5,300円 I Am Because We Are features 125 black and white photographs by Betty Press taken all over East and West Africa since 1987, combined with related African proverbs compiled by Annetta Miller, an American born in Tanzania.The book highlights the importance of proverbs in educating members of Africa...

11,772円 In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya.

11,109円 Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

330円 Akhnaton (also known as Akhenaten) ruled as Pharoah of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty, from 1353 1336 B.C. During his reign, Akhnaton attempted to institute a monotheistic religion, the worship of Aten. This religion would dissipate after his death, as Egypt returned to its traditional polythei...

164円 Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) is one of the most famous men in history, and his name was used to denote the status of emperor throughout European countries like Italy, Germany, and Russia nearly 2,000 years after his famous assassination. But before he won the civil war against Pompey the Great and...

4,819円 The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains. Horse Nations provides the first wide-ranging and up-to-date ...

4,244円 In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empir...

614円 Le peu de passé des jeunes Etats ferait croire qu’on en connaît convenablement l’Histoire. Erreur. Celle de la RD Congo est accablée de mythes accumulés et dupliqués par copier-coller. Au point que, par exemple, ses élites se gargarisent d’une possible « guerre de l’eau » sans s’apercevoir que ce...

1,098円 The Killer Trail tells the tale of one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa', a real life story of insane violence in the heart of an exotic continent that eerily prefigures fictional accounts such as The Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. The...

5,970円 After the abolition of slavery in 1897, Islamic courts in Zanzibar (East Africa) became central institutions where former slaves negotiated socioeconomic participation. By using difficult-to-read Islamic court records in Arabic, Elke E. Stockreiter reassesses the workings of these courts as well ...

2,600円 Genetische Manipulation erschuf den Menschen! Das Missing Link genannte fehlende Bindeglied der Menschheitsentwicklung ist gefunden. Aufzeichnungen auf sumerischen Tontafeln schildern klinische Versuche, an deren Ende die Geburt Adams stand. Ihnen zufolge wurde der Mensch vor etwa 300.000 Jahren ...

3,925円 African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fasc...