Afrikas historia

Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rig...

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Nominerad till Augustpriset för Årets Fackbok 2022 "Ulrika Knutson fångas av en oavbrutet spännande bok, full av öden som alla kan fylla tjocka biografier i egen rätt." Expressen "Amat Levin ger den svarta diasporan i Sverige nyckla...

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Den svenska FN-insatsen i Kongo 1960-1964 var redan från början kontroversiell. Det svenska försvaret hade vid denna tid inga erfarenheter av operationer långt från hemlandet. Och vad var det egentligen man skulle uppnå som fredsbevarare i ett lan...

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**2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist** Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human r...

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver. In the late ninetee...

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År 1870 inskränkte sig de europeiska intressena i Afrika till ett litet antal, mestadels kustnära områden, bara några procent av kontinentens yta. Afrikas inland var okänt och ansågs vara både farligt och ointressant. Men inom bara några decennier...

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'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the E...

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2024* *An instant Sunday Times bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian and The Rest is Politics Everyone is originally fro...

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An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco. In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Mo...

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A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa. In mid-1940, Italys East African colonies posed a significant threat to the...

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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.    In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of A...

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African mald...

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A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra. A sophisticated and complete account The Times: Books of the Year Wilkinsons stirring and clear-sighted account...

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt describes the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans. It details the changing nat...

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Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? The technology of harmonic resonance, claims renowned master craftsman and ...

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Apartheid i Sydafrika var ett av 1900-talets mest brutala samhällssystem , ett systematiskt rasbaserat förtryck av majoritetsbefolkningen . Själva ordet "apartheid" lär ha myntats av en vit pastor på 1920-talet men ofta betraktas nationa...

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A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-e...

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**Winner of the Guardian First Book award** 'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm Should be compulsory reading ...

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This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War IIs Desert War. Making its combat debut in North Africa during December 1940, Italys M13/40 medium tank was armed ...

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Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africas burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only tempora...

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This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanons landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment neces...

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A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a...

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Afrikas historia är en vandring genom kontinentens historia - från människans start i Östafrika, via riken som forna Egypten, Mali, Aksum och Stora Zimbabwe, till slaveri, kolonialism och dagens Afrika. Boken är en introduktion och ska ge grundläg...

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The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Afric...

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The Original Anunnaki Bible! Discover the secret library of Sumerian cuneiform tablets kept by the oldest Babylonian mystery school of Mesopotamia and preserving the most ancient writings on the planet. The revised and updated 10th Anniversary Del...

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Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever expose of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researc...

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The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices. The digital devices that, many would argue, define this era exist not only beca...

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'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' Spectator 'This book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly accurate' Financial Times The fortunes of Africa have changed drama...

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"Lejonet av Juda stam har segrat Kejsare Haile Sellassie I Av Gud utvald, konungarnas konung av Etiopien Må detta nå Monsieur Stjärne!" - Utdrag ur brev från kejsare Haile Sellassie till Per Stjärne Efter andra världskriget kom relatione...

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