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Despatches from the Governors of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika and from the Administrator, East Africa High Commission, commenting on the East Africa Royal Commission 1953 - 1955 Report
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956. 196p. +6p. stapled pamphlet laid-in, tables, very good in blue printed wraps.
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NZ$33.78
A History of East Africa
by Ingham, Kenneth
London : Longmans, 1963. Stated 2nd Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 458 pages; Description: xii, 458 p. , 8 leaves of plates : illus. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Africa, East --History.
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NZ$42.57
A History of East Africa
by Ingham, Kenneth
London: Longman, 1965 This is an authoritative history of East Africa from the earliest times to the present day, written for students in sixth forms and universities. It is also intended to serve as a source book for school history books. The publication of so balanced and com prehensive a study is especially welcome at this point in African affairs. The author shows clearly both the diversity of African history and the potential for unity which exists in a part of the world where circum stances have...
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NZ$675.68
Sleepless Nights
by Obasa, G., and S. N. Waititu
Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1975. 64p., 5x7 inches, poetry, text in English, first and last pages evenly toned else very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps.
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NZ$33.78
East of the Atlantic, West of the Congo; art from Equatorial Africa, the Dwight & Blossom Strong Collection
by Siroto, Leon, Kathleen Berrin, editor, Dwight & Blossom Strong
San Francsic & Seattle: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco & The University of Washington Press, 1995. 62p., 8.5x11 inches, preface, essay, catalogue, map, bibliography, b&w and color plates, very good first edition catalogue of the exhibition in trade paperback format, pictorial wraps, personally inscribed and signed by the collectors, the Strongs.
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NZ$59.12
The Maasai of Matapato a study of rituals of rebellion
by Spencer, Paul
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xii, 297p., line maps, charts and diagrams; first edition hardbound in cloth boards gilt and dust jacket, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy.
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NZ$42.23
Bomas of Kenya present Kenya traditional dance
by Harambee Dancers, Bomas of Kenya
Nairobi: Bomas of Kenya, 1979. [18p.] 6.75x9.5 inches, demographical map, photos, dance descriptions, very good in stapled pictorial wraps.
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NZ$50.68
The gathering storm; a novel
by Sokko, Hamza
Dar Es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, 1977. Paperback. 177p., very good first edition small trade paperback in printed wraps. Parallel stories of two Bulembe families coming to terms with Independence.
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NZ$25.34
Early Trade in Eastern Africa
by Sutton, J. E. G
Nairobi: Published for the Historical Association of Tanzania by the East African Publishing House, 1973. 42p., line map, staplebound 5.5x8.5 inch wraps, a very good copy. Historical Association of Tanzania Paper No. 11.
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NZ$16.89
DhoLuo vowel harmony: a phonetic investigation
by Jacobson, Leon Carl
Los Angeles: University of California, 1978. x, 121p., 8.5x11 inches, paperback, top of spine panel torn, crease to front cover; a decent reading copy. Working Papers in Phonetics, 43.
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NZ$28.72
The Swahili; reconstructing the history and language of an African society, 800 - 1500
by Nurse, Derek and Thomas Spear
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Paperback. viii+133p., preface, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, illustrated with figures and maps, some damp stains to page edges, else very good first paperback edition in original decorative wraps.
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NZ$20.27
The Study Tour to East Africa 1970; Report by the Participants
by Blanner, Peter, student leader; et alia
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, The Natural History - Geographical Subject Group, 1972. 439p., in-text illustrations from photography, diagrammatic sketches, and maps; softbound in 9.2x6.7 inch wraps, cover shows slight edgewear and handling soil, a clean, sound, very good copy.
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NZ$50.68
Socialism and Social Accountability in a Developing Nation; problems in the transformation of the Tanzanian Economy and Society
by Nsekela, Amon J
Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978. Paperback. x, 179p., first edition 7.2x4.8 inch coated turquoise wraps, paperstock toned and spine panel yellowed, sound and entirely clean within, a very good copy.
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NZ$33.78
Rolprentavonture
by Sangiro [Andries Albertus Pienaar]
(no place: Voortrekkerpers, 1951). 8vo; original blue papered boards; pp. 287; photographs. Boards a little splayed; some foxing to page edges. Good. Afrikaans text. Although Rolprentavonture saw several printings, it is probably the hardest of Sangiro's works to find. The origins of Sangiro's move from hunting and journalism to wildlife filmmaking are described thus in P. J. Nienaber's 'Hier is ons Skrywers': 'Terwyl hy in Duitsland was, het die UFA-filmmaatskappy hom...
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NZ$21.30
Swahili lessons
by Haddon, Ernest B
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1955. Hardcover. xxx, 245p., foreword, introduction, key, appendixes, index, slight foxing on endpapers, else good in soiled dj. Dj has a small section of the front flap torn off with no loss of text.
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NZ$20.27
The Quest for Democracy in Africa
by Kobia, Samuel
Nairobi: National Council of Churches of Kenya, 1993. x, 60p., preface, introduction, notes, tables, some small stains on the margins of several pages, wraps.
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NZ$16.89
Annual report Jahresbericht 1972; YMCA Crafts Training Centre, Shauri Moyo
Nairobi: YMCA Crafts Training Centre, Shauri Moyo, 1972. 24p., 11.5x12 inches, report, statements by the staff and students accompanied by their pictures and photos of the centre and artworks, center-spread on newsprint reprint of an article in the Sunday Nation, texts in English and German, very good in original stapled color illustrated wraps with map on rear panel.
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NZ$59.12
Proposals for a central missionary council of episcopal and non-episcopal churches in East Africa
by Weston, Frank, D. D., Bishop of Zanzibar
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1914. 15p., 5.5x8.5 inches, preface, erratum slip bound-in, sewn wraps with covers detached but present.
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NZ$25.34
Changing realities in the Horn of Africa: implications for Africa and U.S. Policy; report of the Thirty-Second Strategy for Peace, US Foreign Policy Conference
by [Stanley Foundation]
Muscatine: The Stanley Foundation, 1991. 28p., 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, very good in stapled wraps. Convened at Airlie House Conference Center, Warrento, West Virginia.
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NZ$30.41
A History of East Africa
by INGHAM, Kenneth
(London): Longmans, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with a darkened spine.
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NZ$84.46
Beans in farming systems in Langali and Kibaoni villages, Mgeta Area, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; a report submitted to Dr. Matt Silbernagel, Principal investigator Bean/Cowpea CRSP, Tanzania, Technical Report No. 2, Tanzania
by Due, Jean M., Dr. P. Anandajayasekram, N. S. Mdoe, and Marcia White
Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, 1984. v, 52p., 8.5x11 inches, summary and conclusions, bibliography, tables, very good in original comb binding and paper covers. aAE-4560.
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NZ$42.23
Der Kilimandjaro: sein land und seine menschen, mit 156 abbildungen und vier tafelin nach autochromaufnahmen
by Geilinger, Dr. med. Walter
Bern-Berlin: Verlag Hans Huber, 1930. Hardcover. 182p., text in German, illustrated with b&w photos on plates, folding map at rear, very good first edition in pictorial green cloth with stain on cover.
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NZ$42.23
The ideology of rapid development: motivation or model? (a preliminary attempt)
by Nellis, John R
Syracuse: Syracuse University/Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1967. 46p. printed recto only, 8.5x11 inches, some light highlighting, library rejection stamp on cover, otherwise very good in Acco bound red wraps. The Program of Eastern African Studies Occasional Paper No. 28.
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NZ$42.23
A Most Surprising Man The Life of Victor Marra Newland
by Fitzgerald, Mary Anne
Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2020. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 pages. Victor Marra Newland OBE MC DCM - hunter, soldier and entrepreneur - was descended from Australian pioneers. In 1904 he started British East Africa's first safari company. Along the way...
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NZ$38.52
Mothers and Wives: Gusii Women of East Africa
by LeVine, Sarah
Chicago. Chicago: U. Chicago Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. No defects in book or jacket. Pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. Jacket now protected by fresh mylar cover. . A beautiful copy. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 391 pages. M3 .
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NZ$42.23