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THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA.
Edition: First printing, a slim trade paperback.
London: Heinemann, (1983). First edition - A book in which the noted novelist broke his silence about the 1983 Nigerian elections. "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership." Index. 68 pp. ISBN: 0-435906984.
Condition: Near fine (embossed seal of previous owner)
Book ID: 80377More details Price: $16.50 -
EAST AFRICA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES: Book 2, East Africa.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback,
London & Nairobi: Heinemann, (1972). First edition - A title in the Histories of the Peoples of Africa series. . Maps, photographs.Includes a time chart, specimen questions, suggestions for further reading, index. pp. 251-382, xxxi. ISBN: 0-435940090.
Condition: Near fine (stamp of previous owner, erratum slip pasted on table of contents)
Book ID: 82727More details Price: $16.50 -
KENYATTA AND THE POLITICS OF KENYA.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Nairobi: Transafrica Publishers, (1975). A study of the man as nationalist, agitator and writer and teacher in the years before he became President, and of the historical themes that have marked his career - colonialism, settlers, Mau Mau, and above all the belief that Africans should rule Kenya. Maps, bibliography, chronological table, index. 226 pp.
Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers, prev owner's name)
Book ID: 82760More details Price: $15.00 -
TOPICS IN EAST AFRICAN HISTORY 1000-1970.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, (1976). First edition - Covers the peopling of East Africa, its invaders, colonialism and the movement to independence. Illustrated with 8 tables and maps. Suggestions for further reading, index. 139 pp,
Condition: Good overall in illustrated wrappers (toning to covers and pages, stamp of previous owner).
Book ID: 82457More details Price: $27.50 -
TOPICS IN EAST AFRICAN HISTORY 1000-1970.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, (1980, c 1976). First edition - Covers the peopling of East Africa, its invaders, colonialism and the movement to independence. Illustrated with 8 tables and maps. Suggestions for further reading, index. 139 pp,
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82458More details Price: $18.50 -
NELSON MANDELA.
Edition: Small trade paperback.
London: Penguin, (1986). A biography of Mandela written while he was still imprisoned in South Africa - it describes his childhood in the royal family of the Thembu people to his membership and eventual leadership of the African National Congress. Illustrated with photographs, index. 269 pp. plus publisher's ads. Cover photo by Michael Peto. ISBN: 0-140089411.
Condition: Near fine (embossed seal of previous owner)
Book ID: 80378More details Price: $12.50 -
GORONGOSA: IN THE KINGDOM OF THE WILD.
Edition: First printing.
Beria: Agencia De Turismo De Mocambique, 1957. First edition - A small booklet describing a trip to Gorongosa National Park, in Mozambique, one of Africa s greatest wildlife reserves. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings in green, 2 maps in green, black and white, including one large fold out map on tissue paper. 43 pp. plus index and 2 pp listing companies that will organize excursions.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated yapped wrappers. An uncommon and appealing production.
Book ID: 79955More details Price: $30.00 -
AN AMERICAN FAMILY ON THE AFRICAN FRONTIER, THE BURNHAM FAMILY LETTERS, 1893-1896.
Edition: First US printing.
Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A candid account of pioneering in the dying days of the African frontier. While the letters tell of adventure and hardship, they also reveal the disregard for, and the ignorance of the culture and traditions of the indigenous people of South Africa. Photographs, index. xxvii, 300 pp. ISBN: 1-879373661.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 79477More details Price: $21.50 -
THE RISE AND FALL OF KWAME NKRUMAH: A Study of Personal Rule in Africa.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Praeger, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the rule of Nkrumah in Ghana, how he consolidated power and the factors that led to his overthrow by a political science professor who spent an extended time in Ghana between 1964-1965. Notes, selected bibliography, index. xii, 232 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, missing front free endpaper, in a fair only dust jacket, with tears, stickers on front cover and spine.
Book ID: 84631More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Edition: 2nd printing, a small trade paperback.
London: Longman, (1976). A title in the Seminar Studies In History series. Begins with the Victorian image of Africa and the British occupation of Egypt in 1892 and covers the agreements between the European powers in which they divided much of the continent up among themselves. Map. Includes a section of documents, bibliography, index. vii, 163 pp. ISBN: 0-582352045.
Condition: Near fine (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 82734More details Price: $11.00 -
ETHOPIANISM AND AFRO-AMERICANS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1883-1916.
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Deals with the rise of African independent churches in Southern Africa in the late 19th century and with the role that African Americans played in that rise. One of the most significant alliances was with Bishop Henry McNeal Turner of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and in addition, African students came to the US to study at black religious colleges and young African Americans were sent to Africa as missionaries. Several appendices, extensive bibliography, index. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-13190.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 24957More details Price: $21.50 -
RHODESIA: A Study of the Deterioration of a White Society.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the white minority of Rhodesia who, under Ian Smith, continued to defy the black majority, by a journalist and broadcaster, former mayor of the Rhodesian capital of Salisbury, and a resident of Rhodesia for 20 years, until he was forced to return to England by Smith's actions. Index. 286 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jackeT (dampstaining at bottom of textblock, not affecting the text at all.)
Book ID: 24717More details Price: $18.00 -
THE RACE PROBLEM IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Edition: Facsimile reprint.
New York: Negro Universities Press . (1969). Hardcover - A work originally published in wrappers in 1926. Introduction by Edwin W. Smith who calls the problem one of "appalling complexity." Includes chapters on Race integrity and equality of opportunity, Intermarriage and Territorial segregation. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-837124411.
Condition: Very near fine in brown cloth with gold lettering on spine (lettering slightly rubbed, book is tight and clean, as new)
Book ID: 78667More details Price: $20.00 -
WEST AFRICAN RESISTANCE: The Military Response to Colonial Occupation.
Edition: New edition with corrections.
London: Hutchinson University Library for Africa, (1978). Nine studies of the military response to the colonial occupation in West Africa, including in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Senegambia and Dahomey. Notes at the end of each essay. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Index xii, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-091340314.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85011More details Price: $25.00 -
BWITI: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
Edition: First edition.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1982.). Hardcover first edition - Bwiti is a spiritual discipline of the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon - "it is a religion that seeks to recapture the totality of the old way of life." (p 9.) Bwiti practitioners use the psychedelic, dissociative root bark of the Tabernanthe iboga plant (or eboga), specially cultivated for the religion, to promote spiritual growth. Illustrated with 66 photographs and numerous figures and drawings by Renate Lellep Fernandez. Glossary. Notes. Extensive Bibliography and index. xxiv, 731 pp. ISBN: 0-691093903.
Condition: Very good in red cloth (some scattered underlining, front hinge starting), no dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover edition.
Book ID: 54782More details Price: $175.00 -
AFRICANUS HORTON, 1835-1883, West African Scientist and Patriot
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-length biography of one of outstanding Africans of the nineteenth century - a medical doctor and officer in the British Army, geologist, botanist, and a pioneer thinker on race and development as well as a prolific author (notably "West African Countries and Peoples" written in 1868.) His life is portrayed against the political and economic background of West Africa in the period before "the fog of the colonial era" descended over black ambitions and achievements. Frontispiece portrait,map, footnotes, selected bibliography, index. xi, 169 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon and especially so in this condition.
Book ID: 79420More details Price: $40.00 -
CAMEROON: United Nations Challenge to French Policy.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
London: Institute of Race Relations / Oxford University Press, 1963. First edition - "Traces the effect on the relations between France and Cameroon by the United Nations presence and activity - and in particular why these ran contrary to French trusteeship policy." It also discusses events since independence. Map, bibliogaphy. 142 pp.
Condition: Very good in pale turquoise wrappers (some rubbing to the covers, prev owner's name stamp)
Book ID: 79501More details Price: $15.00 -
MONETARY ECONOMICS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
London: Macmillan / ELBS (English Language Book Society), (1973). Cover describes this reprint as a low-priced edition - includes charts. References, index. vi, 174 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 82753More details Price: $12.00 -
UNDERSTANDING NYAYO: Principles and Policies in Contemporary Kenya.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Nairobi, Kenya: Transafrica, (1984). First edition - Outlines the social, economic and political direction of Kenya since President Moi took office in 1978. Photographs. Notes at the end of each chapter, bibliography. Index. 89 pp.
Condition: Near fine in light green wrappers (some rubbing to the covers).
Book ID: 79358More details Price: $21.50 -
SOLDIERS WITHOUT POLITICS: Blacks in the South African Armed Forces
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 7872More details Price: $25.00 -
MILITARY REGIMES IN AFRICA,
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
London: Methuen, (1975). No 11 in Studies in African History series, this looks at 20 cases of significant military intervention in Africa between 1963 and 1970. Map, bibliography, index. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-41678240X.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name, a few marginal check marks).
Book ID: 79529More details Price: $12.50 -
NIGER DELTA RIVALRY: Itsekiri - Urhobo Relations and the European Presence 1884-1936.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Longmans, (1977). A title in the Ibadan History Series. Contents include Indigenous Antecedents; The rgime of Chief Nana, 1884-1894; The native court system and the career of Chief Dogho, 1900-1925 and more. Contains 3 folding maps. Appendices, bibliography, index. xxi, 301. ISBN: 0-582646383.
Condition: Very good in dark blue wrappers,
Book ID: 82761More details Price: $17.50 -
AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME: A Memoir of Reconciliation.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 83331More details Price: $18.50 -
BLACK LIVINGSTON: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84431More details Price: $40.00 -
MOVE YOUR SHADOW: South Africa, Black and White.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Times Books, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning, New York Times South Africa correspondent (who was expelled from South Africa in the mid-60's and returned 15 years later), this is a frank look at the South African way of life and a searing indictment of the effects of apartheid. Dustjacket comments from Athol Fugard and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Includes index and notes. 390 pages. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8129-12373.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 38826More details Price: $25.00 -
INSIDE APARTHEID: One Woman's Struggle in South Africa.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: Contemporary Books Inc., (1988). Hardcover first edition - A very personal account of what it was like to be a white activist again apartheid in South Africa. "Despite a shielded, middle-class upbringing in Johannesburg, Levine nevertheless became aware of the malignant effects of apartheid when she was still young; as the police and military imprisoned, tortured, banished and shot thousands of blacks, she became an active opponent of the regime, she notes. Eventually, as a city councilor and newspaper columnist, she was able to criticize and focus media attention on the government's policies and their effects." Foreword by Carolyn Forche. Illustrated with photographs. xvi, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-809245442.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85012More details Price: $20.00 -
AFRICAN LEGACY: Solutions for a Community in Crisis.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Carnot USA Books, 2003. SIGNED first edition - A controversial work by this Moroccan born African scholar, one which focuses on "the failure of the West to take into account the continent's ethnic realities. . . . His book describes a seven-step process leading to a redesign of the borders inherited from the colonial era and a healthy recognition of the ethnic realities that are tearing Africa apart." SIGNED on the half title page and dated in Los Angeles in May 2003 - that is, before publication. Translated and adapted by Tom Clegg. Map, index, footnotes. 225 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy printed gray wrappers.
Book ID: 72517More details Price: $30.00 -
TRIBAL STUDIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: Volume I.
Edition: First edition.
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume One only - but each tribal section is complete in itself. As noted in the preface, they are the result of five years of collecting reports on fifty non-Muslim tribes in northern Nigeria. Includes significant information on traveling in the area, on the different languages, and the customs of the various tribes. This volume includes studies of The Bachama and Mbula, Bura and Pabir Tribes, the Bata speaking peoples, the Kilba and Margi of Adamawa, the Chamba, the Verre, the Mambila and others. Vocabulary at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with 60 photographic plates, folding map tipped in at rear. x, 582 pp.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a a rather poor example of the uncommon dust jacket (dj is missing almost half of the spine)
Book ID: 83798More details Price: $120.00 -
BLAME ME ON HISTORY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography, banned in South Africa upon its publication in 1963, which describes growing up and living under apartheid. Praise from Langston Hughes who calls Modisane a "writer of power and persuasion." Includes a postscript by the author. 311 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, some rubbing and wear to the dj, price-clipped) .
Book ID: 79691More details Price: $24.50 -
SKETCH OF THE FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA with Particular Reference to its Present Principal Commercial Products.
Edition: First edition.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887. Hardcover first edition - A book which attempts to rectify the idea that most of Africa is nothing but "bush." Includes several appendices, index to the economic plants and a general index. vi, 533 pp plus a 32 pp publisher's catalogue.
Condition: Very good overall in publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, thin gilt bands. Significant foxing to the preliminary and title pages and to the ads at the rear, but only occasional marginal spots in most of the book. Previous owner's name date 1894, hinges starting but still a tight and straight copy.
Book ID: 80926More details Price: $95.00