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AFRICA, LAND OF MY FATHERS

by Thompson, Era Bell

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1954
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Doubleday. Good in Good dustjacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library book with all typical marks and defects as such, else good+ and very sound with clean text pages and covers. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. ; "The story of the return of a native three hundred years later." ; Small… Read more about this item
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THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA

by Obioma M. Iheduru

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1999
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Greenwood Press. Very Good+ with no dustjacket. 1999. Hardcover. Minor library marks, else very nice and clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages .
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GROWING UP IN SHONA SOCIETY From Birth to Marriage

by Gelfand, Michael

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1983
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Mambo Press. Very Good-. 1983. Softcover. Light cover wear and fading. Clean pages. Sound. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 228 pages .
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ENTER GAMBIA The Birth of an Improbable Nation

by Rice, Berkeley

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First Edition
Published
1967
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Hardcover; First Printing
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Houghton Mifflin Co.. Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. ; "During a tour in West Africa as correspondent for Newsweek, Berkeley Rice spent more than six months in Gambia. His report brings us a fresh, irreverent look at the problems and… Read more about this item
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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES / REVUE CANADIENNE DES ETUDES AFRICAINES. VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1, 1982

by N/a

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1982
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Canadian Association of African Studies. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. In English and French. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages .
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FRESHET FINDS A WAY: A TRIP THROUGH THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE

by Eldonna Lay and Associates (Illustrated by Christine Billings and Rafael Monroy)

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1995
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Helix Water District. Very Good. 1995. Softcover. Light cover wear. Title on the rear cover was colored with a marker. Interior is very good and clean, and the pop-up state of California map is very nice. ; Illustrated storybook for children about the travels of a drop of rain through the hydrologic cycle. ; 4to 11"… Read more about this item
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MOUNT KENYA

by John Reader

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Published
1989
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Hardcover
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9780241124864
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London: Elm Tree Books. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0241124867 . The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages .
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MENILEK AND THE UTILISATION OF FOREIGN SKILLS IN ETHIOPIA

by Pankhurst, Richard

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1967
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Journal of Ethiopian Stuides. Very Good. 1967. Softcover. 8vo; 55 pages .
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PYGMY WORLD, THE ENDANGERED BAMBUTI OF CONGO

by Mwangi, Samuel Muraguri

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2008
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Nairobi: The Olive Marketing and Publishing Company. Very Good. 2008. Softcover. THE; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 164 pages .
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WHO KILLED THE CONGO

by Schuyler, Philippa

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1962
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NY: The Devin-Adair Company. Very Good in Good+ dustjacket. 1962. Hardcover. The jacket is now protected in a new, removable mylar sleeve. The dustjacket has a couple of small chips missing from the edges. Two pages of the book have underlining. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 310 pages .
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JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES. VOLUME 16, NUMBER 4. DECEMBER 1990

by [No Author]

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1990
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Oxford University Press. Very Good+. 1990. Softcover. The 'perils of sex' in Colonial Zimbabwe. A critique of the historiography of transition on the Zambian copperbelt. Black admissions to the University of the Witwatersrand. More. ; 8vo .
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KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW: THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF KENYA. VOL. 4 NO. 1 1976

by Ochieng, William R. (editor)

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1976
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Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Historical Review. Good+. 1976. Softcover. Some cover wear, crease down front cover, fading. The pages are very good and clean. Sound. ; The Mombasa-Victoria Railway, 1890-1902. Early development of Akamba local trade history c. 1780-1820. Survey of the evolution of the Kuria, c. 1500-1900. More. ; 8vo; 161 pages .
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AFRICA: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME 46, NUMBER 2 1976

by Dalby, David and David Parkin (editors)

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1976
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London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. The case of Yoruba crowns, 1900-1960. Colour symbolism and ideology in a Ghanaian healing movement. Food and female fertility in a West African society. More. ; 8vo; 111 pages .
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KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW: THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF KENYA. VOL. 5, NO. 1 1977

by Ochieng, William R. and Karim K. Janmohamed (editors)

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1977
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Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Historical Review. Very Good. 1977. Softcover. Marxism and African history - Endre Sik and his critics. Ngotho (the ivory armlet) : an emblem of upper-tier status among the 19th century Akamba of Kenya, ca. 1830-1880. A quantitative assessment of the Arab slave trade of East Africa 1770-1896. The Taveta economy in the pre-colonial period.… Read more about this item
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KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW: THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF KENYA. VOL. 2 NO. 2 1974

by Ochieng, William R. (editor)

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1974
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Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Historical Review. Good+. 1974. Softcover. Some cover fading and light wear. Clean ; Case study of the Capricon African Society. Outline biography of Simeon Kiplangat arap Baliach, a colonial African Chief. Biography of Chief Mukudi of Samia and Bunyala. The Asian question in Uganda 1894-1972. German imperialism in Africa, the activities of Carl… Read more about this item
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AFRICA: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME 46, NUMBER 1 1976

by Dalby, David and David Parkin (editors)

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1976
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London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. Generation classes among the Mbeere of Central Kenya. Myth, ritual and the authority of elders in an Ethiopian society. Analysis of an African Zionist ritual. A fiction of Chagga initiation and its relation to the logic of Chagga symbolism. More. ; 8vo; 115 pages .
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KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW: THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF KENYA. VOLUME 6 NO. 1 & 2 1978

by William R. Ochieng and Karim K. Janmohamed (editors)

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1978
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Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Historical Review. Good. 1978. Softcover. Clean and sound with just some moderate handling wear. ; African commerce with Europeans: the development impact of international trade in the pre-modern era. Linguistic evidence regarding the territorial history of the Maa speaking peoples. Slave and free in Mombasa. Background to Nandi resistance to the British, 1895-1906.… Read more about this item
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AFRICA: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME 47, NUMBER 1 1977

by Middleton, John and David Parkin (editors)

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1977
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London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1977. Softcover. Initiation into the Bori cult. Sacrifice and social structure among the Kuranko. Art and immortality among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Marriage payments, household structure, and domestic labour-supply among the Barma of Chad. More. ; 8vo; 122 pages .
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AFRICA: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME 46, NUMBER 3 1976

by Dalby, David and David Parkin (editors)

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1976
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London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. Nyoro symbolism, the ethnographic record. Medicine, fetish and secret society in a West African culture. Some notions of purity and impurity among the Zulu. More. ; 8vo; 97 pages .
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KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW: THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF KENYA. VOL. 4 NO. 2 1976

by Ochieng, William R. (editor)

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1976
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Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Historical Review. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. The Baganda and the Japanese: comparative response to modernization. Long disctance trade in Kigezi District: a case study of Bakiga in the precolonial era 1500-1930. More. ; 8vo; 184 pages .
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