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Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race Among the Kamba, C.1800 to the Present

By Myles Osborne

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9781107061040 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2014, cover price $110.00

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9781107680524 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 23, 2016, cover price $34.99

Africa: A Modern History

A sweeping history of modern Africa begins with the end of World War II and retraces the explosion of decolonization and nationalism that swept the continent, leaving dozens of nations to fend for themselves and spawning some of the worst economic and social crises of the twentieth century.

By Guy Arnold

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9781843541752 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A sweeping history of modern Africa begins with the end of World War II and retraces the explosion of decolonization and nationalism that swept the continent, leaving dozens of nations to fend for themselves and spawning some of the worst economic and social crises of the twentieth century.

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9781786490360 | 2 reprint edition (Atlantic Books, February 1, 2017), cover price $39.95

City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

By Ben Rawlence

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9781410490209 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 29, 2016), cover price $30.99

9781250067630 | Picador USA, January 5, 2016, cover price $26.00

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9781250118738, titled "City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the Worldâs Largest Refugee Camp" | Reprint edition (Picador USA, January 3, 2017), cover price $16.00

9781846275876 | Granta Books, February 5, 2016, cover price $24.55

Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts

By Timothy Stapleton (editor)

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9781598848366 | Abc-Clio Inc, November 30, 2016, cover price $189.00

Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration

By Christian Groes (editor)

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9780226405018 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 21, 2016, cover price $105.00

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9780226405155 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 21, 2016), cover price $35.00

The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life After Ngos

By Saida Hodic

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9780520291980 | Univ of California Pr, November 22, 2016, cover price $85.00

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9780520291997 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, November 22, 2016), cover price $34.95

The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society Since 1800

Fully revised and updated to include the major events that have taken place in South Africa, this book provides a reinterpretation of events in sub-Saharan Africa since the 18th century. The text also serves as an introduction to the history of modern Africa.

By Bill Freund

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9781626375765 | 3 reprint edition (Lynne Rienner Pub, September 25, 2016), cover price $29.95

9781555878061 | 2 edition (Lynne Rienner Pub, June 1, 1998), cover price $23.50

9780333698723 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, May 29, 1998), cover price $44.70 | About this edition: Fully revised and updated to include the major events that have taken place in South Africa, this book provides a reinterpretation of events in sub-Saharan Africa since the 18th century.

9780253286000 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Spirit of the Appalachian Trail: Community, Environment, and Belief on a Long-Distance Hiking Path

An Engraved Landscape: The Rock Carvings of the Wadi Al-ajal, South West Libya

By Tertia Barnett

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9781900971379 | Society for Libyan Studies, October 31, 2016, cover price $65.00

The Black Handbook: The People, History and Politics of Africa and the African Diaspora

By H. J. P. Harmer

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9781474292863 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 6, 2016, cover price $128.00

Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications

By Victoria Ellen Smith (editor)

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9783319392813 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 5, 2016, cover price $100.00

South Sudan in War and Peace: A Story of Conflict, Crisis and Hope

By Hilde F. Johnson

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9781784536442 | Tauris Academic Studies, September 30, 2016, cover price $35.00

The Green State in Africa

By Carl Death

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9780300215830 | Yale Univ Pr, September 27, 2016, cover price $45.00

Modern African Wars: The Nigerian-biafran War 1967-70

By Raffaele Ruggeri (illustrator)

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9781472816092 | Osprey Pub Co, September 20, 2016, cover price $18.00

Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War

By Ron Nixon

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9780745399140 | Pluto Pr, September 15, 2016, cover price $24.00

9781431421435 | Jacana Media, April 1, 2016, cover price $21.95

The Zanzibar Chest

Product Description: Combining literary reportage, memoir, family history, and a quest to piece together a decades-old mystery, The Zanzibar Chest is a moving examination of colonialism and its consequences. In his final days, Aidan Hartleyâs father said to him, ÂWe should have never come...read more

By Aidan Hartley

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9780802125859 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, December 13, 2016), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Combining literary reportage, memoir, family history, and a quest to piece together a decades-old mystery, The Zanzibar Chest is a moving examination of colonialism and its consequences.

Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa: The Modern Era

Product Description: This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978...read more

By Mario J. Azevedo

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9783319325637 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 5, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.

Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa: The Pre-colonial and Colonial Eras

By Mario J. Azevedo

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9783319324609 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 5, 2016, cover price $100.00

The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster

By Tim Crothers

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9781410454553 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 23, 2013), cover price $30.99

9781451657814 | Scribner, October 9, 2012, cover price $26.00

The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

By Adam Ewing

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9780691157795 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 24, 2014, cover price $35.00

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9780691173832 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, September 6, 2016), cover price $27.95

Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda 1890 to 1979

By Ogenga Otunnu

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9783319331553 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 4, 2016, cover price $100.00

Black Shame: African Soldiers in Europe 1914-1922

By Marjolijn De Jager (trans)

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9781350002036 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 25, 2016, cover price $39.95

The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon

Product Description: In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity...read more

By John Brant

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9780553392159 | Ballantine Books, August 16, 2016, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.

Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

By Lamin Sanneh

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9780199351619 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $34.95

French Mercenaries, Violence and Systems of Domination in Sub-saharan Africa 1960-1989

By Walter Bruyere-ostells

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9781495504686 | Edwin Mellen Pr, August 3, 2016, cover price $99.95

A History of the Gambia

By J. M. Gray

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9781107511965 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 11, 2015, cover price $37.99

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