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Buy Africana! Large - Hand Carved Antelope / Buck - Nyala? for R125.00

Buy Africana! - Hand Made - Decoupage Ostrich Egg with Map and African Big Five Animals - with Stand for R725.00

Buy Africana ! Beaded Wire Sculpture - Rhino - Hand Made! for R265.00

Buy Africana ! Round Wooden Bowl with 10 Beautiful Solid Carved Wooden Eggs! Hand Made! for R445.00

Buy Africana ! Round Wooden Bowl with 10 Beautiful Solid Carved Wooden Eggs! Hand Made! for R395.00

Hand crafted African Olive wood (olea africana) mini Grandfather Clock. Height approximately 50cm. Excellent condition. Battery operated clockwork which could be changed to a pendulum clock for an additional cost of R100.

Free Postage Within SA for Orders Over R900! Softcover. . Fontana/Collins. 512 pages. It is and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slavesstand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer. Galant, the van der Merwe family's chief hand, is held leader of the murderous band. Raised with the two sonsof the house, it was not until adulthood and rivalry over Hester, orphaned daughter of a tenant farmer, that he realised their differentroles, their unequal futures and opposed stations in life. A CHAIN OFVOICES stands as a prophetic lesson - when hopes of freedom from slavery are dashed, and when promises of equal treatment are broken, an escalating spiral of bitterness, resentment, and finally, explosive violence is inevitable. Some wear to covers, otherwise good condition. Africana / South African Fiction Additional photos on request. Please ask any questions before placing your order.  Many more books on sale, click here to browse!

 THERE ARE 60 MEDALLIONS IN THIS COLLECTION HOUSED IN A HAND MADE MAHOGANY CHEST OF 4 DRAWERS. EACH MEDALLION WEIGHS 38.3gr OF.925 STERLING SILVER, GOLD PLATED, MAKING UP A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 2300gr. SILVER. INCLUDED IS A DESCRIPTIVE BOOK HIGHLIGHTING EACH MEDALLION. THE SET WAS ISSUED BY THE AFRICANA COMMEMORATIVE MINT.      

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guin-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era. Commonly referred to as Lisbon's Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies, the War of Liberation (Guerra de Liberta£o), these struggles played a seminal role in ending white rule in Southern Africa. Though hardly on the scale of hostilities being fought in South East Asia, the casualty count by the time a military coup d'tat took place in Lisbon in April 1974 was significant. It was certainly enough to cause Portugal to call a halt to violence and pull all its troops back to the Metropolis. Ultimately, Lisbon was to move out of Africa altogether, when hundreds of thousands of Portuguese nationals returned to Europe, the majority having left everything they owned behind. Independence for all the former colonies, including the Atlantic islands, followed soon afterwards. Lisbon ruled its African territories for more than five centuries, not always undisputed by its black and mestizo subjects, but effectively enough to create a lasting Lusitanian tradition. That imprint is indelible and remains engraved in language, social mores and cultural traditions that sometimes have more in common with Europe than with Africa. Today, most of the newspapers in Luanda, Maputo - formerly Lourenco Marques - and Bissau are in Portuguese, as is the language taught in their schools and used by their respective representatives in international bodies to which they all subscribe. Indeed, on a recent visit to Central Mozambique in 2013, a youthful member of the American Peace Corps told this author that despite having been embroiled in conflict with the Portuguese for many years in the 1960s and 1970s, he found the local people with whom he came into contact inordinately fond of their erstwhile 'colonial overlords'. As a foreign correspondent, Al Venter covered all three wars over more than a decade, spending lengthy periods in the territories while going on operations with the Portuguese army, marines and air force. In the process he wrote several books on these conflicts, including a report on the conflict in Portuguese Guinea for the Munger Africana Library of the California Institute of Technology. Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa  represents an amalgam of these efforts. At the same time, this book is not an official history, but rather a journalist's perspective of military events as viewed by somebody who has made a career of reporting on overseas wars, Africa's especially. Venter's camera was always at hand; most of the images used between these covers are his. His approach is both intrusive and personal and he would like to believe that he has managed to record for posterity a tiny but vital segment of African history. HARDBACK, 544 PAGES WITH PHOTOS & MAPS Published December 2013