Interets de Retard 6% Du 6 Janvier 1881 Au 31 Decembre 1881, Emprunt Exterieur 3% Consolide
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The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River Mouth in South America
by Ronald Singer and John Wymer
Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873 (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)
by Larry W. Yarak
This is a study of the administration and government of the West African kingdom of Asante between 1744 and 1873. Larry W. Yarak analyses the nature and development of the pre-colonial state, and traces the history and character of the Asante-Dutch relationship from the early eighteenth century until the Dutch departure from the Gold Coast in 1872. Dr Yarak has carried out extensive researches in hitherto neglected Dutch archives, and made a detailed examination of important Asante oral sources....
To either achieve or resist domination, some postcolonial and post slavery societies appropriate and contest the current memories on slavery. This occurs more often where the sites of slavery are tourist attractions that positively empower the communities through economic benefits, resulting in an emergence of ‘new’ memories of the past and a constant construction and reconstruction of identity. In The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya: Memory, Identity, and Heritage, Herman Ogoti Kiriama exami...
Description Et Recit Historial Du Riche Royaume d'Or de Guinea, (Ed.1605) (Histoire)
by Pieter De Marees
Madagascar Et Ses Habitants, Journal d'Un Sejour de Quatre ANS Dans l'Ile, (Ed.1873) (Histoire)
by James Sibree, Jr.
Fireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Coupled with this, the traditional counter-insurgency tactics of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing against Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA, simply weren't producing satisfactory results. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers thus expanded on the idea of a `vertical envelopment' of the enemy (first practised by SAS paratroopers in Mo...
BATTLES IN FOCUS ISANHDLWANA
The 20000 strong Zulu force was able to defeat the small British contingent and force Lord Chelmsford to revise his plans for invading Zululand but, although only 350 of the 1500 British survived, the loss of several thousand of their men by the Zulus was more crucial in the total picture of the campaign. The news of the British defeat appalled the nation where the public was used to easy victories over such indigenous opponents and this was to be the worst single dayAs loss of British troops be...
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning to overthrow the government by violent revolution," Goldberg was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. The only white man convicted during the infamous Rivonia trial, he played a historic role in...
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (Classic Reprint)
by Thomas Fowell Buxton