Africa category: 4903 books
by Gail Nattrass
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass...
Inventing Africa
History, Archaeology and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent's deep past.Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and golden ages of past civilisations. Debates continue on the African origins of humankind,...
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism...
Pan-Africanism and Education
A Study of Race, Philanthropy and Education in the United States of America and East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to pattern politics and education in colonial Africa upon the example of the U.S. South. This export of United States race relations to Africa was resisted...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines.
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History and Culture, Republic of Central Africa
The entire history of Republic of Central Africa, Cultural heritage, Tourism, Industry, People of Republic of Central Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
History and culture of federal republic of Central Africa, Republic of Central Africa is a cultural rich country with number of ethnic groups and different culture, a forest rich country, but has a record of crises within them the ethnics and tribes as well as political differences in governance,...
by Alexander Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
At the heart of South Africa's 'miracle' transition from intractable ethno-racial conflict to democracy was an improvised nation born out of war weariness, hope, idealism and calculated pragmatism on the part of the elites who negotiated the compromise settlement. In the absence of any of the conventional...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Rough Guide First-Time Africa tells you everything you need to know before you go to Africa, from visas and vaccinations to budgets and packing. It will help you plan the best possible trip, with advice on when to go and what not to miss, and how to avoid trouble on the road. You'll find insightful...
by Ohimai Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Is Africa really cursed? If Africa is cursed, who cursed it and why? Are the negative life and leadership realities in Africa today products of a curse? Is there an end to the problems of Africa? What does the future holds for her? In this book these and many other questions about Africa's past, present and future are finally answered from the wealth of Bible prophecies.
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Fill your days with beaches and wineries in Cape Town,...
Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa
Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa. Land ownership and control, and the abilities of the respective landscapes to sustain Africa’s growing population amidst the throes of climate change, have created recurrent identity crises throughout...
Africa in Translation
A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
"Africa in Translation is a thoughtful contribution to the literature on colonialism and culture in Germany and will find readers in the fields of German history and German studies as well as appealing to audiences in the large and interdisciplinary fields of colonialism and postcolonialism."
---Jennifer...
Out in Africa
LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Visibility matters to activists—to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. Out in Africa is the first to present an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
Memories of my Africa
enjoying Africa and its people
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Memories of my Africa: enjoying Africa and its people consists of thirty-one short stories. They describe the author’s experiences from 1964 through 2007 in the African countries where he lived and worked as a physics teacher and a trainer of physics teachers in Uganda, Botswana and Ethiopia. “I...