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From  Introduction |
In the introduction, Robert Philpot reflects on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the shooting down of the Rwandan president’s plane which triggered war, destruction, and massacres in … | Robin Philpot | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! IntroductionFrom: Postcards from Congo |
The Introduction provides an overview of the 150 year history of the modern state of the Democratic Republic of Congo, maps, and etymology. | Edmund Trueman | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Introduction: Some Parts Went Missing |
In this introduction, Filippi examines Italian colonialism and why the period from 1882 to 1960 remains largely absent from Italy’s collective memory. | Francesco Filippi | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From Invasion? What Invasion? |
In Chapter 1, Philpot challenges the notion that the Rwandan Patriotic Front under its leadership of the current Rwandan President Paul Kagame– who, along with many fellow officers was … | Robin Philpot | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
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From It Shall be Called a Plane Crash |
In Chapter 6, Philpot discusses the April 6th 1994 assassinations of two African presidents, Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, looking at how these assassinations … | Robin Philpot | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Libya from the Ottomans to King IdrisFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter traces Libya’s history over centuries of foreign domination and the fight among Western countries over the control of its oil wealth and the rise of Muammar Qadaffi, who, … | Owen Schalk | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its DiscontentsFrom: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter Three, Forte focus on Pan-Africanism and the relationships between Gaddafi’s Libya and key African Leaders. Forte highlights how much of Gaddafi’s thinking followed in the … | Maximilian C. Forte | 50 | 2012 | $5.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Life in the Heart of Darkness: KinshasaFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene paints a portrait of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tracing its suffering from Belgian colonialism through Patrice Lumumba’s assassination in 1960 to … | Roger Turene | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Lockerbie: A sprawling affairFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter reviews the facts surrounding the Lockerbie tragedy and how although early evidence pointed to Iran as responsible for the downing of the airplane, the West used Lockerbie to justify … | Owen Schalk | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment |
Chapter 5 examines Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, when governments– advised by Western development specialists– sought to “capture” peasant production and boost export … | Jim Handy | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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NEW! Postcards from CongoA Graphic History |
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and … | Edmund Trueman | 176 | 2022 | View |
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From Power to Those Who Have It!Phillip Gourevitch |
In Chapter 9, Philpot explores the notion of the chosen “good” chiefs who the Europeans used during their imperial and colonial pursuits in Africa. Philpot discusses two African … | Robin Philpot | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Postcards from Congo |
Preface by author Edmond Trueman explaining his motivations behind the book and the choice to make it an illustrated history. | Edmund Trueman | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From Regurgitations: What’s Left? |
In this chapter, Filippi traces how roughly eighty years of Italian colonial rule, spanning the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries, left enduring marks on language, cinema, and … | Francesco Filippi | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From Returns: Colonial Memory and Colonial Oblivion |
In this chapter, Filippi traces how Italian society sidestepped reckoning with its colonial past after the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties stripped the nation of all overseas territories. | Francesco Filippi | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! Rwanda and BurundiFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses Canadian diplomat Richard Howard’s 1974 journey through Rwanda and Burundi, a region still reeling from the 1972 Burundi genocide. | Roger Turene | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
