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  • Short-Changed?

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    pocket, 2014, Engelska, ISBN 9780821421550

    What have been the most significant developments—political, social, economic—in South Africa since 1994? How much has changed since the demise of apartheid, and how much remains

  • The Soweto Uprising

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    pocket, 2014, Engelska, ISBN 9780821421543

    The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book

  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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    pocket, 2016, Engelska, ISBN 9780821422212

    In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen

  • Kwame Nkrumah

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    pocket, 2021, Engelska, ISBN 9780821424520

    A new biography of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, one of the most influential political figures in twentieth-century African history. As the first prime minister and president ofthe West

  • Julius Nyerere

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    pocket, 2017, Engelska, ISBN 9780821422601

    With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold

  • The ANC Youth League

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    pocket, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9780821420447

    This brilliant little book tells the story of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the present and the controversies over Julius Malema

  • Mozambique’s Samora Machel

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    pocket, 2020, Engelska, ISBN 9780821424230

    The precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader. Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a war against their

  • Robert Mugabe

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    pocket, 2018, Engelska, ISBN 9780821423240

    Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe sharply divides opinion and embodies the contradictions of his country’s history and political culture. As a symbol of African liberation and a

  • Chris Hani

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    pocket, 2021, Engelska, ISBN 9780821424544

    This biography shows how Black political leader Chris Hani’s life and death were pivotal to ending apartheid and to establishing a democratic government in South Africa. Chris Hani

  • Thabo Mbeki

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    pocket, 2017, Engelska, ISBN 9780821422748

    Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white