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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...
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in

Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in

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Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit...
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...
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

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In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the...
Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will

Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will

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It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...
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...
A History of South Africa

A History of South Africa

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'A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony Sampson Throughout its turbulent history,...
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...
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged

Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged

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The epic story of the rivalry that shaped the 20th century and poses questions for the 21st. Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill- India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime...
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...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

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The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
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...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

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A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...
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...
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...