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Losing your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes

By An Ansoms, Thea Hilhorst, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Chris Huggins (Contributor)

Social Torture: The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006

By Chris Dolan

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

By Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century

By Richard Reid

Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

By Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom

Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings

By Maxwell, Ingrid Lawrie

East African Expressions of Christianity

By Thomas Spear (Author), Isaria N. Kimambo

Having People, Having Heart - Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

By China Scherz

Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: From the 13th to the 20th Century

By Donald Crummey (Author)

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru

By Thomas Spear (Author)

Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro

By Mary Howard, Ann V. Millard

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

By Steven Feierman (Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

By Tabitha Kanogo

Narrative and Genre

By Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

By Luise White

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

The Multiple Identities of the Middle East

By Bernard Lewis

Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda

By Susan Reynolds Whyte

The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies

By Abdul Sheriff, Enseng Ho

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

By Paul Gilroy

Dangerous Alliances: Civil Society, the Media and Democratic Transition in North Africa

By Lise Garon

Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

By Walima T Kalusa, Megan Vaughan

The Domestication of the Savage Mind

By Jack Goody (University of Cambridge)

Cultures of Empire: A Reader : Colonisers in Britain and the Empire in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By Catherine Hall

Colonialism/Postcolonialism

By Ania Loomba

The Drunken King, or, The Origin of the State

By Luc de Heusch

Explorations in African Systems of Thought

By Ivan Karp, Charles S. Bird

The Greeks

By Sir Kenneth J. Dover

A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present

By Patrizia Palumbo, angelo del Boca, giulia barrera, Barbara Sorgoni, Nicola Labanca

Oromo Democracy: An Indigenous African Political System

By Asmarom Legesse