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“emmanuel akyeampong”

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  • Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson ...
    This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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    Exploration and Folly in East Africa

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  • The Great Boer War

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Experience the intensity and heroism of one of the most significant conflicts in history with The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle. This gripping account offers a detailed and compelling narrative of the South African War, providing insight into both the military strategy and the personal stories that shaped this pivotal moment in history.Written by the famous author of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle ... Read more

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  • The Esan People of Nigeria, West Africa

    by Eve Ikuenobe-Otaigbe ...
    This work is mainly an editorial compilation of excerpts from different authors, yours truly included. As such, I do not claim original authorship of some of the content. I want to thank Prof Simon Ehiabhi, Mr. Iseribhor Okhueleigbe, Mr. Sylvester Omosun, Dr. Ayodele Akinrinwale and Dr. Tamuno Takena for their permission and excitement upon being broached to use some of their works in this ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.

    by Frederick Selous. ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and ... Read more

    $9.93 CAD

  • The Partition of Africa

    And European Imperialism 1880-1900

    by John Mackenzie ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Much of the historical debate surrounding the partition of Africa, the events that led up to it and its implications for the continent itself and for the rest of the world is so controversial that it is difficult to provide a coherent survey of the shifting theories of the last twenty years. In this pamphlet Dr MacKenzie attempts to do this, by sketching the historical background to the partition, ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840.

    Edited by Richard Elphick, Hermann Giliomee ...
    History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book.This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • An African Millionaire

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Grant Allen's "An African Millionaire", first published in 1897, is a classic in rogue fiction: a South African millionaire is hounded by a mischievous and larcenous conman, Colonel Clay. The tables may turn, but who is the greater rogue: the conman or the victim? ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • The Last Blank Spaces

    Exploring Africa and Australia

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last ... Read more

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  • Becoming Zimbabwe

    A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

    by Alois Mlambo, Brian Raftopoulos ...
    Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a ... Read more

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  • Present Imperfect

    Contemporary South African Writing

    by Andrew van der Vlies ...
    Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD