• Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New Approaches to African History)

    Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975) and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010). In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The United States, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the former colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African conflicts. During the period of state collapse, the most consequential interventions were intra-continental. A... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0521709032
    • ASIN: 0521709032
    • ISBN: 0521709032
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

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

    Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeNamed a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign AffairsLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistThe Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it’s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a “nursery for terrorists”; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it’s their last resort.Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are ma... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250118735
    • ASIN: 1250118735
    • ISBN: 1250118735
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

  • The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

    For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

    • ASIN: 0805042598
    • ASIN: 0805042598
    • ISBN: 0805042598
    • Brand: Henry Holt and Co
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

  • Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years

    AFRICA IN MY BLOOD is an extraordinary self-portrait, in letters and commentary, of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the landmark publication of IN THE SHADOW OF MAN. It reveals this remarkable woman more vividly and clearly than anything that has been published before, by her or about her. We see Goodall grow from a schoolgirl into the promising young candidate whom the legendary Louis Leakey sent to a wildlife preserve on the shores of Lake Tanganyika to undertake a revolutionary study of chimpanzees. At Gombe we see her immerse herself in the lives of wild animals as no one had... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0618127356
    • UPC: 046442127356
    • ASIN: 0618127356
    • ISBN: 0618127356
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Guns and Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe

    Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas. No such struggle has succeeded without a very high degree of cooperation between guerrillas and the local peasantry. But what does "cooperation" between peasants and guerrillas really consist of? What effect does it have on the way they view the world for which they fight?In the struggle for Zimbabwe (1966-80), hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support. But they went a good deal further. Throughout the country scores of spirit mediums, the religious leaders of... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0520055896
    • ASIN: 0520055896
    • ISBN: 9780520055896
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

  • Hezbollah: A Short History - Updated Edition (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

    With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and recent forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. Policymakers in the United States and Israel usually denounce it as a dangerous terrorist group and refuse to engage with it, yet even its adversaries need to contend with its durability and resilient popular support. Although Hezbollah’s popularity has declined in many quarters of the Arab world, the Shi‘i group―a hybrid of militia, political party, and social se... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0691160813
    • ASIN: 0691160813
    • ISBN: 9780691160818
    • Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

  • When the Moors Ruled in Europe


    • ASIN: B00SKTJ5QS
    • ASIN: B00SKTJ5QS

  • Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (CBC Massey Lecture)

    In 2000, the United Nations laid out a series of eight goals meant to guide humankind in the new century. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these targets are to be met by 2015 and are to lay the foundation for a prosperous future. In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis advances real solutions to help societies across the globe achieve the Millennium Goals. Through lucid, pragmatic explanations, he shows how dreams such as universal primary education, a successful war against the AIDS pandemic, and environmental sustainability, are within the grasp of humanity. For anyone interested in forg... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0887847536
    • ASIN: 0887847536
    • ISBN: 0887847536
    • Brand: Brand: House of Anansi Press
    • Manufacturer: House of Anansi Press

  • Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War

    Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world’s poorest regions. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State’s green card lottery is a national pastime and the preponderan... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0226669653
    • ASIN: 0226669653
    • ISBN: 0226669653
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

  • Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa

    Sarah Thebarge ponders the intersection of faith and medicine in this insightful narrative of her medical mission trip to Togo, West Africa.Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age twenty-seven, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own health, she moved to Togo, West Africa-ranked by the United Nations as the least happy country in the world-to care for sick and suffering patients. Serving without pay in a mission hospital, she pondered the intersection of faith and medicine in her ques... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1455553190
    • ASIN: 1455553190
    • ISBN: 1455553190
    • Brand: FaithWords/Hachette Book Group
    • Manufacturer: FaithWords

  • African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World's Game (Africa in World History)

    A Choice Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates, 2010–11.From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. Soccer was a rare form of “national culture” in postcolonial Africa, where stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in whic... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0896802787
    • ASIN: 0896802787
    • ISBN: 0896802787
    • Brand: Brand: Ohio University Press
    • Manufacturer: Ohio University Press

  • West African Christianity

    Book by Sanneh, Lamin O.

    • ASIN: 0883447037
    • ASIN: 0883447037
    • ISBN: 0883447037
    • Brand: Brand: Orbis Books
    • Manufacturer: Orbis Books

  • Crusading Warfare 1097-1193 2ed (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series)

    This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal society organized for war'. A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by Christopher Marshall, while the original plates section has been replaced by a series of new subjects. In covering the period 1097-1193, this edition also complements Dr Marshall's own Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291, also available in a paperback edition.

    • ASIN: 0521458382
    • ASIN: 0521458382
    • ISBN: 0521458382
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

  • The Fishermen: A Novel

    A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe."Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00MEMMTD8
    • ASIN: B00MEMMTD8
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Northern Europe (Incl Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, UK) 9GB Data SIM 42 Countries Instant Connection 30 Day Plan (3000 min free within 48 Countries & Territories incl EU)

    Travel through Northern Europe (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Aland Islands(Finland), Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, UK) and remain connected during your travels with 9GB of Data. No contracts. No activation. Immediate connection. This preloaded data SIM offers you the use of your data in over 60 countries (see below). It works with all SIM unlocked devices. Country & Region List Europe: Aland Islands (Finland), Austria, Azores (Portugal), Baleric Islands (Spain), Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Islands (Guernsey & Jersey), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B075ST6H56
    • ASIN: B075ST6H56
    • Brand: travsim
    • Manufacturer: ThreeUK

  • Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities - eBook

    Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework

    • UPC: 363689475

  • Pleasant City, West Palm Beach - eBook

    Pleasant City, a neighborhood of West Palm Beach, Florida, is the oldest African-American community in Palm Beach County. The first black settlers came to a place called the Styx�later owned by white millionaires who then

    • UPC: 444890220

  • A Bird Dance Near Saturday City : Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade

    Captures the power of individuals and art at a single night's masquerade

    • UPC: 8248146

  • Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City Paperback

    Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City Height : 0.18 In Length : 11.00 In Width : 8.50 In Weight : 0.49

    • UPC: 739944526

  • West African City - eBook

    Originally published in 1957 this volume deals with the issue of large scale immigration into Freetown, Sierra Leone from the rural areas in the 1950s and the problems which arose as a result. It analyzes

    • UPC: 691461457

  • Travel Poster, West and Southwest Africa Print Wall Art By Found Image Press

    Giclee PrintThis giclée print offers beautiful color accuracy on a high-quality paper (235 gsm) that is a great option for framing with its smooth, acid free surface. Giclée (French for “to spray”) is a printing

    • UPC: 595865825
    • Color: Multicolor
    • Size: 24 x 1824" x 18"

  • In the City of the Marabouts : Islamic Culture in West Africa

    IN THE CITY OF THE MARABOUTS

    • UPC: 17191623

  • Baobab Tree in Spiny Forest, Parc Mosa a Mangily, Ifaty, South West Madagascar, Africa Print Wall Art By Matthew Williams-Ellis

    Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery

    • UPC: 713991939
    • Color: Multicolor
    • Size: 36 x 2436" x 24"

  • Boston West Africa Trading Co V. Quaker City Morocco Co U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings

    Boston West Africa Trading Co V. Quaker City Morocco Co U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting

    • UPC: 940526328

  • Slavery and the Birth of an African City : Lagos, 1760a 1900

    As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator.

    • UPC: 13259645

  • The Most Beautiful City in West Africa

    10 Most Beautiful and Developed Cities In Africa 2019

    African Countries where Black Americans Can Easily relocate to PART 1