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Government In Zazzau 1800-1950
Smith M. G.
Oxford University Press London 1964 Reprint
Hard Cover 371 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and a couple very minor repairs to jacket, but still presentale. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Based on detailed historical materials, this study of the succesive forms of government in the Hausa chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria from 1800-1950 should be of interest to historians and political scientists as well as to anthropologists. Very Good
Price: $20.54 (AUD)
Book Number: 024883 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Black Martyrs
Thoonen J. P.
Sheed and Ward London 1941 First Edition
Hard Cover 302 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The present Uganda Protectorate is not the same as Uganda proper, or rather Buganda, a native kingdom which is one of the four provinces of the Protectorate. it is with this kingdom that our story is manily concerned. Good
Price: $34.71 (AUD)
Book Number: 024890 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Curtain-Up On South Africa: Presenting A National Drama
Allighan Garry
T. V. Boardman And Co Ltd London 1960 First Edition
Hard Cover 276 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear, but still presentale. Book is in Very good condition throughout. What is the truth about South Africa and what is really going on inside that troubled country? Stories leak out from behind' the gold curtain'-stories of violence and inhumanity so terrifying as to be incredible. Are they true? More important still-do they tell the whole of the truth. Very Good
Price: $11.33 (AUD)
Book Number: 024891 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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African Switzerland; Basutoland Of Today.
Rosenthal Eric
Juta And Co Ltd Cape Town 1948 First Edition
Hard Cover 247 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. This book is the result of personal travels in Basutoland, of inquiries into old an modern records, and of countless conversations with every kind of resident-traders, soldiers, officials, policemen, missionaries, chiefs, drivers, farmers, and above all, the ordinary everyday tribesmen. Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024893 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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A New Deal In Central Africa
Leys Colin; Pratt Cranford
Heinemann London 1960 First Edition
Hard Cover 226 pages. Ex-University Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The report of the Devlin Commission on the Nyasaland crisis of February-march 1959 has been described as 'perhaps the best study in modern colonial politics ever written'. Its impartiality is beyond question. The commission found that the principal organisers of the Nyasaland African Congress, though not its president, Dr. Banda, had by the beginning of 1959 'made up their minds that they would get Congress, to adopt a policy of violence' and that intimidation was one of the weapons used by Congress. Very Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024894 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Life With Ionides
Lane Margaret
Readers Union,Hamish Hamilton London 1964 First Edition
Hard Cover 180 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Ionides spent most of his years in solitude in Tanganyika,and went from a great hunter to become a celebrated naturalist. Very Good
Price: $9.92 (AUD)
Book Number: 024289 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Justice In South Africa
Sachs Albie
ISBN: 0435826905
Chatto -Heinemann London 1973 First Edition
Hard Cover 288 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. South Africa is unique in being the one country in which racial discrimination is still openly supported by the government and expressly written into the laws. Other subjects discussed are lynching, torture, the formation of race attitudes, traditional African adjudication, the concept and statistics of crime, and the role of leading lawyers and rebels such as Smuts, Gandhi and Mandela. Very Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024772 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Rhodesia
Todd Judith
Macgibbon And Kee Bristol 1966 First Edition
Hard Cover 170 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Todd sets out some facts on the origins of the dispute over Rhodesia.She was brought up on a mission station. Not at least while the great majority of the population is thwarted politically and socially underprivileged to an extreme degree.Their leaders are cajoled, penalised; their sympathisers are made victims of the most crude political enmity-amounting almost to hysteria. Very Good
Price: $10.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 024782 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Forest People
Turnbull Colin M
Book Club Associates London 1961 First Edition
Hard Cover 255 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This is a fascinating book about the Pygmies of the Ituri Forest-a vast expanse of dense, damp and inhospitable forest in the Congo. Very Good
Price: $12.04 (AUD)
Book Number: 024783 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Quest For The Babingas: The World’s Most Primitive Tribe.
Demesse Lucien
the adventurers club London 1958 First Edition
Hard Cover 187 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and a small piece missing at top of spine, but still presentale. Book is in general good condition. This exciting book tells the story of the expedition that was remarkable on two counts. First, it was penetrated deep into the tropical forests of the Cameroons and brought back valuable information about one of the most primitive tribes in the world, the pygmy Babinga. Secondly, it was comprised of three French students-each of them under twenty one-who were entirely without previous experience of such an ardous journey. Good
Price: $13.46 (AUD)
Book Number: 024785 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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A History Of South Africa: Social And Economic
De Kiewiet C.W.
Clarendon Press Oxford 1941 First Edition
Hard Cover 292 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. This book has undertaken the task of setting down some of the essential facts in South African social and economic development. The attentive reader will notice that i have devoted relatively little space to the Cape colured people or to the Asiatic population. Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024786 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Social Stratification In Africa
Tuden Arthur; Plotnicov Leonard
The Free Press New York 1970 First Edition
Hard Cover 392 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The term Social Stratification first of all implies the existence of a structure of layers in a society.Within each layer(stratum) persons are grouped on the basis of status criteria, and the arrangement of these layers (strata) is of a hierarchical order indicating differences of social worth associated with the strata or with the statuses which the strata respectively incorporate. Fine
Price: $20.54 (AUD)
Book Number: 024787 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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South Africa: A Modern History
Davenport T. R. H.
ISBN: 0333550331
Macmillan Basingstoke 1991 Fourth
Hard Cover 662 pages. Ex-Parliament house Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout, the only exception is a minor repair to jacket. This sweeping one-volume narrative surveys the whole range of South African history from earliest times until 1990 This edition synthesises recent scholarship, especially in the areas of prehistory and the conflicts of the early nineteenth century, while the country's internal political story is updated to the release of Nelson mandela, and its external relations to the independence of Namibia Fine
Price: $30.46 (AUD)
Book Number: 024788 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Trans African Highways: A Route Book Of The Main Trunk Roads In Africa.
no author
The Automobile Association Of Johannesburg 1958 Unknown
Hard Cover 539 pages. Jacket is in Poor condition, there is some general wear, but still presentale. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present and some underlining in the introductory notes. Includes maps. Good
Price: $20.54 (AUD)
Book Number: 024789 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Transvaal From Within: A Private Record Of Public Affairs.
Fitzpatrick J. P.
William Heinemann London 1899 Eigth Impression
Hard Cover 452 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. A good deal of space is given to details of the trial and the prison life of the Reformers, which are of no interest whatever to the public, although they form a record which the men themselves may like to preserve. Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024792 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Story Of South Africa
Marquard Leo
Faber And Faber Ltd London 1966 Second Edition
Hard Cover 251 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. This is a concise and readable history well provided with illustrations and maps...and gives graphic and penetrating accounts of great events and movements such as Van Riebeck's arrival at the Cape three hundred years ago, the Great Trek, the diamond and gold rushes and the work and influence of missionaries. Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024794 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The First Fifty Years Of The Rhodes Trust And The Rhodes Scholarships 1903-1953
no author
Basil Blackwell Oxford 1955 First Edition
Hard Cover 268 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. This volume, which is to be presented to all former Rhodes Scholars, is intended primarily for domestic consumption. Informal and episodic, it does not claim to be a history of the Rhodes Scholarships, still less a history of the Rhodes trust.The core of it will be found in the personal reminiscences , by Wylie and Allen, of fifty years of the Rhodes Scholarships, and The Rhodes Scholars, in Oxford. Very Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024796 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The African Giant: The Story Of A Journey: A Vivid Panorama Of African Life
Cloete Stuart
Collins London 1958 First Edition
Hard Cover 448 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout, the only exceptions are a small mark under jacket and a small piece missing on front of jacket. A travel story by Cloete, who hears the testimony of emirs and missionaries, of career diplomats and native doctors, and see that the overwhelming problem of education of the African-particularly of the African woman-towers above all the others challenging that uneasy land.This exploration of a world in the violence of transition begins at the mines where the grease tables remind the writer of the fabulous era of diamonds. Very Good
Price: $10.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 024797 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Momella: An African Game Paradise
Von Rogister Maximilian
Odhams Press Ltd London Unknown
Hard Cover 208 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear, but still presentale. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Momella is an enchanting and unusual farm situated high up on the Eastern slopes of Mount Meru in Tanganyika, within sight of Kilimanjaro and in the heart of a strange and beautiful territory teeming with wild game of all kinds- a veritable hunter's paradise. Very Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024798 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Africans: A Triple Heritage
Mazrui Ali A
ISBN: 0563202823
BBC Pubications London 1986 First Edition
Hard Cover 336 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Africa is at a crucial stage in history as it is torn between cultures. Is the decay of Africa's colonuial institutions a curse of the ancestors' pronounced upon the compact which Westernised Africans have made with the twentieth century? The Africans examines the soul of a continent-a soul which is a present split three ways. As New
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024729 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The African Adventure
Severin Timothy
ISBN: 0525051104
E. P. Dutton And Co Inc New York 1973 First Edition
Hard Cover 288 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear and some light fading, but still a presentable copy. Skilfully matching four hundred years of history with perceptive assessments of the leading European players on the African stage, Severin offers an engrossing chronicle that will take its place alongside the most distinguished writings in the field of travel and exploration. Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024737 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Warrior Herdsmen
Thomas Elizabeth Marshall
Secker and Warburg London 1966 Reprint
Hard Cover 254 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The warrior herdsmen are a tribe called the Dodoth, who live in northernmost Uganda close to the borders of Kenya and the Sudan. They are warriors who fight by necessity for the defence of their livelihood, and they are herdsmen whose sole wealth exists in the ownership of cattle. Very Good
Price: $12.75 (AUD)
Book Number: 024742 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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War and Hunger: Rethinking International Responses to Complex Emergencies
MacRea Joanna
ISBN: 1856492923
Zed Books London 1994 First Edition
Paperback 242 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The authors explore ways in which warfare creates hunger. The cases of Angola, Sudan, Tigray, Eritrea, Mozambique and Somalia illuminate the nature of complex emergencies in situations of war. This book is centrally relevant to the difficult issues of policy, institutional reform and development of new human rights approaches which the international community must confront if more effective interventions are to be made. Fine
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024744 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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They Cannot Kill Us All: An Eyewitness Account Of South Africa Today.
Manning Richard
ISBN: 0395437814
Houghton Mifflin Co Boston 1987 First Edition
Hard Cover 255 pages. Ex-Parliament house Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout, the only exception are a couple minor repairs to jacket. In spare, powerful language Manning evokes and portrays South Africans of every race and class and outlook. Winnie Mandela (radiating sensuality and defiance) tells manning, 'These are the last kicks of a dying horse. There is no way they can stop us'. Fine
Price: $34.71 (AUD)
Book Number: 024750 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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A History Of West Africa
Fage J. D.
ISBN: 521095794
Cambridge University Press London 1969 First Edition
Paperback 239 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The many changes in the African scene since 1955, and the growth of reseaech into African history over the past ten years, have made it necessary to plan a new approach to the subject. Good
Price: $11.33 (AUD)
Book Number: 024753 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Fighting Two Colonialisms: Women In Guinea-Bissau
Urdang Stephanie
ISBN: 0853455112
Monthly Review Press New York 1979 First Edition
Hard Cover 320 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The book is both a moving and highly informative account of the way in which one aspect of a revolutionary process-the liberation of women-meshes with the whole struggle, so that a description of the former becomes a description of the latter. Very Good
Price: $16.29 (AUD)
Book Number: 024754 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Sanctions Report: South Africa
Ramphal Shridath
ISBN: 0140523960
Penquin Group London 1989 First Edition
Paperback 273 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This is the report of an independent Group of experts. It was prepared for the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, established by Commonwealth Heads of Government (with the exception of Britain) at their 1987 meeting in Vancouver and comprising the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada(Chairman), India, Guyana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Fine
Price: $12.75 (AUD)
Book Number: 024759 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Mottled Lizard
Huxley, Elspeth
ISBN: 014005958X
Penguin Books Great Britain 1981
Small Duodecimo (12mo), approx. 7" (180mm) tall. Paperback Solid, clean and tight paperback with light creasing to the covers & spine and some yellowing of pages, but overall classified as good+ copy or better. We promptly attend to requests for more detailed description, scanned images, further information on this book's condition. * Good - Very Good
Price: $8.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 113713 Bookseller: BookSplendour
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A Glimpse of Eden
Ames, Evelyn
ISBN: NOISBN
Houghton Mifflin Boston 1967
*Medium Octavo -230mm (9") tall Binding - Hard Cover Hardcover, a clean and tightly bound copy in very good general condition, in dust jacket that has some tears at top of spine. Front endpaper has been clipped. Further details or scanned images are available on request. * Very Good
Price: $10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0216555 Bookseller: BookSplendour
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