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[AFRICA -- KENYA & UGANDA]. PLAYNE, Somerset (Comp) & GALE, F Holderness (Ed)Biblio.com

East Africa British: Its history people commerce industries and resources. Compiled by. . . .

1908ref. 51097Woking Surrey & London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co. The Gresham Press Printed and Bound and Blocks for illustrations produced by Unwin Brothers Ltd. 1908-1909. Folio. 10.25 x 12.25 in. 443 1 pp. Text printed in three columns 100s of photo illustrations many maps text illustrations. Deluxe publisher’s full brown morocco over beveled board gilt illustration stamped on front cover of giraffes and ostriches gilt ruled borders raised bands on spine gilt ornament & lettering a.e.g. faint tidemark to spine minor rubbing slight bumping to corners front upper hinge just starting still a G copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and very scarce real estate and business promotional volume on Edwardian British East Africa encompassing present day Kenya Uganda and Zanzibar. The volume includes detailed descriptions of the history of the British Protectorates in East Africa the native trives including the Bantu Somali Galla Swahili Masai Nandi Suk Kavironda and others. In addition the financial institutions commercial ports schools universities and more are described. Of particular interest are the extensive sections on the many different businesses newly established from the 1880s through the early 20th century in Mombasa Nairobi and surrounding areas including rubber plantations ostrich farms sawmills tea farming forests logging sheep & cattle farming hospitals and the building and economic impact of the Uganda Railway. The section on big game hunting and the fauna of East Africa was written by A. Blayney Percival 1875-1941 who pioneered game preservation in Kenya and describes hunting elephants leopards hyenas jackals cheetahs rhinoceros lions Waller’s Gazelle and others as well as detailing the skinning and preserving of trophies advertising the local safari and taxidermy outfits and more. The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., [The Gresham Press, Printed and Bound, and Blocks for illustrations produ hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · United States$850.00≈ €760.83

Akiki K Nyabongo; Colonial UgandaBiblio.com

Uganda Prince Akiki K. Nyabongo's Signed First Edition: The Story of an African Chief 1935

1935ref. 235981935. Colonial Uganda novel by Akiki K. Nyabongo published in 1935 documenting an African aristocrat's literary response to missionary education colonial rule and the cultural transformations reshaping East Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on Nyabongo's own background as a prince of the Tooro Kingdom the novel follows the education and political formation of an African chief negotiating competing systems of authority as Christian missions European imperial expansion and indigenous institutions collide. Published while Nyabongo was studying anthropology at Oxford under William Lyon Phelps's sponsorship the work stands among the earliest English language novels by a Ugandan author and marks an early effort by an African writer to present colonial experience from an African intellectual perspective. Nyabongo Akiki K. The Story of an African Chief. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper dated May 15 1939: "Dennis S. Rawland / Obugonza mukwo kwetegerezangawo / Hatali kufunga busaho kumanyangana / Nyabongo / May 15 1939." First edition. Illustrated by Eleanor Maroney with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth in the original illustrated dust jacket. The jacket reproduces an illustration of an enthroned African ruler on the front panel and the publisher's promotional description on the rear while the text includes black and white illustrations throughout. Published at a moment when African authors writing in English remained exceptionally few The Story of an African Chief predates the emergence of the better known generation of postwar African novelists and presents colonial East Africa through the voice of an educated African author rather than that of a European administrator or missionary. Nyabongo later became an anthropologist and writer whose work extended beyond fiction into political and cultural commentary while this novel was republished in Britain as Africa Answers Back reflecting its broader engagement with debates over empire education race and African self representation. The contemporary presentation inscription places the volume within the author's lifetime and preserves a direct association with Nyabongo's readership only four years after publication. Some present edge wear and toning to the dust jacket with small losses at the spine ends and corners; clean interior; inscription strong and legible. Overall very good condition. A first edition preserving Prince Akiki K. Nyabongo's signed 1939 inscription from one of the earliest English language novels written by a Ugandan author. unknown

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[AFRICA - UGANDA] [JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT] O'NEILL, ThomasBiblio.com

Sketches of African Scenery from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyanza Association Copy

1878ref. 61920London: Church Missionary House 1878. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 28.5cm. Tan paper wrappers printed in red and green; 151pp; one page of publisher's ads at rear; 19 color lithographic plates on 10 leaves relief map one additional in-text wood engraving. Presentation inscription to front: "Presented to Brodie of Brodie by J. A. Grant 15 Oct 78." Slightly rubbed with minor external dustsoil sewing perished but complete and neat with occasional interior toning else a well-preserved copy: Very Good. Ephemeral color plate book on East Africa inscribed for presentation by a major explorer of the Nile. An account of the 1877 Church Missionary Society expedition to what is now Uganda taken from the journal and drawings of a member of the expedition. In late 1876 explorer Henry Morton Stanley sent word to the UK that King Muteesa I of Buganda would be willing to receive Christian missionaries. The Church Missionary Society immediately organized a mission expedition. Eight men including Thomas O'Neill a young architect set out from Zanzibar in 1877 under the leadership of Alexander Murdoch Mackay. Within two years four of the eight men had died. O'Neill and another man were killed when they involved themselves in a dispute between King Lkonge of Ukerewe Island and an Arab traveller. Mackay alone reached Muteesa I. Though the mission expedition had not prospered the Church Missionary Society persisted. It published this account of its progress based on O'Neill's journals and sketches to draw attention and raise further funds for its efforts. This copy was presented to a Scottish laird Hugh Fife Ashley Brodie 23rd of Brodie by his neighbor famed explorer James Augustus Grant 1827-1892. Grant with John Hanning Speke had led the 1860-63 expedition that traced the Nile River to its source at Lake Victoria and he had met King Muteesa I personally. When he later retired to Nairn he "became one of a small group of people influential in matters to do with Africa" and advised the Church Missionary Society on its activities ODNB. An uncommon title. We trace five copies in the trade since the 1940s only two of which were in the original paper wrappers. Not in Howgego though he does discuss the Mackay expedition. HILMY II p.80. Church Missionary House unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · United States$10,000.00≈ €8,950.95

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White and black in East Africa: a record of travel and observation in two African Crown Colonies. . . .

Laws of the Uganda Protectorate in Force on 1st Day of January 1951

East Africa British: Its history people commerce industries and resources. Compiled by. . . .

Uganda Prince Akiki K. Nyabongo's Signed First Edition: The Story of an African Chief 1935

African safari photo album from Kenya and Uganda with 105 photographs & 28 photo post cards

Uganda National Parks handbook

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