Africa category: 4903 books
by Irene Evagelelis, David McAleese
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Take a trip back to the cradle of life and explore the great Sahara Desert in Africa. Become familiar with the national capitals and major cities where the majority of the human population reside. Get a sense of the location of different countries in Africa by placing them in their correct categories...
by Ozi Okaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Five-year-old Arinze and his older sister Cheta wait impatiently for school to end. Mommy and Daddy have told them this year they’re going to visit Africa. Arinze and Cheta have never visited Africa, but they’ve grown up listening to their parents talk about the wonders of the great continent....
The War in Southern Africa
An Analysis of South Africa’S Total National Strategy (1948 - 1994)
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
South Africa, a country rich in natural resources, had a singular mission with the arrival of the Cold War: Get the world to embrace apartheid. The strategy was remarkable in the sense that it was seeking to preserve a society that almost everyone condemned. As a result, South Africa found itself...
Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia...
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
War on the Reef
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while both deserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations...
by Daniele Zanon, Daniele Gobbin, Pier Maria Mazzola
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Marcel, di origini congolesi ma cresciuto a Bruxelles, è uno studente di Medicina che si mantiene lavorando come assistente domiciliare. Un incontro fortuito con il maggiore Pascal, un ex mercenario che aveva prestato servizio in Congo alla fine del colonialismo belga, gli lascia in eredità un tesoro...
by Kwasi Konadu
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through...
A Fistful of Shells
West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning...
by Frederick Courteney Selous
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
"Selous is the most famous hunter in all Africa." -The American
Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 – 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the...
Speeches that Shaped South Africa
From Malan to Malema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Great speeches have the power to bring about political change, and South Africa lays claim to some of the world’s most skilled orators, from Nelson Mandela, whose courageous statement from the dock inspired the liberation struggle, to Desmond Tutu, whose ‘Rainbow People of God’ speech prepared...
History of World War I: The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918
From Sarajevo to the Piave and Lake Tanganyika
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
by Alvin M. Josephy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Most of us still know less about Africa's past and peoples than we do about the continent's wild animals. And what we do know is colored by romance - safaris and treks and camel caravans, Solomon's mine and Tutankhamun's curse, the shores of Tripoli and the snows of Kilimanjaro. Yet the ancestor of...
The Troubled Heart of Africa
A History of the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
"This book serves as a basic primer on how one of the world's most mineral-rich countries was turned into one of its greatest tragedies." - Publishers Weekly
Written over a century ago, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to dominate our vision of the Congo, unlikely as it...
Love, Africa
A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict...