Africa category: 4903 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study examines flight operations in Africa for the U.S. Air Force. With the creation of United States Africa Command and the resurrection of Seventeenth Air Force, some Airmen responded with trepidation. The...
From my Hilltop
A living history of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
From my Hilltop – a living history of South Africa Narrated by Professor A. Marula By Stan Daneman Professor Marula’s story…
From my hill top I have looked down on the living history of South Africa. From my early days understanding the Rules of the Southern African plains I realized...
Key Facts on South Africa
Essential Information on South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Learn everything you need to about the fascinating country of South Africa! The Key Facts on South Africa provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the African republic, including:
-Background of South Africa -Geography of South Africa -People and Society of...
Into Africa
A Guide to Sub-Saharan Culture and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"An invaluable source for anyone wanting to experience Africa. The authors begin with a subject of unimaginable scope and somehow make it concise and comprehensible ... a truly magnificent work for both scholar and novice." - Warren M. Robbins, Founding Director Emeritus, National Museum...
Mapping My Way Home
Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This monograph is part of the Advancing Strategic Thought Series precisely because its topic is so important. As it stresses, the explosive growth of China's economic interests in Africa is arguably the most important trend in the continent's foreign relations since the end of the Cold War. China-Africa...
by Norrie Macqueen
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.
The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping...
by Austin Aneke
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Undoubtedly, Africa has experienced its fair share of pains during the process of world development. As it remains the most underdeveloped continent, with disproportionate levels of intimidation, domination and all that goes with underdevelopment, this book attempts to discover why. While even Asia,...
by Paul E. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in...
Africa's Lost Leader
South Africa's continental role since apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
When Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president on 10 May 1994, South Africa enjoyed an unprecedented global standing. Much of the international community, particularly Western states, saw the new South Africa as well equipped to play a dynamic and dominant role on the continent; promoting conflict...
by Bert van Sloteren
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This longread looks back at the past 130 years of African history. The period between 1885 and 1950 was the period of colonization. The period between 1950 and 2015 was a period of decolonization and independence. The book tries to answer the question why the progress in many parts of Africa has been...
The Eagle and the Springbok
Essays on Nigeria and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last two-and-a-half decades. Both account for at least 60 per cent of the economy of their respective sub-regions in West and Southern Africa.The success...
A Robust Think Tank for Africa
Words of Hope, Ingenuity and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The book is in three parts and deals with (i) social, political, economic issues about Africa; (ii) theories of communication and how they are applied to contemporary situation: case of Africa; and (iii) about issues of religion and social justice. The chapters on Africa highlights the need for political...
Piero Gleijeses' International History of the Cold War in Southern Africa, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Conflicting Missions and Visions of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This Omnibus E-Book brings together Piero Gleijeses's two landmark books for the first time:
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval,...