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Dawn to Dusk

Folktales from Benin

By Dr Iro Eweka, Iro Eweka

This collection of Edo (or Benin) folk tales is an oral history of Edo culture and tradition. It tells the story of how the ancient...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4362-5 (Routledge)

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In the Realms of Gold

Pioneering in African History

By Roland Oliver

The core of the book is Oliver's account of his research travels throughout tropical Africa from the 1940s to the 1980s; his efforts to train...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4405-9 (Routledge)

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The Political Kingdom in Uganda

A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism

By David E. Apter

It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4234-5 (Routledge)

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Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism

Britain and University Education for Africans 1860-1960

By Apollos O. Nwauwa

Using British Colonial Office papers, the archives of colonial governments in Africa, and the writings of African nationalists, Dr Nwauwa examines the long history of...

1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-4668-8 (Routledge)

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Colonization

A Global History

By Marc Ferro

This is an extremely wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey of colonization from its origins to the post-colonial world. Original and lively, it offers the student:
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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14008-9 (Routledge)

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The Decolonization Of Africa

By Professor David Birmingham, David Birmingham

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was...

1995 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-540-6 (Routledge)

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Environment and History

The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa

By William Beinart, Peter Coates

The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11468-4 (Routledge)

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Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa

Edited by William Beinart, Saul Dubow

As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10357-2 (Routledge)

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Great Zimbabwe

The Iron Age of South Central Africa

By Joseph O. Vogel

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-0398-5 (Routledge)

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The Atlas of African Affairs

By Ieuan L.l. Griffiths

The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book...

1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05488-1 (Routledge)

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