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" Ce petit livre est destiné à rappeler les crimes de l'armée française. Je dis bien de l'armée française, non de quelques officiers. Même si la majorité de l'armée a occupé le terrain plus qu'elle ……続きを見る

A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid ‘They call her Nobantu. I call her mother.’ Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on the coast of South Africa centred around a pi……続きを見る

This book examines the role that Africa has played on the world stage, the African Union, the African leaders' efforts to take care of their own problems and lessen their dependence on the United St……続きを見る

African Independence highlights the important role Africa has played in recent history and the significant role it will continue to play in the future of America and the globe. In a world where much……続きを見る

Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From ……続きを見る

Guinea's Other Suns is a classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and pos……続きを見る

A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection "I arrived to find that this was a war of walkers." So writes Anjan Sundaram about his journey into the heart of the war-torn Central African Republic in 2013. As s……続きを見る

The Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through six individual life histories that extend from the early colonial years through t……続きを見る

Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it ……続きを見る

Pour la première fois, un musée familial restitue l’histoire immédiate de la R.D. Congo grâce à des informations collectées sur internet en 2001. C’ est l’année où le plus jeune chef d’Etat au……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globa……続きを見る

From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social histor……続きを見る

The Church history of Nigeria from the time of the Portuguese explorations till today is narrated with special focus given to the last 150 years, where the Catholic Church started proper establishme……続きを見る

In this no-holds-barred account, the former head of the United Nations in Sudan reveals for the first time the shocking depths of evil plumbed by those who designed and orchestrated "the final solut……続きを見る

First published in 1968. This is the second volume of the rise of the East African Empire as recounted by the author. This volume looks at Uganda and includes chapters on the past and future adminis……続きを見る

Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully cha……続きを見る

A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history, featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun. Towards the e……続きを見る

Sous les ciseaux de la censure. L'engagement de L'Humanité contre la guerre colonialiste en Algérie lui valut un déferlement de procès, de censures, de saisies de la part des gouvernements successif……続きを見る

This book examines the political and economic philosophy of Chief Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo and his concepts of democratic socialism (Liberal Democratic Socialism). It studies how Chief Awolo……続きを見る

This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement. Using the Democrat……続きを見る

Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South Afr……続きを見る

This is a biographical study of Alexander William Roberts, a Free Church of Scotland missionary educator who in 1883 was posted to the Lovedale Institution at Alice, South Africa. Inspired by the ni……続きを見る

Depuis l'extraordinaire montée en puissance du continent africain, et la présence du premier président afro-américain à la tête des Etats-Unis, que vont devenir les relations entre les Etats-Unis et……続きを見る

The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close anal……続きを見る

During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled……続きを見る

“She was killing herself slowly, and this obsession with the war had to stop.” How can one man cope when his true love is a woman of great destiny? “The people are her purpose and she is my purpose.……続きを見る

Cinquante ans après la signature des accords d'Evian, voici une rétrospective qui a le réalisme et le rythme d'un reportage. Présenté et dirigé par Bernard Michal, qui a couvert la guerre d'Algérie ……続きを見る

En 1827, le dey d'Alger, Hussein, frappe "du manche de son chasse-mouches" le consul de France, Deval, qui refuse de s'engager sur le remboursement du prêt que lui avaient accordé des banquiers algé……続きを見る

De 1956 à 1962, en Algérie, par obligation légale, sans avoir bénéficié d'une préparation adaptée à leur mission, environ un million et demi de jeunes Français ont vécu une situation dramatiquement ……続きを見る

Juin 1962 : les pieds-noirs quittent l'Algérie La Traversée raconte le départ en France des pieds-noirs sur Le Ville d'Alger, en juin 1962, et plus particulièrement celui de l'auteur, alors âgé de 1……続きを見る