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  • The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002: Studies in a Broken Polity by

    The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of ...

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  • Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo by

    In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of ...

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  • The Lunatic Express by

    In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway - a ...

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  • Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour by

    In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period ...

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  • Kruger, Kommandos & Kak: Debunking the Myths of the Boer War by

    The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it ...

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  • Tanzania Under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman by

    Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures in pursuit of economic development under socialism, are some of the subjects addressed by the author in ...

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  • Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa by

    Soldiers in Revolt examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in three West African countries, the book provides ...

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  • The Boer War by

    In THE BOER WAR, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, exploring the war primarily through the experiences ...

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  • The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame by

    In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts ...

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  • A Short History of Mozambique by

    This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire ...

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  • Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories Of A Continent by

    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 ...

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  • Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by

    In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a ...

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  • Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by

    In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a ...

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  • South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War by

    In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country ...

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  • The Sword and the Pen: Six Decades on the Political Frontier by

    Allister Sparks joined his first newspaper at age 17 and was pitched headlong into the vortex of South Africa's stormy politics. The Sword and ...

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