Search Results: Modern Africa from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(New York, Council on Foreign Relations, 1987). 8vo; original burgundy cloth; laminated dustwrapper somewhat edgeworn; pp. xii + 51. Very good condition. "General Obasanjo . . . offers a broad appraisal of Africa's well-being in this book, adapted from the Leffingwell lecture series he gave at the Council on Foreign Relations in March 1987. He is acutely aware of Africa's problems, and warns of the consequences of further delay in seeking solutions. He argues that the overall answer lies in development of economic resources and manpower, but each country must be treated individually, and problems must be resolved in the context of Africa's unique environment and challenges." .

(Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis, 2009) 9781869193409. 8vo; original aquamarine boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; ribbon page-markers; pp. 666, incl. index; colour maps, incl. folding; several plates in monochrome and full colour reproducing contemporary photographs of Afrikaner families, individuals and their dwellings; tables. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed; trace of curl to bottom edge of lower panel. Near fine condition. Afrikaans text. A fascinating and thorough history of the remnants of the Dorsland Trekkers in Angola. 'Ná ongekende lyding en 'n swerftog van sewe jaar deur die onherbergsame droë dele van Suider-Afrika het die Dorslandtrekkers hulle in 1881 in Angola gevestig. Mettertyd het die aanvanklike goeie verhoudinge met die Portuguese owerheid versleg en ongeveer 2000 Angola-Boere is in 1928 na Suidwes-Afrika gerepatrieer. Die gemeenskap van ongeveer 400 Angola-Boere wat ná 1928 in Angola agtergebly het, is aan die vergetelheid en verwaarlosing… Read More

(London: Kogan Page, 1979) 0850382181. 233 x 156 mm; laminated wrappers; pp. 240, incl. index; tables. Slightly curled; earlier owner's name signed on half-title. Good condition. "Aid in Africa provides a statistical breakdown of the aid received by African countries and an analysis of the factors underlying the statistics. It examines volume and distribution of aid, its effectiveness and the political implications which underpin aid programmes." .

(Johannesburg: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998) 1919749098. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 168. Dustwrapper very slightly curled and rubbed; trace of spotting to top edge. Near fine condition. "For almost four decades Stephen Mulholland's restless and inquiring mind has entertained and infuriated South African readers. Almost alone in South African journalism he championed the cause of free markets and free enterprise in the early 1960s and he continues to speak out against policies, such as affirmative action, which he believes will be detrimental to the economy and to South Africans in general. This collection of weekly columns in the Sunday Times covers a scintillating range of topics with verve and insight. Mulholland's interests range from sport to education, from business to foreign affairs, from American economics to South African politics and from management techniques to the personality of Tony… Read More

(Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2009) 9781770101616. 198 x 130 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiv + 196; some tables and graphs. Wrappers very slightly curled; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Of an estimated 1 billion people in the world who are trapped in a cycle of grinding poverty and despair, a disproportionate number live in sub-Saharan Africa. In this innovative and challenging account, Moeletsi Mbeki analyses the plight of Africa and concludes that the fault lies not with the mass of its people but with its rulers - the political elites who contrive to keep their fellow citizens poor while enriching themselves." .

(New York: Grove Press, 2008) 9780802143006. 208 x 138 mm; wrappers; pp. xviii + 206. Very good condition. "Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on black identity and critical race studies as Frantz Fanon's, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movements, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important thinkers on revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in human history." .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2015) 9781868426966. 233 x 151 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 228, incl. index. Near-fine condition. "A blow-by-blow account of the degeneration of Eskom from global energy power-house to dysfunctional monolith ... In 1998 the government was warned that the country was running out of electricity. Yet the decision was taken not to invest in new power stations. In 2007, as predicted, South Africa ran out of electricity. Eight years later the crisis has deepened and, despite assurances by government, this has the potential to become the biggest post-apartheid crisis in South Africa. By 2015 load shedding cost the economy an estimated R2 billion per day. Is the situation getting better or worse? Are the interventions working or is a blackout inevitable? What can be done and what do future scenarios look like? Blackout - The Eskom Crisis gives a compelling insight into each aspect of the energy crisis - from load shedding to leadership, policy to politics to… Read More

(no place: Westview Press, 2002) 0813339391. 8vo; original pale grey papered boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. xxv + (i) + 251, incl. index. Near-fine condition. 'First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry--institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel--have allowed it to happen.' .

(London: Zed Books, 2011) 9781848135215. 215 x 136 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xvii + (i) + 302, incl. index. Near-fine condition. "No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence became a brutal police state less than thirty years later, plagued by hyperinflation and collapsing life expectancy and abandoned by a third of its citizens. Beginning with the British conquest and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards it." .

(Cape Town, HAUM, 1975). 8vo; original orange boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. x + 529; photograph portraits of each of the leaders, and locality maps for each of the African states. Slight wear to dustwrapper; previous owner's discreet hand-stamp on front free endpaper. Very good condition. Studies of forty-five African statesmen. "With the last vestiges of colonialism (and bondage) fast disappearing from the face of the African continent, the spotlight of international interest has once again been focussed on the men in charge of the destinies of the various African states. This is the first attempt to assemble the contemporary leaders of Africa as one family. And what makes this book unique is that it is a collection of sketches which has been composed from material supplied by the African leaders themselves on request of the author." .

(Princeton: D. van Nostrand Company, 1964). 180 x 107 mm; wrappers; pp. 192, incl. index. Wrappers a little rubbed; light browning; occasional fox spot; earlier owner's name signed on title page. Good condition. 'In bringing his popular account of contemporary Africa up to date, Professor Wallbank has added a new chapter entitled "Eight Momentous Years, 1956-1964." He has also included the text of Macmillan's "Winds of Change" speech, and made revisions to the first six chapters.' .

(New York: Paragon House, 1990) 1557781400. 8vo; black cloth-backed brown boards, with metallic copper lettering to spine; laminated dustwrapper; pp. xii + 228, incl. index; tables. Near fine condition. "It has generally been assumed that democracy, involving competition between contending parties within a constitutional framework which allows a free choice for the electorate, is not a viable form of politics in Africa and is largely irrelevant in a continent dominated by the authoritarianism of single-party and military rule. In Democracy in Black Africa: Survival and Revival, John A. Wiseman argues in detail, for the first time, that such a view is not only unduly pessimistic but is at odds with the evidence. Concentrating on the continued existence of democracy in Africa rather than its collapse, on its successes rather than its failures, a reassessment of the role of democracy emerges which is at once both positive and realistic." .

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960). 8vo, dustwrapper, torn without loss, original red cloth, pp. xi + 496, tables, plates. Very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. 'This book is concerned with a phase of political development which has been in progress for about twelve years and has not yet been the subject of much academic study. Throughout what was once the colonial world, new political units are being created following the withdrawal of European control. A few of these have inherited the territory of ancient states, but in most places the new entity is an artificial one, defined mainly by the accidents of European diplomacy during the phase of colonization.' Western and Easter Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Kenya. .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) 9781868427567. 232 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + 440, incl. index; line drawings. Cover slightly rubbed. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Die ongekende sukses van Afrikaner-sakelui het die afgelope drie dekades verras en verstom. 'n Aantal is vandag dollar-miljardêrs met uitgebreide internasionale belange. Die opkoms van die Afrikaner-magnaat is veral merkwaardig in die lig van die regering se omvattende program van swart ekonomiese bemagtiging." .

(London: Faber and Faber, 1974). 8vo; original burgundy boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 254, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, and spine panel sunned; top edge of lower board scuffed; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; some foxing. Good to very good condition. "The news that Dr. Milton Obote, President of Uganda, had been deposed by General Idi Amin on 25th January 1971 was greeted optimistically by many countries in the West. Since then Amin's fame has spread like wildfire as the incredulous world receives his increasingly outrageous pronouncements. But the smiling, childish image which the media have indulgently created for the figure who rose from army cook to President of a modern nation state conceals the qualities of one of the most feared dictators of this century. Even before independence, Idi Amin had acquired a record of brutality, but since coming to power ... the death toll in Uganda has mounted appallingly. ...… Read More

(London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991) 1856190722. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 206; map; plates. Near-fine condition. "At last, in 1990, for the first time in 30 years, [Graham Lord] returned to the lands of his childhood and spoke to some of the survivors, among them ex-Prime Ministers Ian Smith, Sir Garfield Todd and Sir Roy Welensky. This is his report of what his Africa was like once and how it is now. It is a vivid mixture of autobiography, history, travelogue and political journalism, a personal quest that gives the reader an extraordinary picture of two countries and their peoples." .

(London: Harper Collins, 2006) 0007219385. 8vo; original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxviii + 290; map; photographs in text. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. "House of Stone ('dzimba dza mabwe' or 'Zimbabwe' in Shona words) is based on a remarkable series of interviews with a white farmer and black nanny, set against the backdrop of the last of Britain's colonies in Africa to become independent, and the descent into madness of one of Africa's most respected nationalist leaders." .

(London: Hurst & Company, 2004) 1850657319. 215 x 137 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xiii + (i) + 279, incl. index; tables. Very good condition. "America's 'war on terrorism' has thrown political Islam in Africa into the international spotlight. This book examines the social and political manifestations of Islamism in north-east Africa, including the Nile Valley and the Horn. Militant Islamists were a powerful force in the region in the 1990s, seizing state power in Sudan where they pursued far-reaching programmes for comprehensive social transformation. They succeeded in moving the sociopolitical consensus on to Islamist terrain, but their more ambitious aims were unattainable. By 2000 jihadist Islamism was in retreat, brought down by both its own political and ideological limitations and the wars waged by its adversaries. In the meantime the regional enemies of the Islamic state themselves faced exhaustion. Since 2001 a new set of dynamics has been unfolding in… Read More

(Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 2002) 3453861094. 180 x 115 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 199, incl. index; plates; map. Wrappers very slightly rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on first page; a little spotting. Good to very good condition. German text. In this fascinating look at the power vacuum existing in Somalia, Michael Birnbaum, long-serving Africa correspondent for the Suddeutscher Zeitung, looks behind the chaos and reveals the fundamentalist forces at work. .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2009) 978868423620. 233 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers (housed in removable protector); pp. (viii) + 312. Crease to upper cover; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "Having left Africa in search of adventure and excitement a decade earlier, the author discovers that the great story he had travelled the world looking for was happening in his parents' backyard. And in going home he discovers that there is a lot more to his country, himself, and his parents, than he had ever imagined. Thrilling, heart-breaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is an inspiring coming-of-age tale about home, love, hope, responsibility and redemption." .