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Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy's Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

By Ian Campbell

War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

By Jonathon Glassman

Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945

By Laura Fair (Royalty Account)

The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers

By John Markakis

The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay

By Christopher Clapham

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History

By Dr. John Binns (Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies, UK)

We Are The Voice of the Grass: Interfaith Peace Activism in Northern Uganda

By David A. Hoekema

Me Against My Brother

By scott peterson

The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame

By Ian Campbell

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda

By Jonathon L. Earle (Royalty Account), J.J. Carney

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

By Stephen Spector (Professor of English, Professor of English, SUNY Stony Brook)

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization

By Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

By Terence Gavaghan

Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-70

By Gavin Kitching

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

By Daniel Branch

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

By E.S.Atieno Odhiambo (Author), John Lonsdale

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa

By Thomas Spear (Author), Richard Waller (Customer)

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

By Justin Willis (Assistant Director, Assistant Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi)

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

By Bruce Berman (Author), John Lonsdale

Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan

By Elena Vezzadini

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

By Caroline Elkins

Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

By Stephen Rockel

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

The Happy Valley

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Politics and Violence in Burundi: The Language of Truth in an Emerging State

By Aidan Russell (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Man and Development

By Julius K. Nyerere