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Decolonising the Mind
A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization. 'The language of …
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Updated and revised edition. Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991. 'The new chapter enhances the value of the …
The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials
This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg. …
The Sudan Handbook
A compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient reference work. The Sudan Handbook, based on the Rift Valley Institute's successful …
The Black Man's Burden
Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. - Roland Oliver in THE NEW YORK …
The African Genius
A general social and cultural history of Africa. Basil Davidson gives insights into the depth and sophistication of African cultural and social history in a way that is …
The Development State
A timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, …
Famine Crimes
Famine is preventable. The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Can Africa avoid famine? …
Moving the Centre
Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations. In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two …
ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today
Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay …
A Companion to African Literatures
An easy-to-use and highly-acclaimed reference work on works by African authors written in English. A comprehensive guide to works by African authors that were written in English, …
Chinua Achebe
The first full biography of Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart. Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language …