Afrikas historia
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27 610 produkter
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
199 kr
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När européerna upptäckte världen på 1600-talet sökte många lyckan på andra sidan Atlanten och Indiska oceanen. Konkurrensen var hård och bekymren många: sjörövare, giriga furstar och tropiska farsoter gjorde att köpmännen fick gå samman och bilda handelskompanier. Nederländare, britter, fransmän, danskar, svenskar och österrikare grundade egna kompanier för att bemästra svårigheterna.
Dick Harrison berättar i denna bok om de mytomspunna ostindiska kompaniernas tid. Om hur sagolika skatter och stora förmögenheter hägrade i fjärran och tusentals människor satte livet på spel för att förverkliga drömmar om äventyr och rikedom. Och om hur dessa riskabla sjöresor beredde vägen för den västerländska imperialismen och industriella revolutionen.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
128 kr
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Discover the ground-breaking, must-read history of Africa, the Sunday Times bestseller charting the epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from the perspectives of Africans themselves. Shortlisted for the Nero Book AwardsPicked as a best paperback by the Sunday Times, Guardian and I paperRadio 4 Book of the WeekAs recommended on The Rest is PoliticsEveryone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, Badawi weaves together a gripping new history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.Praise for An African History of Africa:‘Fascinating, thought-provoking and entertaining’ Sunday Times‘Dazzling . . . A book that feels long-overdue’ Vogue‘Authoritative and compelling’ BBC History‘Both a tour d'horizon and a tour de force, marvellously readable and beautifully written . . . I cannot recommend it too strongly or praise it too highly’ Professor Sir David Cannadine‘Remarkable’ Margaret Busby CBE‘Epic, magnificent, brilliant’ Professor Kate Williams
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King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
150 kr
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian.King Leopold's Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.'All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel' - Robert Harris, author of FatherlandNow part of the Picador Collection
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
208 kr
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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 maldevelopment is not a natural feature of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, a practice that continues up into the present. Meticulously researched, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains an unshakably relevant study of the so-called "great divergence" between Africa and Europe, just as it remains a prescient resource for grasping the the multiplication of global inequality today. In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking foreword to the book, exploring its lasting contributions to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
196 kr
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt is the only up-to-date, single-volume history of ancient Egypt available in English. The accessible essays and attractive illustrations portray the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, covering the period from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. The authors - all experts working at the cutting edge of their particular fields - outline the principal sequence of political events, including detailed examinations of the three so-called 'intermediate periods' which were previously regarded as 'dark ages' and are only now beginning to be better understood. Against the backdrop of the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, this Oxford History also examines cultural and social patterns, including stylistic developments in art and literature. The pace of change in such aspects of Egyptian culture as monumental architecture, funerary beliefs, and ethnicity was not necessarily tied to the rate of political change. Each of the authors of this history has therefore set out to elucidate, in both words and pictures, the underlying patterns of social and political change and to describe the changing face of ancient Egypt, from the biographical details of individuals to the social and economic factors that shaped the lives of the population as a whole.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
215 kr
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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‘Wilkinson’s stirring and clear-sighted account of the ancient world's most enduring civilisation comes as a welcome treat’ Sunday Times: Books of the YearThis is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great's invasion and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome.As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity.
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
189 kr
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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 nationalistpartiets valseger 1948 som startår för apartheidsamhället. I själva verket fanns då redan många av de diskriminerande raslagarna på plats. Det som skulle bli ett av historiens värsta förtryckarsamhällen vilade på århundraden av segregation, präglat av ett kolonialt arv och en komplex befolkningssammansättning.
Vad innebar egentligen apartheid och varför uppstod det i Sydafrika? I den här boken berättar Andreas Karlsson kunnigt och engagerat om ett ökänt samhällssystem som varade till början av 1990-talet och fortfarande påverkar Sydafrika. Han ger en tydlig bild av raslagarnas inverkan på befolkningen, omvärldens reaktioner, hur det inhemska motståndet såg ut samt hur det gick till när systemet slutligen avskaffades.
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
243 kr
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 nycklar och historisk kunskap"Aftonbladet
"I kärnfulla avsnitt lägger den svenske journalisten Amat Levin ett pussel av bitar från en försummad del av världshistorien."Östgöta Correspondenten"Det går liksom inte att argumentera mot den här bokens självklara existensberättigande och att den fyller en lucka i de flesta svenskars bildning och bokhyllor."DN, Andres Lokko
För fyra år sedan startade journalisten Amat Levin Instagram-kontot Svart historia. Intresset för kontot exploderade, idag har det nästan 70 000 följare. Uppenbarligen var det många som saknade en mångfacetterad bild av Afrikas och svarta människors historia.
Få delar av världshistorien är lika försummad som svarta afrikaners och den tillhörande diasporan runt om i världen. Fram till för bara sex decennier sedan ansågs den inte ens vara värld att studera. Bilden av Afrika som en kontinent vars historia börjar med ankomsten av européer har på många sätt överlevt fram till idag. Fortfarande finns de som ser på Afrika som mer eller mindre samma land, ett mörkt hörn av världen dominerat av ändlösa krig och utbredd fattigdom, eller de som tänker att kontinenten har kolonialismen att tacka för de framsteg som skett. Att kasta nytt ljus över den sortens tankegångar var utgångspunkten för Amat Levin när han startade kontot och nu ger ut boken Svart historia. I Svart historia blandas en stor mängd personer, fenomen, händelser och skeenden: från uråldriga folkvandringar med massiva konsekvenser, skapandet av världens kanske första kristna stat och den trans-sahariska slavhandeln, till den karibiska frihetskampen, Angelas Davis motstånd och Sister Rosetta Tharpe – rock’n’rollens gudmoder.
Boken försöker inte ge en komplett eller slutgiltig bild av Afrikas, eller svarta människors, historia, utan är en serie nedslag, en samling breda penseldrag som ger en introducerande inblick. Kärnfull utan att vara för förenklande fungerar den som ett verktyg till att bättre förstå världen vi lever i idag.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
306 kr
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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora. The story starts at the very beginning by asking what it would mean to engage philosophically with evidence left by prehistoric peoples of Africa, and proceeds to discuss the philosophical traditions of ancient Egypt, late ancient and early modern Ethopia, and Islamic philosophy in West Africa. A number of chapters then explore the idea of philosophy in African oral traditions, considering the methodological debates that have raged between African philosophers like John Mbiti, Paulin Hountondji, and Henry Odera Oruka. Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers also consider philosophical responses to the situation brought about by the transatlantic slave trade and the early colonization of Africa. Starting from early figures like Anton Wilhelm Amo and Phillis Wheatley, and the ideas that drove the Haitian Revolution, extensive discussion is then given to Africana philosophy of the nineteenth century. The incendiary ideas of David Walker, the nuanced rhetoric of Frederick Douglass, and the clashing approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois are among the highlights here. Significant attention is given to female thinkers like Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells. The coverage is also geographically diverse, with chapters on figures who worked not only in Africa and the United States, but also Brazil, Canada, Britain, France, and the Caribbean.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
149 kr
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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 Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, There Was a Country is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
166 kr
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Haile Salassie, the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Soloman, was a pioneer of African unity and independence, a staunch confederate of the Allies in their fight against the fascist Axis powers and the messiah of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement. A reformer and an autocracy, his rule was brought to a brutal and ignominious end when he was toppled and and murdered by communist rebels.Asfa-Wossen Asserate – a close descendant, who knew the Emperor personally – for the first time brings clarity to the life of this impressive and complex personality. King of Kings is the story of the most eminent African ruler of the 20th century and the country he ruled through both stirring and tragic times.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
219 kr
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ALSO AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW: MICHAEL PALIN IN THE PHILIPPINES - COMING SEPTEMBER 2026.---------The extraordinary new book from the bestselling author, a richly illustrated travel adventure across the African nation.Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.---------With his eightieth birthday looming, it crossed Michael Palin’s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots, to lounge about at home, to take things easy. Then the opportunity to visit Africa’s most populous nation arose. A few weeks later, he was at Lagos airport, camera crew in town.In the journal he kept during his trip he gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited, the landscapes he travelled through, and the people he met: from vibrant but chaotic Lagos, to seemingly deserted streets of Nigeria’s hyper-modern capital, Abuja, to the polluted oil fields of the Niger Delta. Michael Palin is welcomed as an honoured guest by a powerful emir and harangued by a passerby in Benin City. He hears the testimony of a kidnap victim of the terrorist group Boko Haram and experiences the collective spiritual ecstasy of one of Nigeria’s mega churches.And throughout his trip, he experiences at first hand the contradictions of a country that has so much natural wealth and human talent and yet simultaneously grapples with corruption, religious strife and deep inequality._______Praise for Michael Palin:'I cannot remember the last time I read a book so immediately absorbing and affecting.' Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything‘Stirring’ Daily Telegraph'Everybody's talking about it . . . A brilliant book.' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2‘Tremendous’ Guardian'I absolutely loved it: I had to read it at one sitting.' Lorraine Kelly, ITV Lorraine‘Magisterial’ The Times‘[a] winning mix of genuine interest, good-humoured charm and that deceptively steely nose for humbug’ Wanderlust‘ [An] absorbing and beautifully illustrated day-by-day account’ Daily Mirror
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
213 kr
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A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason Stearns has written a compelling and deeply reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's great war.
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
189 kr
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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 skulle Europas stormakter ha delat upp kontinenten mellan sig och deras flaggor vajade från norr till söder, öst till väst.
Hur kom det sig att Europa så plötsligt och snabbt koloniserade Afrika? Vilka strategiska avväganden föregick kapplöpningen om den afrikanska kontinenten och hur såg händelseförloppet ut? Vilka konsekvenser fick koloniseringen för dels stormakternas inbördes relation, dels Afrika och dess befolkning?
Kampen om Afrika beskriver den dramatiska och ofta brutala kapplöpning mellan Europas stormakter som under bara några decennier i slutet av 1800-talet och början av 1900-talet tillintetgjorde afrikanska samhällens möjligheter till självbestämmande. Andreas Karlsson berättar på ett målande och tillgängligt sätt vad som låg till grund för koloniseringen, hur den gick till och vad den fick för konsekvenser.
Boken ingår i serien Världens dramatiska historia.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
233 kr
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The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and protectorates and 10 million square miles of new territory, and 110 million bewildered new subjects. Thomas Pakenham's story of the conquest of Africa is recognised as one of the finest narrative histories of the last few decades.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
123 kr
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Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule, he discovered a land stalked by death and danger.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
279 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
275 kr
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The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century. And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to read—books that were written and copied by hand. In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie offers a history of the book as a handwritten, handmade object in West Africa. Centering his account in the historic city of Timbuktu, Jeppie explores the culture of the “manuscript-book”—unbound pages, often held together by carefully crafted leather covers. He describes the most important and most prolific scholars and their works, the subjects they covered, and ways these books were circulated, collected, and preserved.The authors of the manuscript-books wrote to demonstrate their knowledge to their peers, expound theological and legal opinions, and engage in scholarly disputation. After beginning his account in Timbuktu, Jeppie traces the literary connections among places as distant as Marrakesh in the north and Sokoto in the south, and smaller settlements in between. He chronicles the work of Ahmad Baba in late sixteenth-century Timbuktu and his students in early seventeenth-century Marrakesh; the emergence of writers in the eighteenth century in what today is Mauritania; the writings of the scholar-rulers of Sokoto, northern Nigeria, in the nineteenth century; and the eventual discovery of the manuscript-book world of West Africa by European travelers and French colonial officials. Finally, Jeppie finds that the handwritten text persisted even after the advent of the printed book, and even among writers whose books were in print, including the famous Malian novelist Amadou Hampâté Bâ.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
193 kr
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Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous reconstruction of a dazzling life.
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
272 kr
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I boken Det forntida Egypten – Enligt Edgar Cayce kommer vi närmare det gamla Egyptens liv och gåtor. Nutida forskning bekräftar mycket av det som Edgar Cayce avslöjade för eftervärlden. En del av hans readingar handlar om tidigare liv i Egypten. Författaren kombinerar dessa med egyptiska legender som förekommer i papyrusrullar, på tempelväggar och i pyramidtexter för att ge en mer fullständig bild som avslöjar hela historien om prästinnor, healers, kvinnliga faraoner och gudar bland människor. I det första kapitlet får vi veta att översteprästen Ra-Ta reste runt i världen med flyg! För oss kan det vara svårt att förstå att urtida folk hade tekniskt kunnande för att göra flygresor. Det fanns flyg i urtida Indien och i Egypten, det fanns kaldeiska och babyloniska flygplan och det lyfts bevis för mayas och inkas flygplan. I boken berättas om olika tempel i Egypten. Edgar Cayce har mest beskrivit två typer av dem: Offertempel, som var en fysisk upplevelse och Skönhetens tempel som snarare hade mental karaktär. En annan intressant uppgift om templen var att man där skulle skapa kroppar som inkarnerade själar kunde bo i. En bok om Egypten behandlar naturligtvis också pyramiderna, och i synnerhet den stora pyramiden med dess intressanta profetia. Läs Cayces kommentarer till David Davidsons och H. Adersmiths upptäckter. Flera av de mer än 80 illustrationerna berör pyramiderna och dess profetiska tidslinje. Pyramider på andra platser på jorden tas också upp. Cayces readingar berättar att det finns tre uppsättningar arkiv gömda på olika platser. I dem finns en förhistorisk redogörelse från den atlantiska eran om den tid då själar började komma in i materiella kroppar. Dessa arkiv har ännu inte hittats. Annat du kan läsa om är: Hermes – en gud bland människor, en kvinnlig farao som hade stor betydelse, mänsklighetens sju stadier mot upplysning och det egyptiska bildspråket. Bokens över 300 sidor ger en intressant och spännande bild av det forntida Egypten, sett ur Edgar Cayces synvinkel. John Van Auken är författare till ett flertal bästsäljande böcker. På svenska finns förutom Det forntida Egypten – Enligt Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce om Jesus - Hans ord tolkade, Hans mystiska undervisning uppenbarad, Edgar Cayce om andliga krafter inom dig, Profetior för vår tid – Den yttersta tiden?, Från Karma till Nåd samt Edgar Cayce och Kabbalah.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
343 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2012
132 kr
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Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood. Throughout, reading is his refuge and his solace. And when, in 2002, a writing prize comes through, the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. Resolutely avoiding stereotype and cliche, Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive and hugely memorable brush.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
335 kr
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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 researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. More than 70 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo-because we are all implicated.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft.
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
189 kr
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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 land i kaos?
Steg för steg förändrades uppdraget och de svenska styrkorna blev alltmer en stridande part i ett inbördeskrig kring utbrytarstaten Katanga. Att Sverige ändå slöt upp berodde till stor del på att Dag Hammarskjöld var FN:s generalsekreterare. För honom var Kongokrisen en avgörande utmaning där han måste visa att världsorganisationen kunde spela en självständig roll mellan stormakterna.
I ett försök att hitta en väg ut ur den förvärrade krisen reste Hammarskjöld till Kongo i september 1961, det uppdrag som skulle bli hans sista och som slutade i en nattlig flygkrasch under oklara omständigheter. Var det en olycka som den officiella utredningen snabbt slog fast? Eller hade Hammarskjöld direkt eller indirekt bragts om livet av någon av de krafter som ville röja honom ur vägen?
Boken ingår i serien Sveriges dramatiska historia.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
190 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
226 kr
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Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively short, Sankara left an indelible mark on his country's history and development. An avowed Marxist, he outspokenly asserted his country's independence from France and other Western powers while at the same time seeking to build a genuine pan-African unity.Ernest Harsch traces Sankara's life from his student days to his recruitment into the military, early political awakening, and increasing dismay with his country's extreme poverty and political corruption. As he rose to higher leadership positions, he used those offices to mobilize people for change and to counter the influence of the old, corrupt elites. Sankara and his colleagues initiated economic and social policies that shifted away from dependence on foreign aid and toward a greater use of the country's own resources to build schools, health clinics, and public works. Although Sankara's sweeping vision and practical reforms won him admirers both in Burkina Faso and across Africa, a combination of domestic opposition groups and factions within his own government and the army finally led to his assassination in 1987.This is the first English-language book to tell the story of Sankara's life and struggles, drawing on the author's extensive firsthand research and reporting on Burkina Faso, including interviews with the late leader. Decades after his death, Sankara remains an inspiration to young people throughout Africa for his integrity, idealism, and dedication to independence and self-determination.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
533 kr
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Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp? Hannibal appeals to many as the ultimate underdog—a Carthaginian David against the Goliath of Rome—but it wasn't just his genius on the battlefield that set him apart. As a boy and then a man, his self-discipline and determination were legendary. As a military leader, like Alexander the Great before him and Julius Caesar after, he understood the hearts of men and had an uncanny ability to read the unseen weaknesses of his enemy. As a commander in war, Hannibal has few equals in history and has long been held as a model of strategic and tactical genius. But Hannibal was much more than just a great general. He was a practiced statesman, a skilled diplomat, and a man deeply devoted to his family and country. Roman historians—on whom we rely for almost all our information on Hannibal—portray him as a cruel barbarian, but how does the story change if we look at Hannibal from the Carthaginian point of view? Can we search beneath the accounts of Roman writers who were eager to portray Hannibal as a monster and find a more human figure? Can we use the life of Hannibal to look at the Romans themselves in an unfamiliar way— not as the noble and benign defenders of civilization but as ruthless conquerors motivated by greed and conquest?
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
229 kr
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“An exciting biography of one of history’s greatest commanders…a thrilling page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant Carthaginian general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees, and who is still regarded today as one of the greatest military strategists in history.Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world. His father, Hamilcar, imposed Carthaginian rule over much of present-day Spain. After Hamilcar led the Carthaginian forces against Rome in the First Punic War, Hannibal followed in his father’s footsteps. From the time he was a teenager, Hannibal fought against Rome. He is famed for leading Carthage’s army across North Africa, into Spain, along the Mediterranean coast, and then crossing the Alps with his army and war elephants—a legendary feat in military campaigns. Hannibal won victories in northern Italy by outmaneuvering his Roman adversaries and defeated a larger Roman army at the battle of Cannae in 216 BC. Unable to force Rome to capitulate, however, he was eventually forced to leave Italy and return to Carthage when a savvy Roman general named Scipio invaded North Africa. Hannibal and Scipio fought an epic battle at Zama, which Hannibal lost. Many Carthaginians blamed Hannibal, who was exiled until his death. Hannibal is still regarded as a military genius. Napoleon, George Patton, and Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. are only some of the generals who studied and admired him. His strategy and tactics are still taught in military academies. “With wonderful energy…archeologist and historian Patrick Hunt distills his survey of literature about the Second Punic War into a brightly dramatic story that covers virtually every anecdote connected with Hannibal” (The Christian Science Monitor).
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
274 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick forest in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), abruptly ending his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Across the world, many suspected sabotage, accusing the multi-nationals and the governments of Britain, Belgium, the USA and South Africa of involvement in the disaster. These suspicions have never gone away.British High Commissioner Lord Alport was waiting at the airport when the aircraft crashed nearby. He bizarrely insisted to the airport management that Hammarskjold had flown elsewhere - even though his aircraft was reported overhead. This postponed a search for so long that the wreckage of the plane was not found for fifteen hours. White mercenaries were at the airport that night too, including the South African pilot Jerry Puren, whose bombing of Congolese villages led, in his own words, to 'flaming huts ...destruction and death'. These soldiers of fortune were backed by Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesian Federation, who was ready to stop at nothing to maintain white rule and thought the United Nations was synonymous with the Nazis. The Rhodesian government conducted an official inquiry, which blamed pilot error. But as this book will show, it was a massive cover-up that suppressed and dismissed a mass of crucial evidence, especially that of African eye-witnesses. A subsequent UN inquiry was unable to rule out foul play - but had no access to the evidence to show how and why. Now, for the first time, this story can be told. Who Killed Hammarskjold follows the author on her intriguing and often frightening journey of research to Zambia, South Africa, the USA, Sweden, Norway, Britain, France and Belgium, where she unearthed a mass of new and hitherto secret documentary and photographic evidence.