9781868429417","title":"Africa Reimagined","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrica Reimagined is a passionately argued appeal for a rediscovery of our African identity. Going beyond the problems of a single country, Hlumelo Biko calls for a reorientation of values, on a continental scale, to suit the needs and priorities of Africans. Building on the premise that slavery, colonialism, imperialism and apartheid fundamentally unbalanced the values and indeed the very self- concept of Africans, he offers realistic steps to return to a more balanced Afro-centric identity. Historically, African values were shaped by a sense of abundance, in material and mental terms, and by strong ties of community. The intrusion of religious, economic and legal systems imposed by conquerors, traders and missionaries upset this balance, and the African identity was subsumed by the values of the newcomers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Hlumelo+Biko\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eHlumelo Biko\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hlumelo Biko","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376927195299,"sku":"9781868429417","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781868429417_71bcdabf-150a-40ce-a497-2363bf57c9f3.jpg?v=1776604578"},{"product_id":"9781770106550","title":"Democracy Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eDemocracy Works explores how we can learn to nurture and deepen democracy in Africa to ensure economic growth and political stability. It identifies a 'democratic playbook' to meet the threats to free and fair elections. But substantive democracy demands more than simply regular polls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Greg+Mills\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eGreg Mills\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Greg Mills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377031069859,"sku":"9781770106550","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781770106550_6b9e43ac-a42d-47b5-8eb8-149a174993ad.jpg?v=1776571768"},{"product_id":"9780627022319","title":"Botswana - Politics and Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis multidisciplinary book consists of 31 chapters covering aspects such as history, sociology, demography, law, economics, environmental studies, politics and public administration - presented in a style that is accessible to both scholars and the general public.; The book provides depth and breadth to the field of politics and society generally, while increasing our knowledge of Botswana in particular. The editors are lecturers at the University of Botswana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+W.A.+Edge\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eW.A. Edge\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+M.H.+Lekorwe\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eM.H. Lekorwe\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W.A. Edge,M.H. 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First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history. 'Articulate, self-confident and angry ... this book marks a turning point' Spectator 'A damning assessment of the failures of sixty years of western development' Financial Times 'Kicks over the traditional piety that Western aid benefits the third world' Sunday Herald Books of the Year 'Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach' Kofi Annan 'This reader was left wanting a lot more Moyo, a lot less Bono' Niall Ferguson Dambisa Moyo worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years, having previously worked for the World Bank as a consultant. Moyo completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University, and holds a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Her other books include Winner Take All and How the West was Lost. She was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Dambisa+Moyo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDambisa Moyo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dambisa Moyo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378134106275,"sku":"9780141031187","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780141031187_2a6ae78e-a2b7-4634-b0ad-afed59a64cb8.jpg?v=1776453491"},{"product_id":"9780639992822","title":"Extremisms In Africa: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Over the past two decades, the rapid emergence and spread of both local and transnational extremist organisations has become a primary source of insecurity in Africa. Extremist organisations represent the fluid and variable nature of conflict systems today and are at the heart of some of Africa's most enduring conflicts. Moreover, the inability of African states to contain the threat of extremism, or of heavy-handed security responses, has led to the loss of thousands of lives, displaced millions, and deeply impacted the continent's democratisation and development goals. This is the second anthology published by Good Governance Africa (GGA) on the topic of extremism and political violence in Africa. Extremisms in Africa, one of the first anthologies of its kind on this topic to be authored - and published - on the African continent, provided an account of how extremist groups arose in Africa and the various ways in which they have harnessed their global agendas to local conflict dynamics and structural challenges, enabling them to exploit the grievances of individuals and communities for their cause. This anthology, Extremisms in Africa Volume 2, looks forward, giving special attention to the ways in which emergent trends, global geopolitics and conflict dynamics merge to impact upon the African continent. To this end, we have sought to engage diverse topics ranging from ecological concerns surrounding climate change and migration, the implications of such human movement for modern-day trafficking and slavery, and the roles of women and youth. State responses to extremisms on the African continent are not uniform; the capacity of individual states to detect\/identify, police, investigate and prosecute is highly variable. At the most fundamental level, extremisms are ripe to arise in contexts where governments are failing, especially when democracy is on the wane. This anthology identifies some of the most pressing challenges in addressing extremisms today and provides chapters that could offer actionable policy insights to governments and civil society. Given the nature of Africa's geopolitical landscape, state and security services alone cannot prevent extremism. It will take a 'whole-of-society' approach, where government, civil society, academia, communities, families, and individuals collaborate to better understand the local dynamics of recruitment and radicalisation and develop context-specific strategies in response. This anthology will hopefully provide practitioners with improved insight into some of the key challenges and potential solutions in preventing extremism, while also being of interest to the general reader.'--Page 4 of cover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Alain+Tschudin\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAlain Tschudin\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Craig+Moffat\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eCraig Moffat\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Stephen+Buchanan-Clarke\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eStephen Buchanan-Clarke\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Susan+Russell\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSusan Russell\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Lloyd+Coutts\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLloyd Coutts\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alain Tschudin,Craig Moffat,Stephen Buchanan-Clarke,Susan Russell,Lloyd Coutts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378926796963,"sku":"9780639992822","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780639992822_99f3aa7b-ccbc-49c6-95c8-2ce5e7dde191.jpg?v=1776492447"},{"product_id":"9780007523108","title":"The Looting Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eOverseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. 'The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots and corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth. From the killing fields of Congo to the crude-slicked creeks of Nigeria, a great endowment of oil, diamonds, copper, iron, gold and coltan has become a curse that condemns millions to poverty, violence and oppression. That curse is no accident. This gripping investigative journey takes us into the shadows of the world economy, where secretive networks conspire with Africa's kleptocrats to bleed the continent dry. And like their victims, the beneficiaries of this grand looting have names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Tom+Burgis\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eTom Burgis\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tom Burgis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379372703907,"sku":"9780007523108","price":270.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780007523108_aac78b7c-c1d7-4b19-ab6f-b904b1405fcb.jpg?v=1776447440"},{"product_id":"9781431432288","title":"German Rule, African Subjects: State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South West Africa. The colonial government not only committed the first genocide of the twentieth century against the Herero and Nama, but in their efforts to establish a 'model colony' and 'racial state', they brought about even more destructive and long- lasting consequences. In this now-classic study - available here for the first time in English - the author provides an indispensable account of Germany's attempts to make a colonial utopia in what is present-day Namibia. This book shows how the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities ultimately failed even as it added to the profound immiseration of the African population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerman Rule, African Subjects sketches out the nature of everyday life in the racist state, the inevitable transmutation of a legal system based on racial distinctions into structural and individual exploitation and barbarity. It shows that it was this racist state, the core features of which had already been established before 1904, that endowed German colonial rule with its characteristic features, and that together with the genocide was responsible for its gravest after-effects. It corrects both the false image of German colonial rule as having been exercised benevolently before 1904, and that of a 'peace of the graveyard' (Drechsler) after the genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+J%C3%BCrgen+Zimmerer\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJürgen Zimmerer\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jürgen Zimmerer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379873202339,"sku":"9781431432288","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781431432288_174a20ce-02d8-4221-aed4-47ab9f39cb98.jpg?v=1776536445"},{"product_id":"9781770100701","title":"Rhodesians never die","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of how White Rhodesians, three-quarters of whom were ill-prepared for revolutionary change, reacted to the 'terrorist' war and the onset of black rule in the 1970s. It shows how internal divisions - both old and new - undermined the supposed unity of White Rhodesia, how most Rhodesians begrudgingly accepted the inevitability of black majority rule without adjusting to its implications, and how the self-appointed defenders of Western civilization sometimes adopted uncivilized methods of protecting the 'Rhodesian way of life.' This is a lively and accessible account, based on careful archival research and numerous personal interviews. It sets out to tell the story from the inside and to incorporate the diverse dimensions of the Rhodesian experience. The authors suggest that the Rhodesians were more differentiated than has often been assumed and that perhaps their greatest fault was an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Peter+Godwin\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePeter Godwin\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Ian+Hancock\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eIan Hancock\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Peter Godwin,Ian Hancock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380252786851,"sku":"9781770100701","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781770100701_8fb4b453-7c50-4c7a-bdd5-02bf72b1cb8f.jpg?v=1776571108"},{"product_id":"9781431432295","title":"Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories.” - Amílcar Cabral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Antonio Tomás's … book on Amílcar Cabral takes us back to the crucible of decolonisation and permits us to assess its aspirations and limitations anew.” - Africa Is a Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were available to us through what we now call 'civil rights discourse.'“ - Angela Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgents were Bissau-Guineans, aiming to get rid of the Cape Verdeans who dominated the party elite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite Cabral's assassination, Portuguese Guinea became the independent Republic of Guinea-Bissau. The guerrilla war that Cabral had started and led precipitated a chain of events that would lead to the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, toppling the forty-year-old authoritarian regime. This paved the way for the rest of Portugal's African colonies to achieve independence. Written by a native of Angola, this biography narrates Cabral's revolutionary trajectory, from his early life in Portuguese Guinea to his death at the hands of his own men. It details his quest for national sovereignty, beleaguered by the ethnic-based identity conflicts the national liberation movement struggled to overcome. Through the life of Cabral, António Tomás critically reflects on existing ways of thinking and writing about the independence of Lusophone Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Antonio+Tomas\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAntonio Tomas\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antonio Tomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381393637539,"sku":"9781431432295","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781431432295_0eb98e9e-7a46-4b2e-9348-dbf3ce72cdef.jpg?v=1776536450"},{"product_id":"9781770098879","title":"A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the UN’s Australian troops arrived in Windhoek to help secure the peace process in the build-up to Namibia’s Independence on March 21, 1990, the excited soldiers stormed out of their transport aircraft and took up combat positions around the circumference of the airfield much to the amusement of the locals. Nobody had got around to telling them that they had arrived in one of the most under-populated countries in the world and, if they wanted war, they were going to have to look for it. A failure to encompass the size of Namibia, as well as the length of its history, is a common shortcoming of historians. It is not one which Marion Wallace transgresses in this excellent and comprehensive book which covers Namibian history from the Holocene period – more than 10, 0000 years ago – to the latter day killings of ‘Prime Evil’, Eugene de Kock, with extensive footnotes, bibliography and a generous index this book is a ‘must’ for anyone with an interest in Namibia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Marion+Wallace\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMarion Wallace\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+John+Kinahan\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJohn Kinahan\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marion Wallace,John Kinahan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382544285859,"sku":"9781770098879","price":390.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781770098879_d822c0de-1369-40e9-ab56-80399ace3c78.jpg?v=1776571070"},{"product_id":"9781431433766","title":"Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a chronological examination of Russia’s post-Cold War foreign policy towards Africa, and outlines the factors that have enabled and impeded the growth of its influence. It pays special attention to the non-material factors behind this rising power; the domestic drivers of Russian decision-making; Moscow’s relationships with fellow external powers; and African perspectives on Russia’s geopolitical role. Samuel Ramani’s analysis cites extensively both Russian-language media and academic sources, and his own interviews with Russian and African elites. 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Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as ‘Africans’ and those called ‘Europeans’. Yet Africans and African Europeans are still widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe. Olivette Otele traces a long African European heritage through the lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. She uncovers a forgotten past, from Emperor Septimius Severus, to enslaved Africans living in Europe during the Renaissance, and all the way to present-day migrants moving to Europe’s cities. By exploring a history that has been long overlooked, she sheds light on questions very much alive today—on racism, identity, citizenship, power and resilience. 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In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history - from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.\u003cbr\u003eVisiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, Badawi weaves together a gripping new history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Zeinab+Badawi\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eZeinab Badawi\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Zeinab Badawi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382931832995,"sku":"9780753560143","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780753560143_0a1a9c5d-ce3b-4d37-bb00-b3d5599ad711.jpg?v=1776495992"},{"product_id":"9781805226772","title":"How Africa Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a groundbreaking new study of Africa's developmental history, economist Joe Studwell debunks long-held views about the continent's presumed resistance to growth, charting monumental changes in government, demography and asset management.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsidering everything from settler colonialism to soil conditions, mineral extractivism to disease development and eradication, Studwell persuasively argues that the seizing back of land, people and states across Africa, has also been the seizure of mass economic development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom slavery to independence and beyond, this is the definitive account of the world's second largest continent - and an optimistic look to its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Joe+Studwell\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJoe Studwell\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Joe Studwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47577241125027,"sku":"9781805226772","price":450.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781805226772_f044acb8-dd24-4798-a030-5e84fb89722d.jpg?v=1776805431"}],"url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/collections\/history-africa.oembed","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}