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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race

Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race

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Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

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'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

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The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa's most famous dictator "A nuanced and sophisticated examination of one of the most misunderstood, and caricatured, figures...
Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia

Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia

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Two years after the Arab Spring had transformed Egypt from a dictatorship under Hosni Mubarak to a democracy under the Muslim Brotherhood, there was a military coup that saw the...
When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -

When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -

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'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the

When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the

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'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Child of This Soil: The Life of a Freedom Fighter

Child of This Soil: The Life of a Freedom Fighter

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Letlapa Mphahlele, an Anti-Apartheid Liberation Army Commander in the APLA, is that rarest of creatures: a military man with a sensitive, seeking soul. In Child of this Soil, he tells...
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness

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The Second Emancipation , a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary...
Can Feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question

Can Feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question

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What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey? In this shining,...
Do They Hear You When You Cry

Do They Hear You When You Cry

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For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death.Forced into an arranged...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts

Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts

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A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
The Road to the Scottish Parliament

The Road to the Scottish Parliament

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This important book provides an invaluable guide to Scoland's new parliament. With his unique insight, gained in more than twenty years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Brian Taylor...
Conversations with Myself

Conversations with Myself

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Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the

When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the

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'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the

When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the

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'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Africa's Moment

Africa's Moment

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Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...
The Rainbow People of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid

The Rainbow People of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid

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Through the eyes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this work sketches the story of South Africa from 1976 when apartheid opression was at its peak, to the birth of democracy in...
Ways of staying

Ways of staying

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A story at once deeply personal and edifyingly public, Ways of Staying is one man's journey into the heart of a country that remains riven and undefined. From the murder...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

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'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in

Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in

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At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing...
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

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An essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies. The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World

The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World

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An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
The World After Gaza

The World After Gaza

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From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the

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From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

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A new collection of essays from the world's most influential political thinker In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of

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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of

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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free

The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free

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Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa...