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£32.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780821425145 | ISBN 10: 0821425145
An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.Â
Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan
Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the S ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781839767371 | ISBN 10: 1839767375
Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics.
Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary debates on Black radicalism and decolonisatio ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114829 | ISBN 10: 1529114829
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.
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You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscap ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529376814 | ISBN 10: 1529376815
‘We need this book’ SIMON REEVE
‘Illuminating’ FINANCIAL TIMES
Why is Africa often perceived as a single country?
What role did African soldiers play in the Second World War?
Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Afri ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781804440087 | ISBN 10: 1804440086
‘A must read...!!!’ will.i.am
‘Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace’ David Olusoga
WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO
Conversations with some of the most extraordinary ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786074966 | ISBN 10: 1786074966
If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible?
Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787631984 | ISBN 10: 1787631982
Ubuntu is an ancient Southern African philosophy about how to live life well, together. It is a belief in a universal human bond, which says: I am only because you are. It means that if you can see everyone as fully human, connected to you by their h ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846277030 | ISBN 10: 1846277035
Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of surp ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788731188 | ISBN 10: 1788731182
An exemplary work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis.Â
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the hi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115496 | ISBN 10: 1911115499
A Stranger’s Pose is an evocative and mesmerising account of travels across different African cities.
With lyrical and absorbing prose, Emmanuel invites the reader to share in his travels, and the encounters he made along the way. Alongsi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408881309 | ISBN 10: 1408881306
Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise.
Salim has always believed that his fath ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910376904 | ISBN 10: 1910376906
In 2015, ever more people from Africa and the Near East took flight and sought refuge in Europe. By the end of that year, some 1.8 million migrants had arrived in the EU, the vast majority across the Mediterranean. Since then, despite measures to hos ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473635302 | ISBN 10: 1473635306
The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
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One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781788310758 | ISBN 10: 1788310756
The Manga is one of Africa's most remote and wild regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads like the hardy Tubu. Situated in south-eastern Niger, and in the shadow of the Old Salt Road, it has been mislaid by the modern world; ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241966280 | ISBN 10: 0241966280
The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolatio ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783609086 | ISBN 10: 1783609087
Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gain ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141984094 | ISBN 10: 0141984090
Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but a ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008146191 | ISBN 10: 0008146195
Published to commemorate 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in April 2016, a breathtaking exploration into Shakespeare as a Global poet.
Whilst travelling in Luxor, Edward Wilson-Lee encountered a man who called out to him from the summer s ... more
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£8.95 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780500518243 | ISBN 10: 0500518246
Moments of Mindfulness: Ancestral aphorisms and reflections that open windows on a world of wisdom.
Danielle and Olivier Föllmi travelled far and wide to witness the celebrations, landscapes, rituals and traditions of cultures all over the w ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099583462 | ISBN 10: 0099583461
A great masterpiece of South African writing – Rian Malan’s gripping and harrowing exploration of South Africa’s apartheid.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
In '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan – descendant of the architects of apar ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908323941 | ISBN 10: 1908323949
Patrice Lumumba (1925 – 61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472153715 | ISBN 10: 1472153715
WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award
In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously r ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300198331 | ISBN 10: 0300198337
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781611855838 | ISBN 10: 1611855837
Since its original publication twenty years ago, Rian Malan’s classic work of narrative nonfiction, My Traitor’s Heart, has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapu´sci´nski, and he has been c ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329437 | ISBN 10: 1780329431
As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950.
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851777549 | ISBN 10: 1851777547
Print has always been an art form for everyone – relatively cheap to produce and easy to distribute, and intended to be accessible to all. It links to painting, and creative autographic expression, as well as to a tradition of satire and protest, bot ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745329611 | ISBN 10: 0745329616
In The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s War on Terror. Now, in The Dying Sahara, he reveals how the designation of the ... more
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£19.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857490995 | ISBN 10: 0857490990
As increasing homophobia and transphobia across Africa threatens to silence the voices of African Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people, the Queer African Reader brings together a collection of writings, analysis and artisti ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857203885 | ISBN 10: 0857203886
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appea ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745330457 | ISBN 10: 0745330452
Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent.
Douglas A. Ya ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848134591 | ISBN 10: 1848134592
In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The ext ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331058 | ISBN 10: 074533105x
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent's deep past.
Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and golden ages of past ci ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848138780 | ISBN 10: 1848138784
The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see biofuel ... more
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£15.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857490247 | ISBN 10: 0857490249
Whether speaking with an African grandmother over 100 years old, interviewing an African inventor, or working with African journalists, Joan Baxter has been repeatedly struck by the diversity of Africa and the resilience and spirit of its people.&nbs ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847676597 | ISBN 10: 1847676596
A superb portrait of the divided continent of Africa, told through one fo the few things that unites it.
Football inspires competition and inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Take the player born and raised in Congo who scored th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848091481 | ISBN 10: 1848091486
Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848130159 | ISBN 10: 1848130155
Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact that such a change will have on Africa's development prospects.
Glo ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780955507960 | ISBN 10: 0955507960
This engaging and erudite collection of essays offers fascinating commentaries and critiques of contemporary events as seen by a leading African public intellectual.
Framed around the extraordinary election of President Barack Obama, a memb ... more
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£22.50 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781558765054 | ISBN 10: 1558765050
The first edition of this book provided teachers of African history, for the first time, with fully annotated translations of the most important Greek and Roman sources for the history of these two remarkable ancient African civilizations.
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£13.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848130401 | ISBN 10: 1848130406
Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906190170 | ISBN 10: 1906190178
Beacons of Liberation was first published in 1995. It was themed on a mural at the Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre in Paddington, London, depicting twelve historical Black leaders; six men and six women who had advanced the cause of African liberty by the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780091914356 | ISBN 10: 0091914353
Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your aid money?
Why trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. But ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780751538953 | ISBN 10: 0751538957
Eighteen countries. Fifteen thousand miles. Two bikers. One amazing adventure. After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an insp ... more
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£33.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781842778487 | ISBN 10: 184277848x
As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is this simply because he is a secretive man, or are there complicated political factors at pl ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780192802484 | ISBN 10: 0192802488
Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented.
Key themes in c ... more
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£19.95 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780810993969 | ISBN 10: 0810993961
Every year, spurred on by the dry season on the African plains in Kenya and Tanzania, close to two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles make the epic journey from their breeding grounds in the southern Serengeti to greener, wetter grass on the n ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781842776896 | ISBN 10: 1842776894
Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845112851 | ISBN 10: 1845112857
Africa is huge, internationally vital, potentially rich and powerful yet mired in failure - political, economic, social and even cultural. Yet the story of contemporary Africa is not just one of global tragedy but also of enormous hope for the future ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781842774953 | ISBN 10: 1842774956
Across African land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure and farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this revolution. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905379057 | ISBN 10: 1905379056
This is a story of tragedy and suffering on an epci scale. From the heart of an ancient continent comes a tale as old as time and a journey that is powerful and beautiful. This is a story of passion and love, disaster and corruption. It is the story ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141010960 | ISBN 10: 0141010967
Growing up in London, Ekow Eshun never felt truly at home. Born in Britain to African parents, he found himself caught between two cultures without fully belonging to either. Plagued by the unease of dual identity, he travels to Africa to look for an ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099497967 | ISBN 10: 0099497964
Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa. Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. This is his ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954702342 | ISBN 10: 0954702344
In this searing memoir, Diawara revisits his early years as an emigrant in love with Swedish girls and American rock and roll. Taking us from the nightclubs of his home town Bamako, to the cafes of Boulevard Montparnasse, to the black neighbourhoods ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007150953 | ISBN 10: 0007150954
A story of betrayal, belligerence and bloodshed, I Didn't Do It For You is the portrait of a country torn by war and buffeted by the capricious manoeuveringgs of foreign powers, which remains defiant throughout. It is a story that reveals the colonia ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780330419727 | ISBN 10: 0330419722
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why? The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest's fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Why are so many African n ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919931517 | ISBN 10: 1919931511
The world is crying out for a leadership that is founded on spiritual values of sharing, compassion, interdependence and mutual respect. In this as in other life matters that involve humanity and human relationships, Africa is well positioned to lead ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919930220 | ISBN 10: 1919930221
Africa is a fascinating place. It is home to millions of people who can only be described as masters of survival. Among them are remarkable individuals who have excelled in the most challenging of environments, from the deserts of Sahara to the highe ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780140292626 | ISBN 10: 0140292624
The Shadow of The Sun has been hailed as the greatest modern work on Africa and as a dazzling literary masterpiece."One of the finest books I have ever read about Africa...Kapuscinskihas been visiting Africa as a journalist since 1957... he has avoid ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780852558287 | ISBN 10: 0852558287
Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and "development" on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. This ... more
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