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Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts : The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance
Adebayo Adedeji
Paperback - $78.95
Countries in Africa continue to fall prey to civil war and the disintegration of governmental authority and social order. The contributors to this book believe that a development agenda to improve people's lives and strengthen national economies cann ...
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers : The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600-C.1960
Ralph A. Austen
Paperback - $70.95
This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, a ...
Breakdown and Reconstitution : Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria
Abu Bah
Paperback - $65.95
Eyewitness to a Genocide : The United Nations and Rwanda
Michael Barnett
Paperback - $40.95
Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwand ...
Society, Security, Sovereignty and the State in Somalia : From Statelessness to Statelessness?
Maria Brons
Paperback - $60.95
Angola : The Weight of History
Patrick Chabal
Hardcover - $107.95
< P> It is hoped that the multiparty elections of 2007 will bring about a political system in Angola that will ensure the country's sustained economic and social development. Angola is just emerging from almost three decades of civil war, and i ...
Historical Archaeology of Bagamoyo : Excavations at the Caravan-Serai
Felix Chami
Paperback - $29.95
The Great Lakes of Africa : Two Thousand Years of History
Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hardcover - $70.95
Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chretien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extre ...
The Great Lakes of Africa : Two Thousand Years of History
Jean-Pierre Chretien
Paperback - $41.95
Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chretien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extre ...