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This international bestseller is a “horrifying inside look at the lives of Libyan women under the Gaddafi regime . . . Powerful and compelling” (Booklist, starred review). Soraya was just fifteen, a……続きを見る

Great hope accompanied the movement of freed African-American slaves who migrated to Liberia. The Liberian national Constitution was a nurtured sprig from the American tree. Yet the African soil pro……続きを見る

In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the foun……続きを見る

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, w……続きを見る

Als am 12. Juli 2013 das schrille Signal einer Bootsmannpfeife erklang, versammelte sich in einem kargen Gebäude auf der US-Militärbasis im deutschen Böblingen Offiziere militärischer Eliteeinheiten……続きを見る

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent ……続きを見る

Comment réagirent les populations civiles lors de la Première Guerre quand ils se trouvèrent, souvent pour la première fois, face à des noirs ? La France fut le seul pays belligérant à engager des s……続きを見る

Niger, a landlocked former French colony in the heart of west Africa, is a rich ensemble of African societies struggling to survive as a new nation in one of the world's most difficult ecological re……続きを見る

Based on in-depth fieldwork, research, and personal interviews, this comprehensive ethnographic study of the Bajju people of southern Kaduna State in Nigeria covers their origins, history, culture, ……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examinat……続きを見る

Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in……続きを見る

A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home. **'**The grand object o……続きを見る

Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre Un pays ? Pas tout à fait, tant ses frontières sont convoitées et disputées. Un continent ? Pas complètement. Un peuple ? Pas si ……続きを見る

In July of 1994, Leading Seaman Derrick Nearing, a military medic, is urgently deployed to Rwanda, a country he has never heard of, sent on a mission halfway around the world that will colour the re……続きを見る

First Published in 1990. Volume Two of Studies of Economic History of South Africa, looks at the Lesotho and Swaziland regions. The unfolding history and historiography of Southern Africa pose profo……続きを見る

Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema……続きを見る

By a seeming miracle, Illuminee Nganemariya, a young Tutsi bride and her newborn son Roger survived the 1994 attempt by Rwanda's Hutu extremists to wipe their Tutsi neighbours from the face of the e……続きを見る

The post-independence integration endeavor of the East African Community has been punctuated with challenges, culminating into the collapse of the 1967-1977 regional organization. The renaissance of……続きを見る

Solo is het verhaal van olympiër Solomon Bockarie. Van zijn jeugd in Sierra Leone tot zijn Olympische droom en de hereniging met zijn doodgewaande moeder, alles komt in deze unieke biografie aan bod……続きを見る

On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regim……続きを見る

Roma Rights and Civil Rights tackles the movements for - and expressions of - equality for Roma in Central and Southeast Europe and African Americans from two complementary perspectives: law and cul……続きを見る

We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for sec……続きを見る

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African desce……続きを見る

Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers ……続きを見る

Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhoodーespecially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” ーhas become very influential in African philosophy. Menkit……続きを見る

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Non……続きを見る

Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establis……続きを見る

Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Some observers consequently have ……続きを見る

A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to a……続きを見る

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost.. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Jap……続きを見る