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This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewi……続きを見る

Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to publi……続きを見る

"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS "Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post "Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT "This is a book of profound ……続きを見る

_______________ 'Insightful ... Avoiding both modern conceits and romantic fantasies, Suzman chronicles how economics and politics have finally conquered some of the last outposts of hunter-gatherer……続きを見る

The post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and t……続きを見る

While some western media nicknamed him “bulldozer,” and one opposition politician in Tanzania called him “petty dictator,” some critics have called him the “Trump of East Africa.” His bullish and sa……続きを見る

The Anglo-Boer War was a ‘small war’, but it left an indelible mark on South Africa and its future and represented a watershed in British Imperialism and the Empire. It was an interesting war with a……続きを見る

When the colonising project was drawing to an end, with what is often referred to as "decolonisation", the big question is always whether the colonised people freed themselves by defeating the colon……続きを見る

“Heartbreaking and inspiring,” Nelson Mandela’s Prison Letters reveals his evolution “into one of the great moral heroes of our time” (New York Times). First published to mark the centenary of Nelso……続きを見る

This book is an overview of South Africa's past stories, using the Blouberg-Makgabeng-Senwabarwana (BMS) area as reference point. The mighty Limpopo River and its beautiful, lush valleys and the sal……続きを見る

This biography is a passionately executed demonstration of just how powerful football is in Africa. How football against all odds of apartheid, transformed a life of a youngster born in Soweto and t……続きを見る

In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocat……続きを見る

This book is about the brave warrior kings and queens who fought against, and resisted colonial intrusion in southern Africa. In alphabetical order those leaders are: Bhambatha, Cetshwayo Dingane, H……続きを見る

In Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater, Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation. Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of se……続きを見る

A History of the End Conscription Campaign and its role as a white organisation opposing apartheid in South Africa. 続きを見る

For more than 40 years, Dr. Steve Foster has served as a missionary surgeon in Angola, through times of war and peace. Steve believes in The Benefit of Steel, the way in which steel surgical tools c……続きを見る

Il diario di una donna che, diplomatasi in giurisprudenza, si trova, per conto dell'ONU a fare da osservatrice nell'esperimento dei Tribunali del Perdono voluti da Nelson Mandela per la riappacifica……続きを見る

The book investigates the use of bottom-up, community based healing and peacebuilding approaches, focusing on their strengths and suggesting how they can be enhanced. The main contribution of the bo……続きを見る

This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as ……続きを見る

A powerful exploration of Zimbabwean identity, history, and the enduring legacy of colonialism. In this thought-provoking essay, Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on Zimbabwe's past and present, weaving t……続きを見る

In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule--and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of ……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el apartheid, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Comprender ……続きを見る

Why are all of the maps in the back of the Bible zoomed in so close that you can't tell that 99% of the stories take place in Africa and Arabia? Starting in Genesis, we are introduced to a utopian g……続きを見る

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular cultureーembraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health ……続きを見る

Die 48 Laws of Power is geskryf deur Robert Greene en is eers in 1998 gepubliseer. Dit word dikwels geprys as een van die beste boeke om te lees as u in die lewe wil vorder. Dit het my laat nadink, ……続きを見る

L'abolition officielle de l'apartheid en 1991 a mis fin sur le plan juridique à un système social de relations interpersonnelles et intercommunautaires qui avait progressivement rejeté l'Afrique du ……続きを見る

When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank in……続きを見る

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla's provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African……続きを見る

Since apartheids dissolution in the early 1990s and its formal abolishment in April 1994, there has been increasing interest in the early history of African struggles against segregation and aparthe……続きを見る

Using interviews as primary sources this book shines a light on the infamous Portuguese massacre of Wiriyamu in colonial Mozambique in 1972. Twenty-four carefully curated testimonies are presented, ……続きを見る