Africa category: 4903 books
by Lawrence James
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires—and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization.
In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates...
by Anthony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence...
Koevoet
Experiencing South Africa's Deadly Bush War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa's deadly bush war. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West African...
by William Beinart
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2001
An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on...
Chocolate Islands
Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa....
From Bengal to the Cape
Bengali Slaves in South Africa from 17Th to 19Th Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
In From Bengal to the Cape, Professor Ansu Datta opens up a hitherto little researched topic of transoceanic slave trade between mainly southern Bengal and the Cape in the Republic of South Africa. This migration took place between roughly the 1650s and about the middle of the nineteenth century when...
Africanizing Knowledge
African Studies Across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Nearly four decades ago, Terence Ranger questioned to what extent African history was actually African, and whether methods and concerns derived from Western historiography were really sufficient tools for researching and narrating African history. Despite a blossoming and branching out of Africanist...
Looking for Lovedu
A Woman's Journey Through Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The acclaimed adventure writer Ann Jones tells the story of her overland journey, with the British photographer Kevin Muggleton, from one end of Africa to the other. Their purpose: to reach the southernmost tip of the continent and find the Lovedu people, a legendary tribe guided by the "feminine"...
The Shackled Continent
Africa's Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the past three decades. Why? Robert Guest's fascinating book seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Using reportage, first-hand experience and economic insight, Robert Guest takes us to the roots of the problems....
A Short History of Africa
From the Origins of the Human Race to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous continent, from the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa right through to Arab Spring Beginning with the origins of the human race and the development of stone age technology, this history of the cradle of civilization moves...
The Fate of Africa
A History of the Continent Since Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism -- from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid.
The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece....The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a...
by James L. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights. Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856–59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map...
Religion and Poverty
Pan-African Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking...
Stanley in Africa
"The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer, and Other Travelers, Pioneers and Missionaries"
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Victor Hugo says, that "Africa will be the continent of the twentieth century." Already the nations are struggling to possess it. Stanley's explorations proved the majesty and efficacy of equipment and force amid these dusky peoples and through the awful mazes of the unknown. Empires watched...