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Cover of Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa
by Professor Heather J. Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

How did rivers contribute to the economic and political development of modern Africa? How did African and European notions of nature's value and meaning differ? And how have these evaluations of Africa's rivers changed between 1850 and the present day? Drawing upon examples from across the African...
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History, Culture and Tourism of South Africa

The entire apartheid history and regime, colonization and pre-colonization era

by Sampson Jerry
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015

South Africa is a well-known country in Africa continent, by her colonial history and apartheid period of the Southern African country, this book contains the complete History and Culture of South Africa along her mixed racial history. Government of South Africa and ruling system, discover the true...
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Madiba A to Z

The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela

by Danny Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela.  This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africa's first...
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by Larry Krotz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012

The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’. The persistence of this impulse is intriguing. From Doctor Livingstone 150 years ago to the rock star...
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Born in Africa

The Quest for the Origins of Human Life

by Martin Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden. In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows...
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East Africa and Its Invaders

From the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856

by Sir Reginald Coupland
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

East Africa and Its Invaders, originally published in 1938, covers the history of mid-East Africa—the area between Mozambique and Cape Guardafui—from its beginnings down to the death of the greatest Arab ruler in East Africa, Seyyid Said, in 1856. The author—prominent British Empire historian...
Cover of Lonely Planet Southern Africa
by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Lucy Corne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Southern Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Clamber up the world's oldest sand dunes in Sossusvlei, step back in time on Mozambique...
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by Lonely Planet, Michael Grosberg, Anthony Ham
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Lonely Planet West Africa is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Senegalese music scene in Dakar, sun yourself in the coastal paradise of Freetown, or hike through lush highlands in Kpalime; all with your...
Cover of Whisperings in the Blood
by Shelley Davidow
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

An exquisitely compelling story of courage, destiny and the search for home When orphan girl Bertha Frank gets onto a ship in New York in February 1937 to go to South Africa to marry a man she's never met, she doesn't know that she is repeating a journey to escape poverty and the persecution of the...
Cover of Imagine: Africa!
by Amos van der Merwe
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012

Africa: a continent of mystery, magic, wonder – and stories. It is here our ancestors huddled around the glowing embers of a late-night fire for the first time, and it is here the very first stories were told. Some of these stories are true, of course, but others simply reflect the impressive creativity...
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Living in . . . South Africa

With Audio Recording

by Chloe Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Discover what it’s like to grow up in South Africa with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Dumela! My name is David, and I’m a kid just like you living in South Africa. South Africa is a country...
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Long Walk to Nowhere

Human Trafficking in Post-Mandela South Africa

by Philip Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

The end of apartheid has triggered massive illegal immigration into South Africa from all parts of Africa and beyond. Along with urbanization and internal migration, the end of apartheid has encouraged human smuggling and the trafficking of men, women, and children into the commercial sex market and...
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Eden

The Biblical Garden Discovered in East Africa

by Gert Muller
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

Science teaches that the first modern humans originated in East Africa and spread from there to the rest of the world. Their modern representatives are the Khoisan peoples of Southern and East Africa. The Bible teaches that humans originated in the Garden of Eden and spread from there to the rest...
Cover of Colonialism on the Margins of Africa
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017

Colonial rule shaped the map of Africa like no other event in history. New borders were delineated; explorers and colonial armies were getting into the interior of the continent in order to grab the "magnificent cake of Africa." Colonialism on the Margins of Africa examines less known and smaller...
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