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Book cover for Lam Akol: Splm Spla

Splm Spla : The Nasir Declaration

Lam Akol
Paperback - $53.95

In August 1991, three members of the "SPLM/SPLA Political-military High Command made the Nasir Declaration. This led to the split of the Movement. One of the leaders of the move(many say, THE ringleader) gives an account of the events that led to thi ...

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Civilizing Women : British Crusades in Colonial Sudan

Janice Boddy
Paperback - $51.95

"In this original and meticulous work of historical ethnography, Janice Boddy deftly offers an acute analysis of imperial ambition and the gendering of policy on both sides of the colonial divide, as well as some wryly observed lessons for 'civilizin ...

Book cover for Richard Francis Burton: First Footsteps in East Africa

First Footsteps in East Africa

Richard Francis Burton
Paperback - $39.95

By the side of the camels ride my three attendants, the pink of Somali fashion. Their frizzled wigs are radiant with grease; their Tobes are splendidly white, with borders dazzlingly red; their new shields are covered with canvass cloth; and their tw ...

Book cover for Richard Francis Burton: First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar

First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar

Richard Francis Burton
Paperback - $33.95

By the side of the camels ride my three attendants, the pink of Somali fashion. Their frizzled wigs are radiant with grease; their Tobes are splendidly white, with borders dazzlingly red; their new shields are covered with canvass cloth; and their tw ...

Book cover for Richard Francis Burton: First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar

First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar

Richard Francis Burton
Hardcover - $65.95

By the side of the camels ride my three attendants, the pink of Somali fashion. Their frizzled wigs are radiant with grease; their Tobes are splendidly white, with borders dazzlingly red; their new shields are covered with canvass cloth; and their tw ...

Book cover for Jan-Georg Deutsch: Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa, C. 1884-1914

Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa, C. 1884-1914

Jan-Georg Deutsch
Paperback - $54.95

This study examines the complex history of slavery in East Africa, focusing on the area that came under German colonial rule. In contrast to the policy pursued at the time by other colonial powers in Africa, the German authorities did not legally abo ...

Book cover for Federal Research Division: Somalia a Country Study

Somalia a Country Study

Federal Research Division
Paperback - $44.95

The overwhelming majority of Somalis trace their genealogical origin to the mythical founding father, Samaale or Samaal. Even those clan-families, such as the Digil and Rahanwayn in southern Somalia, whose members in many cases do not trace their lin ...

Book cover for James L. Giblin: A History of the Excluded

A History of the Excluded : Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania

James L. Giblin
Paperback - $59.95

The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. Njombe's people came to see ...

Book cover for Kebede Haile: The Ethiopian Experience in America

The Ethiopian Experience in America

Kebede Haile
Paperback - $32.95

This book presents a detailed description of the life experience of Ethiopian refugees and immigrants in the U.S. based on extensive personal experience, interviews, observation, and research. It will surely stimulate others to do more research, comp ...

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