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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408834329 | ISBN 10: 1408834324
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.
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£19.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781380147 | ISBN 10: 1781380147
During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and ‘top men’, working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merch ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857203885 | ISBN 10: 0857203886
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appea ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846272875 | ISBN 10: 1846272874
1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241950722 | ISBN 10: 0241950724
Under South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working tirelessly for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods finds himself unite ... more
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£3.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781854442475 | ISBN 10: 1854442473
This publication explains some of the rules of the hieroglyphic script and Egyptian language using illustrated examples from the Ashmolean’s Egyptian collection.
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£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781842779507 | ISBN 10: 1842779508
Written by two authors with unparalleled first-hand experience of Darfur, this is the definitive guide. Newly updated and hugely expanded, this edition details Darfur's history in Sudan. It traces the origins, organization and ideology of the infamou ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141026138 | ISBN 10: 0141026138
Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781770092082 | ISBN 10: 1770092080
A people on the boil which includes a new chapter and new photographs is an account by a black newspaper journalist's reflections of the tumultuous events of 1976 which started in his own backyard. The author's reflections of the events which became ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781590172186 | ISBN 10: 1590172183
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, lead to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078444 | ISBN 10: 1862078440
"Barry Kemp's take on the ancient Egyptians' script is as original as his whole approach to interpreting the complexities of their culture... this is both an invaluable reference work for students of hieroglyphs and essential reading for anyone wanti ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141188034 | ISBN 10: 0141188030
After the fall of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to listen to their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices d ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844675425 | ISBN 10: 1844675424
Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the most appaling event of the late 20th century: The Rwandan genocide of 1994. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved only serves to sharpen the horror ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571210268 | ISBN 10: 0571210260
When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Southern Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sh ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780954702359 | ISBN 10: 0954702352
"Many people still remember how they felt when Ken Saro-Wiwa was judicially murdered. Some of us have spent the period trying to forget, as a strategy to mask our pain..."(Ken Wiwa, from a speech at the Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa Commemoration, London ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007150953 | ISBN 10: 0007150954
A story of betrayal, belligerence and bloodshed, I Didn't Do It For You is the portrait of a country torn by war and buffeted by the capricious manoeuveringgs of foreign powers, which remains defiant throughout. It is a story that reveals the colonia ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780330419727 | ISBN 10: 0330419722
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why? The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest's fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Why are so many African n ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781870518949 | ISBN 10: 1870518942
This unique collection of speeches, writings and rare interviews by the President of the African National Congress, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela and compiled by Mrs Adelaide Tambo, gives a coherent and comprehensive view of ANC policy, both with ... more
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£34.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781869140526 | ISBN 10: 1869140524
This moving and unusual story brings together the voices of two South African women, different in background, connected in spirit. Weaving together a range of narrative styles and strands - mythic, political, and anecdotal - "Kalahari Rainsong" refle ... more
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£17.50 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780796920614 | ISBN 10: 0796920613
Serpentine queues, some stretching for kilometres, showed that, despite the bomb blasts of the previous few days, the country's democratic resolve was in good shape. There was plenty of patience and spirits were high. By the time they voted, many had ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780958470827 | ISBN 10: 0958470820
The resonance of Call Me Woman is as great in 2004 as when first published in 1985. It tells the important history of not only one woman struggling under apartheid but of millions who faced similar challenges. Like millions of black South Africa ... more
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£26.50 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919855387 | ISBN 10: 1919855386
Images of Defiance is a visual record of grassroots mobilisation and resistance, of the struggle to shatter the silence imposed by massive state repression. This book of posters celebrates the Congress movement and the principles it has fought so lon ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141439303 | ISBN 10: 0141439300
'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.' After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780140292626 | ISBN 10: 0140292624
The Shadow of The Sun has been hailed as the greatest modern work on Africa and as a dazzling literary masterpiece."One of the finest books I have ever read about Africa...Kapuscinskihas been visiting Africa as a journalist since 1957... he has avoid ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780795701320 | ISBN 10: 0795701322
Published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the June 16 uprising, in this book thirty individuals share their memories of the day as well as the days, weeks & months that followed. They tell their own story in their own words, many of them for t ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780850364996 | ISBN 10: 085036499x
From 1966 to 1989 Namibians fought a bitter war of independence against the South African apartheid regime. This book tells the story in the words of eleven young Namibians who came to maturity during those years - men and women, 'northerners' and 's ... more
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£19.99 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780745312477 | ISBN 10: 0745312470
Angola has been embroiled in internal conflict since 1975. Yet despite countless casualties, two million displaced people and over 500,000 refugees, Western media have paid scant attention. This account provides an outline of key events and figures ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780140247602 | ISBN 10: 0140247602
When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful analys ... more
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£10.99 paperback (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780435905989 | ISBN 10: 0435905988
"Like Nelson Mandela's No Easy Walk to Freedom, Biko's selfless pieces of thought, resilience, and longer-term faith in a humanely shared planet will influence South Africa's transition to majority rule." (Tribune) On 12 September, 1977, Steve B ... more
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