Africa category: 4903 books
by Timothy Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and controversies surrounding African conflict in the twentieth...
Building Colonialism
Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban centres of Africa's more recent past. The study...
Zion in Africa
The Jews of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily...
Too Close to the Sun
The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler...
by Beatrice Setze
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Johan and Themba, the managers of a small safari school in South Africa are busy fighting local poachers. They ask the safari authority for more rangers, and get seven lively student volunteers instead. Some of the students just want to have a good time, others are clumsy helpers and one of them has...
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
And Other Stories of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times).
The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and...
by Amy McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
From its ancient kingdoms to the independent post-colonial states that make up the region today, western Africa has transformed dramatically over the centuries. Economically lucrative for European slave traders and later for their colonial successors, the territories along Africa’s Atlantic coast...
A Manifesto for Social Change
How to Save South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country’s – and the continent’s – development obstacles. Architects of Poverty (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating and promoting...
The Unspoken Alliance
Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies.
Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left: socialist idealists like...
Bring Me My Machine Gun
The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a precipice,...
South Africa
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present day, covering the introduction of the oppressive policy of apartheid when the Nationalists came to power, its mounting opposition in the 1970s and 1980s, its eventual collapse in the 1990s, and...
The Cowboy Capitalist
John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid...
Into that Heaven of Freedom
The impact of apartheid on an Indian family's diasporic history
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy following the...
by Thomas Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
When the explorer René Caillié returned to France from Africa in 1828, he published a sketch of the legendary city he had discovered - Timbuctoo. But neither that simple drawing nor his matter-of-fact description gave Caillié's countrymen a sufficiently colorful picture to match their preconceptions...