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SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICAN OIL, THE

SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICAN OIL, THE

Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptionsprice shownowing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent. Douglas A. Yates shows how the ‘scramble’ by the great powers for African oi
SZL 1,172.16
Shackled Continent: Africa’s Past, Present and Future

Shackled Continent: Africa’s Past, Present and Future

Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the last three decades. Why? The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest’s fascinating first book, seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa’s development. Using reportage, first hand experience and economic insight, Robert Guest t
SZL 542.05
Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular

Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular

African multilingualism is changing the languages and identities of urban communities, and indeed entire nations. Sheng, a non-standard variety of Kenyan Swahili closely associated with Nairobi’s low-income urban youth, reflects the dynamics of rapid, on-going urbanisation processes taking place in
SZL 820.48
Soldier’s Legacy: The Kenya Army at 55, The

Soldier’s Legacy: The Kenya Army at 55, The

This book provides an insider’s look into the day-to-day operations of the Kenya Army, detailing its activities and takes the reader through the journey of a soldier and the intricacies of Kenya’s military since independence. Through the book, KDF hopes the details that have never been revealed by t
SZL 1,172.16
South Sudan: The Untold Story

South Sudan: The Untold Story

In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world’s newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General an
SZL 2,197.80
Spies in the Congo

Spies in the Congo

A thrilling account of the extraordinary efforts of Allied intelligence in gaining control of Belgian Congo’s uranium mines and keeping them from Hitler and Stalin.
SZL 1,052.10
State of Africa, The

State of Africa, The

Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decli
SZL 630.11
STRUGGLES FOR CITIZENSHIP IN AFRICA

STRUGGLES FOR CITIZENSHIP IN AFRICA

Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known. Because they are not recognised as citizens, they cannot get their children registered at birth or entered in school or university; they cannot access state health services; they cann
SZL 753.14
SUDAN CONTESTED NATIONAL IDENTITIES

SUDAN CONTESTED NATIONAL IDENTITIES

This text provides a comprehensive analysis of Sudan’s unresolved struggle between supporters of the majoritarian vision who seek to create a cohesive Arab-Islamic state and the pluralists who strive for equality before the law.
SZL 1,315.72
SUDAN LOOKS EAST

SUDAN LOOKS EAST

By successfully turning to China, Malaysia and India from the mid-1990s, amidst civil war and political isolation, Khartoum’s ‘Look East’ policy transformed Sudan’s economy and foreign relations. Sudan, in turn, has been a key theatre of Chinese, Indian and Malaysian overseas energy investment. What
SZL 1,139.97
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development

Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development

It has long been debated whether Africa’s lack of growth is best explained by the continent’s exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures of domestic political leadership, and taxation is no different. Some point to a global economic system that undermines Africa’s tax collection thro
SZL 879.12
Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda

Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda

The people of Uganda have struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view. A stray clue to the 1972 disappearance of a man named Eliphaz Laki led his son to a shallow grave. From there he found the three executioners, among th
SZL 1,040.26
THE TROUBLE WITH AFRICA(why foreign aid is not working)

THE TROUBLE WITH AFRICA(why foreign aid is not working)

After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa’s misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the conti
SZL 893.74
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

Christopher Award Winner Los Angeles Times Bestseller Washington Post Top 100 Books of the Year SelectionA stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin,hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a moving, beautifully written account, by turns warm and tender.”Betw
SZL 937.77
This House Has Fallen:Nigeria In Crisis

This House Has Fallen:Nigeria In Crisis

‘This is an example of a country that has fallen down; it has collapsed. This house has fallen.’ Chinua Achebe Nigeria is one of the most complex and fascinating countries in the world. It is staggeringly diverse, its population (twice that of Britain’s) is split into some 300 different ethnic group
SZL 468.79
Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget

Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget

This book is a must read by all Kenyans, particularly those born after 1963. No nationalist, dynamic, intelligent and patriotic leader who can be compared to the late Thomas Joseph Mboya anywhere in Eastern Africa today. He did so much for Kenya during his short life on the earth. From Trade Unions
SZL 460.10
Toward the African Revolution

Toward the African Revolution

This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the
SZL 700.41
Trouble with Africa, The

Trouble with Africa, The

This title refers to the frustrations and vexations we experience when we try to judge Africa from our Western perspective. It also alludes to the notion that although we may be confused and impatient with it, we are in Africa’s spell. Once Africa is in our blood, it is hard to let go. The author us
SZL 612.54
Turning Points in African Democracy

Turning Points in African Democracy

Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent? The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and
SZL 1,025.64
UNITED STATES IN AFRICA, THE

UNITED STATES IN AFRICA, THE

This book examines the George W. Bush administration’s claim to have made major new contributions to health, development, democracy and peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though aid has increased and a major AIDS initiative launched, Copson argues that foreign aid is losing its focus on development as pol
SZL 1,491.66
Violence in African Elections

Violence in African Elections

The holding of multiparty elections has become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of such systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent’s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly t
SZL 1,318.68
VIOLENCE POLITICAL CULTURE & DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

VIOLENCE POLITICAL CULTURE & DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions there also have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the ‘failed’ and ‘collapsed’ state in Africa is an approach that ta
SZL 1,931.22
War and Conflict in Africa

War and Conflict in Africa

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world’s bloodiest continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the worlds governments do to stop them? Paul Williams offers an in
SZL 2,725.24
War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab

War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab

For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a powerful insurgency led by Al-Shabaab. Consisting of forty-four chapters
SZL 1,186.78
Warlord Democrats in Africa: Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics (Africa Now)

Warlord Democrats in Africa: Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics (Africa Now)

Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets. A byproduct of this process, however, is that military leaders often become an integral part of the new democra
SZL 1,890.15
We Do Not Have Borders

We Do Not Have Borders

Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country. Despite their long residency, foreign and state officials and Kenyan citizens often perceive the Somali population to be a dangerous an
SZL 1,286.49
Why Africa is poor

Why Africa is poor

Why Africa is Poor looks at the fragile economic and political situation in Africa and makes the quite controversial argument that the main reason Africa’s people are poor is due to the choices made by their leaders.
SZL 952.38
Wizard Of The Nile: The Hunt For Joseph Kony: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted

Wizard Of The Nile: The Hunt For Joseph Kony: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted

Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel-leader: he is said to take his orders direct from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalised child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Intrigued by the myths, Matthew green hea
SZL 483.59
Women’s Activism in Africa

Women’s Activism in Africa

Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, an
SZL 967.00
You’re not a Country, Africa

You’re not a Country, Africa

In this groundbreaking collection of essays Pius Adesanmi tries to unravel what it is that Africa means to him as an African, and by extension to all those who inhabit this continent of extremes. This is a question that exercised some of the continent’s finest minds in the twentieth century, but whi
SZL 776.63