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Author Directory
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Gail M. Gerhart
Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid, and Truth
Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau
Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State, 2nd ed.
Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid
Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights
History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
The Debris of Ham: Ethnicity, Regionalism, and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Africa Report: Assessing the New Partnership
The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History
In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa
The Afrikaners: Biography of a People
Politics in South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki
Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town
The Horn of Africa: Politics and International Relations
Imagining the Congo: The International Relations of Identity
Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness
From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Evolving Security Challenges; Security and Politics in South Africa: The Regional Dimension
Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration
Mandela, Mobutu, aned Me: A Newswoman's African Journey
Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa, Volume II: Solidarity and Assistance 1970-1994
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique; The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice, 1986-2000
The African Stakes of the Congo War; The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo
Thabo Mbeki's World: The Politics and Ideology of the South African President
Liberia's Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa; Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau
Give & Take: What's the Matter With Foreign Aid?
Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa's Transition to Democracy
A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement
Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America
Beyond Boundaries: Cyberspace in Africa
Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Africa Action: www.africaaction.org
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: www.irinnews.org
The Pambazuka Newsletter: www.pambazuka.org
God, Oil and Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan
Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale
Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe
African Democracies and African Politics
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food
Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis
Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession; In the Company of Diamonds: Kleinzee, De Beers, and the Control of a Town
Unequal Protection: The State Response to Violent Crime on South African Farms; Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools
Ambiguous Order: Military Forces in African States
Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory
Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failure
After the TRC: Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa; A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
War and Slavery in Sudan
Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa
African Foreign Policies: Power and Process
Notes From the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
Angola From Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism
Islam and Politics in Kenya
Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Constraints and Prospects
Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War
Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African
Africa in the Global Economy
Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
Confessing to Genocide: Responses to Rwanda's Genocide Law; Justice in Africa
Africa and the New World Order
Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law
Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma
Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities
Upington: A Story of Trials and Reconciliation; Black Lawyers, White Courts: The Soul of South African Law
The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991; Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization
United States Interests and Policies in Africa: Transition to a New Era
Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?
Burundi on the Brink, 1993-95: A U.N. Special Envoy Reflects on Preventive Diplomacy
Imperialism, Race, and Resistance: Africa and Britain, 1919-1945
The History of Islam in Africa
Home and Exile
The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960-98
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth; Facing the Truth: South African Faith Communities and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
Hope for Rwanda: Conversations with Laure Guilbert and Herve Deguine
Africa's Thirty Years' War: Libya, Chad, and the Sudan, 1963-1993
Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War
Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process
Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa
The Soul of a Nation: Constitution-Making in South Africa
Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa: Constructivist Reflections and Contemporary Politics
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind
Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction?; Hostile to Democracy: The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda
Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa
ANC: The View from Moscow
Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done
Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy
The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities
Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument
Moi: The Making of an African Statesman
Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence
Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment
The Criminalization of the State in Africa
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
The Sudan: Contested National Identities
Nigeria: Struggle for Stability and Status
African Guerrillas
The Stable Minority: Civilian Rule in Africa, 1960-1990
Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis
Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America
Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary
African Foreign Policies
Multi-Party Politics in Kenya: The Kenyatta and Moi States and the Triumph of the System in the 1992 Election
Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda
Prohibited Persons: Abuse of Undocumented Migrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in South Africa
Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Industry in Africa
Warlord Politics and African States
Rogue Ambassador: An African Memoir
Transition Without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida
Plundering Africa's Past
The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism
South Africa: Limits to Change
Country of My Skull
Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa; Africa in Chaos
Proxy Targets: Civilians in the War in Burundi; The Scars of Death: Children Abducted By the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective
Confronting Leviathan: Mozambique Since Independence; Mozambique: U.N. Peacekeeping in Action, 1992-94
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years
Chad: A Nation in Search of Its Future
Capitalism and Nationalism At the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963
Juvenile Injustice: Police Abuse and Detention of Street Children in Kenya; Failing the Internally Displaced: The UNDP Displaced Persons Program in Kenya
Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa
Learning From Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention; Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the 21st Century
Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction
Apartheid's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State
Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa
Political Reform in Francophone Africa
Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival
Africa's Choices: After Thirty Years of the World Bank
Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire
Kenya Shadow Justice
Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action
Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu
The Wretched of the Earth
False Start in Africa
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa
African Women: A Modern History
White Man's Justice: South African Political Trials in the Black Consciousness Era; Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994
The African Development Bank
Africa in the New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security
Orphan of the Cold War: The Inside Story of the Angolan Peace Process, 1992-23
The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa 1950-1980
Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan; Beset By Contradictions: Islamization, Legal Reform, and Human Rights in Sudan; Facing Genocide: The Nuba of Sudan
Sovereignty As Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa
Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations
Mwalimu: The Influence of Nyerere
Norms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
Oil and Socioeconomic Crisis in Nigeria: A Regional Perspective to the Nigerian Disease and the Rural Sector
African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey; Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa
African Perspectives on Development: Controversies, Dilemmas and Openings; Democracy and Development in Africa
African Exodus: Refugee Crisis, Human Rights and the 1969 OAU Convention
Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile
Managing Arms in Peace Processes: Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe
Conflict in Africa; Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa
Seretse Khama, 1921-1980
Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction
Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide; Rwanda: Death, Despair, and Defiance, revised edition; Rwanda Not So Innocent: When Women Become Killers; Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Corruption, Democracy, and Human Rights in East and Central Africa
A Life
The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993
Fractured History: Elite Shifts and Policy Changes in Nigeria
Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract
Asia and Africa: Legacies and Opportunities in Development
Heart of Whiteness: Afrikaners Face Black Rule in the New South Africa
Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia
In Sight of Surrender: The U.S. Sanctions Campaign Against South Africa, 1946-1993
Collapsed States: The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority
The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective
Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy, and Culture in Botswana
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal?; The Cost of Dictatorship: The Somali Experience
Africa's Wars and Prospects for Peace
South Africa: Twelve Perspectives on the Transition
The New Is Not Yet Born: Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa
Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa
Education in the Development of Tanzania, 1919-1990
Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry Into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique
Dealing With the Past: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Landmines in Mozambique; Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia
African Refugees: Development Aid and Repatriation
Somalia: The Missed Opportunities
Living with Africa
Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Negotiated Revolution
Hard Right: The New White Power in South Africa
France's Relationship with Subsaharan Africa
The Transition to Independence in Namibia
Invisible Crimes: U.S. Private Intervention in the War in Mozambique
Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice
Kenyan Capitalists, the State, and Development
United States Foreign Policy Toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis, and Change
Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Search for Africa: History,Culture, Politics
Mauritania's Campaign of Terror: State-Sponsored Repression of Black Africans
America's Tyrant: The CIA and Mobutu of Zaire
Failing the Democratic Challenge: Freedom of Expression in Multi-Party Kenya, 1993
Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities
Chained Together: Mandela, De Klerk, and the Struggle to Remake South Africa
A Blighted Harvest: The World Bank and African Agriculture in the 1980s; The Debt Crisis in Africa
Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution
Zaire: Continuity and Political Change in an Oppressive State
The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela
Arming Rwanda: The Arms Trade and Human Rights Abuses in the Rwandan War
Europe and Africa: The New Phase
Uganda since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes
Inbulation: Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa
An African-American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche, 28 September 1937-1 January 1938
Development Strategy and the Economy of Sierra Leone
The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-1987
Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia
Divide and Rule: State-Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya
Guinea-Bissau: Power, Conflict, and Renewal in a West African Nation
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms; Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa
Israel and Africa: The Problematic Friendship; The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
Tanzania and the IMF: The Dynamics of Liberalization
The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order
Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Individual Freedoms and State Security in the African Context: The Case of Zimbabwe
At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
Land Mines in Angola
South Africa's Other Whites: Voices for Change
High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood
Ghana: In Search of Stability, 1957-1982
The Rise of a Party State in Kenya: From "Harambee" to "Nayayo!"
Protecting the African Environment: Reconciling North-South Perspectives
After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa
U.S. Economic Policy Toward Africa
The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
Behind The Eurocentric Veils: The Search For African Realities
The Political Economy Of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, And U.S. Policy In The Congo Crisis
The Last Years Of Apartheid: Civil Liberties In South Africa; In A Time Of Trouble: Law And Liberty In South Africa's State Of Emergency
Gabon: Beyond The Colonial Legacy
A Complicated War: The Harrowing Of Mozambique
Lessons Of Struggle: South African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990
The Emergence Of Autocracy In Liberia: Tragedy And Challenge
The African Experience
Structural Adjustment And African Women Farmers
Comrades Against Apartheid: The Anc And The Communist Party In Exile
Bounds Of Possibility
Free At Last? U.S. Policy Toward Africa And The End Of The Cold War
Kenya: Taking Liberties
The Black Man's Burden: Africa And The Curse Of The Nation-State
Changing Fortunes: War, Diplomacy, And Economics In Southern Africa
Nigeria, Africa, And The United States: From Kennedy To Reagan
Evil Days: Thirty Years Of War And Famine In Ethiopia
Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities
Renamo: Terrorism In Mozambique; Mozambique: Who Calls The Shots
Africa 30 Years On
African Successes: Four Public Managers Of Kenyan Rural Development
The Apartheid State In Crisis: Political Transformation In South Africa, 1975-1990
The Political Economy Of Senegal Under Structural Adjustment
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, And Bureaucratic Power In Lesotho
Conflict And Intervention In Africa: Nigeria, Angola, Zaire
Disengagement From Southwest Africa: Prospects For Peace In Angola And Namibia
Mk: The Anc's Armed Struggle
The Cape Of Storms: A Personal History Of The Crisis In South Africa
Ghana: The Political Economy Of Recovery
State Politics In Zimbabwe
Human Rights In Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The Killings In South Africa: The Role Of The Security Forces And The Response Of The State; South Africa: My Vision Of The Future
Academic Freedom And Human Rights Abuses In Africa
American Intellectuals And African Nationalists, 1955-1970
Eritrea: A Pawn In World Politics
The Last Colony In Africa: Diplomacy And The Independence Of Rhodesia
Walvis Bay: Decolonization And International Law
Africa: Dispatches From A Fragile Continent
A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering In A Divided Society
The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism In South Africa
The Cohesion Of Oppression: Clientship And Ethnicity In Rwanda, 1860-1960
Fighting Years: Black Resistance And The Struggle For A New South Africa
How Can Man Die Better . . . Sobukwe And Apartheid
The Silent Revolution In Africa: Debt, Development And Democracy
Where Silence Rules: The Suppression Of Dissent In Malawi
Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, And The Search For Stability
South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search For Status And Security, 1945-1988
Policy Choice And Development Performance In Botswana
Foreign Military Intervention In Africa
Mothers Of The Revolution
The Impact Of Sanctions On South Africa
Stay Out Of Politics: A Philosopher Views South Africa; Running To Maputo
A History Of South Africa
The Mind Of South Africa
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