Africa category: 4903 books
by Iris Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch...
by John C. Eby, Fred Morton
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid...
by Seth Asiedu Asante
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1987
This book was first published in 1987 when South African Apartheid policy generated much public discussion all over the world. This book, “Apartheid in South Africa: Origins and Impact", is a book which can serve the dual purpose of informing the general reader, of the historical background to Apartheid;...
Iowa and the World
Memoirs of Senator Dick Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Elected senator from Iowa in 1972, Dick Clark is one of a select few American public servants whose name is associated with the downfall of apartheid in South Africa: his defeat in the senatorial campaign of 1978 resulted in part from the South African government’s secret and illegal monetary contributions...
US Foreign Policy in The Horn of Africa
From Colonialism to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Examining American foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa between 1945 and 1991, this book uses Ethiopia and Somalia as case studies to offer an evaluation of the decision-making process during the Cold War, and consider the impact that these decisions had upon subsequent developments both within...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States faces an important strategic question in northwest Africa: what level of activity by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) would constitute a sufficient threat to U.S. national...
Foreign Intervention in Africa
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant...
by Robert O. Collins, James M. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The second edition of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to provide an accessible introduction to the continent's history for students and general readers. The authors employ a thematic approach to their subject, focusing on how the environment has shaped the societies and cultures of the African...
The Making of Contemporary Africa
The Development of African Society since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This established text provides a refreshing account of the complex events in sub-Saharan Africa since 1800. Now fully revised and updated throughout, the third edition incorporates the latest scholarship and includes new chapters on Africa in the twenty-first century, and social history since independence.
Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human rights -- is the only real foundation for peace....
When South Africa Called, We Answered
How the Media and International Solidarity Helped Topple Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There were two battles against apartheid—a political campaign and a media war. The political story has been told, and now you can read about the media effort. As South Africa marks in 2014 its 20th anniversary as a democracy, its transformation is still hailed as a "miracle." Most of the credit for...
The Challenge of Apartheid: UK–South African Relations, 1985-1986
Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa during one of the most turbulent periods of the apartheid era.
The crisis of apartheid that began in 1984 provoked international outrage on an unprecedented scale. This volume documents the attempt by the...
by Kyle Harmse, Simon Dunstan
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The Border War saw the biggest armoured battles in Africa since World War II. Starting as a counter-insurgency operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) against the South West Africa People's Organisation, South Africa became embroiled in the complex Angolan Civil War, where they came up...
Gordian Knot
Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa. Gordian...