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A training school for elephants
Out of a sidelined, colonial-era expedition in Africa comes a new history of cruelty, deception and adventure from the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of SiberiaIn 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent...
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Civilizing women
Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects. Focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946, Janice Boddy mines coloni...
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Commerce with the universe
Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa’s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization.
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Contested sustainability
Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania.Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources.Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of intervention...
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Contesting catholics
First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician...
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Ethiopia in theory
A wide-ranging and compelling account of the interplay between social theory and social change in the Ethiopian student movement, and its enduring impact.
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Ethiopian warriorhood
The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their strong influence on political identity and the social infrastructure.Today best known for their role in defending Ethiopia from Italian invasion 1935-...
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Exporting american dreams
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional neg...
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Feasting on history
Feasting on History is a wide-ranging intellectual history of the Italian-Ethiopian relationship, told through the intertwined lives of Heruy Wäldä Sellasé, an Ethiopian writer and civil servant, and Enrico Cerulli, an Italian Orientalist and colonial official.
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Imperialism and development
A compelling exploration of one of the most ill-advised and calamitous interventions in colonial development history.As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinari...
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In asian waters
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Midd...
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Islam in uganda
Examines the historical, political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim minority status in Uganda, and important themes of pre- and post-colonial political community, religion and national identity.Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no consen...
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Journey through genocide
Journalist Raffy Boudjikanian speaks with genocide survivors from Darfur and Rwanda; and in eastern Turkey confronts the legacy of the Turkish government's denial of its responsibility for the Armenian genocide of 1915, an atrocity that resulted in the murder and exiling of many, including the au...
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Labour & christianity in the mission
Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control Africa...
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Morality at the margins
What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage...
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Partisans of the nude
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.
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Race and slavery in the middle east
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and...
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The covenant's veil
An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships“Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God,” the narrative of Sheba and Solomon, the material presence of the Ark of the Covenant in Axum. For Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, these cl...
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The genocide against the tutsi, and the rwandan churches
Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which ...
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The life and struggles of our mother walatta petros
The first English translation of the earliest book-length biography of an African womanThis is the hardcover scholarly edition of the award-winning English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans...
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The life of walatta-petros
This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography ...
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The oromo and the christian kingdom of ethiopia
First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shaping Ethiopian history.This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's ...
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The present moment
A novel that pays tribute the lives of seven aging women by one of East Africa's most celebrated writers.
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The two princes of mpfumo
A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slaveryIn 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo, the capital of Mozambique—boarded a ship licensed by the East India Company bound for England. Ins...
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Wait for god to notice
Wait for God to Notice is a love letter to an adopted country with an unstable past and an undeniable endurance to heal.In 1975, Uganda’s Finance Minister escaped to England saying, “To live in Uganda today is hell.” Idi Amin had declared himself president for life, the economy had crashed, and U...
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