661円 The book “An Abolition Reader,” contains five complete manuscripts that are essential to understanding the abolitionist movement in the United States and in England: “Abolition Fanaticism in New York,” by Frederick Douglass “The Abolition of Slavery The Right of the Government Under the War Pow...

1,088円 Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans travel...

11,772円 Higher education has recently been recognized as a key driver for societal growth in the Global South and capacity building of African universities is now widely included in donor policies. The question is; how do capacity building projects affect African universities, researchers and students? U...

945円 Una obra fundamental. Tombuctú, una de las ciudades más fascinantes y deseadas, descubre sus secretos históricos y su intensa relación con Al Ándalus gracias a los manuscritos que custodian sus bibliotecas. Hace unos años, con gran revuelo internacional, salió a la luz tras casi un siglo de ocult...

12,399円 Ibadan market women were active in political mobilization and they engaged in eclectic political actions during the decolonization process. Their leaders significantly swayed the electorate both in and beyond the market places. This study examines the historical development of the roles of Ibadan...

6,103円 Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from t...

9,285円 Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our un...

2,488円 In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity. “Julius c...

4,227円 Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Suzanne Gauch illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of the transformations in perception and relation that stunned both participants and onlookers during t...

4,642円 Revealing personal trajectories, Giulia Bonacci shows that Rastafari were not the first black settlers in Ethiopia. She tracks the history of return over the decades, demonstrating that the utopian idea of return is also a reality. Exodus! is based on indepth archival and print research, as wel...

1,055円 A Harmadik Birodalom a véres 1941–43-as oroszországi hadjárat során diadalt aratott, és egyúttal gyökeresen megváltoztatta a történelem menetét. Azonban ennek ára volt: a háború kimerítette Adolf Hitlert. A Führer 1947-ben békét kötött a szövetségesekkel, majd 1954-ben háttérbe vonult, s átadta a...

1,000円 Vivre ailleurs, s'installer durablement et changer de perspectives : des récits d’écrivains contemporains sur cette expérience fantasmée et vécue, faite d'émotions et de résonances. Pourquoi tous ces morts au beau milieu de l’Afrique coloniale ? Pourquoi cet oubli incompréhensible ? Ce silence, q...