5,573円 The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories de...

330円 This piece includes a general account of the country, it's geography, culture, flora and fauna, including a very brief history of the country and it's religion. The rise and fall of King Theodore, his titles honors and justice are described. The piece concludes with the British capture of Abyssin...

8,085円 Roger Hart debunks the long-held belief that linear algebra developed independently in the West. Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used ma...

777円 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A suspenseful and deeply moving memoir that “lays open the Darfur geocide . . . intimately and powerfully” (The Washington Post Book World) and shows how one person can make a difference in the world. “A book of unusually humane power and astounding moral clarity.”ーKirkus R...

1,453円 "Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues that these clashes...

1,313円 A passionate, bittersweet memoir of a love cruelly cut short, set in the splendour of East Africa. Natasha Illum Berg is secretly in love. As she waits for her married lover in her beautiful house in the African countryside, she reflects on her Danish childhood, her African present, the tides of ...

10,280円 First published in 1970. An account of the authors’ captivity in Abyssinia and some account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People. The sufferings of the Abyssinian captives (1840s) will be ever associated, in the annals of British valour, with the triumphant success of the expediti...

4,907円 Europe’s imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons...

9,616円 This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when non-racial democracy was achieved in South Africa, no less than 54 new nations w...

550円 The author in Chapter 5 covers the reasons put forward by prominent Ghanaian Historian, Professor Albert Adu Boahen regarding the reasons that led to the decline and fall of the Ashanti Empire. In Chapter 6, the author puts forward two external political and economic factors that led to the fall ...

12,103円 A survey of the historical and international aspects of colonial rule in Africa.

1,202円 One man’s journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure o...