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36180 Achebe, Chinua
AN IMAGE OF AFRICA/ THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA
Part of the Penguin Classics, Great Idea series, these two influential non-fiction works by Achebe are available in one edition for the first time. 112pp, UK. PENGUIN CLASSICS.
2010 9780141192581 Paperback
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35962 Adebajo, Adekeye
THE CURSE OF BERLIN: Africa After the Cold War
At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose historical and structural importance continues to affect and shape Africa's contemporary international relations. This 'Curse' is a recurring theme in Adebajo's trenchant historical analysis, even though its main focus is on contemporary African issues after the Cold War. The first part of the book examines Africa's quest for security with three essays on Africa's security institu-tions such as the African Union and sub-regional bodies; another on the political, peacekeeping, and socio-economic roles of the United Nations (UN) in Africa; and a third on Africa's two UN Secretaries-General between 1992 and 2006: Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Ghana's Kofi Annan. The second section of the book focuses on Africa's quest for leadership, and five chapters examine the hegemonic roles of South Africa, Nigeria, the United States, China and France on the continent. The five chapters in the final section of the study analyse Africa's quest for unity, and examine the roles and significance for Africa of six historical figures: Mandela, Mbeki, Kwame Cecil Rhodes, Obama, and Gandhi; as well as assessing the African Union and the EU in comparative perspective. 384pp, UK. HURST & CO.
2010 9781849040969 Paperback GBP16.95
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36060 Berchemin, Solange & Lynott, Alanna
WRITERS IN BLACK AND WHITE: Contemporary Authors Discuss the Writing Life
Includes interviews with: Brian Chikwava, Aminatta Forna and Barbara Trapido. B/w photos, 100pp, UK. CONTACT PUBLISHING.
2010 9781907688157 Paperback GBP15.99
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36153 Bompani, Barbara & Frahm-Arp, Maria (Eds.)
DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS FROM BELOW: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
Modernist and secularist thinking has long predicted that religion would be rendered irrelevant, to be sidestepped, ignored or eliminated. However, this is not the case in 21st century Africa. Religion plays an increasingly important role in politics and development. This volume captures the dynamism and power of religion in Africa. In doing so it aims to move beyond narrow conceptualisations of 'politics' and 'development' and public and private spaces in order to uncover the meaning of modern religion in Africa and the many ways it is embedded in millions of Africans' everyday struggles to survive, sustain themselves and make sense of the modern world. 272pp, UK. PALGRAVE.
2010 9780230237759 Hardback GBP57.50
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36196 Breytenbach , Breyten
NOTES FROM THE MIDDLE WORLD
In dialogue with the dead and living - Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Darwish, Barack Obama - Breyten Breytenbach's new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political traumas and the renewal of hope. 220pp, USA. HAYMARKET BOOKS.
2009 9781931859912 Paperback GBP12.99
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8223 Briggs, Philip
GHANA: Bradt Travel Guide
Expanded and updated fifth edition of this informative guide. Describes each region and provides all essential travel information such as accommodation, eating, travelling around the country, and staying healthy. Includes colour and b/w illustrations and 58 maps and town plans. Index, app, 448pp, UK. BRADT PUBLICATIONS.
2010 9781841623252 Paperback GBP15.99
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36197 Butlin, Robin A.
GEOGRAPHIES OF EMPIRE: European Empires and Colonies c.1880-1960
How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers - British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, German and Italian and the reactions of indigenous peoples. He explores the complex processes and discourses of colonialism, conquest and resistance from the height of empire through to decolonisation and sets these within the dynamics of the globalisation of political and economic power systems. He sheds new light on variations in the timing, nature and locations of European colonisations and on key themes such as exploration and geographical knowledge; maps and mapping; demographics; land seizure and environmental modification; transport and communications; and resistance and independence movements. In so doing, he makes a major contribution to our understanding of colonisation and the end of empire. 692pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
2009 9780521740555 Paperback GBP29.99
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30150 Chan, Stephen
CITIZEN OF ZIMBABWE: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai
A slim but revealing volume of an academic's conversations with Zimbabwe's opposition political leader over four years. Originally published as CITIZEN OF AFRICA by the Fingerprint Co-operative (Cape Town). 110pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.
2010 2005 9781779221056 Paperback GBP18.95
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36213 Chilver, E.M.
ZINTGRAFF'S EXPLORATIONS IN BAMENDA, ADAMAWA AND THE BENUE LANDS, 1889-1892
Extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraff's original book 'Nord-Kamerun' (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. It was a book written to justify his own actions and to support that small but influential section of public opinion in Germany which favoured rapid imperial expansion. His account reveals the fact that the people of the Western Grassfields were not so isolated from one another or their neighbours as might be thought: a network of trade-friendships covered the country. 92pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.
2010 9789956616718 Paperback GBP17.95
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36206 Crush, Jonathan & Dodson, Belinda (Eds.)
MIGRATION, REMITTANCES AND DEVELOPMENT IN LESOTHO
The relationship between migration, development and remittances in Lesotho has been exhaustively studied for the period up to 1990. This was an era when the vast majority of migrants from Lesotho were young men working on the South African gold mines and over 50 percent of households had a migrant mine-worker. Since 1990, patterns of migration to South Africa have changed dramatically. The reconfiguration of migration between the two countries has had a marked impact on remittance flows to Lesotho. The central question addressed in this report is how the change in patterns of migration from and within Lesotho since 1990 has impacted on remittance flows and usage. 96pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.
2010 9781920409265 Paperback GBP18.95
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34073 Hadithi, Mwenye & Kennaway, Adrienne
ENORMOUS ELEPHANT
New in paperback. In the days before the Big Rains, many of the animals looked very different. This is the story of how Enormous Elephant came to wave his long trunk and swish his long tail on the Great Plains. A new folktale bursting with colour and vitality from the award-winning team. 32pp, UK. HODDER HEADLINE.
2009 2008 9780340945223 Paperback GBP6.99
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36209 Havnevik, Kjell & Isinika, Aida C. (Eds.)
TANZANIA IN TRANSITION: From Nyerere to Mkapa
A contribution to understanding the character of important societal transitions in Tanzania during Benjamin Mkapa's presidency (1995-2005). The analyses of the trajectory of these transitions are conducted against the background of the development model of Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere (1961-1985), a model with lasting influence on the country. This approach enables an understanding of continuities and discontinuities in Tanzania over time in areas such as development strategy an ideology, agrarian-land, gender and forestry issues, economic liberalization, development assistance, corruption and political change. 306pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.
2010 9789987080861 Paperback GBP24.95
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36200 Ijeoma, Edwin Okey
AFRICA'S NEW PUBLIC POLICY: Imperatives for Globalisation & Nation-building in Nigeria
An analysis of globalisation and democracy, from an African perspective. It also provides policy imperatives that are aimed at seeking solutions to the myriad challenges emanating from managing the consequences of globalisation in Nigeria and other African countries. The author attempts to determine the extent to which public administration principles - in Nigeria in particular, and the rest of Africa in general, as well as in other parts of the developing world - underpin the management of the effects of globalisation within a democracy and nation building projects. 152pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
2010 9780798302227 Paperback GBP19.95
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36215 Kayode, Samuel
POLITICAL TRANSITION IN NIGERIA, 1993-2003: Commentaries on Selected Themes
A collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of Nigeria. Although written between 1999 and 2003, the focus of these essays reached far behind that period to the crises of the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections and its aftermath. The annulment marked a defining moment whose impact still haunts Nigeria's democratic experiment. 396pp, NIGERIA. MALTHOUSE.
2010 9789780232146 Paperback GBP29.95
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36010 Khouma, Pap
I WAS AN ELEPHANT SALESMAN: Adventures between Dakar, Paris and Milan
Gives a name and a face to the thousands of anonymous African street vendors in cities across Europe. Through the voice of a thinly veiled first-person narrator, Pap Khouma offers us a chilling, intimate, and often ironic glimpse into the life of an illegal immigrant. Khouma invents a life for himself as an itinerant trader of carved elephants, small ivories, and other African trinkets, struggling to maintain courage and dignity in the face of despair and humiliation. Constantly on the run from the authorities, he finds insight into the vicissitudes of law and politics, the constraints of citizenship, national borders, skin colour, and the often paralysing difficulties of obtaining basic human needs. Edited by Oreste Pivetta, translated from the Italian by Rebecca Hopkins and with a foreword by Graziella Parati. 158pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.
2010 9780253222329 Paperback GBP12.99
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36212 Larmer, Miles (Ed.)
THE MUSAAKANYA PAPERS: The Autobiography Writings of Valentine Musakanya
Private papers that are made available for the first time and which chart Musaakanya's personal and intellectual journey from a childhood in rural Northern Province and the mining township of Wusakile, to outstanding educational success and a glittering career in the civil service of newly independent Zambia. They describe his significant achievements, but also his disillusionment with the politicisation of state structures, the growth of patronage and corruption, and the growing authoritarianism and centralisation of political power in the hands of the President. 154pp, ZAMBIA. THE LEMBANI TRUST.
2010 9789982997232 Paperback GBP18.95
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36214 Madhuku, Lovemore
AN INTRODUCTION TO ZIMBABWEAN LAW
An introductory textbook on the Zimbabwean legal system. It sets the stage for acomprehensive description of that legal system by opening with some theoretical issues on the nature of law in general, particularly a definition of law, the role and purpose of law in society, the relationship between law and justice and how morality impacts on law. After outlining this theoretical framework, it turns to the Zimbabwean legal system and covers the following key areas: sources of Zimbabwean law, the scope of Roman-Dutch law in Zimbabwe, the law-making process and the role of Parliament, the structure of the courts in Zimbabwe, the procedures in the civil and criminal courts, the legal aid system and the nature of the legal profession. It covers the process of appointment of judges and its effect on the independence of the judiciary. It has a long closing chapter on the interpretation of statutes covering all the rules, maxims and presumptions. 206pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.
2010 9781779220981 Paperback GBP20.95
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36207 Makadini-Linjani Project
IT STARTS WITHIN US: Narratives of Hope - Documenting Development through Stories of Change
The product of a group of Zimbabwean NGOs who sought to discover their relevance in promoting development. They named this exercise Makadii-Linjani, or How are you doing? and engaged with communities to discover whether or not their development partners had benefited from their intervention. Offers insights into how a people-centred approach to development can be sustained, even in difficult operating environments. 128pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.
2010 9781779221049 Paperback GBP19.95
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35543 Mohamed, Nadifa
BLACK MAMBA BOY
New, smaller format edition. A novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world. Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of east Africa are preparing for battle. Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere. And so begins an epic journey which will take Jama north through Djibouti, war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt. And from there, aboard a ship transporting Jewish refugees just released from German concentration camp, across the seas to Britain and freedom. 288pp, UK. HARPERCOLLINS.
2010 9780007315772 Paperback GBP7.99
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36208 Pillay, Pundy
LINKING HIGHER EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Implications for Africa from Three Successful Systems
Argues that Finland, South Korea and the state of North Carolina in the United States are three systems that successfully have harnessed higher education in their economic development initiatives. Crucial to the success of these systems are the link between economic and education planning, high quality public schooling, high tertiary participation rates with institutional differentiation, labour market demand and consensus about the importance of higher education for development. This study draws together evidence on the three systems, synthesises the key findings, and distils the implications for African countries. 118pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICAN MINDS.
2010 9781920355449 Paperback GBP19.95
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36210 Pobee, John Samuel
THE ANGLICAN STORY IN GHANA: From Mission beginnings to province of Ghana
First full monograph of Ghanaian Anglicanism since Church of England missionaries first set foot on the soils of the then Gold Coast in the middle of the Eighteenth century. It is a historical account that features insights into the work and activities of the various dioceses of the Anglican Church including their contributions to education, social evangelism and education in particular. Each chapter is illustrated with pictures of key personnel dating back to the colonial era. 490pp, GHANA. AMANZA LTD.
2009 9789988037802 Paperback GBP32.95
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36203 Ruhumbika, Gabriel
SILENT EMPOWERMENT OF THE COMPATRIOTS
Winner of the 1997 Tanzania Best Book Prize, this is an historical novel which scans fifty years of Tanzania's history through the lives of two families: the working class family of Saidi son of Jabiri, and that of the newly elite Nzoka Mwanakulanga. 176pp, TANZANIA. E&D LTD..
2009 1997 9789987521593 Paperback GBP15.95
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36204 Rycroft, Beverly
MISSING
Debut collection of poems. 80pp, SOUTH AFRICA. MODJAJI BOOKS.
2010 9781920397067 Paperback GBP15.95
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36205 Sindjoun, Luc (Ed.)
THE COMING AFRICAN HOUR: Dialectics of opportunities and constraints
By focusing on converging and diverging African realities, on the issues of state, civil society, gender and development strategies, the contributors show under which conditions an African global economic and developmental primacy might arise. 450pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
2010 9780798302302 Paperback GBP32.95
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36195 Stengel, Richard
MANDELA'S WAY: Lessons on Life
For nearly three years Time magazine editor Richard Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography and travelled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man. He became a cherished friend and colleague. Now he has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. In Mandela's Way, he recounts the moments in which 'the grandfather of South Africa' was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why we should keep our rivals close, why courage is more than the absence of fear, and why the answer is not always either/or but often 'both'. 256pp, UK. VIRGIN BOOKS.
2010 9781905264773 Paperback GBP16.99
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36216 Tangwa, Godfrey B.
ROAD COMPANION TO DEMOCRACY AND MERITOCRACY: Further Essays from an African Perspective
Essays centred on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable for experimenting with French/English bilingualism and for having a political dictatorship which claims, wrongly or rightly, to have transformed itself into a democracy; but they are equally relevant to other countries in Africa and beyond. 262pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.
2010 9789956616701 Paperback GBP20.95
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35649 Tripp, Aili Mari
MUSEVENI'S UGANDA: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime
Examines Ugandan politics since 1986, when Yoweri Museveni became the country's president. Museveni's exercise of power has been replete with contradictions: steps toward political liberalization have been controlled in ways that, in fact, further centralize authority; and despite claims of relative peace and stability, Uganda has been plagued by two decades of brutal civil conflict. Exploring these paradoxes, Tripp focuses on the complex connections among Museveni's economic and political reforms, his wars in the north and in Congo, the key roles of international donors and the military, and the institutional changes that have defined his presidency. 223pp, USA. LYNNE RIENNER.
2010 9781588267078 Paperback GBP20.95
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36193 Tutu, Desmond & Tutu, Mpho
MADE FOR GOODNESS: And why this makes all the difference
As Archbishop of Cape Town at the height of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Desmond Tutu saw many shocking and violent incidents. Later, as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as a leading peace negotiator in many troubled parts of the world, he heard many appalling stories of mans inhumanity to man. Yet he still has a firm conviction that we are 'made by goodness for goodness'. He argues that, though we sometimes act out of depravity and despair, we do know in our heart of hearts that we are not as we were meant to be, and were created to be so much more. The truth of human goodness can get hidden under the fear that we cannot live up to its demands, or it can get buried under faults or failures, or it can just get forgotten. 144pp, UK. RIDER.
2010 9781846042522 Hardback GBP12.99
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36194 Wastberg, Per & Geddes, Tom
THE JOURNEY OF ANDERS SPARRMAN: A Biographical Novel
Anders Sparrman, b.1748, the son of a country rector in Uppsala, studies medicine and becomes an apostle of the botanist Carl Linnaeus. He sails as a ship's doctor to China. In 1772 becomes tutor to the children of the Swedish Resident in Cape Town, from there joins Cook's second voyage to Antarctica and Tahiti as assistant to the German botanists Johann and Georg Forster. He travels to the African interior with his guide, Daniel Immelman and later writes A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776. In Stockolm, he is appointed keeper of natural historical collections but quarrels with his colleagues. He then travels to Senegal, witnesses the cruelty of slavery. Anders testifies for abolitionists in London. In Stockholm he is dismissed from his post at the Academy and works as a doctor among the poor. He falls in love with his housemaid, Lotta Fries. They have a daughter. Sparrman died in 1820. 352pp, UK. GRANTA.
2010 9781847081308 Paperback GBP18.99
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36199 Wekwete, Naomi N.
ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY CHALLENGES IN THE ERA OF HIV AND AIDS: A Case Study of a Selected Rural Area in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is one of the countries in Southern Africa worst affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare estimated that 1.3 million people were living with HIV and AIDS at the end of 2007. The aim of this study is to explore the challenges that adolescent mothers face and why young women engage in risky sexual behaviour, despite the levels of awareness and prevalence rate of HIV and AIDS in the country. The study was conducted in Gutu District, Masvingo Province, among women aged between 15-24 years who had never given birth or were pregnant with their first child. 106pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA.
2010 9789994455485 Paperback GBP18.95
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36211 Zewde, Bahru (Ed.)
DOCUMENTING THE ETHIOPIAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: An Exercise in Oral History
Argues that in Ethiopia, the intelligentsia have exerted an influence out of all proportionate to tiny numbers. This can be divided broadly into two phases, with the Italian Occupation (1936-1941) forming an important watershed between them. The pre-war intellectuals were preoccupied with a whole range of concerns ranging from educational development to fiscal reform. The second period of intellectual intervention could thus begin only in the late 1950s. It revolved mainly around Ethiopian university students at home and abroad, in what evolved into the Ethiopian Student Movement. The movement went through three successive stages: self-awareness, reformism and revolutionary commitment. In 1965, when students came out onto the streets with the slogan Land to the Tiller, it marked the beginning of the third stage. It is this third stage that is the focal point of this study. It constitutes the crucial period that profoundly altered the Ethiopian state and society - changes that are yet completed. 164pp, ETHIOPIA. FORUM FOR SOCIAL STUDIES.
2010 9789994450336 Paperback GBP28.95
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NEXT SHIPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: Friday, 17 September 2010
================
Please note:
- We respect your privacy: if you do not wish to receive these mailings, please reply entering 'remove' in the subject field.
- You will shortly be able to order these books securely on our website: www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/New_Titles.html
===============
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36180 Achebe, Chinua
AN IMAGE OF AFRICA/ THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA
Part of the Penguin Classics, Great Idea series, these two influential non-fiction works by Achebe are available in one edition for the first time. 112pp, UK. PENGUIN CLASSICS.
2010 9780141192581 Paperback
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35962 Adebajo, Adekeye
THE CURSE OF BERLIN: Africa After the Cold War
At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose historical and structural importance continues to affect and shape Africa's contemporary international relations. This 'Curse' is a recurring theme in Adebajo's trenchant historical analysis, even though its main focus is on contemporary African issues after the Cold War. The first part of the book examines Africa's quest for security with three essays on Africa's security institu-tions such as the African Union and sub-regional bodies; another on the political, peacekeeping, and socio-economic roles of the United Nations (UN) in Africa; and a third on Africa's two UN Secretaries-General between 1992 and 2006: Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Ghana's Kofi Annan. The second section of the book focuses on Africa's quest for leadership, and five chapters examine the hegemonic roles of South Africa, Nigeria, the United States, China and France on the continent. The five chapters in the final section of the study analyse Africa's quest for unity, and examine the roles and significance for Africa of six historical figures: Mandela, Mbeki, Kwame Cecil Rhodes, Obama, and Gandhi; as well as assessing the African Union and the EU in comparative perspective. 384pp, UK. HURST & CO.
2010 9781849040969 Paperback GBP16.95
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36060 Berchemin, Solange & Lynott, Alanna
WRITERS IN BLACK AND WHITE: Contemporary Authors Discuss the Writing Life
Includes interviews with: Brian Chikwava, Aminatta Forna and Barbara Trapido. B/w photos, 100pp, UK. CONTACT PUBLISHING.
2010 9781907688157 Paperback GBP15.99
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36153 Bompani, Barbara & Frahm-Arp, Maria (Eds.)
DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS FROM BELOW: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
Modernist and secularist thinking has long predicted that religion would be rendered irrelevant, to be sidestepped, ignored or eliminated. However, this is not the case in 21st century Africa. Religion plays an increasingly important role in politics and development. This volume captures the dynamism and power of religion in Africa. In doing so it aims to move beyond narrow conceptualisations of 'politics' and 'development' and public and private spaces in order to uncover the meaning of modern religion in Africa and the many ways it is embedded in millions of Africans' everyday struggles to survive, sustain themselves and make sense of the modern world. 272pp, UK. PALGRAVE.
2010 9780230237759 Hardback GBP57.50
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36196 Breytenbach , Breyten
NOTES FROM THE MIDDLE WORLD
In dialogue with the dead and living - Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Darwish, Barack Obama - Breyten Breytenbach's new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political traumas and the renewal of hope. 220pp, USA. HAYMARKET BOOKS.
2009 9781931859912 Paperback GBP12.99
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8223 Briggs, Philip
GHANA: Bradt Travel Guide
Expanded and updated fifth edition of this informative guide. Describes each region and provides all essential travel information such as accommodation, eating, travelling around the country, and staying healthy. Includes colour and b/w illustrations and 58 maps and town plans. Index, app, 448pp, UK. BRADT PUBLICATIONS.
2010 9781841623252 Paperback GBP15.99
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36197 Butlin, Robin A.
GEOGRAPHIES OF EMPIRE: European Empires and Colonies c.1880-1960
How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers - British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, German and Italian and the reactions of indigenous peoples. He explores the complex processes and discourses of colonialism, conquest and resistance from the height of empire through to decolonisation and sets these within the dynamics of the globalisation of political and economic power systems. He sheds new light on variations in the timing, nature and locations of European colonisations and on key themes such as exploration and geographical knowledge; maps and mapping; demographics; land seizure and environmental modification; transport and communications; and resistance and independence movements. In so doing, he makes a major contribution to our understanding of colonisation and the end of empire. 692pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
2009 9780521740555 Paperback GBP29.99
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30150 Chan, Stephen
CITIZEN OF ZIMBABWE: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai
A slim but revealing volume of an academic's conversations with Zimbabwe's opposition political leader over four years. Originally published as CITIZEN OF AFRICA by the Fingerprint Co-operative (Cape Town). 110pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.
2010 2005 9781779221056 Paperback GBP18.95
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36213 Chilver, E.M.
ZINTGRAFF'S EXPLORATIONS IN BAMENDA, ADAMAWA AND THE BENUE LANDS, 1889-1892
Extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraff's original book 'Nord-Kamerun' (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. It was a book written to justify his own actions and to support that small but influential section of public opinion in Germany which favoured rapid imperial expansion. His account reveals the fact that the people of the Western Grassfields were not so isolated from one another or their neighbours as might be thought: a network of trade-friendships covered the country. 92pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.
2010 9789956616718 Paperback GBP17.95
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36206 Crush, Jonathan & Dodson, Belinda (Eds.)
MIGRATION, REMITTANCES AND DEVELOPMENT IN LESOTHO
The relationship between migration, development and remittances in Lesotho has been exhaustively studied for the period up to 1990. This was an era when the vast majority of migrants from Lesotho were young men working on the South African gold mines and over 50 percent of households had a migrant mine-worker. Since 1990, patterns of migration to South Africa have changed dramatically. The reconfiguration of migration between the two countries has had a marked impact on remittance flows to Lesotho. The central question addressed in this report is how the change in patterns of migration from and within Lesotho since 1990 has impacted on remittance flows and usage. 96pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.
2010 9781920409265 Paperback GBP18.95
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34073 Hadithi, Mwenye & Kennaway, Adrienne
ENORMOUS ELEPHANT
New in paperback. In the days before the Big Rains, many of the animals looked very different. This is the story of how Enormous Elephant came to wave his long trunk and swish his long tail on the Great Plains. A new folktale bursting with colour and vitality from the award-winning team. 32pp, UK. HODDER HEADLINE.
2009 2008 9780340945223 Paperback GBP6.99
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36209 Havnevik, Kjell & Isinika, Aida C. (Eds.)
TANZANIA IN TRANSITION: From Nyerere to Mkapa
A contribution to understanding the character of important societal transitions in Tanzania during Benjamin Mkapa's presidency (1995-2005). The analyses of the trajectory of these transitions are conducted against the background of the development model of Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere (1961-1985), a model with lasting influence on the country. This approach enables an understanding of continuities and discontinuities in Tanzania over time in areas such as development strategy an ideology, agrarian-land, gender and forestry issues, economic liberalization, development assistance, corruption and political change. 306pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.
2010 9789987080861 Paperback GBP24.95
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36200 Ijeoma, Edwin Okey
AFRICA'S NEW PUBLIC POLICY: Imperatives for Globalisation & Nation-building in Nigeria
An analysis of globalisation and democracy, from an African perspective. It also provides policy imperatives that are aimed at seeking solutions to the myriad challenges emanating from managing the consequences of globalisation in Nigeria and other African countries. The author attempts to determine the extent to which public administration principles - in Nigeria in particular, and the rest of Africa in general, as well as in other parts of the developing world - underpin the management of the effects of globalisation within a democracy and nation building projects. 152pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
2010 9780798302227 Paperback GBP19.95
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36215 Kayode, Samuel
POLITICAL TRANSITION IN NIGERIA, 1993-2003: Commentaries on Selected Themes
A collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of Nigeria. Although written between 1999 and 2003, the focus of these essays reached far behind that period to the crises of the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections and its aftermath. The annulment marked a defining moment whose impact still haunts Nigeria's democratic experiment. 396pp, NIGERIA. MALTHOUSE.
2010 9789780232146 Paperback GBP29.95
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36010 Khouma, Pap
I WAS AN ELEPHANT SALESMAN: Adventures between Dakar, Paris and Milan
Gives a name and a face to the thousands of anonymous African street vendors in cities across Europe. Through the voice of a thinly veiled first-person narrator, Pap Khouma offers us a chilling, intimate, and often ironic glimpse into the life of an illegal immigrant. Khouma invents a life for himself as an itinerant trader of carved elephants, small ivories, and other African trinkets, struggling to maintain courage and dignity in the face of despair and humiliation. Constantly on the run from the authorities, he finds insight into the vicissitudes of law and politics, the constraints of citizenship, national borders, skin colour, and the often paralysing difficulties of obtaining basic human needs. Edited by Oreste Pivetta, translated from the Italian by Rebecca Hopkins and with a foreword by Graziella Parati. 158pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.
2010 9780253222329 Paperback GBP12.99
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36212 Larmer, Miles (Ed.)
THE MUSAAKANYA PAPERS: The Autobiography Writings of Valentine Musakanya
Private papers that are made available for the first time and which chart Musaakanya's personal and intellectual journey from a childhood in rural Northern Province and the mining township of Wusakile, to outstanding educational success and a glittering career in the civil service of newly independent Zambia. They describe his significant achievements, but also his disillusionment with the politicisation of state structures, the growth of patronage and corruption, and the growing authoritarianism and centralisation of political power in the hands of the President. 154pp, ZAMBIA. THE LEMBANI TRUST.
2010 9789982997232 Paperback GBP18.95
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36214 Madhuku, Lovemore
AN INTRODUCTION TO ZIMBABWEAN LAW
An introductory textbook on the Zimbabwean legal system. It sets the stage for acomprehensive description of that legal system by opening with some theoretical issues on the nature of law in general, particularly a definition of law, the role and purpose of law in society, the relationship between law and justice and how morality impacts on law. After outlining this theoretical framework, it turns to the Zimbabwean legal system and covers the following key areas: sources of Zimbabwean law, the scope of Roman-Dutch law in Zimbabwe, the law-making process and the role of Parliament, the structure of the courts in Zimbabwe, the procedures in the civil and criminal courts, the legal aid system and the nature of the legal profession. It covers the process of appointment of judges and its effect on the independence of the judiciary. It has a long closing chapter on the interpretation of statutes covering all the rules, maxims and presumptions. 206pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.
2010 9781779220981 Paperback GBP20.95
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36207 Makadini-Linjani Project
IT STARTS WITHIN US: Narratives of Hope - Documenting Development through Stories of Change
The product of a group of Zimbabwean NGOs who sought to discover their relevance in promoting development. They named this exercise Makadii-Linjani, or How are you doing? and engaged with communities to discover whether or not their development partners had benefited from their intervention. Offers insights into how a people-centred approach to development can be sustained, even in difficult operating environments. 128pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.
2010 9781779221049 Paperback GBP19.95
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35543 Mohamed, Nadifa
BLACK MAMBA BOY
New, smaller format edition. A novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world. Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of east Africa are preparing for battle. Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere. And so begins an epic journey which will take Jama north through Djibouti, war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt. And from there, aboard a ship transporting Jewish refugees just released from German concentration camp, across the seas to Britain and freedom. 288pp, UK. HARPERCOLLINS.
2010 9780007315772 Paperback GBP7.99
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36208 Pillay, Pundy
LINKING HIGHER EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Implications for Africa from Three Successful Systems
Argues that Finland, South Korea and the state of North Carolina in the United States are three systems that successfully have harnessed higher education in their economic development initiatives. Crucial to the success of these systems are the link between economic and education planning, high quality public schooling, high tertiary participation rates with institutional differentiation, labour market demand and consensus about the importance of higher education for development. This study draws together evidence on the three systems, synthesises the key findings, and distils the implications for African countries. 118pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICAN MINDS.
2010 9781920355449 Paperback GBP19.95
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36210 Pobee, John Samuel
THE ANGLICAN STORY IN GHANA: From Mission beginnings to province of Ghana
First full monograph of Ghanaian Anglicanism since Church of England missionaries first set foot on the soils of the then Gold Coast in the middle of the Eighteenth century. It is a historical account that features insights into the work and activities of the various dioceses of the Anglican Church including their contributions to education, social evangelism and education in particular. Each chapter is illustrated with pictures of key personnel dating back to the colonial era. 490pp, GHANA. AMANZA LTD.
2009 9789988037802 Paperback GBP32.95
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36203 Ruhumbika, Gabriel
SILENT EMPOWERMENT OF THE COMPATRIOTS
Winner of the 1997 Tanzania Best Book Prize, this is an historical novel which scans fifty years of Tanzania's history through the lives of two families: the working class family of Saidi son of Jabiri, and that of the newly elite Nzoka Mwanakulanga. 176pp, TANZANIA. E&D LTD..
2009 1997 9789987521593 Paperback GBP15.95
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36204 Rycroft, Beverly
MISSING
Debut collection of poems. 80pp, SOUTH AFRICA. MODJAJI BOOKS.
2010 9781920397067 Paperback GBP15.95
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36205 Sindjoun, Luc (Ed.)
THE COMING AFRICAN HOUR: Dialectics of opportunities and constraints
By focusing on converging and diverging African realities, on the issues of state, civil society, gender and development strategies, the contributors show under which conditions an African global economic and developmental primacy might arise. 450pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
2010 9780798302302 Paperback GBP32.95
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36195 Stengel, Richard
MANDELA'S WAY: Lessons on Life
For nearly three years Time magazine editor Richard Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography and travelled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man. He became a cherished friend and colleague. Now he has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. In Mandela's Way, he recounts the moments in which 'the grandfather of South Africa' was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why we should keep our rivals close, why courage is more than the absence of fear, and why the answer is not always either/or but often 'both'. 256pp, UK. VIRGIN BOOKS.
2010 9781905264773 Paperback GBP16.99
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36216 Tangwa, Godfrey B.
ROAD COMPANION TO DEMOCRACY AND MERITOCRACY: Further Essays from an African Perspective
Essays centred on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable for experimenting with French/English bilingualism and for having a political dictatorship which claims, wrongly or rightly, to have transformed itself into a democracy; but they are equally relevant to other countries in Africa and beyond. 262pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.
2010 9789956616701 Paperback GBP20.95
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35649 Tripp, Aili Mari
MUSEVENI'S UGANDA: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime
Examines Ugandan politics since 1986, when Yoweri Museveni became the country's president. Museveni's exercise of power has been replete with contradictions: steps toward political liberalization have been controlled in ways that, in fact, further centralize authority; and despite claims of relative peace and stability, Uganda has been plagued by two decades of brutal civil conflict. Exploring these paradoxes, Tripp focuses on the complex connections among Museveni's economic and political reforms, his wars in the north and in Congo, the key roles of international donors and the military, and the institutional changes that have defined his presidency. 223pp, USA. LYNNE RIENNER.
2010 9781588267078 Paperback GBP20.95
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36193 Tutu, Desmond & Tutu, Mpho
MADE FOR GOODNESS: And why this makes all the difference
As Archbishop of Cape Town at the height of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Desmond Tutu saw many shocking and violent incidents. Later, as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as a leading peace negotiator in many troubled parts of the world, he heard many appalling stories of mans inhumanity to man. Yet he still has a firm conviction that we are 'made by goodness for goodness'. He argues that, though we sometimes act out of depravity and despair, we do know in our heart of hearts that we are not as we were meant to be, and were created to be so much more. The truth of human goodness can get hidden under the fear that we cannot live up to its demands, or it can get buried under faults or failures, or it can just get forgotten. 144pp, UK. RIDER.
2010 9781846042522 Hardback GBP12.99
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36194 Wastberg, Per & Geddes, Tom
THE JOURNEY OF ANDERS SPARRMAN: A Biographical Novel
Anders Sparrman, b.1748, the son of a country rector in Uppsala, studies medicine and becomes an apostle of the botanist Carl Linnaeus. He sails as a ship's doctor to China. In 1772 becomes tutor to the children of the Swedish Resident in Cape Town, from there joins Cook's second voyage to Antarctica and Tahiti as assistant to the German botanists Johann and Georg Forster. He travels to the African interior with his guide, Daniel Immelman and later writes A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776. In Stockolm, he is appointed keeper of natural historical collections but quarrels with his colleagues. He then travels to Senegal, witnesses the cruelty of slavery. Anders testifies for abolitionists in London. In Stockholm he is dismissed from his post at the Academy and works as a doctor among the poor. He falls in love with his housemaid, Lotta Fries. They have a daughter. Sparrman died in 1820. 352pp, UK. GRANTA.
2010 9781847081308 Paperback GBP18.99
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36199 Wekwete, Naomi N.
ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY CHALLENGES IN THE ERA OF HIV AND AIDS: A Case Study of a Selected Rural Area in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is one of the countries in Southern Africa worst affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare estimated that 1.3 million people were living with HIV and AIDS at the end of 2007. The aim of this study is to explore the challenges that adolescent mothers face and why young women engage in risky sexual behaviour, despite the levels of awareness and prevalence rate of HIV and AIDS in the country. The study was conducted in Gutu District, Masvingo Province, among women aged between 15-24 years who had never given birth or were pregnant with their first child. 106pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA.
2010 9789994455485 Paperback GBP18.95
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36211 Zewde, Bahru (Ed.)
DOCUMENTING THE ETHIOPIAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: An Exercise in Oral History
Argues that in Ethiopia, the intelligentsia have exerted an influence out of all proportionate to tiny numbers. This can be divided broadly into two phases, with the Italian Occupation (1936-1941) forming an important watershed between them. The pre-war intellectuals were preoccupied with a whole range of concerns ranging from educational development to fiscal reform. The second period of intellectual intervention could thus begin only in the late 1950s. It revolved mainly around Ethiopian university students at home and abroad, in what evolved into the Ethiopian Student Movement. The movement went through three successive stages: self-awareness, reformism and revolutionary commitment. In 1965, when students came out onto the streets with the slogan Land to the Tiller, it marked the beginning of the third stage. It is this third stage that is the focal point of this study. It constitutes the crucial period that profoundly altered the Ethiopian state and society - changes that are yet completed. 164pp, ETHIOPIA. FORUM FOR SOCIAL STUDIES.
2010 9789994450336 Paperback GBP28.95
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