Southern Africa Books


La Auténtica Historia de las Minas del Rey Salomón (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $24.49 La autÃ©ntica historia de Las minas del rey SalomÃ³n es un estudio riguroso...	Knowledge and Colonialism: Eighteenth-century Travellers in South Africa (Atlantic World) Best Price: $131.00	Politics and Christianity in Malawi 1875-1940. The Impact of the Livingstonia Mission in the Northern Province 3rd Edition Best Price: $39.94 First published in 1977 and now in its third edition, this book has been recognised as one of...	Grace Sufficient Best Price: $20.94 This biography of Elizabeth Mantell helps to fill a major gap in the literature on church and...	Contradictions in Post-War Education Policy Formation and Application in Colonial Malawi 1945-1961 Best Price: $40.94 The post-World War II colonial reconstruction programmes for economic recovery and general...



King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa "A superb book. I recommend it highly. Thorough research, erudite writing, and startling...	Commando: Kindle-Optimized with Hyper-Linked Chapters "Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War" is specially formatted for the Kindle...	History of the Zulu War and its Origin First Causes - The Putini Tribe - The Matshana Inquiry - The Annexation of the Transvaal - The...	Bloodsong!: An Account of Executive Outcomes in Angola Executive Outcomes was the title of the most successful private army of modern times. In Angola,...	Mourning Become...: Post/Memory and Commemoration of the Concentration Camps of the South African War 1899-1902 (Encounters: Cultural Histories) Best Price: $67.00 This work demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about concentration...



Narrating Political Reconciliation: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Best Price: $25.62 Narrating Political Reconciliation offers a compelling approach to South Africa's Truth and...	Striking Back: The Labour Movement and the Post-Colonial State in Zimbabwe 1980-2000 Best Price: $33.95 In the struggles for democratisation that emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s in Africa, labour...	Throwing Down White Man: Cape Rule and Misrule in Colonial Lesotho, 1871-1884 Best Price: $33.95 Surrounded by South Africa lies the small, independent kingdom of Lesotho, and this book...	Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and Its Aftermath Best Price: $86.00 The 1904 war that broke out in present day Namibia after the Herero tribe rose against an...	Power and the Praise Poem: South African Voices in History

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe	Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971-96	Working Papers in Southern African Studies: Vol 2 (Working Papers in Southern African Studies)	The Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969: Political History of Zambia's Western Province	Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari Best Price: $22.99 Tsodilo Hills are two hills in the northwest corner of Botswana which are actually the size of...

The Boiling Cauldron: Utrect District and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879	My Reminiscences Of The Anglo-Boer War Best Price: $29.65 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	Mother Anderson's Secret Book of Wit & Wisdom Best Price: $11.66 Based on South Africa?s beloved comic strip, this special volume features Madam & Eve'...	Facts and Statements Concerning the Right of the Crown of Portugal to the Territories of Molembo, Cabinda, Ambriz, and Other Places on the West Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, October 2008 Best Price: $30.55

An Unpopular War Best Price: $12.00 I married a South African ten years ago and have always tried (to varying degrees) to comprehend...	Retreat from Africa	Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (Voice of Witness) Best Price: $5.95 The fifth volume in the Voice of Witness series presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose...	Embroiled: Swiss Churches, South Africa and Apartheid Best Price: $35.51 Apartheid posed profound challenges to the conceptions of humanity and development that...	La autentica historia de las minas del rey Salomon / The True History of King Solomon's Mines (Historia Incognita / Unknown History) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $18.68 La auténtica historia de Las minas del rey Salomón es un estudio riguroso que narra el...

South Africa as a Multi-Ethnic Society Best Price: $18.95 The author looks at South Africa as a society whose multiple ethnic identities collectively...	Africa for the African. Second Edition 'I cannot afford to be a participator, by passiveness in such stupendous and widespread...	Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier With the same disarmingly unguarded prose that won her critical acclaim for Don?t Let?s Go to...	Slave Species Of God Compelling, factual history of humankind from 450,000 B.C to 2000 B.C., Tellinger reveals a lost...	The price of our freedom This book called ?The price of our freedom? is about the British colonisation of Rhodesia in the...

The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences Best Price: $13.97 'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but...	The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law Best Price: $20.73 From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South...	Angola: A Modern Military History, 1961-2002 Best Price: $53.94 This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases...	Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa Best Price: $92.34 This book offers an analysis of the origins of the crisis in Zimbabwe and why it has had...	Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $23.95 In addition to being the first historical treatment of child labor and the construction of...

The Zulu My father wrote the anthropological foreword of this book and spent several months with Alice...	A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It Best Price: $5.97 Summary: A Thousand Hills by Stephen Kinzer/Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it ...	Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change, 1795-1940 (London School of Economies Monographs on Social Anthropology : No 43) Best Price: $46.50	Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (Perspectives on Southern Africa) Best Price: $59.97 Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was...	Art and the End of Apartheid Best Price: $19.74 Black South African artists have typically had their work labeled ?African art? or ?township...

Histories of Namibia: Living Through the Liberation Struggle Best Price: $25.44 I'd strongly recommend this book for people traveling to Namibia who want to learn more...	Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa Best Price: $59.64 The Swiss missionaries played a primary role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the...	Liberating Namibia: The Long Diplomatic Struggle Between the United Nations and South Africa Best Price: $55.00 After World War I, the League of Nations assigned management of the German colony of Namibia to...	Native Life in South Africa, before and since the European War and the Boer Rebellion This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and Its Aftermath Best Price: $22.02 The 1904 war that broke out in present day Namibia after the Herero tribe rose against an...

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830	A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique Best Price: $17.00	Rhodesia File Best Price: $25.20	Rorke's Drift - By Those Who Were There	The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse

Madagascar Revisited: Describing The Events Of A New Reign And The Revolution Which Followed Best Price: $28.97 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	Chindali and English Dictionary: The Chindali Language of Malawi (Lightning Rod Press Series) Best Price: $45.00	Culture and Customs of Botswana (Culture and Customs of Africa) Botswana's large deposits of diamonds have made it one of the richest African countries on a...	Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew...	Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant Best Price: $12.90 This is a very interesting book and a poignant reminder of how Zimbabwe could have been a...

Zimbabwe: Report, Proceedings, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices (House of Commons Papers)	The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe Best Price: $10.95 On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war...	The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners Best Price: $105.00 Relying on extensive oral interviews with WWII veterans in Botswana, Schmitt argues that British...	The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe Best Price: $4.00 As a fellow Zimbabwean living on foreign shores, having read Peter Godwin's The Fear I am at...	History of Ngamiland

Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (African Studies) Best Price: $40.43 Studies of revolution generally regard peasant popular support as a prerequisite for success. In...	Adrift on the Veld THis book for me was amazing....the things men went through....very inspiring and insightful to...	Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO Best Price: $17.50 Concentrating on parts of the exile history of the African National Congress...	Cyril Ramaphosa Best Price: $39.92 The extraordinary rise of one of South Africa?s most celebrated political leaders and his...	RHODESIAN WAR, THE Best Price: $409.20 This book covers a topic that the USA should pay attention to. As no one in the US Government...

Under an African Sun: Memoirs of a Colonial Officer in Northern Rhodesia Best Price: $49.93 This a great book. I would highly recommend it to anyone. You should definately buy this book.	Friends and Foes in the Transkei: a Victorian Lady's Experience of Southern Africa During the 1870s Best Price: $13.00 Pioneer days in South Africa Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876....	Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (Voice of Witness) Best Price: $10.00 The situation in Zimbabwe represents one of the worst humanitarian emergencies today. This book...	Koloniale Herrschaft und ihre Grenzen: Die Kolonialpolizei in Deutsch-Sudwestafrika 1894-1915 (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft) (German Edition) Best Price: $70.07 English summary: Analysis of the organization and activities of colonial police forces in...	We Thought We would Be Free...: Socio-cultural Aspects of Herero History in Namibia, 1915-1940 (History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa, Vol. 8) Best Price: $29.80 The present study contains the history of the reconstruction of ethnic identity after 1904 tried...

A Lady in a Blue Dress - A Short Story of Savagery in South Africa In homage to a single work of art that has emerged to brand the hearts of all South Africans, a...	A Legacy of Liberation A gripping social history of South Africa?s past and future and beautifully narrated...	Culture and Customs of Botswana (Culture and Customs of Africa) Botswana's large deposits of diamonds have made it one of the richest African countries on a...	Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew...	Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant Best Price: $12.90 This is a very interesting book and a poignant reminder of how Zimbabwe could have been a...

Zimbabwe: Report, Proceedings, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices (House of Commons Papers)	The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe Best Price: $10.95 On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war...	The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners Best Price: $105.00 Relying on extensive oral interviews with WWII veterans in Botswana, Schmitt argues that British...	The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe Best Price: $4.00 As a fellow Zimbabwean living on foreign shores, having read Peter Godwin's The Fear I am at...	History of Ngamiland

Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (African Studies) Best Price: $40.43 Studies of revolution generally regard peasant popular support as a prerequisite for success. In...	Adrift on the Veld THis book for me was amazing....the things men went through....very inspiring and insightful to...	Why David Livingstone's Ideas Did Not Work (Essays in Zambian History)	South Africa: The Land, Its People and History Best Price: $21.95 This is a general introduction to South Africa - the land, its people and history. Subjects...	Bulawayo's Forgotten School: St Peter Diocesan School, A Historic Preview, 1911-1977 Best Price: $21.94 I was a pupil at this school from 1950 to 1963. I enjoyed the read, but it was most...

Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma Best Price: $8.28 "South Africa's negotiated transition from white rule to democracy was one of the...	The ANC and the Turn to Armed Struggle (Understanding the ANC Today) Best Price: $28.15 First published in the late 1960s, this analysis investigates African National Congress? history...	Twilight of the Vuvuzelas (Madam & Eve Collection) Best Price: $38.73 Several strips of South Africa?s most popular comic, Madam & Eve , are collected in this...	The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe - Vol. 2 Best Price: $33.94 Zimbabwean human rights historiography often assumes that pre- colonial African politics were...	African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa (International Library of African Studies) Best Price: $85.72 A key mechanism of apartheid in South Africa was the set of restrictions placed on the movements...

Last Boat for Africa: A District Officer's Experiences During Swaziland's Run Up to Independence in the 1960s	Poverty, Medicine and Disease in South Africa: The Era of High Apartheid, 1948 to 1976 Best Price: $84.02 A higher infant mortality rate and a shorter life expectancy, coupled with a high prevalence...

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